Moving on up!

As many of you know Anna and I have found a new house to call home. Our old house is on the market. This has been a whirlwind experience. It has come on quick and through much up and down we really feel like this is a blessing.
We put an offer on the house last Friday which they have since accepted.
We had the inspection and terminte process today. Everything came back good.
We are hoping to close on the house the first ten days of June or so. Right before my birthday.
Happy B-day to me!
Again we do feel blessed to have gotten this house.
We can't wait to have everyone help us with the painting party. The house is 3.5 baths, 4 bedrooms, a relaxation room, man room, office, and fomral dining room. It is 3500 sq ft. Much more house than we thought we would ever be able to get.

This is a view of the formal dining room.

These are the stairs.

This is the one of a kind privilleged few "MAN ROOM"

"This is a view from the stairs upstairs.

This is the Master Bedroom. The bathroom is off to the right. The sitting room is right behind this picture. Notice the Craford ceiling.

This is the master bath. Notice the garden tub!

This is another view of the master bed room. Notice the sitting room attached to it. This is the relaxation chamber.

This is the dining room/breakfast nook.

The kitchen is nice and big minus all the appliances and knobs. The people took all the knobs.

Here I am standing in the entry way. This has a nice hardwood flooring. The office is across from the formal dining room on your right when you walk in.

This is the backyard.

This is the living room.

Have you ever been "flushed"?

This past weekend James talked me into volunteering at our school carnival in the "fun flush" booth. We do our best to always be involved in school events but I have to say that when I got to the carnival and saw the booth I wondered what on earth we were thinking! I guess I didn't realize that it would be freezing cold hose water that would be coming down on my head! I have to admit that the first few times I got hit it was pretty bad but after that it got a lot better and I could even say that I had a good time! It was fun to see all the kids faces when they were able to "wet me"! Here are a few pictures!

James was the first one in the booth and of course I had to "test it out" to make sure it was working correctly! As you can see below...he got his paybacks!

Here we are after both of our shifts...soaked...but we had a great time!

Molly also got in the booth after us and I thought this was a pretty cool picture of her too!

The things we will do to give the kids a good laugh...

Our Latest Traveling Adventure

This past week James and I drove down to Florida to meet up with my parents and spend some time with them traveling on the boat. I was really excited to go see them since we hadn't been able to see them since Christmas time so it was a long overdue trip! We drove down there on Saturday and they met us at the sponge docks in Tarpon Springs (we left our car there) and then they took us down to where the boat was at. On Easter we were able to spend the day boating up to Tarpon and enjoying the absolutely beautiful weather. It was a very relaxing and fun trip and we even got to see a few dolphings! Unfortunately James and I didn't bring our scuba gear...otherwise we may have decided to jump in after them! Here is a picture of the boat when we got docked in Tarpon Springs and a few other pictures of our trip!


James as the self proclaimed "skipper" of the trip!

Captain Paul getting his headset on and ready to dock the boat...NOT an easy task!

There's Mom getting ready to do her docking duties as well...man she has gotten good at "lassoing" the pole!

Cody...doing his usual duties...

Here are a few pictures of one of the dolphins that we saw while we were on the trip. It just stayed right with our boat for the longest time and kept doing tricks for us...we loved it!

We also saw lots of pelicans on our trip. They kept landing on and near the boat when we were docked also and Cody did not like that one bit so he would have to run out and scare them away!

The trip was short but fun and it was really neat because we used to go to Tarpon Springs every year for spring break as a kid so I got to show James and lot of the things that we did growing up. I think he liked most of it though by the end of the trip I think he was a little sick of seeing sponges!

Enjoying Spring Weather!

We have started off with a great spring so far this year! Last Sunday we had some wonderful weather and James and I went to Cane Creek to take AJ out for some exercise and our friends Matt, Molly, and Tacori came along too! We took one of AJ's water toys to see if he wanted to go for a swim in the lake while we were there but it was unsuccessful to say the least.

A few family pictures!

AJ running away from the water when we threw his toy. He ended up getting in just a little but definitely wanted nothing to do with the idea of swimming out there to get it!

A sad Dad when his pup would not go fetch in the water. If you look closely in the background you can see a little orange thing floating in the water...yup that's AJ's toy!

After our hiking we decided to go over to Matt & Molly's and have a BBQ with them and some other friends from work. Matt grilled up some burgers, chicken, and potatos...yum!

A picture of the girls!

This past week James and I also taught intersession at our school with an underwater theme! When we found out the theme we jumped at the idea of taking some of the kids to the pool and doing a scuba demo for them. Our instructor from Neptunes Locker Diving (click on the name to check out his site!) was nice enough to arrange everything and teach the kids a little about learning to dive as well! It was really neat to hear the kids talk after the demo and hear so many of them say that when they turn 10 years old they want to lear to dive too!

James and I hanging out in the water. The kids would throw some water toys and we would race to see who could get it first...good times!

We even got to be TV stars at school also when they kept our picture up all week as the background of the clock...James and I definitely got our 5min of fame this week!

We are getting ready to leave tomorrow on a trip down to Tarpon Springs, FL to go visit my parents on the boat so hopefully we will have some pictures to update with from that soon!

Our little Pooch!

A lot of our friends have cute young kids that they post about all the time with updates and pictures (which we love to see and read by the way)! But as you know James and I do not have kids...yet! The closest thing we have to a child right now is our little pooch AJ who we love very much and sometimes treat like he is our child! Anyways we have taken some fun pics of him this weekend and thought we would go with a post all about AJ! Hope you enjoy!

AJ started out this beautiful weekend by getting a "doggy sundae" from Bruster's when we went there after school! Yep I think he enjoyed this treat!
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This morning I made yet another green smoothie for James and I to have with our breakfast and we decided it was time for AJ to try some (James read on one of the green smoothie websites that they are good for dogs too!) I'm not quite sure he liked this one as much as the ice cream though! OK I've tried about 5 times to get the video to upload but it just won't work...so i'm gonna try again later!

Finally we thought we'd take a few pictures of AJ doing one of his favorite things lately which is playing fetch in the yard. James took him for a walk and played fetch with him yesterday and then I played with him this afternoon...guess he was full of energy after that green smoothie!

AJ sitting and waiting for the ball to be thrown

There he goes folks...he's got it and it bringing it back for another throw!

All tired out and ready to take a nap!

Everyone is Irish.

Today of course is St. Patrick's day.

The day started off by making an extra tasty green yummy batch of green smoothies for the 3rd grade team. Tasty Tasty!

Even Mr. Harvey jumped on the green smoothie bandwagon.

Quite the nice tie for $1.

Those rowdy Leprechauns up to no good! Little did Anna or I know that those pesky Leprechauns would come visit her room today. They looked to have a passion of destroying anything that was green. I think they escaped through the window. Darn, those pesky creatures.

They were out of control!

Before we left the house today AJ got to put on his green hat. I am not sure he liked it all that much. I don't know though what do you think?

Hope everyone has a great St. Patrick's day.

Fun Friday at the Chattanooga Aquarium

This past week James and I had to go to Tennessee for a few things. While we were there we got to spend a lot of time with his family including his great Aunt Gertrude who is going to be 95 next month so needless to say any time that we are able to spend with her is wonderful! We also got the chance to go to Chattanooga to the aquarium which I had never been to before. We really enjoyed it and ended up getting season passes in hopes to go back there again sometime. We went with Michael and Sidney and had a lot of fun spending the day with them also. Here are some pictures that we took at the aquarium while we were there!

Me petting a sting ray...they were surprisingly squishy when you touch them!

We all know James loves his penguins! I tried to get a picture of him and Michael in front of the tanks but the penguins look kind of fake in the background.

An eel and some jellyfish...both things that we hope NOT to see while we are scuba diving!

This was a pretty cool picture of a starfish that James got in one of the tanks!

The big sea turtle! He was hard to get because it was so dark in the tank.

We all took pictures in front of the tank by the river otters. Those otters were pretty fun to watch but a little too fast to get a good picture of!