The last "Getaway"

Jeff and I decided to getaway one last time before B. Mac comes to stay. We took off to Ila's home town in northern Georgia to celebrate Memorial Day weekend with her family. Needless to say, her family is much like the Fuerbringer clan just with a "southern" accent. It's beautiful up here in the mountains and certainly is a far cry from the noise of FedEx planes. This picure is of the highest point in Georgia. I believe it's called Brass Knob - don't hold me to it though. This is the view off the front porch - not bad, eh? I'll post more pics as I get them uploaded. Time to go explore Arts in the Park while Jeff is getting in one last round of golf with the guys.

We have babies - Baby Doves that is...

Our Mamma bird's eggs hatched!! I only wish the human incubation period was as long as hers. Anyways, I took two picks of the babies while Mamma was away getting food. It's neat to see this so upclose to our home. While my plant is rather flat from her nesting in it, hopefully it will recover.

We will survive....

Well without a doubt, the past week has been one of the roughest ones we've had in awhile. While we are still alive and happy to see another day, it almost didn't seem like we were going to survive some days. Everything from the car exploding, to the threat of losing a job, to the dog being sick and simply the lack of sleep, it's been one heck of a week. One that is intensified with hormones and the thought of how are we going to make it? All I can say is, prayer and then laughter.

It is with great sadness that I have laid to rest my 1998 Nissan Altima w/ 221.000 miles. "Ally" and I have had great times together...like high school, college, road trips during Spring Break, and even the little stickers that were given to me by my nephew when he was 1. It was just so hard to let a good thing go, but that good thing almost caught on fire. That's when I knew I had to call it quits. So we welcome our new addition, a 2005 VW Jetta. It's a cute little thing and we got a great deal on it! It has roughly 170K miles LESS than what we are accustomed to. We hope to hold on to this car and drive it into the ground just like the Altima. I personally love the sunroof...

I'm just a sunroof kind of girl. So now that we have survived this week, and many thanks to family and friends who drove me around, listened to me cry, and helped us make a tough decision, I do believe we will survive.