Christmas/1 Year Anniv. Pictures

This past weekend, Will and I had a wonderful trip to Charlotte! We had so much fun catching up with everyone. God was very gracious to make the trip feel very long and full! Sometimes I feel like we are just arriving and then turning around and coming back, but not this time. On Saturday, wonderful Liz Shea tolk some pictures for Will and I that will be on our Christmas cards as well as marking (almost) our 1 year anniversary. I think they turned out really well and I love them! Here are some of my favorites! I guess the Christmas cards won't be much of a surprise! Oh well...

We got a little silly midway through the pictures and decided to take our very best "model" shots :-) I don't think anyone could accuse us of looking like real models, but we still had lots of fun!

If someone happens to be reading this who doesn't know, the other couple in these pictures is my sister, Anne, and her husband, David.

Boring Life or just Lazy Girl?

I'm pretty sure I don't know have boring life, so I guess the latter is true! I haven't taken many interesting pictures recently and that has slowed down my desire to post. Not too many notable things have been happening in the Kittrell home. We have rearranged a lot of our furniture and I love our new design. I will try to remember to post pictures of it soon. Will's Fall Break is this weekend and we are going to be taking a trip to Charlotte. I am VERY excited and can't wait to head out on Friday. It is so wonderful to take a trip home. Since Dave and Anne are currently living with Mom and Dad we will all get to sleep together under the same roof. That hasn't happened in a very long time! I will write up a longer and better post when we return from Charlotte and maybe even sooner if inspiration strikes! Until then, enjoy all this beautiful Fall weather!!!

One more picture of London!

She is just too cute!!!

Welcome London Fiora Oldacre!!!

Congratulations to Jonathan and Melanie (our Care Group Leaders)!! London was born yesterday at 1:25pm. She was 7 pounds 1 ounce and 20 inches long. I think she looks a whole lot like Melanie. I can't wait to see her in person!

Wedding!

This girl is getting married and I am so honored and excited about being in her wedding!!!

Mark your calendars for January 5, 2008.

Pictures from the Weekend

As I already said, Will and I had such a wonderful time together in Chattanooga! How I love my William :-) Here is a photo-tour of our weekend:

This was Sunday night after we arrived. We ate at a Italian restaurant in the art district. It was an older, really cool building and we got to eat on the 2nd floor which was sort of fun and out of the ordinary. From this picture, my food looks really gross, but it was actually delicious! Here I am on Monday morning standing outside of our hotel. I felt pretty funny standing there with my hand held up in the air waiting for Will to take the picture (I looked like I was making an oath) but I think the end result really looks like I am waving which was the goal :-)
Here I am in the aquarium! As we were driving home, Will said that this was his favorite part of the trip because I didn't realize that there was a top on this display and I wacked my head on it!
Here are a ton of trout. Someday perhaps I will catch one like this!
Thanks to Melanie, we made it a goal to find Candyland. We took a break from the aquarium in the middle of the day and made our way to bulk candy heaven! I LOVE bulk candy and have yet to find a really good place to get it here in Knoxville. We sat on a bench, drinking lemonade, and eating candy and nachos. A great mid-afternoon snack.

My favorite part of the aquarium...the SHARK TANK!!! I took almost 10 pictures of the sharks, but in most of them the sharks are either turned away or the picture is of only a portion of the shark...my shark photography skills are somewhat lacking :-)

Here we are in front of the shark tank.

A sea turtle.

This was in the butterfly garden. It was so cool because there were butterflies flying around everywhere and they were pretty tame! I had a couple land on my dress. I think they liked the color. Leaving the aquarium.
We walked around downtown for a while and came upon this wonderful old/used bookstore! Will bought me a little book to remember our trip!

We had been looking for Clumpies Ice Cream the whole day and finally found it! It was across the river on the other side of Chattanooga. Totally worth the walk!

After we ate our ice cream we walked back to the hotel where our car was parked and drove home. I am so grateful to have a husband who loves me so much and is so generous with his time and money and affection! As I have already told him, I would far rather spend one day with Will in Chattanooga than a whole month anywhere else without him. How great to be married to your best friend!

Back from Chattanooga!!!

You know I must be a true Tennessee girl when I can spell Chattanooga correctly! Will and I had the best time together. We were only gone for a little over 24 hours, but it felt a lot longer than that. It was so refreshing and fun! I will post a better update with lots of pictures tonight or tomorrow, but I just wanted to sign on and say we had a great time!

here we are in the aquarium with the city in the background. Sorry the picture is pretty dark.

Back to work and the "real world"...