Father's Day Photo Shoot

We met my family at Piedmont Park in Atlanta and went to the Cheesecake Factory to celebrate Father's Day.  My sister had her camera and we ended up doing an impromptu photo shoot.  It resulted in some...interesting...photos. 

Photo bomb #1

Photo bomb #2

Tim looking dazed

33 weeks

Photo preface:  While attending a hospital orientation a couple weeks ago, we got to meet several people that offered pregnancy care such as prenatal massage, birthing attendant's, birth classes, etc.  We met some kooky people but by far there was one doula that just was off the kooky chart in our book.  While scouring Awkward Family Photos.com, I swear I found her in a picture, and immediately e-mailed it to Tim.

So, in honor of said photo...

I think we took some really good photos too, but I think my sister just quickly e-mailed me these for my amusement.  That's ok, these are probably truer to real life anyway :)

Moving Day

So, last Tuesday we came back from vacation, that Friday we closed on our house, went on a marriage retreat that weekend, hosted a presenting couple for the retreat at the last minute, packed all week, and moved this weekend.  Phew!  That is how we roll...welcome to our craziness.  I didn't manage to remember to take any pictures of our amazing moving crew...who were AMAZING.  We had the truck back by 3pm.  Several friends made it possible and my dad came up and mowed our lawn this morning, since we have zero outdoor tools.  I did manage to capture some pictures of the moving messiness inside the house.

Tim and Dad setting up the dining room table

From front door looking in

Kitchen and breakfast nook

Other side of living room looking at front door and dining room

Guest room

Master bedroom

Bonus room/office

Homeowners At Last

Remember when I told you about our crazy house hunting adventures?  Well the craziness is over!  We closed on our house today, are officially homeowners and the new adventure of being homeowners begins! 

Chattanooga Day 6 - Rock City

Our final day in Chattanooga, we headed back to the Terminal Brewhouse because I had to have one more awesome root beer float.  Then we hit up some antique stores and the habitat for humanity re-store where we found some random house stuff and a very cool frame that I'm sure will show up in a future post.  After that we headed on to Rock City.  Rock City is one of Tim's clients and they comped us some tickets - THANK YOU ROCK CITY!  We had so much fun.

Rocky the Gnome - their mascot

This was one of the neatest places I've been.  Even though it was outside, I was so comfortable because it was shady and cool.  It was so serene.  It felt like a different world.

Gnome Valley

There are gnomes everywhere at Rock City.  It is quite entertaining.  While in Chattanooga, we found a coupon for 75% off of the gnome of the month.  So OF COURSE we had to get one.

Us in front of Mushroom Rock

Flowers growing in the rocks

They had signs with quotes all throughout the park

View from the top

You can see seven different states from the top of Rock City

You can't read the sign above my head, but it reads "Fat Man Squeeze".  Yes, the pregnant lady made it through.

More gnomes :)

After lunch at Tony's, we headed home.  The trip was awesome!  I highly recommend Chattanooga for a vacation spot.  And the 2 or so hour ride home was a perk as well.

Chattanooga Day 5 - Cloudland Canyon

We headed back into Georgia for part of the trip because we have always wanted to go to Cloudland Canyon and since we were so close, we just had to go.  I had planned a full day of hiking, fishing, disc golf, etc.  I woke up that morning feeling pretty icky.  And after the drive through the mountains (a drive that would make anyone nauseous but especially a pregnant lady), I was feeling extra icky.  So we found the only Asian restaurant around for miles (Asian food is my comfort food when I'm sick), and nursed my queasy tummy back to almost normal, and headed on.  We finally made it to Cloudland Canyon and ventured out to the disc golf course.  We had anticipated the course to go through the woods and therefore be very shady... but unfortunately it went beside the woods and was very much in the blazing sun.

Several holes in, we had a little bit of a set-back...that I managed to capture on my phone :D  That is Tim, staring at his frisbee...stuck way up in the tree.

"Oh frisbee, please come down"

Bright green frisbee, top right of the picture, stuck really well

Solution: throw another frisbee at frisbee stuck in the tree

It felt like a good 30 mins (but probably wasn't) and took several exhausting attempts at throwing sticks, rocks, and a frisbee at the frisbee stuck in the tree, but he did finally get it down.  However, one strong throw on the very next hole... sent the same green (a.k.a. same color as everything around us) frisbee into the very, very dense woods... and despite our searching...was gone forever.  

At this point, about half way through the course, the blazing sun got the better of me, and we just had to quit.  We got cooled off in the little park store where we replaced our frisbee - with a brightly colored on that was NOT green.  We found a very short hike on the map that lead to an overlook, and headed out there... only to find that the scenic overlook that was advertised to be simply fabulous...

...was not that much different from the bog behind our apartments in college.  I laughed because of the ridiculousness of it all.  On the hike back UP the hill from the "scenic overlook", I came up with several names for it including "the most disappointing overlook ever" and "beautiful overlook - psych!" just to amuse myself.

Even though we were completely worn out, we did manage to get to this...

...now isn't this more like it?...

The pictures really don't do it justice.  We have plans to go back one day and do some serious hiking and camping... when I'm not pregnant.  

We headed back to Chattanooga for dinner at 212 Market Restaurant and finished the day at Rembrandt's (the coffee/dessert place we frequented several times and would be the cause of me gaining some major poundage if we had one near us at home).

212 Market Restaurant - courtesy of google images

Rembrandt's - courtesy of google images