I'm Back!

Well, family and friends I have had many of you ask about my blog and why I haven't been updating. Needless to say, August 12th I had to return to school and I have been going none stop since then. Mike has been traveling with his job, so that has been different and therefore, I've had extra responsibilities to take care of all by myself at home. He's gone again this week. Lord willing, he will be returning on Thursday and not Friday!

I have still been attending Weight Watchers and lost another 1.6 pounds this week. I guess waking up at 5:45am to walk 2 miles, walking up and down the stairs all day and then coming home and walking Cooper for a half mile is working! Although, I'm exhausted by 9:00pm.

I wanted to share about Sunday after church. Mike and I went to Olive Garden (we had a gift card) for lunch. We saw some friends of ours, Bob and Barb, and they invited us to join their table. WELL. . .Mike and I were the youngest and I learned much at the lunch table. One lady had recently lost her husband and the other couple used to be missionaries, so the table was full of life and I was amazed at how God's hand had directed all of them together and for us to join them. I wanted soooo badly to take a picture, but I wasn't sure if our new older friends would go for it. So maybe if we get invited again, I'll be more brave and ask to take a picture. One of the gentlemen at the table asked our waiter his name and told him we were going to bless our food and wanted to know if there was anything we could pray for him about. WOW. . .I was speechless! What a great idea to share Christ with others in a simple way of thinking of others than yourself. He right away mentioned 2 prayer requests. That again was surprising to me. I don't know why, but God was using this experience to draw me closer to him. It reminded me IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT ME!!! Thank you God for using friends to focus on You!

I'm hoping to get back in the swing of blogging and get back to it on a regular basis! I've missed it! Wonder what I'll blog about next. . . .

Happy Birthday Katie!

Today is my sister-in-law's 27th birthday. (I can say her age b/c she posted it on Facebook, so now the entire world knows her age.) Happy Birthday, Katie. I hope you have a wonderful day celebrating YOU!!

Show Us Your Life!

At Kelly's Korner she is have bloggers revisit their wedding and share with the blogging world. I enjoy sharing part of my life with others and getting to know other women. Our ceremony was at a local church, but our reception was at my church. They had a two-story open room called the Fellowship Mall and had a huge chandelier with sky lites. There were also large planters with trees and flowers in them. The church also had park benches in this Mall. We didn't need much decorations. We did rent a 5 piece lattice set that was the back drop for our cake and had white pillars with ferns on them. It was perfect for a reception.

We had the food tables in a large X with a large flower arrangement for the centerpiece.

Our fruit "waterfall"

The only flower arrangement besides the wedding parties flowers and the additional ferns.

This picture you can see how large the room was at my church where our reception was located.

My Grandpa passed away 3 1/2 months before I got married, but his two brothers and families came to our wedding. I was so honored that they took the time to travel to SC to attend our wedding. So this is probably one of my favorite memories from our reception.


I gave my caterer's a picture from my parents wedding cake to do our cake. It was yummy. (ADVICE: At wedding receptions, cut that cake before you do anything at your reception!) --Can't get these pictures to load now--

We had a very dear friend of ours, Bubba(I know you are reading this), drive us away in a red Lincoln. I was glad that he was able to do this and we were honored that he drove us around on our special day! --Can't get these pictures to load now--

We went to Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg for our honeymoon. We stayed at the Blue Mountian Mist Country Inn and Cottages. We stayed in the Queen Ann's Lace Cottage. It was beautiful and the host and hostess were wonderful. I would love to go back and stay there again.

Missing Mike

It's only Tuesday and I'm missing Mike. We got back from vacation on Saturday evening and on Monday morning his boss asked him to go on a buisness trip for a week. HE came home Friday and Monday morning, packed his bags and left. When came home Friday evening and told me he would have to go again for several weeks back to the east coast. This is our second week of Mike traveling and I'm missing him like crazy! School is getting ready to start, so that is passing the time away. I'm so glad that he was willing and able to go on this trip. Back in February his company went to 32 hours, so this traveling will bump his hours up to 40!!! PTL (However, I think I've already spent the money buying new clothes for school that fit since I'm losing weight! Shhhh--he doesn't know yet b/c I haven't talked to him yet today long enough to tell him.) This job is close to his sister and her husband so he has been able to spend some bro/sis time together. Wish I could join them, but maybe another time.

PS--Cooper misses Mike too. This is what he does all day. . .