MIA

It is very clear to me that I am a horrible blogger! I have been so busy with work and everything else lately that I have definitely neglected the Alford's blog.

A lot has gone on since I last wrote I'm sure but what that was, I am unsure of now. Of course we had the 15 meals of Thanksgiving with the Alford and the Jones families. One of which we hosted Thanksgiving night at our own house. It was so much fun having everyone over and sharing a meal in the house we have worked so hard on and to see the transformation we have made. We had so many compliments on everything, all the work has finally paid off. (Although I know my husband reads this, don't get any ideas...I still would like to move from there in the near future!). See our house is perfect for just us but when you have an older home, some things just drive you crazy and he knows what those things are! Plus we are at the age where starting a family is probably in our close future so I want something a little bigger.

The biggest highlight for me in the last few weeks was BLACK FRIDAY. Yes, you heard me right. I am one of those idiots that gets up before the sun and shops til I drop all day the day after Thanksgiving, and I love every minute of it! Myself and three others started at 3:45 on Friday morning and hit every store within our town I believe. My envoy was packed to the ceiling and we all had a blast doing it. Not to mention witnessing the crazy eyes of mad shoppers, fighting to get what they want. It is so much fun and the best girls day one could wish for. I mean what could possibly be better than shopping all day long!

Then of course after Thanksgiving, it was time to put up our Christmas decore. This was the first time we had decorated this house for the holidays and it fun to find new things to put up. Of course we like to go a little overboard, or I do at least, with the holiday decorations. So early saturday morning we started our trip to go pick out the Alford Christmas 2009 Tree. Nothing like the Griswalds Christmas, but still just as fun. As I sifted through the boxes that had been stored all year long that hold our Christmas belongings, Mr. A began the process of hanging out outside lights. Icicle lights, wreaths, and greenery.

Here are a few inside photos I have of what we did although they do not really do it justice and are just a mere few of the things we actually put up:

Our Christmas Tree with a few of the packages I bought underneath on BLACK FRIDAY!!

Our monogrammed stockings we recieved last year as a Wedding Present hung from our mantle. (Of course these pictures came from my phone so they do not really do it justice but you can see some none the less)

And my three small trees family. You can not see the ornaments very well but they are all red or green with white polka dots, very cute if I do say so myself!

I love Christmas! Of course our schedules are booked every day from here until December 25th but we love it! We are hosting our annual Christmas party tomorrow night so if you are lucky and I have time, I will post some photos of that.

Also, we are attending my niece Katie-Blairs 1st birthday party on saturday! I can not believe how fast the time goes by!! Happy Birthday Katie-Blair!!

P.S. We also saw New Moon last weekend. Is is sad that I am just a tiny bit obsessed with Bella and Edward and after the movie decided to read twilight and finished it in one day?? Don't answer that!

My Hubby!

Well, apparantly Mr. Alford has been reading my blog. My secret is out! haha JK! He is constantly throwing sayings I have used in this blog about his hunting obsession to prove to me that he has in fact read it. So, in honor of him being such a good husband (although I constantly seem to be complaining about his hunting craziness), I do truely love him and don't know what I would do without him!

So in honor of my husband, I thought I would answer a few questions about him:

My Husband!
1. What's his name? Andy

2. How long have you been married? 9 months

3. How long did you date? We dated 4 and a half years before our wedding day

4. How old is he?24, he is 6 months older than me

5. Who eats more? DEFINITELY HIM. Hands down. We constantly joke he has a tape worm.

6. Who said, "I love you," first? He did

7. Who is taller? He definitely is.

8. Who sings better? haha well I love you babe but I will have to go with me here. Not that I am the greatest, but he knows his singing voice is not the reason I married him! haha


9. Who is smarter? Well it depends on what the topic is I guess. He is very smart and full of useless information about anything you want.

10. Whose temper is worse? I will say mine. He has a temper but it takes a lot to make him mad. My temper comes out a lot more often I must say.


11. Who does the laundry? Well we usually share that chore, but only because he is so picky about his clothes. I hate putting up laundry so he helps with that.

12. Who does the dishes? Mainly our dishwasher. That was the first thing on the list when we remodeled our house, to install a dishwasher!


13. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? He does


14. Who pays the bills? Most of the bills I pay. I mean we have a joint account so it's our money paying the bills, but I actually physically mail the payments.


15. Who mows the lawn? That is definitely Andy's job.


16. Who cooks dinner? Usually I do. He doesnt mind to cook and if we grill which we do alot, he grills the food.

17. Who drives when you are together? Most of the time I drive but only because he drives me crazy when he drives since his eyes are glued more on the side of the road than the actual road. He is always looking at everything but the road so for my own sanity, I drive most of the time.

18. Who is more stubborn? I will go ahead and say myself. =)

19. Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? I would have to say probably Andy. Remember I said I was the most stubborn? He is really good about compromising and I try to be.


20. Whose parents do you see the most? Well we live really close to Andy's grandparents and Aunt and Uncle so I would say we see them the most. Although I work with my mom everyday and we see my family a lot as well because we are always doing something together so that might be a tie.


21. Who has more friends? Well I dont know. I think that Andy has more friends that he talks to on a regular basis than I do. You know, about hunting and such. =)

22. Who has more siblings? I do although I only have one. Andy is an only child.

23. Who wears the pants in the family? haha Well I think we try to compromise on a lot of things so I would like to think it would be eqaul but I think most people would think I do. Andy is just very laid back and I am a little more demanding at times but we do compromise a lot which I think you have to do.

Love you baby!

Meet the Flinstones...

This weekend we attended a halloween party at our good friends Kelley and Tates house. This is the second annual halloween party they have had. And as most halloween parties go, a costume was required. Now I love dressing up for halloween but every year it seems to be a nightmare (literally!) to figure out the perfect costume for Mr. A and I to wear! Here are a few photos from the last couple of years:

Halloween 2005

Halloween 2008:

I went as a cowgirl (I am missing my hat in this photo) and Mr. A went as Dale Earnhart Jr. as people tell him he looks like him all the time.

This year another couple we hang out with a lot that I have mentioned before, The Coleman's were attending this party with us. So we wanted to find something really fun to be. Michelle and I went on a search for the perfect costumes and this is what we came up with:

THE FLINSTONES!!

Mr. A and I were Betty and Barney and Peck and Michelle were Fred and Wilma.

Here are some more photos from the party:

Me and my hubby Barney Rubble

He was a good sport, unfortunately in this photo you can not see his BIG FEET!

Me and Kelley, she was a sorcoris (spelling?)

Some of the girls of the night dancing in the garage!

We had a great weekend and are really getting in gear for for the holiday seasons coming up! As I have said many times before, Mr. A is an avid hunter and the hunting season extravaganza's are upon us. This means that our mournings are spent with him in a tree stand and me still in bed! And many of you know how this is I'm sure, you have to listen to the friends talk for hours about what they saw and their whole day in a tree. Then if they do actually kill something you have to talk about it for months after they actually drag the carcus in, cut the meat out and store in in the freezer and most likely mount its poor head for everyone to see.

Don;t be jealous ok! haha It could be worse I say, and I love him just the same! Happy Fall Everyone and I hope you have a great halloween party to dress up for as we did!

Is is Over Already??

Why is it that vacations seem to fly by so quickly??? As they say I suppose, Time Flies When you are Having Fun!



We did have a fantastic vacation and are sad to be back to reality. The weather in Florida was great last week, they apparantly had record highs in terms of heat. It was over 90 degrees every day which for October is not the norm. We went to the pool, played golf, wondered around Disney World, played miniture golf, shopped til we dropped at outlet malls, ate seafood, went to Universal Studios, ventured through scare zones and haunted houses at fright night, got sunburns, etc. Now we need a vacation from our vacation!



Yesterday was spent catching up on laundry and relaxing. Today we are back to work unfortunately. I will have to say that all in all our vacation was great and I am sad to be back in town! It was definitely depressing to get off the airplane in Tennessee in the 50 degree weather! Although I am excited about the holiday season to come! This will be our first married Thanksgiving and Christmas!



When I have more time I will post the photos from this years trip. Until then I will leave you with a photo of us from this same vacation in 2005 (This is an annual trip we take every year):

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!!