In the past two month (almost)...

Well I promised to do better blogging this year, ok so that has not worked so well thus far. I can not believe that it has been almost two months since my last post. I am out of school for the summer. Last Friday was the last day for teachers. School will resume (for teachers) on Aug. 9. This is one of the longest summers we have had in a few years. It is nice to have the extra time, but will miss my ten days of pay next year. (LC teachers along with many others are being furloughed ten days next school year. )

Well back to what we have been doing...

We hung out at Unicoi State park for the FFF (Federation of Fly Fisherman [ and women] ). Steve is always trying out new toys. He was testing a Winston Rod or something with "Buff" Randy.

For our fourth anniversary on June 3, we had dinner at Mellow Mushroom.

They must have the best pizza ever!

I picked Steve daisies and day lilies and left them at Tritts for him.

He questioned why could all of our wedding flowers be found in road side ditches....

I will let him wonder for a while.

Ok This is not a great picture, but Steve has a fatty thing (yes that is a medical term ) just below his right shoulder blade. My sister noticed it Memorial weekend. We are in the process of determining what type of surgery he is going to opt for. Good news is it is really no big deal (well at least for me it is not).

Elk in the Smokey Mountains, just outside of Cherokee, NC.

Deer in Cades Cove.

Most of the folks in Cades Cove were illiterate.

A turkey in Cades Cove.

A bear in Cades Cove.

White trillium in the Smokey Mountains

Kent Edmonds giving me a mini lesson, to improve my casting skills.

The legendary Lefty Kreh.

Townsend, TN

Lefty teaching a lesson

Look I caught a fish and Steve did not!

Striper (Stripped Bass) eye

Striper tail

Steve and his baby Striper on the southern part of the Chestatee River, before heading into Lake Lanier.

Old metal bridge on 60S

Here Fishy, Fishy, Fishy!

We have been playing with the underwater camera...

the release...

Moonrise over the Chestatee.

Steve and Ted striper fishing!

Hummm, where to cast...

Steve's parents were Grand Marshals in the Murrayville Day parade.

I have two baby tomato's!

My little garden. It has seven tomato plants, a few pepper plants and a squash plant.

My view Memorial Day weekend.

I love my ENO hammock!

Steve grilled jerked chicken.

Oh the grill! Gotta love FIRE!

Yay for river time!

Memorial for the white pine.

May its spirit and memory live on!

The white pine at the river was dead and Dean was afraid the top would fall out and hurt someone, so they cut it down.

We went to a cookout at the airport and went up for a short ride.

Mount Yonah

This was the first time I had been flying in almost a year.

441 near Baldwin

Ted had us over for dinner, afterwards I was so stuffed I had to use him hammock.

Steve trout fishing

The first snake we saw in early spring. It was a black snake hanging out at our driveway.

Wow, really two months

I can not believe it has been two months since my last post. I thought I would do much better this year with posting since I was finished with college ... looks like I was wrong. During those two months we have had a great time in the snow, at the beach and in the sun. We have had many adventures and I will try to document many of them below. We also had some stressful times. Steve's dad spend the night in the hospital due to chest pains, luckily there was no problems, but the Dr's advised him to "walk" the 5 flights of stairs at the hospital instead of "running" the five flights. Moms uncle Herbert had heart surgery and spent almost two weeks in the hospital. At school I have been working afterschool, which makes for many long (10) hour days. We will be standardize testing in the upcoming weeks so the students and teachers have all been quite stressed. Steve is still fishing with Tritt's Outfitters and working with Daniel a day or so each week.

But now that I am finished with my spill, let me show you some of the fun adventures we have had.

Lacy, Steve's little sister.

Snuffy White, my little brother.

Tut, Tut hanging out at the house.

Snuffy not working with the camera.

Snuffy

Winter 09/10 snow

What a beautiful morning.

Clouds from the lower Chestatee on 4/17

Wow Steve! What a HUGE bass!

Our Saturday kayak trip on the lower Chestatee.

Lake Dahlonega

Steve casting on Lake Dahlonega

Work it Steve

The other side of Lake Dahlonega

Steve, Kelly and Maggie at her first birthday party!

Wow I can not believe she is one.

She loved her "Uncle Steve Picture Book!"

Sometime Tut can be so, so loving.

He was resting his paws on my legs all the way home from Frogtown.

Tut at Papa's River last weekend.

He loved his Mommie time!

Tut almost never gets in the water, but he was loving it on the spring Sunday.

Nanny Ruth and her brother (older) Herbert

He had heart surgery a few weeks ago and is living with my parents until he is well enough to go back home. He is 88 and still lives alone.

Tut and Herbert

I took the hammock to the barn for some rest during family dinners.

Spring on Lake Lanier

I picked up limbs and sticks that had fallen in the yard over the winter.

That has provided for several bonfires.

Nana and I went to the Run-a-Way Fish House in Baldwin for her 83rd birthday dinner.

A balanced egg on the first day of spring 2010.

The "K2-10" bug.

Hand dyed and designed my Kelly!

I am betting this one will catch some trout!

We have made several trips to Steve's favorite hang-out in ALT... The Fish Hawk.

I was sick for a few days after spring break, so Fish and I curled up on the bed all day.

Tut has made a couple of trips to Frogtown in the Jeep.

He loves his trips, but is getting a bit to old to jump in and out of the Jeep, so I think from now on he will be riding in the truck or trailblazer, not the Jeep.

Cameron and Nana

You can so see the love in her face.

Steve and I went to a 70's themed birthday party. I got to break out my dads old baseball shirt and Steve wore his Mickey Mouse shirt. Needless to say we were NOT the best dressed there.

Sometimes, Fish just needs her teeth brushed.