JEEP SLEDDING

Here are the first pictures of the upcome sports rage! I had lots of fun sledding 3 miles or so for about and hour, but wow am I sore today!

Attention students:

Don't try this at home. It is not safe.

(but yes it was loads of fun)

On Sunday the snow continued. There was not much in Frogtown or Murrayville,

so we went north again.

We thought about going skiing in Maggie Valley, but did not leave in enough time to make it up there due to road conditions. We had breakfast at Ma Gooches, a great southern breakfast, but not as good as the Wagon Wheel in Dahlonega. The then headed toward Suches, a small town in Union County. We went towards Wolf Pen Gap then took a Forest Service road over Duncan Ridge to end up at Coopers Creek. The road had only been traveled by a few people that day and we only met 5 or 6 cars on the 15 mile road. I think we created a new Olympic sport along the way – “Jeep Sledding”.

Kelly eating snow

Saturday across North Georgia

Our Saturday morning began with a stop in Helen then we went up by Lake Burton, and across the mountain toward Hiawasse. Along that road we stopped to play on top of a hill.

Opps she fell off again

Steve throwing a snowball at the camera.

My grandmother told me the "true" story behind this sign. There was a Cherokee Indian princess that disappears and was never found. Her name was "Fallen Rock". There are still many signs in the mountians hunting for her today. Maybe Steve and I can make it our goal in life to find her.

Last Monday

These are pictures from Blood Mountain Last Monday. Steve could not go with me due to work so I had to write him a message.

SNOW!!!

Well we did not have a large amount of snow here in Frogtown or Murrayville, but Steve and I hunted and found snow all weekend. Yesterday we went to Rabun, Towns, and Union counties, just north of us, and today we went to the large historic town of Suches, GA in Union County. We had a blast all weekend. I will post pictures of snow fight, sleding and the new sport of "jeep sleding" as soon as I get the laptop hooked up to DLS (dial-up really stinks)!

No Snow for Dahlonega

Well we rode four wheelers on Saturday with my uncle. It was really cold and fun. We rode along the old railroad tracks that lead from the Copper Mine area in Lumpkin County. Monday Steve, my students and myself were so excited about snow, yet we were highly disappointed. We only had snowflakes and I had to drive to Blood Mountain to find “real” snow. We are hoping for snow this weekend, but I am not getting my hopes too high.




A Week of Art
This was written and should have been posted on Saturday. (Sorry for the delay)

Steve and I have had the pleasure of attending 3 art reception in as many evenings. Thursday we attended the North Georgia College & State University’s reception for the Art Educators exhibit. An 8th grade student and I both had art on exhibit. Friday we went to Emory’s educators evening in the Carlos Museum. This was the first time Steve had been to Emory and saw their ancient art collection and it was a nice refresher for me. We had planned to eat dinner at Everybody’s Pizza, but the refreshments at the gallery were so good, we were not hungry afterward. We did make a stop at the Dekalb Farmers Market for Basmati rice and other spices.
Saturday we went to the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve. We were both a bit disappointed. It was too cold for some of the animals to come out of their shelters. I was also upset to find out that it is not longer a place for rescued animals, but instead they are breeding animals. The animals there seemed very well fed and healthy, but I thought more could have been done to approve their habitat. Last night we went to Molly’s art reception (the 4th grade student that is going to have surgery next week). It was really cool for such a young child to have her very own solo art show. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers. See her website for additional information about her.Today is really cold and we are hoping for snow. Steve is tuning up the four-wheelers and we are going riding after church today and maybe (with my fingers crossed) tomorrow in the snow!

Tinkerbelle and the Big Chicken

We saw Tinkerbelle again and I got to see the Big Chicken. Who would have thought I could have that much luck in one day. As I was going to pick up Steve’s mom he called to tell me there was a monkey from Chestatee Wildlife Preserve at the local produce stand. I got there before Steve did and was delighted to see it was Tinkerbelle. She has grown so much since we saw her last. I think she really likes Steve. She wanted to stay right with him, and was fixated on him when she was with someone else. I did not play with her that much. She has little control over her very active bowels, and I did not want to go all day with “monkey poop” on me or worse yet, in my hair. Steve and I are really thinking about volunteering at the Preserve this summer. I think it would be really cool to be around all the animals and of course photograph them.
Steve’s adventure continued with my family for the rest of the day. He shot pistols at the river and hung out with my dad. I spent the day with his mom. She has the energy of a ten year old and is non stop.

She had been to Hiawassee early yesterday morning and was ready for us to leave by noon.

I thought she knew directions to Atlanta Sewing, but she only had a slight clue. We got on Roswell Road (Hwy 120), but did not turn on Piedmont Road as we should have. So we ended up at the Big Chicken. I was really excited. I do not think that I have ever seen this Atlanta landmark in person. She was not exited, but very stressed that we would not find the store before they closed. We got directions from a great convenient store worker and then had no problems. After some addition challenges I got her computer software to work with her sewing machine, and now she is ready to digitize and sew.

This week in 2006

Froggie really enjoyed her first week. She went to school and hung out with me several day. I started going to the gym again on Monday. I thought I better try to lose weight for the wedding/honeymoon. Last night Steve and I watched the 40 Year Old Virgin. Steve liked it, but I thought it was funny, but a bit crude. Yeah, I would rather watch Office Space. Steve and I thought we were going hiking today, but instead I am going to take his mom to Atlanta this afternoon to pick up the sewing software for her new laptop. It will be fun as I also need to make a few stops in the area. I am not sure what Steve is doing. He said something about taking the boat to the lake. That would be a good ideas since we have not used the boat since June.

An Addition to the Family

This weekend, Steve and I had a new addition to the family – Froggie White-Bryant. Froggie
Tut and Froggie
She was born 1-21-06 at Build a Bear at North Point Mall. She weighed 13 oz and was 17 inches long. We made her a fishing frog with feetless waders(I am really worried about her feet getting cold and wet, but Steve assures me that she will be fine). She says “I love you! I love you!” She has been on all the Kelly and Steve adventures this weekend –shopping for Steve shorts and going out to eat for moms birthday. As you can see Tut is not sure he likes his new stuffed frog sister.

Happy New Years

I am finally feeling much better. I got my new group of kids this week. I think I can work well with them. I met with the florist this week and have scheduled all the flower stuff for teh wedding. Yesterday I went bridesmaid dress shopping. We found black tea lenght dresses at JC Penneys in Buford. I also found shoes to wear with my wedding dress at the mall. I am glad to be accomplishing so much so early this year.
I am excited that I do not have school tomorrow and am hoping that Steve and I can go hiking after he works in the morning.


This is a blurb that I had written on Monday and did not post.

No fun! I have been sick all weekend and could not go to work today. I have had a fever ached, pains and sore throat. Needless to say that I had no fun this weekend. I guess it has been over a week since I last “blogged”. We did nothing for new years. We thought about going to see the peach drop, but then I knew it would be so last when I go home. We had planed to watch the apple drop on t.v. at my house, but Steve got sick and had to go home. So Steve slept as the new years entered and I went to target to buy more Christmas decorations (now at 75% off). It really sucked not being together at new years. I hope we are never apart again. I returned to school last Monday for two teacher workdays and the kids did not begin until Wednesday. I have been working on wedding stuff. We are going this weekend to pick out bridesmaid dresses. I also have an appointment with the florist this week. I booked a photographer before Christmas, and Steve is working on the rehearsal dinner and honeymoon(Belize?)!