Cory & Tiffs Wedding

The Beautiful Bride
Getting Ready Cutting of the Cake!

My Future Hubby and I!

Tessa and Bryan!

Jeremy & Brittany Hartman

I know it's early...

But if I don't have your mailing address, would you please forward it to me if you'd like to receive our holiday card this year. Thanks!

And I can't wait to see the picture Ciara.

Cara :)

Hello Everyone!

Hey, I figured it had been a little while since I had gotten on here and posted, so I better update everyone with what is going on! As you all know, Cory got married last weekend! The wedding was beautiful and we all partied and danced the night away! I will put up pictures tonight when I get home from work! I also bought my wedding dress last weekend! I would post pictures of that as well, but then my fiance might see it and that wouldn't be good. Other than that all the wedding stuff is coming along greatly! :) We have booked our location and have our bridal party all picked out! Miss you all!!

Please.....................

Please talk, please. Is anyone else busy already getting ready for Thanksgiving?? I got a big ole 20.25 lb butterball in the freezer already. I want to get a turkey breast too, so I can send some leftovers home with some. I've made sugar cookies already - found these cute cookie cutters shaped like maple, oak, and acorns. Finished the biscotti, now I'm working on pecan tarts. Our freezer is burstin'.

Dave and I are going to Charlottesville, Virginia for the weekend. We've never been to Monticello and after really enjoying the HBO series John Adams, we decided we need to go see Thomas Jefferson's home. I'll take pictures of course. It's supposed to be pretty cold Saturday, probably Sunday too!

Okay, please share, I'll be good - I'll try not to let so much time go by.

I Miss You Guys!

Sigh, I need to be with you all! I need to hear from you all! Thanks Tim! Funny how this is my favorite time of year - it's beautiful, on my drive to work I cross a little "body of water" on a one lane bridge - I think the creek is called Winters Run. There are trees hanging over the road and meeting overhead. When the wind blows all the autumn colored leaves flutter down, I took some pictures, but since I've inherited Rachel's old laptop, I haven't figured out how to down/upload photos yet. Before I share more, I want to show you a picture that my niece emailed me - when my sister in Florida was here last fall, my other sister and her family (who live in Frederick, Maryland) came over. My nephews wife is a photographer, so she brought her camera(s). We decided to have each family grouping dress differently - in white, in black and crazy in purple. Anyway, Rose sent the "goofy" family picture.

Rose cracked me up, she wrote "I've got no idea what Uncle Dave is doing." ha ha ha

I let myself get "down" this month - my 54th birthday was last week and I was dwelling on my mother's death. She went in the hospital for the last time on her 54th birthday, she died three weeks later. I think of her and how relatively young I am and I just grieve again for her loss. Bear with me, I miss her so much. There is no other woman like your mother. I know not all mothers are the same ..... but.....

Then, the same week as my birthday, my boss called me in to his office and boom the economy has struck home. My hours have been cut, I now work 3 days a week. After my initial bad attitude, and Dave's encouragement, I realize, this is okay, I'm off Fri, Sat, Sun and Mon every week. There's lots I like to do at home, so I can handle this. The situation is to be "revisited" after the first of the year. My hopes are not very high.

But in all this I have many, many blessings! My family is coming to my home for Thanksgiving! We will have another crazy photo shoot courtesy of Heather! My husband loves and supports me (and is very excited about dinner being on the table when he gets home from work 2 days out of 5). It will just take a little longer to pay off the kitchen remodel. It's only money.

God is in control. I share this all the time, now I must practice the words I share!

Ciara - I can't say how much I enjoyed your post about the marriage proposal! I was reading it outloud to people. How romantic! I'm so happy for you. You look absolutely BLISSSFUL!

Rachel is racking up those air miles. Rich has reservations to fly to Philly on Thanksgiving Day. But his leave hasn't been approved yet, if it is not approved, she will fly to Texas. I hope and hope his leave is approved, both because his family would love him to be home for Thanksgiving, and because I hate the thought of Rach sitting in airports on Thanksgiving Day. Ugh.

Helllloooooooo!!??

This is very rare that I make two posts in a row. I guess everyone just got busy......or maybe Cindy got tired of pushing.......I hope not. We need you, Cindy. You understand us, and all of our quirks. You know how to make us talk!

Well, having made my plea to Cindy....let me tell you all what is going on with us. Not much..








Just kidding. We made it through the election (Merideth and I voted early). Although we voted for the "other guy", we are optimistic about the future of our great land. We will pray for President Obama as we would for any and all of our leaders. It is our hope that he is all that he said that he is, and that he is able to unite us for a common cause......America!

We, like the rest of you are concerned about the immediate and long-range future of our economy, and our way of life. These are definately troubled times.

So much for the political stuff. Cory and Tiffany are getting married on the 14th (just a week away). So things are ramping up just a little. They seem at ease with the plans......they are heading to Seattle this weekend for a Company party. After the wedding at the country club, they are heading to LA to catch a Cruise Ship to the Mexican Riviera for a week-long honeymoon.

Jeremy and Brittany are doing well. They have settled back into their regular routine, and are growing together as a married couple.

Ciara and Shane are coming down this week for the wedding. Ciara will be home on Tuesday. She and her mom are going out to look for a wedding dress, and to do some planning for the May 9th event. Shane will join us on Friday, and I think that they are heading home on Sunday.

Tessa has just a few more weeks of school left.....then State Boards......then off to work! We are so excited......oops, I mean she is so excited! She and Bryan are doing well.

Merideth and I are just in LOVE, and busy planning our future (69 months until the big event).

We hope that all is well with each of you.

Love to all, and Happy Holidays.

Tim and Merideth