Our First Anniversary

October 9th was our First Anniversary. We spent the week before visiting Mickey Mouse and friends at Disney World. This wasn't either of our first trips to Disney, but we sure were excited about the trip. We only stopped a few time for pictures but I will share them.

When we arrived in our room this greeted us, then Mickey Mouse called to welcome us to Disney.

 Our first day was spent at the Animal Kingdom. We went straight to the safari when we arrived. The animals were all out and moving around early.

Our favorite part of Animal Kingdom was the bird show. All I can say is WOW!!!

Look at this beautiful eagle.

A BUGS LIFE!!!

Mickey's Jungle Parade

I was absolutely IN LOVE with all the decorations at The Magic Kingdom. Everything was all decorated for fall and Halloween. I'm pretty sure I spent the first 5 minutes in the park taking pictures of decorations. 

When we arrived.

Notice the crane in the background :-( they are doing repairs to the castle and building a completely castle for the new section of the park.)

Our first stop was at the Hall of Presidents. I'm pretty sure I wasn't supposed to take pictures...oops!

Here we are on the Orbiter ride.

More decorations...HA!

Waiting for the Light Parade

While we waited for the parade Cinderella's Castle was changing colors.  

One afternoon we went to Downtown Disney to look around. As you can see, Daniel had a blast. 

Hey Deer

Check out our house guest!

Last week Daniel brought this precious angel home from work.




OF COURSE he had already been named Bambi but that wasn't going to fly at our house so he became Notbambi...creative huh?!?!

It was love at first sight!

He did pretty good on the leash, following Daniel around the yard.

Notbambi stayed with us for one night. Then, he went to live at a rehabilitation center that will introduce him to other deer.

Notbambi was an angel and so sweet but he is a wild animal. For a week he had been living with humans and has become very accustom to people. This is fun for now, but when Notbambi is a grown deer he could be dangerous thus, the reason deer aren't good pets...so says my Game Warden Husband that wouldn't let me keep Notbambi.

Sew...Lately this is what's been going on.

I have this new Sewing/Embroidery machine sitting here daring me to try my hand at sewing again. I took a sewing class in High School, but that feels like ages ago. And with my introduction to Pinterst the temptation has been killing me. I found several things online that looked easy enough so I went for it. Here's what happened:










The burp cloths were first. They turned out well enough I guess. I was please with my ability to sew around a square. Then I decided to move ahead a little and tackle a bigger project from Pinterest, a nursing cover for my expecting Sister-in-law. For this project, I called in the big dogs...Mom! She was a huge help even though she says she didn't do anything. She helped measure and cut and hold off the dogs that were dying to be in the middle of the action. Here's the finished project.






If your my friend on Facebook you have probably already seen this with all my begging (harassing)for votes in the "Great Pinterest Challenge...we won by the way.

I gave this to Sunny at the "Big Reveal" party in Troy.

About this party:
Tom and Sunny went for their 20 week ultrasound on August 15th. The nurse was able to determine the babies gender however she didn't tell Tom and Sunny. The nurse told only their friend Sarah who went home and made a cake in either Blue or Pink for the party. Later that night our families got together for the reveal. Here are the pictures. As you can see Tom got way to anxious during the cake cutting ceremony and stuck his finger in the cake.

It's a GIRL!!!!
Maybe the PINK "S" should have clued us in...

Hoot and Nanny are so excited!!!

Mom's Mother's Day Gift

For Mother's Day this year Tom (my brother) and Sunny told Mom that she was going to be a Grandmother. I'm pretty sure that gift can't be topped. Claude was one EXCITED woman!!! Then they told us to keep it quite until Sunny was into her 3rd month...UGH!!!! That was killer, but we managed, sort of. Anyway, the news is out now...I'm gonna be an AUNTIE!!!!

Daniel's niece was born May 10, 2011...so we are figuring out this Aunt and Uncle stuff.

Summer Part 2

In June, my College Roommate and one of my "Bestest" friends from High School got married...to each other. The wedding was beautiful!!! It was great to see Brooke and Justin and so many other friends from Jackson.

 Leila was there and sang for the wedding. WHAT A TREAT!!! THE GIRL CAN SING!!!! We had a blast visiting and catching up.

(I think this is the only picture ever where Courtney AKA "2foot" is the tallest)

As we all know it's been HOTT this summer.

I don't know if it was the heat or a wild hair, but Dad bought a boat this summer. It's not new but it's new to us. I find it humorous that the boat has a name, "Reel Trouble," but I guess it's OK, since they (being Daddy, Tom and Daniel) did want the boat for fishing.

We have had a blast this summer on the boat. Daniel and I took it to the bay one weekend for fishing and we made our first trip to Crab Island. The Kelly's (Jared and Allison) were along for the trip as well as Mrs. Ginger, Melissa, Mrs. Debra and Mrs. Stanley and jet skis.

Daniel and Jared with their Mom's

Me and Allison

See Crab Island in the background? Who knew a slightly submerged island could be so much fun. The floating grills and ice cream stands were a big hit along with the inflatable slide and the live band playing on a floating stage. 

And the boat as been to the river here in Monroe County.

 Mama is a HUGE fan of Shelling, as in going to look for sea shells, sand dollars, and the like. She has heard of finding sharks teeth and sand dollars on the Alabama River before and we made a trip to see if there was any truth to the stories. Welp!! They are true. 

These are from Mama's collection. There were thousands of sand dollars and we found several sharks teeth.

One last Instagram picture of our river trip. 

OK, Instagram makes the picture "Way Cooler" than my camera ever could, but it's beautiful just the same. God's creation is an amazing thing.

Summer Catch Up

Since I don't get summers off work and I've been so jealous of the teachers out there I took a blogging break. Not intentionally, but that's my excuse. We've had a great summer, full of beach trips, lake trips, river trips and a wedding here and there.

For Memorial Day weekend we went to Georgia to Lake Sinclair with Aunt Micky. She has the cutest lake house on a cove of the lake. We rode on the boat, skied, tube with the neighbors children and visited "lake friends" on the boat. Life on the lake is so different, people who live on the lake are so laid back, life moves at a slower pace and no one gets in a hurry.  We actually got to the house on Thursday night and never got back in the car until Monday afternoon. We went everywhere on the boat.

We did feed this little family of geese. 

Well, I say no one gets in a hurry, unless your the neighbor with a boat house full of snakes...she was moving pretty fast, on her lawn mower that she drove over to the house to borrow a gun. Poor lady, her boat house had become a snake house. We counted five snakes under and around the house. Daniel shot one, but the others just escaped under water to come back later. 

Daniel and I can't wait to go back to Aunt Micky's. We had the best, most relaxing time there. It was such a treat to hang out with Aunt Micky and play all weekend. 

Things to remember: (Ignore my notes here,I want to remember these things)
Daniel decided to slalom - he got it on the first try and he's hooked now
We skied on the Hawaiian  Ski
We tubed until we couldn't move.
Aunt Mic taught me to drive her boat

On the way home we saw "Barbie Beach" in person.

Summer Catch UP...To be continued