My Favorite time of the year

I love October, November, and December every year. These three months bring the fall and the cold weather. Being a yankee girl I love the cooler weather. I already have had 2 fires in our fireplaces and if my sweetie was still up I would build another one tonight and cuddle with him on the couch. I am so excited to for the holidays to come. The cooler weather makes me want to cook, and not just meals but I want to bake goodies. My mother in law and I already started planning our holiday cooking. We made kitty cookies for our next door neighbors and their children. I got in the mood and when I went shopping somehow the chocolate chips, the peanut butter chips, and dark chocolate and mint chips jumped into my cart. So I will have to make cookies, right? I am pulling out my moms soup recipes as well. I have made chilli and chicken noodle soup wiht blueberry muffins. (why the blueberry muffins, I am not sure its just how my mom did it) I think this week I am going to make sausage corn chowder. I have also cake mixes to make cupcakes and maybe just make a regular cake. I will let the spirit move me.

It is so nice to be back home and to be back at Liberty all be it we have been late the two sundays we have been back. It is amazing how at home I feel there. Our schedule is going back to normal tomorrow. Jeremy will start back to work with Liberty doing all the websites. I get to start a new routine for me tomorrow by going to the gym for the first time in awhile. I joined a couple of weeks ago and because of all the car problems we have had I havent been able to go back.

Car problems, air problems, holidays, and birthdays. There is always something pulling for your money and it usually always happens at the same time. Like in the next two months we have 6 birthdays and of course thanksgiving and Christmas. We also have been having van issues still, that is so frustrating. At the same time we are still having issues with our air condtioner. We got the major problem fixed now its just a cleaning problem even simply a matter of putting more refrigerant in it.

Oh well, I feel like we should be getting to the end of the craziness. I will be so happy when things calm down just a little bit. I am so thankful for this year and all the busyness of the year and all that has happened and how much my life has changed for the better.

Married Life is an adventure!

This is my first blog as Mrs. Empie. I am so excited to be married finally. It has been a interesting road up to the wedding. Three weeks before the wedding we found ourselves stuck in Hannibal Mo because our van broke down. So we kinda took a honeymoon that week with it just being us we spent a lot of time together waiting for our van to be fixed. Well they "fixed" it by replacing the water pump. We got 7 hours down the road on Friday and the van breaks down again. We manage to make it to Grenada Ms and stop for the night. We get up in the morning and make it to Pearl Ms to meet up with my dad before it dies again. We than tow it home on the back of a uhaul truck with a car tow. We make it finally back to Pensacola 2 weeks before our wedding. At least we were back home with another car we could drive. We finally get the van up to a car repair shop and after spending close to a 1000.00 dollars to get the van and us back home we found out it was just a sensor that wasnt plugged in right and cost a little over a 100.00 dollars to fix. We get everything finished for the wedding get married on the 9th. On our wedding night I come home to change out of my dress and I am in our bedroom and am looking in the closet looking for clothes get what I needed and no sooner than I walk out of the closet than the closet shelf comes crashing down in the closet and spills everything everywhere. I was like well it can be fixed in the morning. Than on Sunday we were sitting in the living room and I hear water dripping somewhere and so I check out the bathrooms and both our kitchens and cant find the water dripping so I look in our downstairs closet and find out that our air conditioner is backed up and leaking all over our downstairs closet. So another problem to be fixed. So we get the air conditioner repair shop called and my father in law comes and fixes our closet shelf. We make it thru one week of marriage and decide that we are going to go to Olive Garden saturday the 16th to celebrate one week of marriage and we decide to take my car to dinner and our roommate Angela is going to go with us. So we get going and get on the interstate when my back tire blows and causes the front tire to blow as well and sends us across both lanes of the interstate right into the gaurdrail at mile marker 9. So needless to say we totaled my car and couldnt belive what a week we were having. It has been a rough couple of weeks of marriage. Things are starting to look up. We settled the car and decided not ro replace my car so that we wont have to be making a car payment or a second insurance payment as we havent switched my insurance to Jeremys. We decided that we have tested pretty well for right now the "for worse" part of the vows and we are ready for the "for better" part. We are happy and in love and are so glad that we are married. Our wedding was beautiful but it went by so fast for as many months of planning we put into it.