A Busy Weekend

This was the second weekend in a row for baseball! On Friday we headed to Hickory to watch the crawdads play the Riverdogs of Charelston. We were fortunate enough to have Hannah, Zach, and Beth come with us. Since this was a family weekend Josh felt it necessary to remind Hannah what it is like to hang with him. During the third inning Hannah and Zach had a dance off on the first base dug out for a gift card. Why? Because Josh signed them up for it. Such a sweet guy!

Josh and I are expecting our first child around Valentines Day. That makes me 14 weeks pregnant. I have gotten over all of the sickness and for the most part I am staying away from the three hour naps, even though they are glorious.

School starts for teachers tomorrow so I am trying to get in the habit of getting nauseous at school instead of at home. So far I'm doing quite well.

It has been three years!

On Friday Josh and I headed to Atlanta to celebrate our 3rd year anniversary a little early. Since we both have to work on Thursday we decided to take some time to enjoy ourselves.

We met up with Lindsay and her boy Scott. They gave us a great air mattress to sleep on. While Josh slept like a baby I became sea sick and moved to the couch.

Saturday morning Lindsay decided that we needed to go shoot at something.... And so we did

Josh was the only one who had been skeet shooting before. He was amazing!

I on the other hand did the best I could. If I ever have to shoot something I hope it is super big and close.

The real present that we gave ourselves was the Braves game that night. We were both amazed at how tall Chipper Jones really is.

Our seats were six rows from the field. We watched the Braves beat the Giants 3-0. On our way back to Lindsay's apartment we accidentally took a little detour to the south side of Atlanta. After our little excitement Josh decided that he would take the initiative to drive anywhere in Atlanta.... Thanks Baby!

Some fun times this summer

Shelby spent the majority of the summer with us, which was wonderful. She decided to stay behind while her parents headed off to Washington and then drove across the country to California. There were a couple of moments when Shelby didn't think she made the right decision, but it all worked out. However she was very grateful to take the Journey back to Newton.

Josh decided to start the summer trimming up our neighbors tree that was looking a little rough. While Abby is trying to "help", Shelby is waiting for someone to play ball with her.


During Memorial Day we had a big block party, the set up was a little touch and go for a bit, while the weather decided what to do, but once everything was good to go we had a blast.

We even partook in a wonderful slip-n-slide. While Josh only went down a few times, I spent hours upon hours slipping and sliding!

We did take some time to go camping along the French Broad River and celebrate our relationship with one another. Josh surprised me with white water rafting. We played in the river and went next door and soaked in the hot springs. It was an unforgettable weekend!

Well it's official!

309 South Pinks St. is officially for sale. We have started looking at different houses and it will not be easy. There are plenty of houses in the Cherryville area, but at the same time the ones that we have seen have not been that great.

Both Josh and I have been busy over the past months. Honestly I have just forgotten about the Blog. Over the summer I have been working at Alexander Youth Network, which provides mental health services to children 5-21. In the fall I will be the lead teacher at AYN. Josh has been running the Y outdoor adventure camp this summer and tonight softball starts. He is continuously on the go.

Busy weekend

Saturday morning Josh and I helped out with a 5K run. Josh ran the sound while I blocked traffic. As I left the race to run to Cousins Sarie's baby shower in Black Mountain, Josh took off to the last day of T-ball. As the 3 and 4 year old children of Cherryville received metals and pizza, Beth and I headed up the mountain.

I got the privilege of feeling how active baby Eleanor is already.

I made a turtle blanket for baby Eleanor to enjoy


After our separate commitments we met up with Shovel and went camping. Of course it rained the entire time. We ended up sleeping in the Element. Even though it rained we played cards and had some great laughs.

Catching up

Since my grad school has finished up, I have not been excited about getting on the computer, even if it is for fun stuff. The poor blog has suffered. I thought I would make a montage of photos of our life for the past 6 weeks.

We will start our story with four pampas grass bushes in our back yard. If you burn them they will come back greener.

We learned that the gas was unnecessary

No one was hurt in the fire.

We also went to a wonderful wedding




Josh got stuck in the mud...

But he got out

For my Birthday we played Frisbee golf

We climbed trees and smiled real big

We also hunted the white haired Boo, common in the North American forest

It has been a long time

It has been almost two months since we have posted anything. Our lives have been quite crazy. Josh got a promotion! He is now in charge of All Gaston County YMCA sports programs. This also means that he spends many nights working.

I finished Grad School two Tuesdays ago. I have been catching up on all the things I have missed, such as sleep. I have also been cooking more. I hope to do a better job of keeping up with the blog.