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White Water

no this isn't me or my hubby. it is pretty awesome though. every weekend in tennessee should be wrapped up with a beautiful drive to the ocoee river. i just love this river. i first fell in love with in in the 8th grade when our youth group went on a trip here and rode the river. white water rafting is so much fun and one of my favorite things to do. since that trip i have been down a river in costa rica, colorado, this river again and one in oregon.
this guys here are pretty cool. literally. that water was freezing. it was fun to watch them fight the current and do some tricks. this is one of the last rapids on the river and it's called "hell's hole" unless they've changed it recently. it's a pretty scary and thrilling ride.
i love the last picture here because it looks like a bunch of grown boys out to play. they really where having a great time.

Three Things Thursday

OBSESSIONS...

1. i like to get letters in the mail. so much so that when i was younger me and a friend of mine decided to send each other letters back and forth in the mail. doesn't seem all that strange normally if your friend lived in a different state, even a couple hours away but this particular friend only lived like 10 min away and we wrote letters. then another friend of mine found our and he wanted to be involved too. no gripes here i got more mail. so there you have it. i think that's when my obsession with mail started.

2. i love to read. this was all my mom's fault but a good one at that. besides from the story she tells...when i was younger she would read the same book to me over and over because i wanted to read that book over and over. she read it to me so much that knew almost exactly what it said word for word. i even knew when it was time to turn the page. this started my reading obsession. then she bought me the christy miller series by robin jones gunn when i was in jr high and that made the reading obsession even worse. thanks a lot mom!!! no really i love it. i'm grateful that she instilled in me the love for reading.

3. i love to blog. amberj is the one that got me started. it started to sir calvin's blog and keeping up with the every growing boy (even though i saw him lots). then she started he own and i was keeping up with reading that and then got hooked and now love it. thanks amberj for my new obsession. love ya girl.

WHY

why is the show so good?
why is it do dramatic?
why all the mystery?
why are they making us wait for so freakin' long?
so many questions, not nearly enough answeres.
why kill sawyer?
who's john?
why does jack always seem so angry with kate?
why do they care if jack kills ben (video from last week)?
why can't kate run?
is it because she knows there's no where to go
is it because she feels like she really can't leave without sawyer and jack
what is the sotty he told her first season? i can't remember.
is is really even all that important or just something he thinks only she will know?
AHHHHHHHHHH...the questions!!!
why do i watch this show?
i can't believe we have to wait so long...but oh the joy...16, all new, no repeat episodes, starting feb 7th..........i can't wait.

Food for Thought

now i know it's election day and all but since i have nothing profound to say about voting and the politicians (since i haven't even registered yet from moving) i'm going to post a list of all i've had to eat today..........

a piece of french toast with powdered sugar on it
a glass of milk
toothpaste-now i don't normally eat toothpaste but you're bound to ingest some of it when brushing your teeth
a cup of coffee
4 pretzels
a peanut butter chocolate chip rice cake
3 more pretzels
pot roast
potatoes
carrots
hashbrown casserole
2 rolls
peach cobbler
2 glasses of water
2 logans yeast rolls
a half a bowl of loaded baked potato soup
2 glasses of water

i'm sure that there till be more to come and i will update then. until then here there is my list. wow that's a lot of food. you don't think you've eaten much in a day until you actually write it down.

UPDATE:
okay so i actually did vote today. after watching "Dancing with the Stars" tonight i had to vote for emmitt. i have never voted for anyone on the show and never voted for anyone on any reality type show but i just had to tonight. he and mario have to be in the top two. it was a really good show tonight. oh and here is the rest of my food list....

6 candy corns
one of those small halloween boxes of junior mints
a small glass of grape juice and
toothpaste....again

Weekend Update

i'll have to post pictures later because they are still in my camera but here's a quick recap of our weekend. i'm not sure if i mentioned it in a previous post but my hubbies uncle and his wife are visiting from Hawaii. so basically this weekend was geared to giving them a little fall color to enjoy.

saturday morning my hubby and i woke up early and got on the road to tennessee. we met his uncle, aunt, cousin and cousins husband there and took off to see Ruby Falls. if i've been there before i don't remember. it was about a mile in a half walk in and out of a cave that had a waterfall at the end of it. it was a neat thing to do and very interesting to see all the cave formations. (like i said pictures to come later) after Ruby Falls we went to See Rock City. now for those of you who have been to See Rock City probably know that it's actually called Rock City but when all the signs on the highway say See Rock City i just can't help but call it that. maybe that's what it's actually called, i don't know. Anyways, my hubby and i have been there before. we went when we first got married. it was fun to go again and the fall colors were breathtaking. it was amazing all of the colors that we saw. on our drive to tennessee my hubby and i were talking about the amazing colors and how amazing God it that he would make all of these colors and my hubby said the art that we create is just an imitation of what God has already made. i never really thought about it like that but it's true. He's already thought up all these amazing colors and even put them together in the perfect color scheme. after See Rock City we went on this incline railway thing which is neat and all but i don't think that i will do it again. i may not have done it in the first place if we weren't being the tour guide type. after a day of running we went back to our hotel and rested up for a full night. we had reservations for a murder mystery theater. we were invited to the wedding of a redneck and an Italian Mafia man. it was really funny and i had a great time. (again pics to come soon)

sunday came much to soon but we got up, checked out of the hotel and headed to etawah tennessee for a train ride through the mountains. that was a relaxing time to just sit back, watch the scenery and enjoy talking. after the three hour train ride we went to the Big River Grille back in Chattanooga and had dessert at this great little coffee house called Rembrants in downtown chattanooga, where i had some yummy apple cider and we bought a bunch of samples of their desserts. the best was what my hubbies aunt got, a slice of pumpkin cheese cake it was so good. it was somewhat of a whirlwind of a weekend but fun all the same.
(pictures coming soon to a blog near you...............)

A Perfect Day

i just finished a book by Richard Paul Evans that i really enjoyed. it's called A Perfect Day. it was different from the first book of his that i read The Christmas Box but i liked it all the same. here's one sentence that is written in the book covers flap that sums up the book, "A story of a man who found everything he thought he was missing in the love he already had." here is one other quote from the book that i will leave you with.

"There are people on earth who spend thier lives chasing gold, but in heaven it's used as asphalt for roads."

Harvest Fest 2006

here are a couple of pictures from our church's harvest fest
last weekend. every harvest fest isn't complete with a couple of sumo wrestler outfits for people to pound on each other, a fun blow up slide for kids to slide down, the horse and buggy type ride around the field, and a good old car smashing. harvest fest wouldn't be complete without the car smash. actually this was the first year for the car smash and it was a hit. literally!


the costumes were also great. here's a picture of a little girl in my favorite costume of the night. when i first saw her she had her back towards me with her mask on and her little blonde curls were spilling out from under the mask. i thought that it was so cute. i loved that this little girl wanted to be spiderman for halloween. i talked to her mom about it and she said that when the little girl picked the costume out she told her husband i think that we need to let her be spiderman because that's what she wants and it's not like we're going to have any boys. (she's the youngest of 3 girls) but as you can see she is still all girl with her pink balloon and cute, girlie smile.

Three Things Thursday

three things i do to cheer myself up when i'm low...

1. well eating a whole pint, or make that gallon of ice cream is always good, but i'm not to sure that's always healthy. and then you just get more low because you find out you're fat from it. maybe i'll stick with just a big bowl with a big spoon. i like to eat ice cream with a bit spoon. the best way.

2. i like to read a good book.

3. and i like to watch a funny movie. when get sad i tend to hide behind thing or as my hubby would say i'm just pacifying it. oh well that's how i like it.