Definitely an interesting night...

Well here's the thing...James and I came home tonight from school planning on taking A.J. for a walk, making some dinner together, and then going to bed early so we could get up for our 5am gym run. Apparently someone else had different plans for our evening. We went on the walk with A.J. and took him to the park to throw the frisbee and on the way back we found a lost dog. He is white and some other color (can't tell if it's brown or black since it has been dark since we found him) and he appears to be part Jack Russell...maybe one of A.J.'s long lost cousins. Anyways something just drew us to this dog and we went over to try to see him and gave him some treats and left...well then we went out to grab something at food lion and he was still there and we just couldn't leave him. So to make a long story short instead of calling it a night early tonight we spent our evening figuring out how to get this dog back to the house so that we could make sure he or she was safe. We finally got it back to our house and it is currently hanging out in our back yard with a box and a blanket and some food and water. For right now we have decided to call him Benji because he has that scraggly look to him! We tried to introduce A.J. to Benji and Benji did not seem to thrilled about that.

We called the sherrif who put us through to disbatch who then put us through to the animal control office and when we got to them we got the lovely answering machine saying that they will be available during their office hours of 8-5. We are going to call them tomorrow and post some flyers but in the mean time we would like to do whatever we can to help this little guy or girl get back to its home so please if anyone has any ideas on how to help us do that or has happened to have heard about a lost dog please let us know. We will post some pics tomorrow and see if that helps out at all.

Happy late new year, and ball drop!

I know that it seems like all the stuff has already come and gone before we post the stuff on here, but we really are trying to do better. I hope everyone had a great new year, and that it has been great so far and that it continues to be great. I wanted to take a second and post some pictures from the first ever downtown Knoxville Market Square Ball Drop! Time Square has nothing on Knoxville. Who needs to wait until the wedding to hang out under the arch! Not the two of us:)
Sure, they look nice and cuddly! Beware they do bite. Just another prime example of me protecting Anna!
That is a pretty impressive and large tree. Maybe when we get a bigger house, I can have that in our house too.
Just another happy random picture of us. Look at the background and you notice the clock counting down to a jolly ole midnight kiss.
Hmm!!! What is this tasty little morsel here. It just happens to be a fried Twinkie! Yummy, yummy. I have no clue how many points that might be, but it sure was good.

A nice goodbye to 2007, and a hearty hello to 2008.

Christmas all year long.

I thought I would create this post for all the people that have already begun buying Christmas presents for Christmas 2008. Christmas is truly all year long, at least the meaning of Christmas, and its not all about presents and all that. Anyway I wanted to upload some of our pictures that we took at Christmas. These are various pictures that I hope you will enjoy. I hope everyone had a great Christmas.

This picture was taken at while visiting Anna's folks. We had a good time, even though we had to learn to use the self timer correctly.

I liked this picture of the two of us. Hope you all do also.
This is a picture of our mantle in our new home all decked out for Christmas.

This is a picture of our first tree in our first house.

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.