Anyone Out There???

OK so everyone keeps telling us that you are reading our blog....but we still don't get ANY comments!  Ya'll need to start leaving some comments for us because just like you enjoy reading our blog (or so everyone says) we like to read your comments so PLEASE LEAVE THEM!!!  Man we sound pathetic begging for comments...but oh well!  If you need help learning how to leave them just let us know!  You can also leave us comments and sign our wedding guest book as well.  The site for that is www.theknot.com/ourwedding/AnnaClute&JamesBrown

Oh yeah on a brighter note I thought I would let everyone know that we found out this week that James passed his test for the praxis so he is all set for teaching now...way to go babe!  Hope everyone is having a great break.  We are going to be going to Market Square in downtown Knoxville tomorrow night for New Years and then will return home on Tuesday.  We got a new camera cord today so we will be able to post some pics when we get back!  Hope everyone has a safe new years and we look forward to reading all the comments we are going to get in 2008!  

Happy Holidays!

Just wanted to write a quick note to say happy holidays to all! We have been working very hard at getting the house in order and thanks to a few of our great friends helping out it looks pretty good so far! We feel pretty good about it all and finally have internet installed and the security system in and now we will just have to wait for DirecTV so James can get back into watching all of his Sunday ticket football!
We are leaving today on a trip for the holidays, we will spend most of it in Tennessee and then be going up to Illinois for a few days to visit my Grandpa and some family on my Dad's side! We'll definitely be very busy but are excited to see family because we haven't seen them since our October break.
Also on a wedding note we FINALLY have all of our stuff together for our Save the date cards(or STDs as Melissa likes to call them) and will be sending them out on Monday along with a belated holiday letter with our new address and all so be on the lookout for that!
We hope everyone has a very safe and fun holiday and LEAVE US COMMENTS to let us know how you are doing! haha!

What's new on the home front...

Well James and I are pretty excited to announce that it looks like we will soon officially be home owners! As many of you know we have been looking at a house for a few weeks now in downtown Monroe and we went this evening to write up a contract on the house! We are set to close on December 17th, what a wonderful Christmas present for us! We are also now officially taking applications for a moving crew as well...doesn't take much, just a smile and a hungry belly for some pizza after the move!

It is a very quaint little house that was built in 1940 and definitely has a lot of character to it. It is 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom with a den and a nice size living room so it's just enough room for us for a first home! It was for sale by owner (who were also first time sellers) so needless to say we all learned a lot along the way and it looks like we made a few new friends as well! One of the best parts is that we are going to be a lot closer to work (like within 2 miles) and also we get to live near some of our good friends!

The living room and fireplace...we hope to get gas logs in there sometime!

The dining room looking into the kitchen

Our green apple kitchen!

A.J.'s new home...a nice fenced in back yard!

Man Law

When mama bear is away little bear and daddy bear will play. Not really but it at least sounded good and made me feel like I run the show. Anna is away for a conference at school from Sunday afternoon until Tuesday evening. I am not sure what AJ and I will do.

Here are some things that need to be done and they are not very exciting, before the fun can start.

1. Start packing

2. Research windows

3. Lesson plan

4. AJ does not know it but I am becoming Pavlov on his bad self, and he is going to be in studious training these few days.

After a few of these things get done then I can engage full man power law and watch some serious hardcore football action, and play the Wii.

The great feeling of man law in full force.

I have not posted about our last trip to Jekyll Island, and that is long overdue.

We got quite a bit done on the tripe. We were able to select a florist for the wedding, along with a DJ, and book the chapel and the reception hall, a swell as the menu for the reception.quite a lot of work and we did not have a lot of time for other stuff. We also have all the rooms that we are going to use for people to stay in picked out as well.

Below are some pictures of our trip.

It was a great view from our room.





Woman law though is even more powerful than man law.





Nothing however is stronger than true love not even man law or woman law.