A Few Things...

#1: We got a new car!!!!

It is a 2003 Subaru LegacySorry... I did not realize it had gotten dark when I decided to go out and take pictures. It has a sun roof and a moon roof! Oh, and a rack, which Tyler is excited about.The interior is really pretty nice--we have cup holders!!! We do have floor mats but they are still in a bag in the back from being at a dealership.

The back is pretty cool, cause it has a special little safety feature for car seats. We love it and are super excited to have a car again. Anyone need a ride?

#2: I made a really yummy meal!

I made a delicious stew today and it made me so happy. I love comfort food!

#3: I made Aragorn's dagger from Lord of the Rings for my stagecraft class.

Here it is, but it is a little longer and less curvy than Aragorn because of the wood I had to use.It had a nice real leather (pleather) handle and I really carved Elvish into the blade. I am pretty proud of myself, Tyler only helped a little bit.

#4: I helped out with SVU's play She Loves Me backstage and also built the set for my stagecraft class.

The set turned out amazing. It was a revolving set with one side as the inside of the store and the other as the exterior of the shop and street. I painted and put up all those shelves. Cut and made the railing on the top, helped paint, put up the foam bricks, built the main structure and learned a lot in my stagecraft class.Thats all for now! Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Wifely Duties

I have finally been able to fulfill some of my wifely duties! I have been working so much and going to school that I have hardly had a chance to make a real dinner (except on Sunday), or clean up the house or anything! This week I am not working at all (at Tuscany) because I am helping backstage with SVU's play, "She Loves Me". I am still gone from 7:30-11, but I was able to be home during dinner time. Tyler and I had time to do dishes and then I made Tyler a delicious Italian meal.

This would be me cooking dinner tonight...I made cookies on Sunday, so I thought i could throw this in here as counting for 'wifely duties'. The great thing is, is that I finally found a chocolate chip cookie recipe that I think is just about perfect. I have been searching and trying many chocolate chip recipes over the past few months trying to find the right one (it can't be a special kind with peanut butter, or M&M's in it---just a plain old regular recipe). So, I was looking on my favorite baking website, joyofbaking.com, and decided to try their chocolate chunk cookie recipe (not the chocolate chip recipe, which is also on the website). It was delicious and the cookies looked absolutely beautiful as well. Yummm! I just had to share that, as I had been searching for the perfect recipe for a few months now and i was pretty excited.

Tyler and I are doing really well. We are still pretty busy, but now that soccer is over our life will slow down just a little bit. I am glad he played though, because they had a great season, a great team and I loved watching him play. That all for now as I better get to bed!!

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...

Well...

Our car broke down today. It has had trouble starting and now it won't start at all. The car is parked on 29th near an auto parts store which was sort of lucky, but they could not do anything to make it work. Who knows what will happen, but at least we know the guy who works at the auto store, so we can get 20% off of car parts. Also, we have rides to school tomorrow which is good.

Another good thing was that I found this really awesome online clothing store. I can't actually buy anything, but I love looking. They have a lot of unique and cute dresses, coats, shoes and more.

Here is the link if you are interested:

http://modcloth.com/

Thats all!