Our first Thanksgiving.....

Well since Tim and I are so not the traditional sort of couple it makes sense that our holidays would represent that. We did not get to spend the day with our families (which was really sad) and we decided not to make the traditional turkey dinner. When I asked Tim what he would like to eat today he said he didn't know. So I asked him what his favorite meal was......are you ready for this? Lasagna and cheesecake.....that is his favorite meal. So that's what I made. From scratch in case your wondering. :) I didn't really like the lasagna, but Tim loved it and the cheesecake was pretty good. I guess some would think that it's odd, but not us. It really was a good day. After lunch we watched a movie and then went on a walk at the nature preserve. All in all it's been a great day. We have much to be grateful for.

Love,
Tim and Jess.

You may be asking yourself what the? Well your not alone. This little guy is all over our town. Not sure why. The best I can tell he is the town mascot. Sexy eh?

Places we go and things we see....

Saturday we were able to go to the temple. Sadly the Atlanta temple is closed, it will be opening again in January. However the South Carolina temple is open so that is where we went. I was told it was a 2 hour trip. For everybody's knowledge....it is almost a 4 hour trip with traffic. However....I am grateful to be able to go to the temple.

Life

Tim says: My job with UPS is seasonal. But I am hoping that I get to stay on, it's a possibility if I work hard and I am working hard. I like it though. My driver is a nice guy. I am good. I am working on making a horse out of origami. It's really hard. Love everybody.
Tim


Jess says: My week has not been exciting. Still no job. Blah. Maybe I am unhirable (I don't think that's a word because when I right clicked on it the word that popped up was undesirable. Interesting). On happier notes tonight John Bythway is speaking and I believe that we will be attending. I rather enjoy some of his books so I think that it will be pretty good. Tomorrow we are going to the temple. Now I am excited and not so excited. The Atlanta Temple is closed so we have to drive several hours to get to the South Carolina Temple and to be honest I am more than a little tired of traveling. I don't know how you do it Beth! Also Tim got NEW glasses. He looks wonderful. I will post a picture of him in those snazzy new things soon. I think that's all the excitement in our neck of the woods......Love you all......
Jess

Look what we found....

Tim found this in our apartment. Instead of killing it he decided to look at it since he thought it was interesting. After taking several pictures he then released it outside. I was all for him killing it. I mean look at that bug! What is it?

We love this dog. Even Tim.
He is too cute not to take a picture of. Plus this makes him look deep in thought. In reality he was staring at the dog making fun of her.
She is cheesing for the camera.
No dogs were harmed in the making of this picture.
Another attempt to be creative. But this was a really pretty place. Not sure if I captured that or not.
They were chasing something. At least that's what Tim said....

I thought Tim was just taking a picture of the dog....I guess not. Cheese!
Isn't he the cutest thing ever!
Greetings!

Tim and Bridget on a mission to find the last dog that was in the forest.....
We did not find the dog. Just lots of pretty trees.....
And the creek.....
My attempt at trying to be artsy.....I'm not sure it worked.

This beautiful dog is Bridget. we were babysitting her until her parents get home tomorrow.

I love water. Not sure what my deal is. But we followed this creek most of the way.

This was so much fun!

Tim was in this picture as well, but his face is weird so we cropped him out. You can still kind of see what he was doing though. What the??


The picture on the left is us just cheesing for the camera

Which way should we go????

I think Tim had more fun posing than going through the trail. :)

There were a few of me as well......

Nature Preserve

We took a field trip to the nature preserve. It was really cool and I got some good pictures of Tim and Bridget.

Our Life Lately.....

Tim: We went to Kentucky last weekend it was good. I got a job working temporarily at UPS. I am in the process of registering for school. Things are good and I am good. Love and miss everybody. Tim


Jess: Kentucky was so beautiful, so of course I forgot my camera. My grandma had fun seeing us. She likes Tim more than me, but who doesn't really? We got to see some friends which was a lot of fun and we had a safe trip home. We did get pulled over about 40 min from home. Our back lights had gone out and we had to have our hazards on, that and Tim was swerving. He still maintains that he wasn't, but the Officer apparently had a different view. But it was okay we didn't get a ticket so it worked out. Life is good, I am still looking for a job, I am so happy for Tim. He is happy to be working. Tonight we are feeding the missionaries. Not really looking forward to that....these guys are kinda of annoying. Oh well. Love and miss everybody.
Jessica

Our first week...

Tim says: Everything is good. I love everybody back home. Church was good. Better than the one in Mesa because here Sacrament is first. Not really anything exciting to say. Just looking for a job and about to get registered for school for next semester. Love everyone. Tim


Jessica says: We have had a wonderful week. The weather is wonderful! I absolutely love the trees, currently they have that transitional look about them so they are all multicolored, its quite stunning. Church was actually good. I think the ward is huge, but Tim says that the one back in Mesa is bigger. He's probably right. I love being here, they have a dog that I get to play with so that's exciting. We are planning to go visit my grandma again soon and I cannot wait. Well that's all for now. We are safe and happy. Hope that everybody that we love can say they same thing. Blessings.....Jess

Yep we are a pretty snazzy looking couple!!!

This lovely thing got us through the trip. It's also telling us that we only have 247 miles to go until we got to my grandma. That seems like a lot...but we started with close to 2,000 and we were getting desperate for the trip to end. This is also around the time we stopped taking pictures and started taking videos....but for some reason we cannot get them to upload. Sorry.

Ummm there were bridges. This was relatively small. But when we crossed the Mississippi River I'm not going to lie I may have cried.

I just really like trees.

This was the sunrise going through Arkansas. I loved it.

Even 8 AM cannot change Timmy's cheerfulness. It really is a sin to be this happy(and hairy). But I love him!

I didn't take any pictures of Texas....use your imagination because it looked like the two I posted of Arizona and New Mexico. Also there are no pictures of Oklahoma because we passed through that at night. We are entering Arkansas at about 8 AM. At this point the scenery has started to change.

New Mexico and the windmills also happened to be around the time I got bored....really bored. Luckily there was only 15 hours left of the trip after all of our stops!

I was trying to take a picture of the windmills. I doubt you can see them. This is New Mexico about 4 hours from Texas.....I think.

This is us leaving Arizona. I believe about two hours after this picture we entered New Mexico. Which surprisingly enough looked exactly like Arizona!

This however is what I look like. Uggg it's so not pretty...come to think of it...why I even put this on is beyond me. I guess so that when I do look beautiful it is appreciated.....

Photos of the trip!!!

We only drove for a couple of hours Sunday night before I forced Tim to pull over at the nearest motel. We then got up really early to travel onward. This is what Tim looked like.