My awesome husband made the amazing field goal and wants everyone to know that it's not REALLY supposed to be in end zone. He told me today that if anyone asks why it's there to tell them that it used to be in the end zone a LONG time ago. I told him I work with mostly women who probably could care less....
Brent and I have been craving a good fall festival. Those of you who attend good festivals this time of year, know what I'm talking about. I needed a great selection of crafts, homemade foods that are over priced, cloggers, singers, farm animals, pumpkins - all the goodness that makes up a good fall festival. Brent and I both were a little sad when we realized we wouldn't be attending the infamous Prater's and Ketner's Mill festivals with the Whitakers as we have for the past 9 years now that we live in Nashville. We knew we had to find festivals of our own.
Last weekend I was doing a little online searching for a festival in our area and discovered a great festival that was literally right across the street from our apartment at the TN Agricultural Museum. This was a great festival and the weather was fantastic yesterday! This was a really neat festival - it showcased a variety of agricultural history including demonstrations and equipment that was used.
Here are a few pictures from the day...
The TN Wildlife Rescue group had a booth showing the various animals they had rescued because they had been injured. And no, that's not a bear's arm - that's Brent holding the eagle...
My husband LOVES country and bluegrass music, in case you weren't aware. He would have stayed at the festival for hours as long as the different bands were playing. You can see here in this picture he looks as happy as a kid in a candy store...
We didn't get the memo that we were supposed to dress up like Paul Revere...
This was an AWESOME demonstration showing a collie dog hearing sheep. It was really amazing how quickly the dog got the herd back up the hill. These pictures don't do it justice, but it was really neat!
My only disappointment was that we never found the molasses in the "music and molasses" festival. I was looking forward to it for our ginger snaps this Christmas. Ironic, huh?
Needless to say, we had a great time. We missed having all the Whitakers here to experience it with us, but we're hoping we can remember it for next year and make it a tradition.
The weather is FABULOUS and I hope everyone has had the opportunity to enjoy it.
Have a great week and happy fall ya'll !! (love that saying, we just need a bale of hay to paint it on..ha!)
It's crazy but true: it's been 5 months since we changed our address to Nashville, TN. I was just thinking about all the memories we've made in such a short amount of time...
Titans Games, Kenny Chesney concert (Poets and Pirates concert), Hootie and the Blowfish concert, playing softball with Kairos (and meeting new people), having great friends from TVFCU visit for a weekend...it's all been fabulous! I never imagined that all our family would come to spend the night with us at some point, but they have! For the first time I get to see my cousin on a weekly basis at least, sometimes more! Who knew I would move here and end up having surgery so quickly, but thankfully we're on the tail end of the recovery of that. Oh and my cake classes - it just took moving away to work on such a fun craft/hobby and hopefully a business opportunity down the road.
Even more exciting are all the opportunities that Brent has experienced as a result of stand up comedy. I was so proud of him that first night he did open mic night at Spanky's and since that night several months ago, he has developed into an amazing speaker and comedian. He's also made some great connections and we're hoping it opens up some great doors for him as he moves towards becoming a motivational speaker.
We've also met a few great people as a result of Brent's job. Recently we went to Austin and Ann's house to watch the debate and hang out. We had a great time and it was really nice to get to establish new friendships in Nashvegas. Brent says we're officially OLD because we planned a Friday night around the presidential debate.
We've been pretty bummed, though, that we haven't seen anyone famous! We know they live ALL around us, and we hear about them on the news ALL THE TIME but still, no famous people sightings. Brent always thinks he sees Dave Ramsey, but they're all just posers.
Last night we had our first encounter with a famous person! Thanks to our friends, Chad and Gena, who rolled into town and invited us for dinner at their friends house - Phil and Kendra Stacey. We had met Phil at Gena's wedding last October as he was a fellow bridal party member with me. However, going to their home was a whole different deal! These guys were so down to earth and we had a blast. Kendra and Phil met their freshman year at Lee University in Cleveland. Along with Chad and Gena, Brent is a Lee "flame" so they all had something in common. I always joke that I wasn't "sanctified" enough to go to Lee...a little COG humor for all you baptists that don't get it... HA
Anyway, we had SUCH a great time. The Staceys invited us back to their house in November as they are starting a small group for young couples. In case you don't realize that we live in SUCH a small world - one of the guys in the small group went to Lee Univ with Brent and in fact they were great friends, even traveling to South America together for their cross-cultural experience. (Or as his grandmother STILL thinks: a "mission" trip)
Anyway, we are pumped to get to meet more couples in a great environment! Brent and I are such social people and I have THOROUGHLY missed entertaining people at our house, that it was so nice to get to hang out with friends, eating, laughing and having a great conversation.
The next 5 months are exciting as we have gotten settled and feel a little more oriented with our new city. We hope to start looking to buy a new house at the first of the year, but we're not in any hurry. Our apartment isn't THAT bad - heck, if I can make it up 30 steps on crutches for 3 weeks, we can stay here a few more months! Who knows what will happen with our jobs, housing, friends, connections, church, but we are open to whatever God has planned for us while we're on our little "Nashville Mission." Thank you to everyone who's come to see us while we have transitioned to our new city: it makes it MUCH easier to get to see those people who know you the best on a regular basis.
Last, but definitely not least - we had a great visit to Chattanooga this past weekend. I took ZERO pictures, but all the memories are in my mind :) ha ha We started the weekend by going to watch my nephew play football on one very hot FALL morning. We ended up spending the entire day at my parents house afterwards playing card games and eventually sitting around a campfire in their backyard making s' mores. It was awesome!
Sunday we spent the day with the Whitakers at Brandi and JJ's and had a great time there as well. The boys are getting so big and have developed some very cute personalities! Brent and I had a great trip - it was probably the least stressful trip we've had to Chattanooga.
Now it's back to the work week carrying on life as usual in awesome Nashville! I hope everyone's getting to spend some time outside with this BEAUTIFUL weather we're having.
