Days 70, 69, and 68. Timo completes a 15K!

You know, you just can't do big projects every single day - especially in this STUPID weather.  However, Mr. Lee is here working tirelessly on the inside of the smokehouse.  He has replaced floor boards to hopefully help people not fall through even though he did yesterday. oops. So this is a lot of what I'm seeing out of the back door.  Before and Afters to come when he's finished.

{cords for power tools, new boards, and oldies}

This weekend was yucky too, but that didn't stop ole Timo from competing in the Huff 'n Puff on the Bluff 15K in Sheffield.  It was a disgusting day.  They all had to run in the rain - gross. 

Here he is a little anxious right before his first race.

After the first mile and a half.  He did not smile at me as he ran past - he says its because he just figured out he was going too fast - not going to end well if he kept it up.

About to cross the finish line!! I'm yelling like crazy, and you can tell he's so excited.

After its over.  Whew.

You can see stats and such on his blog - Run.Ride.Live.

Today's To Do:

1. Address more invitations

2.Purchase more stamps

Timo is such a cool customer.

Mr. Timothy Wakefield has decided to start contributing to a REALLY neat charity while doing what he loves - being active outside.  The more miles he racks up, the more dough he forks out.  Pretty neat - you should check it out and see if that is something you would be interested in doing on your own too or help timo donate.  Soles for souls.
Timo's page (for reference): http://www.soles4soulsfundraising.org/timothy_wakefield

Have a great day, y'all!

Poutin' Thursdays

Scouter the Pouter will be posting every Thursday (unless she's too busy hunting squirrels), so please remember to read her posts as if a three year old with a lisp is speaking.  She has a speech impediment, and its just too difficult to spell everything the way she says it.

Hewwooohh.  Gud Mohning!! 
A few months ago my mom, dad, and gwandma went on a walk to the park where a man named Mr. Rob kept taking pictures of mom and dad.  I really didn't like that man very much - I don't like new people a lot.  He didn't take enough pictures of me, so while he was taking pictures of mom and dad, I hunted all the wiley squirrels that live in parks.  They are really crazy there, so I jerked my gwandma around everywhere.  But thats okay, because chasing squirrels is the most fun ever and I'm sure everyone else likes it as much as I do.  Last week, my mom said the pictures of me were in, and that I look beautiful.  Boy was she right.  I'm so cute!!

This is my mom, my dad, and me there in the middle at the bottom.  There were a lot of really wierd smells back in that alley - I was in heaven.  I'm smiling because gwandma kept giving me tweeets!  She loves me. 

I didn't look really all that happy here because I don't really trust Mr. Rob that much - he's a stranger.  I was growling.  Mom and dad were really embarrassed.  Sorry.

This is my favorite picture of myself.  I look verrry beautiful and furry here.

Thanks Mr. Rob for making me look so puppy-licious.

Back in the swang of thangs

Good morning all!
I would like to say that I am sooo happy to be back in the swing of things.  I finished the showroom job last week.  I wish that I had slept in the showroom because I could have gotten more work done; however, I doubt everyone else would have appreciated my unshowered scent.  This week holds a lot of fun wedding things.

1. MY DRESS IS IN!!  Smeller and I are going down on Tuesday to try her on, and see how she fits.  I'm SO excited y'all.
2. Mr. Bruce is coming by on Thursday to walk the grounds with me, and figure out what we are going to need to rent for the big day.
3. I'm going to slam Timo if he doesn't do the things I've written down for him to do on his wedding list.  (This might or might not be a joke - stay tuned).
4. Going to help Carrie-Berry pick out bridesmaid dresses on Saturday.  Whoop-Whoop!!  I can't wait to see her in her WEDDING GOWN!!!
SO! That is going to be my week in a nutshell, but I'll get back to you on pictures, etc. from the past two week's hiatus.

I'll pass on the fruitcake.

There are so many things that go hand in hand with Christmas that are so fun, like:

1. Christmas carols
2. My mom's pumpkin cranberry bread
3. Decorating the tree
4. Laurie's birthday (hehe)
5. Watching Timo get way too excited about eggnog

But with the good comes the bad...some things I'm not crazy about:

1. Wal-mart (it's a flippin' slaughterhouse)
2. Fruitcake
3. Too many dirty santa parties
4. Its a Wonderful Life (An entire box of Kleenex later, it's not such a wonderful life)
5. The song, Christmas Shoes

But all in all, this is the second most wonderful time of the year because Jesus Christ was born, our Savior.  He saved us all from our sins, and that's why Easter is the most important holiday for me.  All the fun traditions we celebrate are wonderful and important, and a great time to be together with your family.  Below are some of the fun things that Timothy and I did to decorate his house for Christmas.  Mom and I aren't doing a lot of decorating this year - we have too much junk in the house already (I know that's a terrible excuse).

So... we got off to a rough start.  I decided to jazz up the mantel with Jackson Vine and Magnolia leaves.  EPIC FAIL.  Wild Kingdom was inside our house.

Okay, I worked with the extremely difficult Jackson Vine, and it ended up looking okay!

I go outside, to check on Timothy stringing up the lights (because evidently its a nighttime Wakefield family tradition? I didn't know that...Seems like a cold tradition to me.)  Mr. Wakefield was so cute draping the lights "Just so".  Too bad they alllll went out as soon as he finished.... Sad day..

Cutie..

So.. Timo is outside, and I am inside decorating the Christmas tree.(worried that he is going to electrocute himself)   I think it turned out pretty good!

Scout said " Ehh, take it or leave it..I'm going to go find some cookies you left out"

I  hope y'all enjoyed the Christmas pics.  Here is a picture of Scout from the SEC Championship.  Yes, that's right.  She does have red toenails.  Roll Tide!

December 1st. It's official.

The turkey has been eaten.  The Bama game has been won (by the skin of our teeth). The peppermint chocolate chip milkshakes are a-flowin'. - You should really try one from Chick-fil-A.
Hey guys, it's CHRISTMASTIME!!!!!

Sorry no posts last week, I was at Timo's house getting ready for Thanksgiving.  Wow, I never knew how much work went into it!  We cleaned, painted, cooked, and partied.  What happened was Mom came over from the Boro with cranberry relish and casseroles, Timo's Mom and Dad brought the turkey and dressing, and Luke brought his appetite.  Everyone had the best time!  So fun.  I hope this becomes an annual tradition.  Maybe next year turkey and togas?  Just a thought..

We also had fun having a lot of our friends over for the Alabama/Auburn game. We missed you friends that couldn't make it!  For those of you who were not there, listen to this little story.  Timothy pays a stupid amount of money on Direct TV because of his HD sports package.  He has it sent to his brand new television in the accomodatingly large living room.  Because of all the bells and whistles this combo has, the satellite takes longer to project onto this particular television - about 7 seconds.  By the end of the game, every single boy that came to the party was piled up in Timo's bedroom watching the game because it is 7 seconds faster on the blurry tv.   Boys are dumb sometimes.
Prime example: Cousin Eddy (a little Christmas humor)

I wish I had pictures from this past week, but we were all so busy I didn't even think about taking pictures!! Boo!! Sorry!  But the good news is that Scout told me she was going to put up a new post a little later tonight.  Until then, here is a picture of me and Mom at Mamma Mia last week.  We had a GREAT time!

Love you Mom!!

Surprise Registry

Mr. Timo came for a quick visit today, and we started our first registry!! How fun is that?  We didn't do china patterns and crystal, but just a few accessories and Christmas stuff for now.  The first wedding-y kind of thing that we have done together.  Lots more fun to come! 

Here is a picture of him from his tournament/birthday.

24

This weekend was sweet Timo's birthday.  He has been here for 24 years now; how crazy it is to think I've known him for over a fifth of his life.  Its fun to know that the plan is to be a-knowin' him for many more years. 

Since it was my weekend to stay at home to help with Mama Sisk, I wasn't able to see him on the big day.  (I feel so badly about it.) Thanks soccer moms and soccer kids for making him feel special - they gave him a cake, sang him "Happy Birthday" (numerous times from what I heard), and told him how great he is (how true).

Timo's favorite cake is a pineapple upside-down cake, and of course his mom made it for him on Saturday.  I'm sad I missed out on that; let me tell you, Sherr-bear's pineapple UD cakes are the bomb!!  Timothy's mom is always so thoughtful - I'm so thankful that I am going to be part of another loving family.  Mr. Timo and I are a very blessed couple, you know?

Mr. Timo,

I'm sorry that I missed your birthday. Sad day.  Next year, we will have a ginormous happy birthday shindig for your quarter-life celebration!!!  I love you very much, and promise to bring you a birthday present when I visit this weekend.  Don't get your hopes up for a football video game because I'm not that kind of a girl.

Miss you Miss you Miss you,
Love you Love you Love you,
Katie

P.S. I bought some dining room chairs for us for ten bucks! Whoop Whoop!

Grateful for Today

I'm so excited! and late... I was supposed to leave out of Scottsboro riiiighhht.... now.  The reason I'm leaving is that I'm going to visit Mr. Timo today!! Oh well, Timo will wait.  The bad news is he is sick, BUT he's going to get a shot in a little while.  Poor little guy...I'm sure he won't be too sick to watch the football games tomorrow..just a feeling.

Yesterday I drove around and took some pictures of Scottsboro with the changing leaves.. Ahh.  Sometimes when I'm stuck in this house I feel so isolated and depressed, but for the most part I do feel blessed to live here in this beautiful place - here's the proof:

Wow, how beautiful is this?!  Thank you Lord.

This is the littlest pond ever on my street.

And my backyard.  If you'll look closely you can see the outhouse!

Timo's Team

So I think I've mentioned that Mr. Timo is Coach Timo this soccer season.  He coaches the 11-12 year old Shoals Strikers.  They are CRAZY dangerous.  In fact, last weekend they came in second in the Huntsville tournament I so proudly attended.  Next year, you're going down Pulaski!

Viva Las Vegas!

I made it back from Vegas - and the one day I was able to spend having fun was GREAT! Timothy was able to play while I worked the first two days, and he had so much fun...I don't really know what he was doing, but he was having fun.

We definetely want to go back sometime, and stay for longer than we did. While we were there, we went to the Cirque du Soleil Beatles LOVE show. It was AMAZING. I can't even describe what it was like, because it was really like nothing I've ever seen!! I wish we had pictures, but NO PHOTOGRAPHY PLEASE!

Here is a picture of us after we sat down after a HOT walk. It was over 100 degrees every day we were there - BLAZING.



We watched "The Hangover" a few months ago, so we were expecting our trip to be CRRAAZY, and Timothy did try to make it his bachelor party all by himself; however, the craziest things we encountered were taxi drivers. Here are some pictures of Caesar's Palace - like the Hangover. When we first walked into the lobby, a Mariachi band was playing with at least one hundred people gathered round with people dancing. So exciting.



It was a great trip.

Birthdays and Las Vegas

Good morning. This past weekend was Art in the Park at home in Scottsboro, and that, to me, always signifies the beginning of Fall. Well, that and football season, but I know that this is the last warm weather event that I'll go to before crisp breezes and pumpkin pies start turning up. One of my favorite quotes is "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower". Don't you LOVE that? I don't remember who said it, but I'm sure it was someone deep and thoughtful.

Today is my grandmother's 95th birthday. Yes, that's right 9-5. Can you imagine living 95 years? Think about all the things that she has seen and done in that lifetime. Mama Sisk is such a sweet, strong woman. She may not be physically strong anymore, but she is just as strong in spirit. Here is a picture of her the day we cut her cake (we brought the cake home early).


I'm so happy she's been here for me in my lifetime so long. Being 95 and knowing you have led a long life can I'm sure give you a sense of accomplishment, but can you imagine what it feels like knowing that soon you'll be with God in Heaven? It seems like it would be a surreal, scary, joyous feeling. Mama Sisk has said she knows she will be gone soon, but she has a sense of contentment from what I can tell. What a wonderful lady.

Speaking of death, I am DEATHLY scared of flying. I don't mean to be such a baby - I try to be hardcore, but guess what - I'm not. I'm flying out to Las Vegas with Timo (of course he somehow got off of work to go) on 11 Sept - this Friday. 5 hour flight. I hope I don't get sick on the flight - I'm a nervous wreck. I don't know who reads this, but please say a little prayer for 1. safe flight there and back, and 2. no sickness on the flight. Thank you so much.

I also have to show you how sweet my two families are. For my birthday, I didn't get just one birthday cake - I got TWO! Mom and I picked up this chocolate Southern Lady cake from Edgar's Bakery in Birmingham when we were down there looking at wedding dresses.


Then, Doc (Timothy's Dad) gave me a strawberry cake. How sweet is that!

After all this cake, I don't know how I'm going to fit into a wedding dress! haha!

I'll leave you with a few pictures of Coach Wakefield a few weeks ago when his Shoals Strikers beat the Huntsville Rockets. Go Strikers!

Foreeeever

Ok y'all. I was going to have my second real blog today, but I found the best processional EVER. I could never do this, but I laughed so hard I cried. WATCH IT!