This past weekend

This past weekend Matt and I went to Augusta to visit my family. The pictures below are from our bike ride on the Augusta canal. Followed by some pictures from Arabelle's 1st birthday party.

My sister with our bikes

You are probably wondering why I put this picture in here. Do you see the top next to the wine bottle there? Do you see the hole in it? Yeah, I tried to open the screw top with a cork screw :-/

Before the cake

During the cake

And after the cake - too bad I didn't get a picture when she picked up the whole plate and put it on her face!

ps - i still am terrible at editing things on here to make them look nice. and apparently me moving these pictures around made them not save the full size image on here. i'm not going to redo it so sorry you have to look at the small ones!

Pictures Lately

I have been trying to practice a lot with my new camera. I pretty much suck at it so far, but here and there I get a picture that I like. I definitely need to learn and practice more though! Here are a few that I like (in no particular order because I'm not going to spend a lot of time moving them around):

Matt and Arabelle in Boone

Glenn Bolick at Heritage Day with wood-fired pottery

Wood-fired pottery

Flowers that Matt picked for me

Christmas tree from an old Christmas tree farm (so cool!)

Old school house and Christmas tree farms!

On the walk up the mountain. Moffitt men and their dogs.

Thomas and Molly playing

Me playing with Steph's camera. Glad to be in a picture finally!

Matt & Andy grilling

Molly :)

First zucchini from the garden

Zucchini bread! yum!

Birthday dinner at Fellini's

Birthday at the zoo

Friday night at the cabin

Matt and I had a pretty fun and typical weekend. Friday night we had dinner with some friends and talked for 3 hours which I love. Saturday got up and ran 4 miles. That's the farthest I have run since my marathon. I have been running without my knee brace lately (just 3 miles) and I've been fine. My knee felt fine during the 4 mile run but ever since has been tender so not sure what I'm going to do for the Peachtree.. if I'll wear my knee brace or not. Going to keep training to find out. The 4 miles didn't go so well with the heat and heat index around here so hopefully it'll cool off just a little bit so I can get in some good runs.

Today we had our normal routine of church followed by lunch (homemade pizza - yum!) and a trip to Aldi & Kroger. Wish I had taken a picture of the pizza, I forgot. Tonight was the youth Choir Tour Homecoming show at Northside. Matt's dad takes the kids on a choir tour every year and this year they went to New England and made their way back for the show tonight. It was great as always! Back to the grind tomorrow, here are a few pictures with my new camera ;)

Choir tour

I like this picture :)

I like this picture too but it's a little blurrier than I thought it was. Matt's brother John with Arabelle

Our little girl snuggled up with her dad

Fresh green beans

I'd love comments on how you fix fresh green beans. I have found that if you boil them / fix them on the stove that it takes FOREVER to get them how I would like them. I also like them with a little olive oil and salt and pepper thrown in the oven on broil for a few min. But I think there are better ways than both of those, so please help :) We have all these yummy fresh green beans in the garden and I need some ideas!

Some pictures, as promised

Well I've been testing out the new camera. I don't claim to be a pro and never will be, but I think I'll be able to take a few decent shots once I learn how to use the camera better. In the mean time, here are a few random ones I have taken while practicing some stuff, and they are not photoshopped since I don't have photoshop :)

New camera is on its way

Surprise - my blog still exists! I haven't had much motivation to post lately and one reason is that I'm so excited about my new camera that I have wanted to wait and take a few shots of the garden and stuff to show.

No other big news, normal things - stuff at the house breaking and paying to get it fixed. Loving living in Marietta. And gardening - most everything is growing and we have even eaten some of it! More to come.

Hopefully once my new camera arrives (1-2 weeks) I'll be a little more motivated ;)

Until then (or sooner)...

So far this weekend

- celebrated Crystal's birthday

- celebrated Chrissy's birthday

- bought a birthday present for an upcoming birthday (bff!)

- went to May-retta Daze & farmer's market on the square

- changed locks on front door and side door (finally both doors close properly and we have keys for both doors - and the keys match!)

- pulled some weeds

- gave Molly a bath

- did all the dishes

- did all the laundry

- watched Weeds & Gilmore Girls

- checked on, watered, and weeded my growing garden

... time to read People magazine and drink some wine :)