So the camping trip was crazy fun. To make a long story shorter, we got up close to the campsite Friday evening and there was a severe thunderstorm (complete with hail and everything) that made us pull off the road, and we waited it out, and we checked out the campground but there was still lightning, and still raining, so we went back home and got out the indoor grill, cooked our sausages and ate around a big candle (so much for a campfire) outside on our deck. After we ate, we piled in the truck and drove out behind our neighbor's house (he has 100 acres of land) and pitched the tent (it hadn't really rained near our house) at 10:00 that night, and tried to sleep. I don't think our tent is designed to be a 4-person tent, but I actually slept well, all things considered. But anyway, we got up and ate muffins, tore down the tent, went back to our house and everybody took showers, and that was our camping trip!

Saturday we tried to play disc golf but didn't have any discs and they couldn't be rented, so we had a picnic and went hiking on Signal Mtn. Then we bought frisbees so we could go play frisbee golf. And that was the rest of our big adventure with my sister and her boyfriend.

I can't believe it's been so long since I've updated. I'm sorry y'all, I've had every intention in the world to keep in touch, but I haven't actually made time for it. And you know, this is about the only kind of journal I've kept up with over the past year or so, which I hate because I always used to enjoy journaling but then I ran out of time to keep it current. But then I quit having time to update this, so now I kind of feel like I'm missing out on the opportunity to look back over the last two months of my life since it's not here. What have I been doing the past two months that prevented me from updating, you ask? I don't know. I guess a lot of things that take time...Todd, and working and family and cleaning and cooking. For example, I had no idea how much time it takes to make sure that there's ample food in the house to feed two people regularly. A lot.

But anyway, speaking of time, today is 7 months and 12 days since we got married. I still love it! I can't imagine life any differently. Well, I can, but I can't imagine being as happy any differently. Still don't have most of the wedding pictures printed, and still don't have a wedding video back. Oh well. The newness of the whole thing has diminished, but that's to be expected. It's still awesome. Even when it's just everyday life, it's still more fun with the person you love.

Work is OK. I'm kind of interested in applying for a different position somewhere else, praying about whether or not to apply. The other position is more of an administrative position and would be more responsibility, as opposed to case management, which is kind of the slant my job takes now. We'll see.

Um, let's see. I am now on the praise team at church, so that's a new thing here. We are still with the Sunday school class we joined in January, and we're slowly getting more involved. We all went camping a few weeks ago, and had a blast! I'm not typically a camper, but this was my first experience with an air mattress, so I was a much happier camper, pun intended. Another camping trip is in the works for next weekend, this time just Todd and me, and my sister and her boyfriend. No air mattress this time since we won't all fit in the tent with it. We will probably roast.

We haven't really spent much time with groups of people or other couples lately, I think we both have needed some one-on-one time with our individual friends. But last night we spent several hours with a group of our single friends and it was much-needed and much-enjoyed.

We went to Atlanta about a month ago for a b-day trip for me. We had so much fun, ate WAY too much (I love the Cheesecake Factory now), and toured the World of Coca-Cola. No way would I want to live there, but with a nice but inexpensive hotel, it was a great weekend get-away. We should do that more often.

Oh crap, I just realized that it's getting to be evening and I still have a bone to pick with BI-LO for my strawberries that molded 2 days after I bought them. You can't make a pie with moldy strawberries. My green beans molded too, but that was another store. I need to go take care of this mess. Somebody is going to give me some more strawberries or this could get ugly.

Well, enough for now. I guess this will do for a re-entry into a social life.