Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving was a great success! Kenny & I had his family & my Mom to our house this year. I had a few days off from work so Mom came down and helped cook. It was so nice to have a few days to spend with her, hanging out and all.

Although cleaning is a pain, having everyone for Thanksgiving gave me the perfect excuse to get it done without being able to come up with another excuse not to. Then, I got to decorate the house/table to get it ready for company! I enjoyed planning it so much, even though there wasn't much to plan, that I know that is my calling. I'll get there one day, when I'm able to quit the job I have and start my own. But back to Thanksgiving - it was great for our families to be able to come together. There aren't many couples who are lucky enough to have their respective families get along so well!

Unfortunately there are no pictures from the holiday :(

Kenny & I have a lot to be thankful for this season, even though we don't always focus on the positive:
Great loving families
Moose
Our new rental house, despite the leaks and all - it is more space!
The prospect of him entering medical or pharmacy school (it's better than those who don't attempt because they know they don't stand a chance)
My job "promotion" that came at the perfect time after we were married
And the list could go on!

The semester is OVER - another item to go on my list of thanks. Only 10 more days left of work before a two week break. Kenny & I are leaving for Disney in TWO WEEKS from today, wahoo!! Probably not doing much of the tourist thing (i.e. going to all the parks and such), but just relaxing! It will be very nice to get out of Carrollton.

I will leave you with this picture:

Kenny always has fun at home with Moose before going to work & on his days off :)

Oh the Possibilities!

Kenny is in the middle of his application process to Doctor of Osteopathy School & Pharmacy School. We are praying, crossing our fingers, hoping, and doing anything that will get him to where he wants. I want this just as badly as he does only because I know he has always dreamed of being a doctor and he would feel this would be his biggest accomplishment if he were to succeed. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers during this stressful time!

We are anxious to know where we will be this time next year: oh the possibilities are endless and exciting!!

Halloween Fun

Halloween 2009 was a success! We have been scheming our plans for months as this was the first where we could truly decorate and hand out candy. While carving pumpkins has always been a tradition of Kenny's, and now our tradition, decorating has now become another tradition. I feel that Halloween will always be a production in our household.

This year Kenny bought a fog machine. We have an uncovered courtyard off our front porch -- with a tarp to cover it, it made the perfect spot to pour out the fog and hold it in. The fog was so thick most of the night that you couldn't see through it! In addition to the fog, we had the theme music from the Halloween movies playing, pumpkins stabbed with machetes & hatches, carved pumpkins, and non-carved pumpkins. The turning point for our ideas were Kenny's & Tyler's masks. Tyler was dressed as Michael Myers & Kenny as Jason. Needless to say a few kids left crying -- and oddly & funny enough adults did too! I just dressed as a witch, as I usually do. We even had a kid ask if our house was haunted and if I was a real witch -- gotta love it!

Can't wait for next year's ideas!

Tyler's pumpkin

Kenny's pumpkin

Katie's pumpkin

The "murdered" pumpkins

Michael Myers emerging through the fog

The Most Haunted City in the U.S.

I got to spend a long weekend in Savannah, GA with my Mom, her two sisters-Sandy & Judy, and my cousin Denise. What a great girls weekend! We had so much fun just cutting up, seeing the sights, and eating! Here are some highlights from the trip:

Friday night when we arrived we had dinner at Paula Deen's restaurant, Lady & Son's. It was amazing southern cuisine with all the fixins!

This was a house I just loved because of the ivy. So many around Savannah have this charm about them.

All of us taking a break from the shopping on River Street

Robert Redford was in Savannah!! He was directing a film set in the 1800's of D.C. We barely missed him getting out of trailer. So, in hopes that he might leave his trailer again we stood in the wind for over an hour! :) No such luck.

This is where we ate dinner on Saturday night-The Pirate House. The food was delicious! And, it's haunted. This is a picture from when we stopped back by during our Haunted Ghost Tour after dinner that night. See all 6 orbs in the picture?

Sunday before we headed back we drove to Tybee Island. These are some pictures of the beautiful ocean there.