Insanity

       That word sends chills up my spine and I question my own sanity, am I insane for doing this? Caleb and I are starting Insanity this week. Yesterday was day one and I'm sore... and it was only the fit test! It's 60 days of high interval training using nothing else but your body... we work out everyday but Sunday! 

We're going to get ripped hopefully!!!!! 

Bear on the Square

          I've been taking an internet sabbatical over the past three months. I don't know if you are like me but I have felt lately like I've been taken over and am easily distracted by the world wide web. My default is to run straight to Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, Etsy, Pinterest, my blog, and other blogs whew! over running to the Lord. So the last three months has been more of an internet detox and it really has showed me that I look to be satisfied by things of this world more so than I find my satisfaction in Christ.

         This weekend we went to, what is now my favorite Dahlonega festival, Bear on the Square. A bear is the reason why this wonderful festival exists. It wandered onto the Square years ago and now that sighting has it's very own festival!  Bear on the Square is a toned down Gold Rush - less food stands, less vendors, less crowds... I think you've caught on by now. But what makes this festival so fun are the artisans that come to sell their hand made items. Most of them are creating these items in their booths right in front of you!

He had some fun folk art

He handmade all those bowls in the background

Jamming out! Awesome! 

          I also loved that wherever you walked you would see small groups of musicians picking, plucking, and playing mountain jam music together. Which was awesome! Musicians would hop around to each little group sitting around and would just join in! They also had a big tent that we went in to get a tshirt that had larger headlining bands! There's also craft classes you are sign up for to take and the website even said you could see the bear but I never saw him. http://www.bearonthesquare.org/

It's the little things like this that just make our little town so great and I love that they make any excuse to have a festival!

Find rest.

“I have hope today not because circumstances are easy or others appreciate me, but because God exists and he is my Father.” Paul Tripp

resolved..

Today I started my New Years resolution...

Running!!!!

I'm training for a 5k and yes I said a 5k should have lied and said a marathon!

I'm training through this great program called couch to 5k. A lot of you reading this are going to say... haven't you tried this before?! Well... yes I have! But this time I'm going to do it...

So this is will be my RLOG/BLOG = running log/blog! I'm nervous to click the submit button

I'm resolved to do this.... (anyone catch that Jonathan Edwards humor?) 

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...