Auburn Football 2006

Are you ready for football season?  We are!  My favorite Auburn blog to read is Football Saturday in the South.  The author, Jay Coulter is a true Auburn fan.  He loves Auburn, and he scours the various Auburn sites out there, and posts links to interesting articles on his site.  His commentary is usually right in line with my opinions.  I really enjoy hearing what he has to say.  He took a break over the winter and spring, but now he's back.  I check this site every day, especially now that football season is almost here.  I gave a lot of you the link for his site last year, but here it is again.  Just mark it in your favorites.  That way, it will be easy to check back regularly! 

http://footballsaturday.blogspot.com/

 

Happy Anniversary to Us!

Well, we've made it through our first year of marriage!  This year has really flown by, and we've enjoyed so many things that have happened.  We hope that the years to come continue to be as much fun. Over the last couple of weeks, we've celebrated Mark's birthday (3 times!), and this weekend we've celebrated our anniversary.  To the left are some recent pictures.  Yesterday, we went back to the Georgia Aquarium.  There's no need to worry about that place going out of business.  It was as crowded yesterday as it was the last time we went, back in December.  Last month they added 2 new whale sharkes, making 4 total.  After that, we went to the Bodies Exhibit at the Civic Center.  We don't have any pictures to post of that, but that show was amazing.  It's an exhibit of real bodies, preserved and displayed in full form, and by each organ individually in cases.  At the end, you get to hold an actual brain!  After our tour of Atlanta attractions, we went to a nice dinner at McCormick and Schmick's.  Today, we're just going to hang out around the house and cook filet mignon on the grill!            

Home Again!

So, we're finally back at home and rested again.  We flew out to Bolder, CO Thursday night, June 29th.  We spent the night at Melissa's house with Sholeh and Melissa's parents.  The next morning, all of us drove up to Breckenridge.  What a gorgeous drive!  I kept taking pictures from the car.  We got together with everyone for the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner that night.  It was so awesome getting to see everyone!  The next day, the weather wasn't so good.  It would rain off and on.  The wedding was outside, so we had to wait for the rain to stop.  The reception was fun.  Everyone danced and had a good time.  The next day, Melissa, her boyfriend Carl, their dog, Merle, her parent's, Ken and Miriam, Sholeh, Mark and I went camping over in Buena Vista (about an hour from Breckenridge.  The day after that, we went white water rafting with about 30 people from the wedding party on the Arkansas river!  It was so much fun!  We're definitely interested in doing that again!  We flew back home on the 4th of July.  It was a really fun trip, but very exhausting!  We couldn't wait to get back home and get to sleep in a real bed (as opposed to an air mattress).  The pictures from the trip are posted to the left.  Yesterday, we had a pool party at Trey's girlfriend, Kelly's apartment for Mark's birthday.  We had a great time there, too, but unfortunately, we don't have any pictures.  The camera didn't charge, so the battery died.  Oh, well...those pictures might have been incriminating anyway!  What happens at Mark's birthday party stays at Mark's birthday party...just kiddin'! 

Rocky Mountain High

Hi everybody!  We just got back from our friends' (Pat and Charity's) wedding in Boulder, CO.  We've added some new pictures from our trip over in the photo album section.  We had so much fun there!  We were there for 5 days, so we had plenty of time to see the sites.  The coolest thing we did was drive over to Rocky Mountain National Park.  We drove on up on Trail Ridge Road, which is the highest, continuous, paved road in the U.S.  It was absolutely breathtaking.  We were right at eye level with snow covered peaks!  At the top, we got out and hiked for about a mile to climb up even higher.  It doesn't sound like very far to hike, but we were all out of breath because of the altitude (over 12,000 ft.).  We were also freezing, because none of us thought we were actually going to go up to the top, and we were all wearing shorts and flip-flops!  We all had a great time, though.  The wedding was beautiful, and it was great getting to see our friend Melissa too (she also lives there in Boulder).  The funniest thing is...we're going back there in just a few weeks.  Our friend Lina is getting married in Breckenridge, CO July 2nd.  I guess we'll have more breathtaking photos to show then!          

Shutters Are Up on the Front

Mark got the shutters up on the front of the house.  We really love the way it looks!  We have gotten complements from several of our neighbors.  I think we're even inspiring some of them to want to do some home improvements of their own!  Now we need to decide what to do about the base.  For now, we want to paint it.  Originally, we thought we wanted to do the base a really dark brown, almost black color.  Now, we're having some doubts.  Should we just paint the base the same color as the house?  What would help the house look better?  In the future, Mark would like to put stacked stone around the base.  That would really give the house a nice look.  That option is a little pricey, though.  It's something I think we should consider after we remodel the kitchen. 

   

Aye Shutter!

.......getting there.  We mocked up the new black shutters that came in today.  I think we're getting there.  The color has really mellowed out and it's not so ARMY green anymore.  We're putting the shutters up on all the windows around the house.  Hopefully it will add something to the otherwise simple exterior.  Black is the only color that really breaks up and contrasts well with the other two on the house.  Now, all we have to do is hang them!..........err  Now, All I have to do is hang them! 

'till next time on this really old house........

With Gutters

Here's a picture of the house with gutters.  The paint color is definitely looking better now that it's all dry, and with the gutters up, it's starting to look pretty good!  The shutters are ordered, and they should be here in about a week.  Then, we'll get the base painted, and it will all be done!  Sometime (soon?), we'd also like to get those sticky bushes out and do some prettier shrubs/landscaping out front.  Then, hopefully, our house will have some "curb appeal"!