A month and then some

I have now been married for 39 days.

Does it feel like five and a half weeks? I don't really know. It sure has been jam-packed.

Our duplex is finally looking so nice with a little help from friends and parents, along with a few early mornings/late evenings/working on the weekends. It's hard working full time out of town and still being a good housekeeper and such, but I think I'm getting the hang of it! Christopher is really good about helping out, and that is huge.

One of my favorite things about having our own place is having company. So far we've had the college kids over to hang out a couple times, two of our friends over for burgers and three friends for Hamburger Helper and corn muffins. Tomorrow we're having a dear family over for hotdogs on the grill. I'm just so excited to be able to host people! That can also be hard, when I rarely get home before 8 p.m. But again, we're getting the hang of it.

Christopher and I will have our first "adventure" this weekend as a married couple (grocery shopping, bill paying and dishwashing have been their own kind of adventure, sure, but let's not count that). Auburn's first game is Saturday, so we're headed to Atlanta for the Clemson game! It's our first away game, and we're both pretty excited. Let's just hope Auburn starts the season off with a victory. War Eagle!

Well, if any of you ever want to come down to see us in Auburn, please do! As I've said, I love having company, and we even have a guest bedroom! Come see us!

One of my all-time favorite football game pictures – from October of last year.

She's back!

I know, I know – I haven't written a blog in two months.

You may find this hard to believe, but I got a little busy – starting a new job, planning a wedding, having that wedding, taking a trip to Disney World and then trying to start a home and life together with my new husband hasn't left me with a lot of spare time.

Consider that previous paragraph your recap of what's been going on in my life. A lot of you probably expect me to talk about the wedding, or the honeymoon, or our duplex or even my job. But I'm not going to. It's just too much, and I wouldn't know where to start, where to stop, what to include and what to leave out.

So if you want to hear more about my life, give me a call! Or send me an email. I'd love to talk to you about it – that's just not what I want to use this blog for.

All that being said, what do I want to use this blog for? This post, at least, may be a little rambly. But what I really want to do is get back to my thought of telling you about my everyday adventures. Take this morning for example.

It's my weekend to work (again, call me and I'll tell you all about the job I've been doing for the past couple months). This morning I was assigned to cover Muster on the Tallapoosa at Horseshoe Bend National Military Park.

It's been a bit of a soggy morning, and the turnout wasn't great. But boy, did I enjoy myself. When's the las time you watched cannon or musket demonstrations from only a few feet away? And since I was on the clock, I had the added excitement of getting to take some great pictures with one of the office cameras.

One of the great things was seeing the kids who were there, learning about Creek history. As event organizer Ove Jensen explained to me, that may be a moment that stays with them forever. Some of those kids may study history, or become park rangers, or become any number of things based on what they saw this morning.

Of course, some won't. And maybe none of them will. But at the very least, they had a real-world experience. I worry about today's kids, that all they experience is video games of one form or another. People probably said that about my generation too, but I just see it so much now that I am a sage old 20-something. It was just nice to kids out in the world, learning about America's past, talking to people who have passion.

I would have stayed longer and learned more if I didn't have more events to cover this afternoon. Horseshoe Band National Military Park was well worth the drive, and I hope Christopher and I can go back for their big event in March. If you are in Alabama, especially the central-southeastern area, you should definitely make the trip out there.

Folks, I'll try not to wait two months before another post. Thanks for bearing with me. Love to you all!

(Just a teaser... Here are a few of our pictures from Disney World!)