Well, it has been 6 months since I last updated my blog. I know, I know, no excuses but I really do have some good ones. The whole summer I spent traveling and visiting our friends and family. We actually were able to visit ALL of our family and friends, so a successful summer. Next thing I know, fall was here. As all of you know, our falls are always jammed packed with football games, law school stuff, mission work, yard work, and real work. Thankfully this fall it did not consist of any type of surgery and I have been able to work in my yard!
I know it has been a while since I last updated and I have a lot to update about. I am not even sure where to begin. I will do a post on our summer trips and events later. I will focus on a basic update on our lives.
Willie:
Our little boy turned a year old last week! We celebrated by going to the local City Dog Market and buying him a Tennessee Dog Cookie for his birthday treat. Russ and I also picked out a new toy for him, a deer antler. Boy, does Willie love that. He is constantly chewing on it and just in the past week, he has chewed it halfway down. Since Willie's birthday is on Halloween we were able to get some cute pictures (I know I am now a crazy dog lady) with him and the pumpkins. We didn't dress him up besides putting on his Tennessee Shirt.
Willie has grown a ton since we adopted him. He started at 8 pounds and now up to 24 pounds. He continues to have tons of energy but loves play dates. When we go to football games in Knoxville, we are able to take him with us and he plays with Bill and Kat's dog. He has also made lots of friends around the neighborhood, especially Brooks and Shelby our neighbors dogs. Willie also continues to get into trouble, he has chewed off the knobs to our bay window and chewed some of the wall under the window. At the end of the day, he looks at you with that puppy face and I give in and let him snuggle with me on the couch.
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| Russ and Willie with his Birthday treat |
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| Willie on one of our pumpkins (1 year old) |
Russ continues to be swamped with law school. If he isn't in class, he is working on a brief, doing GRA work, participating on a club, or something other law related. He has a regional moot court competition this week. He passed the Patent Bar in August, so that is one less thing to worry about. Russ has to take the MPRE (ethics exam) this past Saturday. He continues to look for a full time job, so if you know anyone looking for lawyer let us know. If you have seen Russ lately it is probably as much as I have as well. Thankfully we were able to have a real date night last night. Dinner and a show at the Fox is always a nice date night together!
Russ also just celebrated a birthday. He was able to put the books down for an evening and I took him to Dante's for dinner. I went to Dante's for my Bachelorette party for dinner and he really wanted to go. A tradition Russ' Mom started years ago was making a angel food cake with cream cheese icing for Russ. Since Russ lives in Atlanta now, and Jill is in Tennessee, I have picked up the tradition. So I completed his birthday with a homemade birthday cake then gave him an iphone 4. He can now be connected with the world!
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| Russ' Annual Birthday Cake |
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| Russ at his birthday dinner |
Finally, an update about me! Nothing really excited about me. I have worked a ton lately due to the transaction between The Coca-Cola Company and Coca-Cola Enterprises. Instead of boring you all to death with the details, I will skip that part of my life which is all my life has been for the past month. Though, I have had a change to go to a lot of football games. We were able to get season tickets again with Bill and Kat and that has allowed us to meet up with all our friends. We did our traditional annual Beta/Zeta Tailgate, the tailgate is more fun than the game! I was able to get tickets for all of my family to come to the Bama/Tennessee game so it was fun tailgating with Mom, Dad, Kara, and friends. I have given two baby showers in the past month and more to come. You all know me though and know that I am in heaven planning parties and get togethers. Other than that its just been a typical life of Brittany, work, homeowner duties, trips to Knoxville, and other odd and end things. The exciting news is that we are getting our patio installed this week along with a fire pit, I am VERY excited. We are getting ready for the hectic holiday season.
Hope this post didn't bore you too much. I will post about the summer and our fall trips soon. For now, this will have to hold you over!
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| Kara and I at the UT/Bama game |
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| Willie and I on the front porch |
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| Centerpiece for Nez's Baby Shower |
3 comments:
It's about time, lady. You have a lot of catching up to do!!!
You blogged!!!! Yay!!! :)
Woot woot! Shout out to me!! =) I love that we are both blog slackers. It makes it OK when we both do it.
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