Another Side Note

I'm sorry I'm still reeling from all the hulaballoo but go ahead and google map the town in Alabama that is named my maiden- that's right it exists! And was named for my great great great grandfather Solomon W. WEIRD.

Family History

So through a series of random events, basically me and google being the random events- i have found my dad's genelogy on-line. Its so weird. Its not like on some website; it is its own 600 something page document with authors and stuff. they trace the family back to the boats. Isn't that weird- that's weird to me, and cool. I have all this history at my fingertips and I didn't have to put any work into at all. It's really bizarre. There are aparently only 7 generations (that includes my dad) that lead to the coming over to America. Why this is unusual to me is because on my mom's side of the family are livng 5 generations and have been since 1993 when my cousin had her baby girl Loranda (who will be 14 in 4 days, happy early b-day Loranda!). So its strange to think that my dad's sister who is 16 years older is the oldest family member on that side we know. I guess there are a lot of factors in this, how close family is both relationally and geographically and the age at which people have their children.
All this to say I have a new found respect for my weird maiden name, apparently its got staying power, who knew?

D

p.s. if you were wondering its of scottish-irish decent

My Wonderful Husband!

Last Night Jeremy suprised me by cooking dinner! It was so delicious! it was a recipe that I was planning on trying but he beat me to it. I thought I would share the recipe with you. Cick here to try PORK CHOPS WITH APPLES AND SHALLOTS. To be honest the title did not sound southern enough for me to be interested but its a Martha recipe so I thought I would try it. I will have pictures of our dinner at a later date.

More than just share a recipe I wanted to share my heart. I love my husband so much. He is the most wonderful man I think is or ever was.He made this wonderful dinner for me for no reason. Because he wanted to bless me.He went to great trouble to do something so selfless for me. he did it not because he likes cooking or cleaning but because he loves me and wants me to feel loved! I do feel so loved everyday by him. I am overwhelmed with love and joy.

Graduation and the Early Months of Marriage

Here's more pictures as requested (mom!) i will get some recent ones up soon enough. for now though its fun to look back and remember what it was like to be so excited about so many firsts and so many big things happening to our lives. We graduated (or so we thought:)) and got married, had our first apartment and first birthday's being married. i offically became an Aunt, sister-in-law, daughter-in-law well basically trippled the size of my family all within a very short time period. i love remembering it. thanks for taking a walk down memory lane with me.

I'm only happy when it rains!

there is a huge storm passing through right now and i had to expereince it. i love to watch and expereince a good rainstorm from a porch. for this storm system i was unfourtunaley at work but there is a covered porch on the back of our building that has a tin roof. aaahhhhhhhh. its so awesome to be able to observe something so powerful but not be harmed by it. in my dreams my house has a tin roof so i can listen to the rain and when it storms, i am in my p.j.'s on the porch, in a swing with a blanket, a good book and jeremy of course the other end of the swing. its soothing and wonderful just thinking about it.

so i have been pondering what all to put up on this blog. i know one purpose in the future will just be a way of updating folks on what is going on in our life but with a recent trip to see family and friends in chattanooga along with other things i'm personally feeling pretty connected or in touch at the moment. i mean i can always do more pictures and i probably will but... i had this brainy idea. what if for a while at least this was more of a forum for discussions and Q & A type stuff. i mean if there are questions you have or specific pictures you would like to see let us know. you can just leave a comment on this post and i'll either get back to you by a comment or a new post.
well this helps me.
talk to me, let me know! be funny be serious just be you.

this was at josh's farm (ann's fiance) back in the spring. i feel like i need to do some catching up.

This was how we spent the 4th- with family and remembering all the joys of Lake Winnie

so i feel like i need to have a goal or purpose statement posted somewhere on here but i guess first i have to come up with one and really is one necessary? probably not. but its how i FEEL!
definatley things to look for, that i plan on doing are posting pictures- who doesn't like pictures. i love to show everyone pictures of people they might never even ever meet but that mean something to me- or at least give me a good laugh when i look at their picture!
here's to new beginnings or something like that.

This is all so new but I wanted to try it out so here it goes!