A Southern Low Country Boil.

We have experienced a true Southern tradition.... A Low Country Boil. These pots are boiling up king crab legs, peel-your-own shrimp, corn on the cob, sausage links, and maybe something else that swims...?

Although it is something like 100 degrees down here, these folks are willing to crowd around boiling water and cook this great meal for us. They kept the cooked meat hot in coolers-- ironic?

It was like a down home picnic. This is us with Brandon's colleagues.

This was a beautiful sight. What's not shown is that there were 4 of these on our table!

2007 Chicago Marathon

These fantastic fans surprised me on mile 13 with this great sign and BRIGHT shirts! It was exactly what I needed to help carry me through the second half of the race. 

Look it's me... and I'm smiling??! Who smiles at mile 14 in 90 degree heat?

This is out of order.. but Ken and I after the race. He and his girlfriend Laura came all the way from Denver Colorado to support me at the race. 

Although the race organizers 'cancelled' the race, I finished... look for the blue shorts and white tank top on the right hand side of this photo--- that's me!

I think mom and dad walked more than the 26.2 that day trying to keep up with the race course to surprise and support me while finishing the race! They deserve a medal too!

The soccer team. Don't they look tough?

 No wedding is complete without some Sweet Caroline!

The wedding is in Dubuque, so we got to spend time with Ron and Karen.

Good friends and good looking people. 

Georgia Bulldogs Football

This blog would be incomplete without photos of the Georgia Bulldogs football games! We love going to games. Here we are in Sanford Stadium... with 93,000 other crazy Dawg fans all in RED & BLACK!

Can't you just feel the excitement!! 

Hairy Dawg (the fuzzy one) and Uga VI (the furry one) getting some press time. Uga VI just passed away this summer so, this next season we'll have a new Uga VII!

This was homecoming... check out the sweet seats we had-- right behind the goal posts! Note: Brandon is wearing a Nebraska shirt!

Gooooooooooooo Dawgs....woof woof woof

This was last summer when my folks came down to Georgia. We visited the Martin Luther King Memorial in Atlanta. This is my mom and I in front of the beautiful rose garden planted in remembrance of Coretta Scott King.

Some cool dudes at the MLK memorial.

Burial Reflection Pond of MLK and his wife.

We also went to a Braves game. We paid extra for the sweaty seats!

This is an Antebellum (a.k.a. before the war) home in Athens, were we live, the ironwork on the front porch was casted at the Foundry here in Athens years ago. There are so many beautiful homes down here. Wish we lived in one of them!

If I could only tell you all the things that have been going on since the very 1st post. Actually I probably could since we can't afford to drive anywhere. So, to catch up a little…

Emily is still working on trying to get to China to present at a pre-olympic conference, but if that doesn't work out she's planning on going to Iowa to visit the family and friends. She is making progress on her paper and I am sure proud of how hard she works. 

I have begun to get more involved at church, so much so that I think I may need to get a calendar. That is something that I never thought I would really need. Just keep life simple I told myself, but noooo, I couldn't do that so wish me luck. Well, I am doing a lot of the graphics for sermon series and the youth group series. I do the sermon notes to be used on screen during the sermon every weekend that I am able. Right now I have three logos to work on and a mailer in the works soon. I will post some of the previous sermon series logos and stuff I've done. I'm also going to start helping out with the youth group. Myself and the head guy for the jr/sr high schoolers will have an all guys small group on thursday night and we will be starting a series on acts August 6th. I'm really looking forward to that. That will mean that I have Married Couple Small Group on tuesday night, 706 on Wednesday night, and 706 Small Group on thursday night, then church on sunday. It took me a while but delayed obedience is disobedience, I think I finally get that.

Together, Emily and I have been working out for 4 weeks straight keeping each other in line and encouraging. We are starting to see the benefits, finally [stupid instant gratification culture]. We also play soccer on sundays together after church. We play on a coed team together at 1:00 called Google This!, and I play on a second all guys team at 2:00 called Foo Fighters [thats the coaches last name…Foo]. So working out is a really good thing for me since it seems to get really hot on sunday for some reason, most weeks have been near or above 100 degrees. Yeah, summer is a little rough, but I'll take it over an Iowa winter any day of the week.

Emily will be home soon and we'll go running in traffic, speed training you know. Not really Mom, take it easy. 

By the way, Happy Birthday Mom! Love ya