Yeah, It's Friday!!!

Well, this week has been a crazy one! The beginning of last week, I was sick and home for a few days. Then Nathan was sick the last part of the week. We just had a sickly week! By Sunday we were both feeling pretty well, and had a great day! We have been visiting SonRise Baptist Church for awhile, and we joined about two weeks ago. We love it there, and we definitely feel like it is where we're supposed to be. I was so glad on Sunday to wake up to us both feeling well and going to our new church home! After church, we were able to just spend the day together, and it was so great. We watched the superbowl and played a little Xbox together. It was just what we needed after a week of sickness!

I started back to nursing classes Tuesday. We're all excited to see the light at the end of the tunnel, and now we're just trying to all focus for just a few more months! Nathan is such a great encouragement for me, and this last year has been great so far!

SonRise started up their new Bible Studies on Wednesday nights, and I'm doing the Beth Moore study on Esther. The first night was really good! I've read some of Beth Moore's books before, but I've never actually heard her speak. I'm definitely excited about the rest of the study!

AND... I can now officially say (or type) that my KD Big Sis is ENGAGED!!! My Sara Beth's getting married! I can't believe it! She is such a big part of my life, and was such a big part of mine and Nathan's lives when we first started dating too! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Nathan and I both are so glad it's finally Friday, and we are definitely ready for the weekend!

Weekend Getaway!

We had an amazing getaway to Gatlinburg for the long MLK weekend. It was great to just have some time together, and we absolutely loved it! We walked around Gatlinburg and had lots of fun and great food! It was so cold! Sunday was the warmest day, and it was perfect to just walk around outside.

We even got to see some snow! It snowed the most on Monday when we were heading home, but we still got some good pictures and froze a little before we left!
The beautiful cabin my parents got us for the weekend for Christmas! It was gorgeous!I just love him! I think I was beating him in pool in this one :)

We went to the Applewood Restaurant, and they gave us the table with the swing! We definitely weren't expecting that, but it was fun :) And their food is great, as always!

We went to the Hollywood Star Cars Museum and got pictures of tons of famous cars! We both had to get inside the Flintstone's car!

The Beverly Hillbillies!!!

We went to the Wax Museum too! Some of them looked so real it almost freaked us out! Had to get my picture with Charlie's Angels :)

I think Catwoman looked the most realistic! Can you believe it ?!?

This is one of my favorites of Nathan! Men in black, and the main man in red :)

We found this just walking around Gatlinburg. So pretty :)

We went to the Ripley's Aquarium too! The jellyfish were our favorites!

Welcome 2009!!!

Happy 2009! We had an amazing first married Christmas! We both had two weeks off, and it was definitely nice to be off together for that time. This year, we hosted the Frasier Family Christmas, and it was a blast! It was so great to have everyone over, and I was especially excited that we got to decorate our house for Christmas for the first time! We also had Christmas at Honey's and at Nathan's grandmother's house, and they were both so fun! We went and looked at some lights on Christmas Eve, and Greg stayed with us that night too! We were so glad to have him there with us. We woke up on Christmas morning and opened presents. Greg was so gracious to be our photographer for the morning. Nathan was excited to get his TV for the sunroom, and I was excited about my new craft table! I'll have to take a picture of it when I get it all organized! I also got the new Dance Dance Revolution, and that has been great! We went to Nathan's parents and opened presents and then came back to the house for presents with my parents. It was an amazing day, and we are so blessed to have gotten to spend it with all of our family!

For New Year's, we went to Pigeon Forge with Nathan's family. We had a lot of fun up there. It was definitely a nice getaway! Our break from work and school was great, and we enjoyed every minute of it! It was absolutely hard to go back to work this week - for both of us!

We are excited about the new year and all the fun that will come our way! We are ready to take it on! Here is the link to all our pictures from the break:

http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=2f7b8e6ebed7a688&sid=0AbsWjhi2Zs2TlA

Almost There...

It's been a while since I've been able to get on here. Life is so busy! Nathan is definitely ready for a well-deserved break next week! And I am ready for my half week! We feel like we've been going nonstop recently! We did have a great weekend though. We went to Covington and got to see the fam, and we went to my cousin Blake's soccer game. He did well - scored twice! It was fun and cold and a great game, and we enjoyed it! It was nice to spend some time back in good ol' Covington for the day.

On another note, last night I gave up on waiting and starting decorating the house for Christmas!!! With finals quickly approaching, I wouldn't have much free time right after Thanksgiving so I just went ahead! We are going to wait until after Thanksgiving to get our tree, but Christmas is definitely in the air. And all over the house too!! We are very ready for a merry married Christmas!!!

My last final is on December 10th, and then I am free woman until February! I will still be working and trying to prepare for next semester, but it won't be anything like it is now. I'm so ready for that nice, long break! In the meantime, we can't wait for Thanksgiving next week! Seeing family is going to be great! And eating a little food will be too!

Happy Halloween!

Hi from Gilligan and Mary Ann!! We had so much fun last night! We passed out some candy at our house and then headed to a costume party! It was a great, married halloween and we loved it!!!















Me as Mary Ann :)















Nathan was so cute! He makes me smile :)

Last weekend, my mom and I went to Disney on Ice with Tamara and Lillie. It was so much fun! Lillie loved it! She got into it too! Here a few pics - enjoy!

Josh Turner!

We went to the Josh Turner concert last night, and it was so great! Lady Antebellum opened up for him, and they were great too! It was at the Cobb Energy Center, and it was such a nice, new building. We had an amazing time, and it was so nice to have a night out together. I was at a nursing conference for 3 days, so I got to come home to Nathan and then go out with him that night to the concert. It was perfect!

I finally got the pictures up from Stone Mountain on my shutterfly website. Let me know if you want me to e-mail you the link. We went there last Saturday for the Piedmont Hospital "Picnic at the Park" and it was a lot of fun! It got a little chilly but we stayed for the laser show. Neither one of us had seen it in so long! I put up some pictures from the honeymoon too, but not too many. It'll take me awhile to get a lot of those up! We definitely went a little picture crazy, but I'm glad because we got some great ones!

Now we're back to busy-ness, but that's certainly okay with us. Next weekend, the Fryer's are coming down to stay with us, and we (well, the girls) are going to Disney on Ice! I can't wait! I am also going to complete my last two clinical days in the hospital in LaGrange this week! I'm so excited!!! After that, it is just some clinicals around different places in LaGrange, and then next semester off to Egleston or Scottish Rite! Hopefully I'll find out soon which unit I will get to precept in!

Weekend Fun!

It's been awhile since I've been able to get on here because we've been so crazy! Between the new math curriculum for Nathan and classes and work for me, we are definitely busy, and on Friday we were definitely ready to have some weekend fun! We met up with Mark for dinner Saturday night and then went and played tennis on Sunday. It has been SO long since either one of us has played tennis, and we are feeling it now. We're both so sore!! Nathan's parents cooked for us Sunday night, and it was great - food and company! So after a great and fun weekend, we are back to work and class. And now we're just waiting for next weekend to get here! We're also getting ready to plant out first flowers at the new house!! We picked daffodils and tulips to plant in the backyard by the patio, and we're excited. Daffodils for me, tulips for Nathan. I guess in the Spring we'll see if we did it right! I'll have to post pictures if they actually grow!