Early Birthday

My new Ipod Shuffle

Homemake Chocolate Icing Cake

We celebrated my birthday a little early since my mom and sister were in town. We went to the Japanese restaurant and had cake and presents back at home.

Savannah

We finally made it for a weekend trip to Savannah. It was nice to walk around and see some of the history and antique stores.

Fall Festival

Josh playing the egg toss game (notice I am not his partner)

A group of us are resting after all of our work

Praise team (I'm the tall one in the middle)

We had our fall festival last weekend at church. It was an all day event but a lot of fun. I had my first experience cooking for 400 people.

CSU Homecoming

We had homecoming this past weekend and I had two of my students that were on the homecoming court.
Gigi is on the left and Chicora is on the right.

Great students and great Christian girls.

Andrew and Leslie visit

A little over a week ago Andrew and Leslie stopped by for a quick visit. They were on their way to Florida so they stopped off in Charleston. It was a quick visit but it was good to catch up. I think it has been over 2 years since we last saw them. We ate breakfast at Poogins Porch, which is a nice little old house in downtown Charleston. I really enjoyed the food and atmosphere. We then met up with Meagan and Jeff. Josh and I also walked around in charleston to places we haven't been before so you will see some pics of that.

I have a Copyright

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I got notification a few weeks ago about my dissertation. When you submit your dissertation to the university you also fill out paperwork to register your document with the Register of Copyrights. Here is the webpage that documents the copyright.

October

I have grossly neglected the blog this past month. We really haven't been doing anything that great. I have been busy working. We are currently on Fall Break and it is midterm already so this semester is almost over. Josh has been working every weekend with baseball. I did go to one of our football games. I have to say eventhough Southern Miss had trouble getting fans to consistently come and stay at the games there was a buzz of activity that day that was exciting. I have been looking on my other friends blogs and USM had homecoming this past weekend. I do wish we were a little closer so we could visit for the weekend. So far nothing great is planned for the upcoming weeks so I may not post anything until Thanksgiving. That is of course, if Josh takes off a weekend and we actually go do something.

Saturday Tea

Today Josh was out of town recruiting so me and a friend spent the day enjoying some of the sites of Summerville. She took me to a tea room where we ate lunch and of course had some specialty tea. I have to say it was a really unique treat. When I called and told Josh about it he was like " Yeah I know the place I have eaten there". Big suprise to me.....Josh eat lunch at a tea room?? Well when his parents were in town last year they went there one morning when I was at work. He probably told me and I just forgot. I also spent the day discovering some great local shopping places. There is a consignment shop just down the road and they have some really great antique furniture. I almost bought a drop leaf table and chairs but I already have one and where would I put it. Then we found a store call Tomlinsons. It was sort of like an Old Time Pottery just not as big. Again, this place is just 10 minutes from my house. How could I have missed it. Well needless to say Josh probably shouldn't go out of town so much b/c I keep finding great shopping places when he is gone.

Jeff's Birthday

We went to visit Jeff and Meagan this weekend for Jeff's birthday. We missed out on the Amazing Race tournament prior to the cookout but we made it for the food. It was funny b/c we had brought Jeff his gift but as you can see he had one for Josh too. Now Josh will wear his new hat golfing or on the field :)

Fellowship of Oakbrook

We have been attending a new church the past 2 months. We really like it there b/c it is a contemporary service. I have joined the praise team and I sing at the 11 o'clock service. We also have a small orchestra that plays with the praise team. I wish we would have went there a year ago, I really think it would have made the transistion easier.

Kudo's to Lauren

Lauren Highfill, one of the grad students from my former dolphin lab, won a great honor from the APA (Amercian Psychological Association) conference that was recently held in New Orleans. See the link below for the full story.

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Ernesto coming on shore

Here comes our tropical depression (storm) (hurricane) or whatever it is going to be. Well all schools are cancelled tomorrow so now that puts my classes a day behind. I am probably the only person upset that school is cancelled. Josh thinks he may go in to the office for a couple of hours tomorrow. I say enjoy the day off.

Back To School

We are in our second week of school and so far my classes are going well. I am trying to be more layed back this semester. We'll see if it helps me be less stressed out. One thing that has helped is that I am not teaching any new classes so I don't have to completely prep for a new class.

This past weekend Josh and I helped out with a community service project that CSU and Summerville Baptist Church hosted. I have to say my contribution was much easier than Josh's. I served cake for a short while and Josh shoveled mulch on a playground for a few hours.

Last night CSU held a concert by Sonic Flood so Josh and I went to that. It was a good concert and it was kinda of nice to be in a smaller venue to see a band. Although the girls sitting next to us drove us crazy b/c they kept getting up and moving past us. I am not kidding we had to let them by more than 20 times.

one year later- Katrina Dolphins

I saw this on the morning news. Here is the link.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2318974&page=1

DNR Banquet

Me and Meagan

guy on the right from Flip this House

Josh and I went with Meagan and Jeff to a fundraiser for the Deparmtment of Natural Resources. Jeff works with them so he was one of the people in charge of running the event. It was funny because I made a comment to Meagan that it was the type of event I could see that guy from Flip this House attend. If you don't know the show it had a season where they followed a company here in Charleston as they bought, re-modeled and sold homes. Anyway later that night I look over and I see another guy from that very show. He wasn't the main guy but he was the on site guy. We thought it was very funny. Meagan snapped a pic of him while we were posing for a picture. They auctioned off a lot of things. Most of the stuff went for hundreds if not thousands of dollars. It was pretty amazing. I bought 3 tickets for 5 dollars and took my chance on the drawing items. No luck though. They had a great spred of food. (lots of seafood)

Just Because

Josh bought me flowers earlier this week just because. These flowers get prettier each day. See pictures.

Florida

Pretty Florida water

sea turtle

On our way back from home we stopped in Florida. Here are a few pics of our trip.

Temple Baptist Church

Here are a few pics of the new sanctuary at Temple, our church in Hattiesburg. They should be finishing up the inside in a few months. It is a really large building but that does not reflect the relationship of the congregation.

Fishing

Josh trying to untangle his fishing line

Josh and Matt fishing at the creek

Franklinton

Dad's birthday

Leslie and Norman

Here are a few pics from my visit home. We spent time with my sister in her new house and with the longhorns. We also had my dad's birthday party and went out to eat with my mom and George.

Hattiesburg

Haley and Campbell

Jennifer, Me, Hannah and Lindsey

Josh and Jacob

Nancy, Emily, Me, Maderra and Nicole

Here are a few pictures of us hanging out with our friends from church in Hattiesburg. We had a great time visiting and hopefully we will see everyone again soon.
While we were in Hattiesburg we went and visited so many people from work, school and church. We got to eat at Purple Parrot for our 2 year anniversary (I was excited about that).

14 year old world series

We are a host site for the 14 year old world series. (or something like that). Anyway Josh has been in charge since the head coach is out recruiting. Sunday he was at the field by 6:30 am and he didn't get home until 10 pm. I was up there most of the day helping out where I can. So the past two days have been pretty much like that. I have reverted to doing any field work I can (moving coolers, packing up chairs, sweeping the stands) just so we can get out of here when they finish with the field. We will be doing this until Friday, which is when we leave for MS and LA. We will be home for 10 days so hopefully I 'll get some pics from my visit. Since I am not teaching I am doing anything I can so I don't just sit at home. Well check back in a week or so.

Fourth of July

Josh is somewhere underneath the water being dumped out of the bucket

Meagan, Jeff, Josh and Nola

We have had a busy last two days. Monday night we met up with our sunday school class and had a cookout. We had a lot of fun and ate a lot of food. We didn't get home til really late and we got up really early the next day. On the fourth we went to Whirlin Waters and played in the wave pool and lazy river all day. It was a lot of fun and nice to be outside with some cool water nearby. Then we headed over to James Island to visit with Meagan and Jeff. We went to Fort Johnson, which is where the Grice Marine Lab and NOAA are to watch the fireworks. It was a great location because we could see the fireworks at Sullivan's Island, Isle of Palms, Patriots Point and The Navy base. It was a small crowd so we didn't fight any traffic. Again we got home late last night so we slept in a little this morning. It was a nice couple of days and I think we both enjoyed it.