Sunset in October

So it's fall break and I am sitting in a beautiful house at Sunset Beach with my family. This break could not have come at a better time!!! I was extremely exhausted and needed a break and time to spend with my entire family. Mom and Dad and Paul came to our apartment last night and stayed the night. Just having them there makes things feel so different and I love it. It makes me miss the Old Garden Road. Anyways, they came around 7 last night and mom brought me lots of fall/halloween decorations for the Halloween Party. I am super excited to get everything set up and ready for my little get together. She also brought my an anniversary present from my Memaw and Papaw. When I opened it, I about fell out on the floor. My Memaw made Samuel and I stockings!!! Now a lot of people might not appreciate this, but I was competely shocked. You see, all the stockings for our family were knitted by her and when Samuel and I got married, it stunk having a random stocking on our mantel for him. Mom asked Memaw to make one and instead she made me another one and one for him to use in our own home. My word she is an amazing woman. Things like that make me miss living at home and being around my family. I realize, being away and older, that I never understood how blessed I wasa to be so close to my family. Just as Samuel says, "I grew up in candy land!" It was a child's dream to live there......

But back to the beach... we are down here for the weekend and mom found a gorgeous three bedroom house! We are getting ready to go to the Boundary House for dinner which is one of my favorite places to eat. As for the rest of the weekend, we are just going to relax on the beach and watch football. It is kind of wierd being here during football season and having games on while you are at the beach. But this is the most beautiful time of the year to be here... the weather is not too hot, not too cold and it isn't crowded.. and besides, its one of my favorite beaches (besides the Carribbean, which can't be beat!)

Fall

I love fall. I love everything about it. Last week, I went shopping to pick up a few decorations. The dollar section at Target had just about everything I needed. I now have two pumpkin candle holders, a spider candle thing, a pumpkin waiting to be carved, and an autumn leaves candle. As anyone could tell, I am obsessed with candles. I have to say that I get that from my mother. At any time in my life at my house, you would find at least 5-6 candles going in the evenings. It just makes a room/home so much cozier with candles. Anyways, I love the weather too. It's been a little too hot this week but they say tomorrow through the rest of the week should be gorgeous. Having the windows open is a definite plus because then we don't have to run the air... and saving on the electric bill makes me very happy. But yeah, I got my October Southern Living Magazine this week and it just got me really excited and ready for October to start......and it is only a few hours away

So yeah, for the second Monday evening in a row I have had an emotional break down over my RIDICULOUS Environmental Ethics class. The quizzes I have taken every week on my readings are getting more and more outrageous...... I mean after 100+ pages of reading, how am I supposed to remember what the population did between 1963 and 2000....... With that said, I did get my first paper back today in class.... he started by telling everyone how terrible the papers were and how he couldn't believe, with as much discussion as we had, that people did so bad on this paper...... one girl raised her hand to ask what the lowest grade was which he responded quickly, "A 10!" Following that someone asked for the highest grade to which he responded "A 98!" So I am sitting here praying that I made a 75..... I convinced myself that I would be happy with a 75.... considering my quiz grades for the past weeks (80,70,65), I figured a 75 would be good for me....... well I get the paper back and I GOT THE 98....... I was absoultely shocked!!!!


Anyways, The OReilly Factor is coming on........ looks like I'm done for today....

Almost A Year

So I have to start by saying that I absolutely love blogs. I love to read some of my friends' blogs to see what they are up to. I have been thinking for a really long time that I wanted to start one and it looks like today is my lucky day. Trying to keep up with this will be quite a challenge since I am working full time and going to school at night but I figure it is worth a shot.

Anyways, I am sitting here on the laptop and Samuel is currently watching the NFL and I am wondering how on earth the weekends go as fast as they do. I love my job, don't get me wrong. I can't wait to have a classroom all to myself, but for the time being, I love being a teacher's assistant in first grade. But I also have to admit that I live for the weekends. By the time I get to Friday night I am exhausted. I can only imagine what it must be like to have a family to come home to and take care of!

I am really looking forward to this next weekend though. There is so much going on. Samuel and I are in the Wolfpack Club and find ourselves consumed with attending all the events we can. Since this weekend is homecoming, we are going to be in the homecoming parade on Friday night. Hey, we get minutes for walking down Hillsborough Street! Saturday is the game and we will tailgate that morning with Jodi, Jason, Tish and Steve. Sunday is our one year anniversary and we are trying to figure out when we can go out to celebrate for that!

That's right! It's been a whole year. I am in total shock that we've been married almost an entire year. I know in the big scheme of things one year isn't long, but it is a big event! I love being married. I have loved it since day one. Sure we have our days where we bother each other and drive each other crazy, but my life is amazing. I love having someone to come home to. I love having someone to listen to me cry over some really ridiculous stuff. I love being able to sit down for dinner and look across and see him there. I love waking up at 12 o'clock at night and feeling him crawl into bed. I love how he eats anything I cook (even stuff I won't put it my mouth after the first bite!) I love how he plays the same songs over and over and over again on his guitar. I love how he always picks on me when my clothes cover the entire side of the floor by my side of the bed. I love how he does the dishes when he knows I've had a long day. I love how he turns on country music in the car to show me that he loves me (HE HATES COUNTRY MUSIC) Most of all, I just love that he is my husband. I always love the line from a song by the Avett Brothers that says "Always remember there was nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name." I am so thankful to be married to my best friend. I can't wait to experience the years ahead with him standing by my side.