Fall leaves...

I was in North Carolina today and it was wonderful. There was a beautiful lake, colorful leaves and that lovely fall smell. Another reason to get a rental house in a place like boston or north carolina. I miss that smell of water and trees. Atlanta is definitely not the perfect city, but I will enjoy a warm November and December. I love the sun, I just wish the water was closer.

Time to get some candles that smell like fall, that is as close as we are getting for awhile.

Facebook...

Need I say more. What a crazy addictive website project. It ebbs and flows, but I love to play scrabble and I hear from lots of folks I don't normally. Well, if you are on facebook look me up. I could really use some more fish in my tank. I love fishies.

P.S. My sermon went well. I even got some comments like "that was one of the best sermons I have ever heard preached at this church" from a stranger. I am looking forward to preaching again in November and then again for my CPM (Committee on Preparation for Ministry) in January. I gotta get back in the swing of things. I haven't preached in awhile. If you want to know where to listen, let me know.

Peace

Eat Your Veggies

Unbeknownst to me that we were under drought conditions, Alexis and I planted some new green stuff at our house. We spent the weekend cleaning up our backyard, reclaiming it for non-weed like green plants. It looks great and feels great! So after all the trimming, weeding and cleaning we had to get yard bags at the hardware store. Well, let's just saying we walked out with more than yard bags. We now have spinach, lettuce, herbs and even one hanging plant and a couple of edible pansies in our front yard. We love it! The garden folks say that Atlanta's growing season lasts well into January, so this was perfect timing. Besides the drought, but Alexis did find out that you can water veggies, so that's good. Hopefully we can get pictures up on the web. Maybe next year we can try for peppers and tomatoes like my brother. He has quite the green thumb.

Little known fact of the day:
Nike just rolled out a new shoe that is specifically designed for the American Indian, the N7.

Scrapbooking

Okay, well I could write about the crazy week I had traveling over 6,000 miles in 24 hours and watching a SF Giants games. It was a good trip and hey I officially will get my name on a book in the GTU library that due to the paper I had to use will last longer than me.

And speaking of acid free paper, I just wanted to see who else out there scrapbooks. I am working on our wedding scrapbook. It is fun to be creative and colorful. I get to that more and more in my work with the kids, but it is more like advertising. I like the release of getting lost in my work and buying all the fun accoutrements like buttons, special paper and letters. The other cool thing is journaling along the way too. I can put random quotes or memorable moments. Too bad I need a week vacation just to scrapbook. So watch out next summer when we are in Oregon for our wedding book, it will finally be done (hopefully). And you can bet our kiddos will have crazy baby books.

Little known fact about scrapbooking:
Some of the most earliest and famous scrapbookers included Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain, now does that make it cooler or even more nerdy?

I'm going to Washington, DC

Yay! I am so excited to see my friends Tarn and Summer next month. It will be fantastic to catch up and hang out in the happenin' town with my two fabulous friends. The last time we were together was a brief stint in Oregon at the holidays and before that the wedding in Hawaii. So much has happened it will be good to get the whole story. Too bad I have to actually do work some of the time, but hey I love the opportunity.

It seems like when it rains it pours for us seeing people. We are looking forward to the holidays coming and seeing all kinds of people.

Speaking of holidays, halloween is coming soon. What is your favorite costume that you have worn or favorite idea for a costume?

Mascot Fight-Duck vs Cougar

You don't call the Oregon Ducks mighty for nothing. Check out this youtube video about my parents alma mater and their mascot. It will give you a giggle.

September already??

How is it that I have not blogged in so long...oh yeah...work. Thankfully the first sunday of church school has come and gone. We had almost 100 kids! We didn't have enough polaroid film or nametags. It was an unexpected blessing and now I am thankful for a day off.

Things are going well at work. The parents like me, the work is getting done and the juggler is coming on Wednesday for our big kick-off event. It is different working at such a large church. Everything is bigger.

That's pretty much been my life lately, unlike Alexis who has been traveling and doing fun things like going to our godson's birthday party and our niece's baptism. While she has been gone I have made some new friends which is good. Our circle of friends is growing bigger. I think the fall will be fun with parties and friends in our house. We are talking about a drive-in night and a game night. Bring on the fun!

Our newest hope is for a trip to Curacao for our anniversary next Fall. It is a great island south of Florida. This year we are just hoping to make it to Oregon. It's amazing how life has changed over the last 6 months and hopefully will change over the next year.

We'll keep you posted.

Little known fact for the day:

America's most popular board game is: Monopoly

F.A.O. Schwartz in 2000 sold a monopoly set for $100,000. What made it so expensive? Besides the 18K gold playing pieces, the money used in the game was real U.S. currency. The most expensive set ever sold according to guinness was $2,000,000. Talk about playing with your own money.