Christmas Eve

Working radio given to us by Josh's grandpa

Here are a few pictures of us opening gifts on Christmas Eve.

Injury

right after (the index finger on the right)

We were playing pool the other night and I went to break the balls. Well needless to say I almost broke my hand. These pictures do not do justice to how swollen and black and blue my finger and hand were.

Flying over Colorado

We flew in from Denver, well before the blizzard hit so we didn't have any problems. We took a couple of pics when we were flying over the mountains. The first day we were in Nevada I woke up and checked the temperature and it was 4 degrees. The other picture that is posted is the front yard filled with snow. A few days later it rained and all of the snow melted. Since then it hasn't been that bad.

Christmas Cafe

What I wished my table looked like (above)

my table (above)

We have a Christmas Cafe at church where we each can host a table. Each host decorates their table and plays "host" to the guests at her table. Each lady had a different style. Here are just a few pictures of some of the tables.

Present

it doesn't have the 60 on my picture

Josh gave me one more present for my birthday. There is this local artist that draws local scenes or animals and I really like him. He reminds me a little of Walter Anderson. So he got me this print that I really liked. Notice that that artists last name is Thames.

Birthday

Yesterday was my 29th birthday and unfortunately I wasn't feeling that well. We had made dinner reservations at Cypress and I was bound and determined to make it there. We went to visit Meagan and Jeff before we went so they took a couple of pictures of us dressed up. Dinner was great but our service was less than excellent. Oh well, the food made up for it. We will be leaving in a week to go to Nevada for 2 1/2 weeks and off to Orlando after that. I will try and post when we are gone.

New TV

We have been debating getting a new tv for 2 years. The TV we wanted was really just too expensive. Well we caught a break. The weekend after Thanksgiving Sears had a sale that took off 500 dollars from the original price, it was a tax free weekend in SC and we don't have to pay interest for 2 years. So needless to say we got it. It is pretty cool to have HDTV the picture is really clear. Josh of course loves it.

Thankgiving day pic of us

Josh and his Yankee socks

Here was a fall picture we took on Thanksgiving

Did I forget to say .......It snowed last week

Last Tuesday we had a weird coastal storm that brought snow to Charleston. It wasn't cold enough to stick but it made for an interesting story.

Early Christmas

My Rachael Ray knives

We also had our annual Christmas picture and opened presents since we will be in Nevada this year for Christmas.

Thanksgiving

Here are a few pics from Thanksgiving.

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.