Halloween

This year Tyler and I are pretty much skipping Halloween. The only chance I have had to celebrate fall is through this blog (sad, huh?). We have to work Friday and Saturday at Tuscany because it is Parent's weekend at W&L. This means we are missing the Ward Halloween party, the SVU Halloween dance and Haunted House. We did not even get to carve pumpkins because we don't have a car to go to the store and get them. Yes, I know I sound pathetic, but I love Halloween and fall time and I am so sad that I am missing it. I usually bake a variety of Halloween treats too and since I have worked almost everyday the past few weeks at Tuscany I have not had a chance to do anything. I'm just super tired of working and I need a break and I can't wait till this semester is over. Sorry that this sounds so depressing.

I hope everyone else has a great and happy Halloween!!!

Fall at Treemont

Sunshine hits Building A The view from the Laundry room The Photographer

View from Building D

Nice truck...

Sunlight on the trees and jungle gym

Walking and doing the Jessica pose

The Basketball Court and yellow trees

Treemont's view of Main Hall

For Erik:

I am home alone, as Tyler is at work, and I went up to do laundry and was struck by the beauty around me. So, I decided to grab the camera and take a few shots. The lighting was especially cool and the sky was dark, but the sunlight was hitting the trees. I will probably take more as the season progresses and in a different location. I like the pictures I took, but they did not do Virginia justice. It is really beautiful here....

My Grandpa and Vonnie Visit

My Grandpa and Vonnie flew to Virginia over our Fall Break. They got to see SVU, a few soccer games, where we work, and we all went to Charlottesville and Monticello. It was great to have them visit us in Virginia and we had fun showing them around.

This is Grandpa, Tyler, me, Ricky and Jessica on the Blue Ridge Parkway over looking our home sweet home. Ricky and Jessica

On Saturday, we showed them around SVU's campus and watched Jessica and Tyler's soccer games. Then, we went out to eat at Tuscany and had a great time. On Monday, we drove to Charlottesville and went to Monticello, Jefferson's house.
All of us in front of Monticello Tyler took this picture of me

Ricky, Jessica, Vonnie and I in front of Monticello.

We had a great time touring Monticello. It is a really neat, and beautiful house. It was a strangely very cozy house. I could live there. I also really enjoyed walking around the grounds of Monticello, even though it was pretty cold out.

After Monticello, we headed down to Charlottesville and walked around. We had a great time and we are so glad they flew over to see us. It was a lot of fun!

WOOOO!!! We won!!! This means they are going to Nationals!!!

The SVU soccer team had an amazing game on Friday!! They won 4-3 to Averett (whom we recently lost to). It was a super intense game and Candace, Jessica and I were yelling the whole game. It was pretty amazing and everyone rushed the field after the game. I took a few pictures during the game, but had to stop when it got too intense. So, here are few pictures I took. Tyler is in the first one, he is just directly behind Chris (#11).

Tyler and Cisco hugging (?) after Cisco scored his #2 goal out of 3. Nice job Cisco!

Tyler looks like he is stretching... He says he was getting ready to run.

Tyler in action. (I did not actually take this one, I got it off facebook from Karen Walsh's pics)

Sorry the pictures are not great, but the game was and they needed to win this to go to Nationals. Good job boys!!!! They also won their game on Saturday 6-0. Nice.

I will post pictures soon of our adventures with Grandpa and Vonnie!

A Quick Update

Tyler has been playing a lot of soccer and I have been working a lot. They won their last game 6-0 and Tyler scored a goal! They just have to win one more game to be invited to Nationals. So,they plan on winning their game next Saturday. They pretty much have it in the bag on Saturday, as they have already beat the team they are playing. Here are a few pictures of Tyler at soccer practice. This guy at school likes to take sports pictures and has been shooting pictures of all the teams. I keep forgetting to bring my camera to his home games, but I promise to bring it to the next one. So here are a few pictures:

Tyler is running for a header at practice.Tyler is number 26 at home games, as the #12 home jersey is ripped. You can sort of see SVU's new turf field in this picture. Cisco is flying...

Tyler is #12 on away games.

Until next time...