Copper and Wool

 A little over seven years ago Matt and I knelt across from one another and answered a simple question.  We both gave the same answer, Yes!  Matt even said it twice!  I love that man!  Our lives since then have been filled with an array of emotions and experiences.  

I am so grateful for every minute!  

I tried thinking of something fun and interesting to do to celebrate on our little blog.  I came up with absolutely NOTHING!  That's why this post is a good two weeks late!  So, I'm just going to share a little something from our special day, seven years ago, with you.  Our song- ok, not really "our song"...just the theme song of our wedding!

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers

In our house Football is a big deal.

 

We watch practically every Sunday.  When Matt is home we also get our fill on Saturdays and Mondays.  We have our favorite teams.  And we root for them all season long.  Now Matt can get pretty loud when watching...but it's surprising for some to hear that how loud my decibels can become!  hehehe  

Of course we realize that the season has to end at some point...and we look forward to big game at the end!  The SUPERBOWL!!!!!  We always watch even if one of our teams doesn't make it.  And every year we host a Superbowl party.

  

The boys doing a belly bump after the Indianapolis Colts scored a Touchdown!

 

 Here are Robbie and Matt just watching the game.  And yes, Matt always looks that way when he watches a game.  After all football is a serious matter!  We had so much food!  We made tacos and queso, a spicy cheese dip.  We had chips and french onion dip.  Brittany and Robbie brought a Red Velvet Cake, super yummy!  We drank tons of Vernor's, a Michigan treat.(it's a really good ginger ale)

It was a great party but this is what happened...

 

 The Colts Lost!  All our high hopes ruined...

but we couldn't end the night on a sad note so we played some games!

 

Ben and Stephanie brought over a couple of their Wii controllers to add to ours so we could all play!  We had so much fun playing Tennis.  Since we only had 4 remotes we all took turns playing.  We also pulled out the fitness board and played some of the balancing games on Wii Fit.  That was a blast! I'm so glad we have such cool friends to hang out with!

Can't wait till next season!!!!

It takes a long time to grow young

Happy Birthday Matt!!!!!  

I love his cheesy smile face.  It's just so happy.  

We recently celebrated the anniversary of the day of Matt's birth.  I baked him a cake(from scratch), bought the fun number candles(which he had never had before!!!!), sang Happy Birthday to him, and then we watched a movie!  It was a great day!  We took it nice and easy, just relaxing spending time together.  Matt got tons of phone calls from family and friends sending birthday wishes.  I know for a fact he got sung to at least 3 times!  I'll tell you, he is Mister Popularity!! 

And so in honor of Matt's 34 years I am going to tell you 34 things about Matt!

1-he is obsessed with flying!

2-he used to play the trumpet

3-he loves to work out with Tony Horton (P90X)

4-he is the fastest reader I have ever met!

5-he loves eating steak

6-he always listens to Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck

7-he wishes he could go back home to Seattle

8-he loves to read books about physics (for fun)

9-He likes to go fast

10-he has a loud voice-it carries very well

11-he is a master at the BBQ grill

12-his version of being romantic is trying to blow raspberries on my neck

13-he loves football and basketball

14-he loves to teach-doesn't matter the subject

15-in the car he likes to talk instead of listening to the radio

16-he loves Science Fiction

17- if he can't fall asleep he will read airplane system manuals

18-it sometimes takes him a long time to change his mind

19-he is the best kind of friend

20-he has the prettiest eyes!  green with a hint of yellow at the edges

21-he loves to talk

22-he drools when he sees a cool airplane on TV

23-he is a college graduate

24-his favorite snack to buy is Peanut M&Ms

25-he plays church ball Weds night on the weeks he's home

26-he loves to go hiking

27-he's a great public speaker

28-he wants to adopt an English Bulldog and name him Rush

29-he is very politically conservative

30-he is very competeive

31-he loves to read

32-he is amazing with kids, even though he doesn't think he is

33-he will spend hours playing Sims2 when he has the free time

34- he is married to the most amazing woman ever, ME!  

lol...ok maybe I'm not the most amazing woman, but I am pretty good!

A hundred hearts would be too few To carry all my love for you

Happy Valentines' Day!!!!!

We Love You!

 

We spent the day being lazy!  We exchanged those little candy hearts, ya know the ones with sayings on them.  I watched a couple girlie movies while Matt took a nap and then went home teaching. When he got home we spent the rest of the evening catching up on all our favorite TV shows.

It was a great day.

Thanks for being my Valentine, Matt!!!

So Shut Your Eyes

I have spent the last few nights awake till the wee hours of the morning working on homework assignments.  I just finished a huge project, due tomorrow I might add.  And I started working on another paper, also due tomorrow when I received the most blessed email.  It was my professor letting the class know that because of the snow day our papers aren't due till next week!

I'm so happy!

I could jump for joy!

if I wasn't so exhausted

 

Matt is already in bed...has been for a few hours enjoying the blissful slumber of night.  But the bed is now calling my name.  "...Courtney..."  I hear its tempting words, "Courtney come snuggle with me...rest your head on a heavenly down pillow...sleep away your stress...and dream of a world filled with magic....Come, Courtney.....Come to me"

Before I answer its call, I want to share the poem I'll have in my pocket tonight.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night

Sailed off in a wooden shoe,--

Sailed on a river of crystal light

Into a sea of dew.

"Where are you going, and what do you wish?"

The old moon asked the three.

"We have come to fish for the herring-fish

That live in this beautiful sea;

Nets of silver and gold have we,"

Said Wynken,

Blynken,

And Nod.

The old moon laughed and sang a song,

As they rocked in the wooden shoe;

And the wind that sped them all night long

Ruffled the waves of dew;

The little stars were the herring-fish

That lived in the beautiful sea.

"Now cast your nets wherever you wish,--

Never afraid are we!"

So cried the stars to the fishermen three,

Wynken,

Blynken,

And Nod.

All night long their nets they threw

To the stars in the twinkling foam,--

Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe,

Bringing the fishermen home:

'Twas all so pretty a sail, it seemed

As if it could not be;

And some folk thought 'twas a dream they'd dreamed

Of sailing that beautiful sea;

But I shall name you the fishermen three:

Wynken,

Blynken,

And Nod.

Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,

And Nod is a little head,

And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies

Is a wee one's trundle-bed;

So shut your eyes while Mother sings

Of wonderful sights that be,

And you shall see the beautiful things

As you rock in the misty sea

Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three:--

Wynken,

Blynken,

And Nod.

 

 

~Eugene Field

“A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.”

We have been a couple of busy bees so far this year!!!  And firstly, I must apologize for my lack of blogging attention.  Being a busy bee has taken a lot of my energy. 

Matt is dutifully flying round the world (ok, just Northern America) and bringing home the bacon-or honey since we're currently bees!  He has recurrent training in February- extra training that pilots have to go through every year to make sure they still know how to fly!  And so he is busy studying and reviewing the handbooks, company policies, and whatnot.  It will be nice to have him home for the majority of February. 

I on the other hand am not working so much right now.  January is really slow in the portrait world.  In the aftermath of Christmas, I'm only working about 10-15 hours a week.  It will pick back up the closer we get to Easter.  But, my time is being taken up by a much more demanding endeavor...

COLLEGE!!!

While at my parents during Christmas I got a call from the admission office letting me know that I had been accepted!!!!  Let me tell you I was ecstatic!!!  It was official- I was an Eagle!!!

It was really funny because my little sister had just gotten her acceptance letters from a few of the schools she applied to!  We definitely celebrated the prospect of higher education.

They had called the last day they were open before closing for the holiday!  When I got back home I only had a few days to get everything together before classes started!  Thank goodness that I wasn't working much, because I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off!  But I did it!  I got everything done in time.  So now I am a full time college student...(and it's kicking my butt!) 

And I'm loving every minute of it!

so far

I think 2010 is going to keep being a busy year for us.  I'm confident that we'll be able to stay afloat...

and for those who are concerned about our humanity- we are not actual bees, or actual eagles.

We are still human!

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost

Matt got a very special letter the other day!  He got summoned to JURY DUTY!!! 

"I was called to go 'try out' for a jury; they called 25 people (they gave us numbers and they just read that number) to go to the court room where the judge asked if anyone knew the defendant, or the witness, or the lawyers, or judge.  Some people stood and told who they knew.  They where sent back to the jury selection room.  Then they called 13 people,12 and 1 alternate that would be chosen and random after the trial.  (I was not among them.)  The judge asked them questions like what do you do for a living, and about your family, and so on.   Depending on their answers they were asked to stay or dismissed.  To fill the seats of those dismissed they called in more people to ask them the questions.  That's how I got on the jury.  When I was called, the judge just asked me what I did for work, where I went to College, where I went to High School, and how long I have lived in the county.  I was also asked if I had any law classes, 'Aviation law' I replied.  That was it, I was on my first jury... After some instructions from the judge we started the trial.

We had a felony assault charge with a handgun.  It was just like in the movies the lawyers had their opening statements.  (But with out any context it did not tell me a whole lot.)  Next came the witness for the prosecution.  They told what they saw, and what they where doing.  Then the cross examination where the defense tried to raise the reasonable doubt level. I believed some of what they where telling me and did not believe other parts of their testimony. Next the police officers who responded to the 911 call.  They were good officers and did a good job of investigating the call; but they did not find any physical evidence at the scene. When the detective that was in charge of investigating the crime testified I thought that she did a great job.  While the defendant did not take the stand, he did talk to the cops so we got to hear his side through them.  It took a while to get through everything.  But when all of the witnesses and the little evidence that was presented were finished we had the closing statements from the attorneys.  And the final instructions from the judge.

I was chosen as the jury foreperson!  We started our discussion on guilty or not guilty, we took a early vote (I voted not guilty) and it was tied.  I knew it was going to be a long day so we ordered lunch early. After all day of talking about the case and the evidence we all came together and ended up with a not guilty vote. I decided that he was not guilty due to lack of evidence while he might be guilty of the crime I needed to have proof!  And the witnesses were a brother and sister who had a feud with the defendant; so I could not believe every thing that they said with out being tainted.

So that was my experience and it was so much fun I was cracking jokes, I am so glad that I had the chance to get to serve. So when you get a chance to serve I would hope that you would want to."