i love fall!

it got a little bit hotter this week, but overall the weather has been just plain gorgeous!  this is by far, my favorite time of year.  lots of mornings and evenings on the porch, drinking coffee or drinking wine, wearing sweaters, digging out shoes that were too hot to wear all summer :)  and of course, pumpkin everything!

we had a really nice weekend -- one of our few local ones lately :)  had several band practices, a really nice evening out to dinner with the conroys, watched the steelers game (they won!), just in general hanging out- it was very relaxing!

i am also super excited that i was able to book a trip to see my brother austin graduate from marine boot camp!  :)  i'll barely be there (24 hours really...) but i will be there and that's all that matters!  i'll also be taking my first red eye flight!  i think i fly through atlanta on the way home, i hope to get some sleep but if not, i can sleep it off saturday and then be rested up for the bottlenecks gig later that night! :)

stocking up for winter?

i bought a year's supply of toothpaste this weekend.  why you ask?  we were at big lots and i realized they had the toothpaste we like in a flavor they only carry at whole foods - and a few months ago, i realized how much whole foods actually charged for said toothpaste and stopped buying it - but big lots had tons of it!  and for $2 a tube!  and before you ask, it doesn't expire for several years!

so i bought six tubes.  it's the little things in life :)  happy wintermint teeth brushing to nate and i!

post nine-hundred.. and one! the bottlenecks!

can you believe this is post number 901?  someone keep me honest to observe post 1000!

but that is not the point.  the point is that our very own bottlenecks played at winter garden music fest this weekend.  winter garden music fest, for those of you that aren't local, is our local... music fest.  all clear? :)  but really, it's a great festival where they close down our main street downtown and fill it with great music for three days!  the bottlenecks played friday evening around 7 and rocked the house ;)  they had a great crowd and played like total rockstars.  there is video and audio taken during the concert that i will post later, but for now, just the facts and photos my friends!

first and foremost... my super sexy husband.  sorry, but it's true :)

oh right, there are four of them :)  meet nate, denny on drums, dave on bass, and ryan barely visible back there on keyboard :)  someone get that man a spotlight, stat!

 

nate and dave, having a little fun with all that stage space

some of the crowd :)

see them on the schedule?  go bottlenecks!

cassie, cadiem, nina, matt and john all enjoying the show :)

many of our orlando friends traveled the (long) distance to winter garden to see the show :)

matt and nina :)  thanks matt for traveling from savannah!  and nate's parents for making the drive from PA!  and random dude in the back for showing up to the show!

 not all but some of the great friends that came to see the bottlenecks :)

can't wait until the next show :)  you guys did a great job and i enjoyed every minute! :)

the occasional blogger

well i've always gone through phases with this blog (in post frequency) but this is a new low i think!  i hope to start posting more :)  thank you to everyone for a WONDERFUL birthday, by far my best yet!  nate and the bottlenecks gave a fantastic concert at winter garden music fest and nate even dedicated a song to me :)  more on that later, hopefully complete with sound or video clip!

off to work for the day, but lots to post about! i'll be back soon ;)