Happy Ending

I just finished all 200 hours that are needed to volunteer for my librarian "student teaching." Time to jump up and down and celebrate! :)

Sad Ending

We just finished Star Trek: The Original Series (all three seasons!)

Now for the movies.... :)

Fall

I love the colors of fall. And I especially love it since we live in between two (or more) mountain ranges. This top picture is of Read Mountain. It was taken from our back yard. We actually live at the base of Read Mountain though it looks very far away, but we are actually close to the mountain and we have just discovered there are hiking trails up there.... :)
This is from the front yard. I have recently learned that this is "Stewart Knob". It is nice to look out of our house and see the beauty of fall.

Trick-Or-Treat

Happy Halloween (a few days late) Everyone! Matt and I decided to host a dinner party for Halloween. We were originally expecting about 12-15 people and everyone in costume. What actually happened was...well, life happened. One person was able to make it, but we did not know that till about two hours before the party (so all of the food for 15 was made). But we had a great time with Matt's co-worker.

While waiting for Paul (Matt's co-worker) to come. I had fun carving the first pumpkin that I remember carving...and I did it mostly by myself! I think he is very cute :)
Then Matt and I sat on the front porch with hot cider, and vegetable soup waiting for both Paul and all of the about 100 children that came to our door that evening.

Paul finally found our house and the pumpkin bread was not quite done, so Matt and Paul carved their pumpkins while I handed out candy and talked with the neighbors. Paul did the top on in the picture above, and Matt did the lower one. I think they both look great! Oh, this was also the very first time that Paul had ever carved a pumpkin. I think he was a bit unsure about it all, but he had a good time doing it.

Great food. Great conversations. Great friends.

It was a nice evening. I just hope that our next party has a few more people.

Paris

Well, not quite. But we do now have the Eiffel Tower in our living room. Mike (by brother-in-law) had purchased this lego set a long time ago. But he got another very large set recently so this was dismantled and he let us borrow it.

We decided on Saturday night to start putting it together. We made this decision at 7:00 pm on Saturday. We did not finish till 3:00 am Sunday! (and that is not counting for day light savings time). We worked straight for all of those hours, but we finished the set in one night. And might I say that was a very fun time working on a set with Matt.

Who Would Have Thought

At this moment (yes, around 5:30 pm) one year ago I remember sitting on a sidewalk reading a book called Whales On Stilts (a crazy book, but fun....I needed to read it for my library). I was in a city I did not know very well (Lexington) and I was waiting for a guy I did not know very well either (some random guy named Matt).

I had met him online, we had talked on the phone, but a first date is something completely different. So here I am trying to read for work, not remembering much because I am anxiously waiting for this guy to arrive and see what might happen.

Just as I was starting to be able to calm my nerves a bit and get into my reading my cell phone began to ring. It was Matt! I did not see him because he was across the road by the door of the restaurant. And he did not see me because I was on the sidewalk and his view of me was being blocked by my car. The book was quickly closed, thrown into the car, and the date began....

(to read of the first date, please see my first blog)

Who would have thought that on our one year anniversary of meeting we would also be celebrating almost 4 months of married life? It is amazing how wonderfully and quickly life works!

Making it our own

Matt and I have been somewhat busy working on little parts of the house. And the funny thing is that the parts of the house that we worked on are usually the very first things that I do to a new house that I move into. So it is amazing to me that I have lived in this house for about four months and I finally got window dressings made and up for the dinning room....

And I made wonderful window dressings for the living room. They are actually out of the same pattern of material just one is in a red print and one is in a black print. I need to thank Amy for giving me a reason to go through my material and by chance finding these that I had purchased years ago.

I also need to thank Laura for the beautiful fabric that is now a wonderful piece of art in the entry of our house. Our house is coming together slowly. And we are making it our own. But right now I need to make it very clean for a party that we are having tomorrow!