Vacation

Well I have decided, I am horrible at blogging! I love doing it and I love reading other blogs, but I feel that I lack at having the time to actually post! It has been 3 weeks since my last post and that is usually the lag time between. I am really going to try to be better.

I just wanted to tell everyone (rub it in your faces) that the Alford's will be leaving our great state of KY on THIS saturday to the sunshine state! We will have a whole week of laying by the pool, relaxing, drinking tiny drinks with umbrella's with all the time in the world! Mr. A and I have not been on real vacation since our honeymoon (which I know was only in january) but still, we deserve it after everything we have done this year!!

I will post some photos when we get back and hopefully I might be able to get a post in before then but if not, Happy Fall everyone!! Fall always puts me in a good mood. I love this time of year. Something about mums, fallen leaves, the colors and the fabulous weather just puts me in a good mood no matter how bad my day is!

Remembering

8 years ago today when I heard the news, I was a sophomore in high school sitting in algebra class. For the rest of the day we watched the news on tv, all in awe of what was going on. I just wanted to take a moment to remember those who lost their life or a loved ones life in honor of our country. No one will ever forget the moment in time when we saw the second plane fly into the second tower, it gives me chills just watching the reruns today. Where were you?

On a happier note, Happy Birthday to my good friend Jessica! I am looking foward to dinner tonight. Also, in the previous post I mentioned we would be working on our patio this weekend. Well we decided it would actually be cheaper and a lot less work for us if we paid someone we know to pour a concrete patio instead in a couple of weeks. So this weekend we will be painting the outside of the garage instead which I know sounds crazy but you will understand once I post the pictures! We will also be chearing on our alma mater Western Kentucky University tomorrow night in their first home opener! Go Toppers!!

MIA

I have been MIA for a little while, things have been pretty hectic with us lately. Just for a fast catch up session, we will review the happenings in the Alford life for the past couple of weeks.

First I had my golden birthday of course which was great. We pretty much ate for 4 days and I was able to spend a lot of time with my hubby which was great. So now, I am officially 24.

I have been really busy with work lately which is fine, but it just seems like time is flying by! I made a short shopping trip to Louisville last weekend with a gal pal while our hubbies were on a boys weekend and this past weekend Mr. A and I ventured to Missouri for an Alford family reunion. Although this is the first time I had actually been to this because andy had missed it for the last couple of years, I was really inspired by it. It was amazing to me to see so many people excited to see thier family that they only see once a year and how pumped they were to know so much about their family tree. I mean this was a lot different than any family reunion my family has ever had. Although we do have a fairly large family, we usually only see aunts, uncles, etc at our reunions. I mean the alford family leaves no one out! It was cousins, their families, aunts uncles, sisters brother in laws, etc etc etc...I was amazed!

So that pretty much sums up our past couple of weekends. If any of you know or are married to any avid hunters like myself, you know that time spent with the significant other is getting ready to drastically decrease as the hunting seasons approach us. Mr. A spent all day on sunday dove hunting and in a couple of weeks he will be duck and deer hunting like crazy! Ahh the life of a hunters wife! haha

I am looking foward to our next weekend as we are FINALLY going to put down our patio! As you remember we remodeled our home by pretty much gutting out everything and starting new. Well since moving in we have been trying to work on the outside as the landscaping I do not think had been touched in 15 years! We have mulched and all of that and although we live on 40 acres, I feel as if our outside living space is still lacking. So this next weekend before all of the hunting extravaganza's begin, Mr. A and I will be making our patio out of pavers. Hopefully it will look something like this:

Have a good week everyone!!