Back to The Real World...

After several weeks of vacation/recuperation we have finally re-entered the real world. We started back to work on Tuesday of this week and things are back in full swing as we prepare for the year to come! It feels good to be back - the people that Graham and I work with are truly like family to us. We are blessed.

To catch you up on what we have been doing...

We started with a 4 day get away to the lake. We strongly considered going on a cruise during this time, but with the ones that worked with our time schedule we decided it probably wasn't the best of ideas considering the only boat that was going during that time and had space available was super cheap...scary cheap...since this was their farewell cruise. That ship is being retired this month... Enough said. We also decided it would be more fun to go on a cruise with another couple and experience it with them! Anyone interested?! So, that being said...the lake it was! You can't beat a free vacation! Melanie and Reynolds joined us for the first two days, then we stayed down for two more - it rained most of the time, but considering we slept most of the time anyways it didn't really matter to us what the weather was! It was so nice to have some days away...free of responsibilities...decisions...work...ahhhhh...so nice :) We returned to celebrate the birthday of my beautiful mother and had a wonderful birthday dinner at Melanie's house. Reynolds is a grill-master, so we always love going to eat at their house. We left a few days after that to spend a week in Oklahoma visiting Graham's family. As always, it was so great to be with them! We got to see most of his friends too which was lots of fun - they are all so sweet and so much fun to be with. Good times :)

Now we are getting back in the swing of things...and I'm loving it. I started in a new Bible study last night with some ladies of all ages from Brook Hills. We are doing a precept Bible study on the book of James, and I cannot wait. I have never done a precept study before, but I have heard that they are absolutely amazing. I will also start teaching Sunday School next Sunday which I could not be more excited about! I guess 'teaching' is a relative term when the kids were born between May-July 2008 :) Precious. It is good practice for my litttle niece who will be here SO SOON!!!!! The nursery is finished and ready to go...I will put some pictures up just as soon as I have them. It is beautiful!

I got to talk with one of my very best friends, Briana, last night for almost 2 hours. It had been a while since we had been able to actually catch each other...so we had lots to catch up on :) It was wonderful hearing her voice...and since she recently moved to California we of course had to plan a trip for me to come visit her...right Rae?! :)


One other exciting thing... Fall is well on it's way which not only means incredible weather...but it also means college football is about to kick off! I just know that Auburn is going to take it away this year :) .....

That's about all that is going on here with the Hills. Life is good and we are blessed!