Summer 2009

So.
It is now June 2010 and I just spent an hour putting the photos from the summer of '09 on Shutterfly (plus other stuff), posting Fall/Thanksgiving '09, and Spring '10 and I really really really really don't feel like loading a bunch of photos from Summer '09.
2 reasons:
1. Blogger takes forever to load pictures. I am not a fan.
2. I'm tired of looking at these pictures....! :)

SO, if you're interested in looking at photos, you can visit our Shutterfly account for the following happenings in our lives:
Summertime '09
This includes random Summerness, my 24th Birthday, early garden photos, DC with Tiffany, etc.

Isabella's 3rd Birthday
This one is self explanatory.  We went down to NC for Izzy's birthday, and here are the pictures!

Posting a link to Shutterfly is so easy...I might do this more! :)

HARRY FREAKIN' POTTER!!!

So...I just found this post as a "draft" who knew!  So, I'm posting it because Harry Potter awesomeness deserves to be posted and viewed by the public.

After a very very very very long time of waiting...the day came!!! Woo Hoo!!!
Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince!
Tuesday night at Midnight! Well, I think our ticket "technically" says 12:01 on Wednesday the 15th, whatever.

SO EXCITED!!!
pardon the fuzzy camera.

Now that THAT'S out of the way....:)  I can't believe I forgot it! And that it took me nearly a year to post it.
6 months until the next one, now!

First Anniversary!

Ladies and gentlemen, we have made it a whole year! I'm a little surprised we didn't kill each other in the process, but miracles happen. Brandon decided to surprise me with what we were doing and I didn't "officially" know our whole plan until we got there.

We started off at Tastee Freeze! Yum yum yum.

And as we were driving to our next destination, we stopped at a pull off spot in-between Augusta and Highland counties (both beautiful places, by-the-way).

Soooo pretty!
I'm going to miss the mountains whenever we move away.

Anyway, we did a little exploring at this point. Apparently it was the spot of Ford Johnson and the Confederate Breastworks making place...

I did a tiny bit of rule breaking...

After that we got back on the road and saw a few weird things...

what a strange place for a phone booth!

And a few beautiful things...

And we found this Bed & Breakfast in Hidden Valley!!! It's actually called Hidden Valley Bed & Breakfast near Hot Springs, VA in Bath County.

It was built in the 1860s

And they had their own functioning garden!

Beautiful views...

Chickens...

Lots of cats...

A natural spring and a curing house. It actually had meat hanging in it. We think it was ham.

And a big gate (not in operation) for carriages!

So so so so pretty. Loved it. Brandon and I want to own an Inn one day, so it was good inspiration for the future. Loved it!

Then we went to dinner at Sam Snead's Tavern

Brandon used to work here and it was great to see old friends and eat DELICIOUS food!!! The Homestead Resort never lets us down in regards to food. mmmm

So that was pretty much it! We had a great time!

Shutterfly Pictures:

1st Annivesary Photos

Summer Goings

I have to say, post-graduation life is not NEARLY as interesting as I thought it would be! There have been a few cool things that have happened since May 2nd - I quit my job as a Student Ambassador at SVU and started back up with Pampered Chef (so if you need to order something, you know who to go to ;) ) and...that's it! Brandon and I for sure get to spend a lot more time together and as a result, we've gone to see several movies. Oh yeah. Movies are our thing, for sure. So, since we don't have much else to blog about...we'll blog about our highly sophisticated movie opinions *cough*

X-Men Origins: Wolverine 7 out of 10
This was a movie that Brandon has been waiting for for FOREVER and he was so disappointed! I thought it was good, but I'm not a Wolverine comic fan, so slight changes didn't bother me. His biggest beef with the movie was how they portrayed Deadpool. We saw a brief interview with Ryan Reynolds and they asked him what he thought about Deadpool in the movie, and he said that it's a Wolverine origins movie, not a Deadpool origins movie. Fortunately, there is a Deadpool movie in the works! Let's hope (for Brandon's sake) that they do him justice. I don't care much about Marvel, though...that's Brandon's thing. Brandon did say, though, that they biggest redeeming quality of the movie was the scene after the credits. If you didn't wait for it, you have to see it! It changes the entire ending of the movie, for him at least.

Star Trek 9 out of 10
This was a move that I was SOOOOO excited about!!!!! And I was not disappointed at all. As a kid, we never watched much of the original Star Trek show, I grew up in the Star Trek: the Next Generation era, and Brandon never watched any Star Trek shows, so any indiscrepancies were completely lost on us. I loved it because I recognized a lot of the winks and nudges to the original show. Spock had to be my favorite, because they brought back Leonard Nimoy and introduced Zachary Quinto. I am a huge Heroes fan, so seeing Sylar on the big screen was exciting. I thought it was just an over-all great film

Terminator: Salvation 8.5 out of 10
You would be right if you said that I wasn't an authentic Terminator fan, since I only watched the movies for the first time in the last year or so. But I have been a pretty faithful fan since then, especially with the Sarah Connor show. I have to be honest, I wasn't a fan of the CGI Arnold Schwarzenegger at the end. There were a few other things that I wasn't too fond of, but I still really liked it.

Angels & Demons 9.5 of 10
This has to be my favorite movie that I've seen so far this summer. For me, it was even better than the Da Vinci Code. I think I loved it so much because I called the ending before Brandon, haha! I just love that kind of movie. You obviously can't watch these movies without the acknowledgement that they're not supposed to depict the truth. Tom Hanks does such a great job in these movies.

The blogging begins!

Well...I've decided that Brandon and I need a blog. Since we're just the two of us, there's not TOO much to blog about, but I'm sure I can think of something! So I suppose this particular blog doesn't have much to do with anything other than introducing ourselves to the blogging world...we'll see how this goes. :)

A merging of the blogs

Well, this is what's happened...our Family website, Sampa.com, has decided to shut down, so we were forced to start a new family website. But what I've decided is to use what I already have and just vamp them up a little bit. I've copied all of the old blogs from Sampa onto this blog, so if you ever want to go back and read things, you won't be missing anything :)
So, that's why these other blogs have appeared out of thin air, for those of you who were wondering!
(5/6/09)

Also...all of the blogs that are before this one are funky for some reason.
Funky = the pictures won't load right. Something about importing them from Sampa did something crazy.
SO, when I have some spare time, I'm going to go back and fix them (hopefully). Gosh that's going to take forever.
(3/29/11)

Graduation and More!

The weekend of May 2nd was a big one for me, I graduated! And nearly a month later, I'm technically done with school. (I had a one credit class to get out of the way) So, hello, world! It looks the same. :) I waited a very very long time for this, and it has finally passed. That degree on the wall has been six years in the making, but I finally have it and that's what matters, right?
So...what now? I don't know. Ha. I'm currently weighing my options for jobs, and I'll keep you updated when something important happens. We have decided, though, to stay in Buena Vista for another year. It is just the best option for us at the moment. After that, we plan on hopefully moving to North Carolina, and I'm crossing my fingers that nothing will change that in a year, because I really miss it. That's where we feel our life is, so that's where we're headed.

Alright, here are some graduation pictures! and pictures from the weekend with the family.