Auburn The Great!

Our first stop when we got to Auburn was of course the Forestry building. Hasn't changed at all since we left. We also got the chance to go in and Visit with one of our old professors, Dr. Gallagher. It was really good to see him and catch up, It's been over 2 years!

Josh posing with the eagle in front of the old Colisseum.

Walking around campus just like the old days.

An outside view of the new Colisseum.

We were able to sneak in and take a quick tour around the new coliseum. It is so NICE!

Toomers Oak. This is the one they are projecting to survive.

And of course we had to go by and see Josh's old trailer site in Gentilly. Different trailer, but everything else is the same

A bad hail storm his Auburn on Friday night. It was crazy how much fell, it looked like snow everywhere!

Toomers Drugs

This is the exact spot where Josh Propose to me back in December of 2008. On the Agriculture side of the Samford Building. It was neat to get to take this photo on our 2nd anniversary weekend. We had not been back here since the proposal!!

The new Track and Field facilities. Also very nice!

These silo's and barn were right across from the new track. I thought it was pretty scenery. Don't you just love Auburn's campus?

Getting ready for the A-Day game to get started.

Gus Malzahn Coaching the guys before the game

Trooper Taylor getting the guys pumped up!

Who's that cute guy? The great Gene Chizik!

Doing what he does best!

Taking it all in.

For our 2nd anniversary (which is going to be this coming Monday the 18th), Josh and I took a trip to Auburn for the A-Day game, and just to hang out in our old "home away from home". Neither one of us had been to Auburn in over 2 years, so it was such a sweet return for both of us!

We have sooo many great memories of Auburn. It's more than just where we went to college and earned our degrees, it became our home in the years we were there! Auburn is where Josh and I met, and over the years I got to know him better than I had ever known anyone before. He became my very best friend during those years and the best friend I could have ever asked for. While we were in school we spent a lot of time together. Not only in classes everyday (and studying for class at night), but I really believe we explored every single inch of that city together. Whether it be canoeing in the Saugahatchee, cruising the trails of the Tuskegee National Forest and the old back roads of Auburn in the green machine, hiking around Chewacla State Park or just going on walks around campus, we did it all. Every single memory we have of our college career is one that I know we will cherish forever. And to think we were "so ready" to graduate and leave. What were we thinking?!?

Going back to Auburn this past weekend just confirmed how much we really miss it there! I don't know why we've waited 2 years to go back, and I know we won't wait that long for our next visit. In fact, if we could we would move back there in a second! Needless to say, it was a wonderful 2nd anniversary weekend. It was just what Josh and I needed to remind us of old times, and of how we met and fell in love. Every single road, park and building has a story behind it. It might sound like just another college romance to you, but to us it is a very sweet and special story, in a very sweet and special place!

Mentone on The Mountain

My Apologies for not posting a blog in nearly a month. Things have been a little hectic lately and to be honest, there hasn't been very much to post about our little lives other than just normal 'ole life itself. However, Josh and I did go on a little weekend trip to the great Mentone this past weekend to visit with the Smalley's for a few days. Our "visits" to Josh's hometown are hardly ever a relaxing time spent with the family. Nope, they are almost always spent working on at LEAST one project if not more. For this recent trip we had three.

First and foremost is Josh's little project. We'll call it project number one: Building a rack to plug into the hitch receiver on the Jeep so that we can carry even MORE junk with us when we go places (now don't get me wrong, this thing is pretty nifty). This little project of Josh's took nearly 2 solid days of cutting and welding metal to complete (one that he estimated to take around 3 hours or so. You know, the usual).

Project numero dose: Breaking the horses. This one required the use of my little horse professional sister, Emmaline. She came down Friday night and spent all day Saturday working with the 8 horses that Larry has recently acquired. She rode a few, saddled a few and helped Larry decide which one's were keepers and which were no-go's. She did a superb job with the horses and really impressed me with her horse training knowledge/capabilities. Turns out the few horses that are broken and only "green broken". But Emmaline seems to think that they could turn out to be really good horses with a little work.

Project # 3: Building the floor to the playhouse. Now this project is really the main reason we even went to Mentone in the first place, but of course it got pushed back to the last thing we got around to (sorry about that Larry). Larry has been working on this great playhouse out in the middle of one of the pastures and I think it is going to turn out to be really great! When they finally did get around to putting the floor down on it, it turned out to be the fastest and easiest thing we had done all weekend.

Although we stayed extremely busy (as always), we had a great time on our little weekend getaway. We got a lot accomplished and got to visit with the fam a little bit too. Thanks again to Emmaline for coming up to help with the horses, I hope you're planning on making another trip up soon! And Thanks to Larry and Gail for sharing your home, farm, shop and time with us :-)