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Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

Picking the perfect Christmas tree is such an important job! Apparently, my family has never thought that there were any suitable Christmas trees in Georgia, so we have to drive to Franklin, North Carolina every year to cut down our tree!!!! We have made so many memories up at Mincy Tree Farm! For the past 15+ years we have made that drive to find the perfect "Griswald Family Christmas Tree." This year was no different! Here are lots of pictures from our mountain adventure today!!!!

The 2008 "Dorminy Family Christmas Tree!"

Matt loves getting down and dirty when cutting our tree down. What a good husband!! We also spotted some bear tracks along the trails!

Kylie wanted to hug her new tree to welcome it to her family. Once Kylie did it, Karson had to do it too! "My turn, Kylie it's my turn!!"

Check out these cuties!

Fun and silly family pictures!

On the way home from Franklin, we stopped by Aunt Martha and Uncle Ray's new house on Lake Burton. We arrived just in time to help them move some furniture in. The house is absolutely beautiful and has the MOST amazing view!! The only problem is that that stairwell going to the bottom floors twists and turns therefore you cannot move the big furniture down the stairs. Uncle Ray can solve any problem though!!! All of the furniture had to be hoisted over the top floor deck and lowered down to the deck below! Creative (and a little scary)!!

The girls and kids stayed warm by the fire while the men did all the heavy lifting!

Fall Pictures

Matt and I had some fall pictures taken today after church. We have never done the "matching" thing, but this morning we matched perfectly, so I couldn't resist! Kale was a wonderful and patient photographer! Who would have thought that my mom's yard would have made such a great background!

Oops, I forgot one!

I forgot to put this picture on my post from our camping trip at Fort Mountain. This is my favorite picture from this weekend! No questioning who Harley's father is! Can you see the resemblance? There are more pictures from our weekend in the post below!

Fort Mountain State Park

Matt and I just got home this morning from a 3 night camping adventure at Fort Mountain State Park. We had such a great time! If you ever want to go "leaf looking" in the fall, head up to Fort Mountain in Chatsworth, GA (it's about 18 miles outside of Elijay). It was absolutely beautiful!!! We set up camp in the dark Friday night, so when we woke up on Saturday morning we could not believe how beautiful it was! Saturday we watched the Dawgs get their butts whooped on a 13" tv. On Sunday, Mom and Kale came up to eat lunch with us and to celebrate Matt's birthday. Last night as I was in the camper watching Desperate Housewives (again on the 13" screen), Matt starts screaming for me to look outside. I was hoping that he had spotted a bear (we had been warned that they were on the move this time of year up there), but it was not a bear, it was a SNAKE! I hate snakes more than anything! They totally creep me out and I have nightmares about them, so for me to even post this picture takes some courage!

Matt's birthday breakfast sandwich! It was too hard to pack a birthday cake, so I improvised!

And the winner is......

I love going to fall fesitvals! We went to the City of Sugar Hill Fall Festival last Saturday. My school set up a booth set up and we helped there for a little while, then enjoyed the festivities. A local professional fisherman is always there giving fishing and drawing names for prizes. Matt usually hangs out with him while I work our booth. Well, Saturday Matt was the grand prize winner!!!! He was like a kid in a candy store when they called him to come get his prizes. He was absolutely THRILLED! The prizes included a very expensive rod and reel, 2 shirts, a hat, and a tackle box full of lures. There couldn't have been a better prize for him to win!

The next blog update will be more camping pictures! We are going camping at Fort Mountain State Park in Chatsworth, GA for 4 nights! I can't wait! Matt's 29th birthday is on Sunday, so we will be celebrating his birthday camping style this year!

In the Spirit of Halloween......

I started thinking back to Halloween costume parties that I have attended. I have to say that my senior year of college was the most fun! All of my roommates and our boyfriends all dressed us and went to a party together. In the picture above, standing up we have Charles, dressed as Richard Simmons; Julie, dressed as a very big flower; Sandy, the angel, Jeff, the doctor. Sitting is Laura, the ferry; Me, the Harley Biker Chick; and Matt, the hunter. This was typical apparel for Matt during this time of year!


Me and Sandy at UGA/UF game
While I had the scanner out, I decided to scan some other fun pictures from our college days. After watching the DAWGS win again tonight, I decided to post my favorite UGA Football game pictures! Several of these are from Georgia/Florida games....in honor of next week's game!
Laura, Me, and Julie at Auburn
Me and Erika in Jacksonville
Me, Amanda, Kristy, and Erika a
Jule (senior year roommate) in Jacksonville
Whitney, Me, Sherri, and Cecil in Jacksonville
Now don't get me wrong, I love my life now as a married woman; but college days were so much fun! I mean who wouldn't enjoy going to class for only 2 or 3 hours a day, napping until noon if you wanted to, revolving your weekend plans around the football schedule, and hanging out with friends all the time. It's funny to think back at how stressed we were but how little we had going on or to worry about.