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!