Fall Festival

This past Sunday was our Fall Festival. There was a lot of work that was involved and I actually had a lot of fun but was completely exhausted when it was over. We cooked for about several hundred people and on top of that Josh and I had additional jobs.

Worship Team

My Job
Josh's Job

Let the Games begin. Scott challenged Josh to a race. So here is the play by play

There off...and in the process almost knock over a kid!

Josh tries sliding into home.

But alas....Scott is victorious

Where has the time gone???

A recent visit from my mom and George. We went out to Oscar's...good food.

Ranger is a great travel dog. When we went home this summer he spent most of the time in his crate, part of the time in my lap and part on the time on the arm rest with his head on Josh.

This is Ranger with his cone after his surgery.

Josh and I went with the youth to Carowinds, which is an amusement park. At the event we heard Skillet, Casting Crowns and Family Force Five.

Okay, so I have been really bad at updating the blog recently. There are a couple of reasons. No. 1 : I thought I had lost my camera cord to the computer but finally found it sitting next to the computer (so no more excuses). No. 2: I have been really busy at work No. 3 I have been spending too much time on Facebook and not on my blog. So now that I am back and committed to updating my blog here are a few pictures that let you know what we have been up to.

This is a video to show some of the tricks I have taught Ranger. I have taught him verbal commands and hand signals. He catches on pretty quick. I think I taught him most of these things when he was around 3 months. He is around 9 months now. Just this last month we got shake, which he got after one day of working with him.

Mud Run

This is the second time Josh has ran in the Mud Run. It is a 4 mile obstacle course, which you may have guessed has a lot of mud pits. He ran with a 4 man team and this year I decided to go. No, I didn't run I provided my photography and child care skills for the day. We also had two ladies teams that participated as well. They all seemed to have a lot of fun and I enjoyed watching them.

Visit from Josh's sister

A few weeks ago Tracy was able to visit us again. We ate at some great restaurants while she was here. I haven't been able to post any pictures from my camera b/c I have lost my connector to my computer. It is somewhere in my house but who knows where.

They Caught Him

It looks like this robbers days are over. The bank robber and his accomplice were pulled over in Myrtle Beach for making an illegal turn. I haven't seen anything on the new about it but Josh told me earlier today he was caught.

Josh's 2nd news appearance

Well this time I have to say was unintentional. This week Josh's bank was robbed and as you can see from this picture Josh was the teller. So, if any of you recognize this man you can let us know so we can maybe catch him. Apparently he has hit several Regions banks in SC, GA and FL. Here is the link to the full story. Josh was okay and he only slipped him a note but it still was not a fun experience and it is never good getting a phone call from your husband saying "We were just robbed....but I'm okay".
Story

Sweitzer Farewell

We wanted to say goodbye to some of our friends the Sweitzer's. You know when we moved to Charleston we didn't realize that our friends would be in the military which meant they would eventually move away. If only I would have known that then....
Anyway, they are moving to Germany for a 3 year stay and I'm sure they will have a blast once all the details are taken care of...find a house, enroll in school, get a drivers license, get some of their stuff, 3 months later get the rest of their stuff, find the supermarket.....speak German??

I stole some pics off of Debbie's blog and I had to go a ways back to try and find a family photo of all 5. I found one of the girls and one of the boys and figured that would work as well.

So I guess all there is left to say is Viva la Sweitzer's ...

Oh wait...That's not German, oh well I guess just because you have a PhD doesn't mean you know everything :)

More pics

Ranger waiting for me to let him get his treat which is right in front of him

Visit Home

Here's Norman

Lilly Belle

We went to LA for the week and visited my family. We had a great time and celebrated my dad's birthday. I'll post those pictures later. Here are some other pics.

MS trip

Ranger asleep

Hannity asleep....they didn't get along too well but Ranger played with Miley (a yorkie)

Josh and Saxton

We went to a Thai restaurant in Hattiesburg and I just thought this was funny when they brought out my water and rice.

We went to Mississippi to visit some friends. Here are a few pics from there.

Rainbow

Just before we left for our trip to LA and MS I looked out in my backyard and this is what I saw.

youth trip

A few weeks ago I went on a youth trip to Kings Fest. We took almost 30 youth to Kings Dominion in VA. We spent 3 days at the park and the afternoons and nights were filled with concerts. We heard Casting Crowns, Skillet, Barlow Girl, Family Force 5, The Newsboys, Kutless, Toby Mac...and many more. It was a lot of fun but exhausting. I was surprised I was able to keep up.

To be continued....

I just got back from a youth trip and I am getting ready for our vacation to MS and LA. I will post some if I can when we are gone. I should have lots of pics to share.

The 4th

We went down to Folly Beach that morning and visited our friends the Tuckers who were staying at a condo on the beach. I had never really been to Folly before b/c we always went to the other beaches here. I actually liked it a lot. We stayed until a little after 1 and as we were heading back out the traffic was backed up for miles going in. There is only one main way onto the beach. That night we went over to the Nicklas's house for fireworks and food. There were several families there and we had a really good time. The kids threw two tubs full of water balloons with the guys.

We got our Fence

So.. When we bought our house we knew that we wanted to fence in the backyard. It is a very large yard and we wanted to be able to let our dog play without running around our neighborhood and we wanted to keep out the kids from our yard. We scheduled the fence about a month ago (busy time of year).. so this week a crew came out and in 2 1/2 days they were able to put it up. I was really impressed with the quality of the work. I don't like the color but I have been assured that it will darker in the next couple of weeks so it will probably look a little more like I expected but I can't tell you how great it is to have this fence up. I love it.

Cool Chest

I got this really neat chest at an antique store and I love it. It is so different and really old. Not sure how old but the inside is covered in Chinese writing. I was probably recently painted on but I liked the design on the front b/c it fits nicely in my living room.