…to Texas and back…

Sooo…. we bought a car. Correction. We bought a car two weeks ago from a dealer in Texas. It was exactly what we were looking for and at the right price. We decided to have them ship it up to us to save a flight and the long drive. Well… after lots of pointing fingers, two weeks lapsed time and no straight answers from the dealer or the shipping company… we decided for Mike to go get it himself. This decision was made this past Friday at 2pm in the afternoon. So we purchased a ticket for Mike to fly down on the 6:30pm flight (that same day) and drive the car back.

He made it safely (no worries) and the car actually did exist. He drove and drove and drove all through the night (took about an hour nap along the way) and arrive back at our house in TN before lunch on Saturday!!! What a driving machine!

So here she is… our new addition to the family. 2004 Audi A4. The silver stud! (ok not sure if the name will stick but its the best I can do before 9am!

 

Mike has already completed a few projects on her (slight “repair” to the truck latch, which now works like a dram) (slight “repair” to the drivers door handle… not sure what he did but its perfect now! he’s not sure either… haha). We’re both dusting off our manual driving skills but she shifts like a dream so its making it a lot easier for sure!

On Saturday, Avi also had a play date with my friend Julia’s labradoodle Charlie. Here are a few of the cute one.

And a beautiful picture of our little girl.

Girls Night In

Here are a few pictures of what I was up to this weekend. The youth leaders planned a high school girls  “Girls Night In” and we got together and played games, did a photo booth, acted silly, had a short lesson, played more games, launched our “sisters” program, and ate wonderful lava cakes. Here are a few pictures of the wonderful girls I work with.

this years girls (most of them) having fun and being silly!

even crazier

last years girls looking crazy and cute =) miss yall!

We had a really great time!  We even had a What Not to Wear … leaders edition. Here are a few of the funniest =)

What Not to Wear… (1) to a job interview; (2) to a funeral; (3) to the prom

and two of my favorites… What Not to Wear… (1) in the city (but you can get away with it at Dollywood for sure!!) (2) on your honeymoon (she had footie jams on and acne cream and even a retainer!!) haha

travels to michigan

Thanks for you sweet comments on my last blog… it must have been a full moon or something because the men around here were crazy for a few days…

but now that things have settled down, here’s what we were up to this past weekend

Avi wanted to make sure she was coming with us to Michigan for our Annual Labor Day fun with Cedarville Friends. She did come with us, don’t worry, and even got to stay on the farm with Adam! She was sooo tired when she got home =) Thanks Adam and Dog!

  the boys were crazy on the tubes … you can see the white caps on the water in some of the pictures

we got some gas at the dock (it was freezing!! hardly made it to 60 degs on Saturday and the winds were insane)

 

we decided to go putt putting instead and it was super fun! best course ever with sand traps and green traps (you can tell I play golf right?!)

all in all it was a super fun weekend!

then on the way home the car cross over 200,000 miles!!!

Here’s a link to the rest of the pictures from the weekend.

questions I was asked yesterday

the conversation began with a simple… “hi, you look like a nice person”
it then continued with the following questions… to which I answered

1. wow that’s a pretty ring on your finger, are you engaged? nope I’m married
2. so how do you tell if a person is married or just engaged? typically a married person has two rings instead of just one
3. so why do you have three rings? I guess I’m super married
4. is the ring always on the left hand? yes always on the left hand
5. what is that ring on your right hand? just a decorative ring
6. do you do Pilates? or yoga? nope
7. what copier company do you use? (not important to the story)
8. is it a big copier or a little copier? (not important to the story… but for the curious:) big
9. I guess you can tell I haven’t been on a date recently yes, yes I can
10. if you weren’t married would you go out with me? no
11. why not? because this is a workplace

I think he was trying to sell copiers, but I’m still just not sure!... yes I'm teasing. I totally know what he was doing and he wasn't "selling copiers".

seriously!

Just found this on a friend’s blog and what truth. when someone chooses Diet Coke or any diet soda over a regular soda, they are choosing to put chemicals in their body rather than a few additional calories.

I try to do my homework on things like this, but seriously people! what sense does that make? what if you just drank 1/2 a Regular Coke instead of the whole thing… you would get 1/2 the calories (clearly what you are trying to do) and less chemicals.

Just an example of some of the side effects of the nasty stuff in these products: I recently bought some pudding for my lunches. I decided to buy sugar-free because I really don’t notice the taste difference and thought, well its chocolate… right?! Well within a few days of regularly eating the sugar-free pudding, I realized my stomach was in all kinds of knots, my belly was bloated and I felt terrible… I hadn’t even looked on the label to see what made them “sugar free” so I stopped eating them and within a few days, right as rain! I was back to normal (I know you’re thinking… katie=normal… really?! ok so as normal as I can be!!).

Just a helpful hint. Research from Europe, that hasn’t quite made it to the states yet, says that Diet drinks accelerate aging as well as cause internal intestinal problems (depending on the person). There is also some research that indicates that forgetfulness can be associated with Diet Drink consumption.  Chicago Tribute says it this way: “Most diet sodas contain aspartame, which produced formaldehyde as you digest it.” yikes!

So just be careful what you’re putting in you body!

Here is an article for the curious:

CBS News