Time In

My computer is really sassy. Each time I have come on here to update this thing she keeps kicking me off Blogger and I lose my content for the same post over and over again so once again my apologies for not keeping you updated.

So where did I leave off...

We went to lunch at one of our favorite places in town, The Crimson Moon. Doesn't that smile just melt your heart?

 This was on the way to the Moon. I thought it was a sweet picture!

Later that week we went to Burt's Pumpkin Farm! It was my first time going and Micah was in awe of the pumpkins. Half of them were bigger than his soon to be two year old little frame.

                        

Then he saw this... 

Micah loves tractors and I think he forgot that we were at a Pumpkin Farm when he laid on eyes on the big green tractor that was going to haul into the farm's pumpkin patches.

Aren't those barrows pretty?!!! Who knew wheelbarrows could be so pretty... 

Micah might get his obsession from this beaut.. 

His grandfather's John Deere. I learned how to drive it the other day. 

My instructor. 

Caleb's family lives . Rolling hills of pastures. When I'm there I feel my dreams have come true of being a farm girl. They have a some wood shops that are awesome! Here's one of my favorite things about their property... the blue door!!!! This leads into Caleb's dad's personal shop.. It's magical...

I collected this little guy inside Caleb's dad woodshop. I was going to use it as a post for my herb garden.    Key word is in this find is that is was FREE!

Check out these treasures I found inside... there's so much history in these things to me... I was like a little kid in a candy store. I kept asking if I could take stuff home!

Above is my sweet father in law, Chris and here's the bottom of the knife that was pictured next to the door - how pretty!

Later that evening Erin and I carved pumpkins!

Erin's ended up looking just like this!

 Dahlonega Leaves of Fall 

Our CO staff went on a staff retreat to Suches! The leaves and scenery were so pretty too!

Which brings us to Halloween! Our first trick or treaters as a married couple - the tooth fairy and a tooth she had picked up along the way! :)

This Fall, Caleb played in a Parks and Rec softball league! They were really great and I know that Caleb loved being able to participate with his busy schedule! He loves baseball!

Can I bore you with pictures of my cat Missy? She's not mine and Caleb's. She's the Clark family cat. We got her when I was in middle school. She was the younger sister to our dog Lucy and cat Rikki (you might be thinking that sounds like I Love Lucy, you're correct) Anways, I borrowed a 105mm lens from a friend in Dahlonega and was trying to get a picture of anything I could get my hands on. I loved these pictures of Missy and she's wasn't too thrilled that I was chasing her around the garage one afternoon. I just loved how the light hit her... Okay, you can wake up now...

hello again friends!

Caleb and I are both on the couch. I'm sick and he's propping up his swollen sprained ankle. We're a little pitiful this week at the Martin household. Our couch has become every other room in the house. The office, kitchen, and bedroom as well as the dining room table and ottoman. In a season of thankfulness... I'm thankful for our coffee table.

So now that you know where we are now. Let me catch you up with how we got here.

Erin and Micah came into town! We love when they come to visit because they live in Texas and we don't get to see them very often. They came and stayed with us the Friday before Gold Rush. We had a blast!

Caleb and Micah's favorite thing to do together was wrestling! Micah would run as quick as his little feet would let him and push over Uncle C! I think it happened at least 50 times...

The next morning Erin went and ran the Gold Rush 5k while Caleb and I babysat. Caleb introduced Micah to our Wii, named Sallwii - after my mom (Sally), and we played a morning full of tennis and Backyardigans on Netflix! Best babysitters ever!!!!

Speaking of our little man! I want to give a shout out to our favorite nephew! He's turned TWO yesterday!!!! He's getting so big!

Happy Birthday Micah!

Later Saturday we ventured out to Gold Rush! It was literally in our backyard this year. That's why we love were we live so much because we are walking distance to everything on the square and campus.

 Micah checking out our mums before riding in style to Gold Rush

 And the best thing about Gold Rush... Oh course... THE FOOD!!!!! Our favorite are the hand dipped corn dogs. These are some pictures I took for my photography class. We had to pick a topic on Gold Rush and I chose the food. Not so original...

My parents and Auntie & EB came up Sunday. Auntie's walking around with one of Emma's Christmas gifts and we stopped by the Farmer's Market on the way back to our place.

Everything was so fresh and colorful there.  

Here are a couple of things I ended up with at the end of the day:

 My parents got me this print of a barn in Virginia. This artist use draw for the AJC and so many other beautiful pictures from some of our favorite places like Jamaica (where we went on our honeymoon) and Santa Rosa Beach. 

 Homemade blackberry jam (tried to make it look artsy)

 Basil Plant that quickly died.

My idea is to potentially have an herb garden on our back porch patch of cement  so we can pick fresh herbs whenever we need them.

So I know I promised to get to you back to where Caleb and I are pitiful on the couch but it's just not going to happen. I will fill you in on the rest hopefully later today or today. Need to take a breather. So just consider this a timeout.

Be back soon!