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Harper was napping in his chair by the front window when I woke him up to show him a bold prairie dog snacking on our front stoop.

Let’s just say that Harper was excited. I figured that out by the whimpering bordering on hyper-ventilating that he started to do, along with running around the house stopping only to stare out at the little critter at every window.

my word.

Need I say more?

(my mom suffering a birthday at work…

Thought everyone might like to see what my sis’ dog looks like. Here she is at the puppy stage, 6 months and 1 year.

Chena’s Stages

Ok, now i know that i am awful at updating this blog, so now you don’t have to wait to see what’s going on with us! I have started a myspace account, so now you can just go there. i didn’t want to at first, but it is seriously cool. you can stay in touch so much easier than email or phone and you can see what’s going on in everyone’s lives.

in the words of immortal deb,

“love it, love IT”

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My goodness. How three months fly by! I apologize to everyone out there, although there may not be anyone after all this time of nada from the rogers..so sorry, I will try to keep up with the blog from now on.

My incentive to grace you with my eloquent prose today is in the form of a dashing young man by the name of Elijah Hazard Perry, the new little baby boy born to two of my bestest friends in the whole world, Valerie and Joshua Perry. Here he is in all his glory, although quite a bit bigger than this now as this was taken some three weeks ago. (I know, I know, I’m behind the times.)

Handsome little Eli…

So…back up and running. Won’t keep you in suspense for so long again, promise. One bit of news from the rogers’ front: Our car was totaled while quietly sitting and minding it’s own business in the parking lot of our apartments. Freak accident that involved one crazed girl smashing the gas pedal instead of the more widely accepted pedal-the brake. Which left our car with $8000 worth of damage which equals more money for the insurance company if they buy it off us and fix it up and resell it for themselves. Hmmm. We did get something good out of it though, we realized that we can hold out for a few months with just one car since Josh has a work van. Good news all around the table, just depends how you look at it. Really impressive, though, I should add, since the car decided this and not ourselves considering I wasn’t even awake when all this went down outside.

Josh is telling me to get off the computer…sorry!

“My soul exults the Lord, for He has had regard for the humble state of his bond slave. For behold, from this time on all generations will count me blessed.”[Luke,I, 39-56]

I posted a link to Artcyclopedia’s Advent Calendar they have on the web. It is a beautiful renaissance painting calendar with great daily articles about the Christmas story. Check it out every day to really get the spirit of the season, I know I need a daily dose of it…or hourly :). This painting is The Visitation by Domenico Ghirlandaio and I think is absolutely gorgeous.

Josh and I went to get our Christmas tree on Sunday. At first we went to a Christmas tree farm because I had this grand idea of picking out the perfect tree and chopping it down ourselves, thereby creating a wonderful Christmas tradition that we can continue with our children someday. Well. That still may be a great tradition to start, but apparently not in Georgia. The trees that grow native to the wonderful Georgian clay (smirk) are not Christmas tree material. At all. They are wimpy little things that wouldn’t hold up a tissue let alone a conglomerate of beautiful gold and silver and red ball ornaments that I currently have in my collection. Seriously flimsy plants you might call them.

But we got our perfect little Douglas fir specially shipped in from the North Carolinan mountains at a perfectly decent little roadside stand off 20. I love it. I love it because I get to decorate it. Josh loves it when I put the lights on myself. But he did help me a whole lot and I thank him since I know that it isn’t his most favorite thing to do. Here’s a picture of our little piece of Christmas magic:

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I know it’s been a long time since I posted anything, but my life has been busy these last few weeks. Just a little synopsis, Kristin and I went to see U2 when they were in Atlanta last weekend. I knew our seats wouldn’t be very good, but I was a little unprepared for the last row of the highest section that we found ourselves in when we got there. I mean, we had the light guys behind us. Directly behind us. It actually wouldn’t have been that bad, except for the fact that we had so many distractions. The light men aside (and I mean the mega huge spotlight gentlemen), we had an unusual amount of people constantly getting up to get beer refills. I have never, and I mean never, been to a concert where there was so much up and down up and down from the people next to us. Certainly never any U2 concert, that’s for sure. It was like as soon as the tempo slowed, oh! time for a beer break! My goodness.

I don’t have any pictures of our concert (I mean, really, who would want one from that high up) but I do have a great picture from my sis, Deb, when she was at a show in NYC. It gives you an idea of the size of the crowd for sure. I have to say that I’m super glad I got to see them at Madison Square Garden in October with her. I have seen them better, but it was still a great show with or without the drunk Atlantans next to us, preferably without.

I succeeded in getting Josh hooked on Harry Potter. Here he is starting his mega-read-a-thon tonight. My sister borrowed my copy of book 2, so we stopped and picked up a cheap paperback at Wal-mart on the way home because he was so hooked. Hey, I have good taste in books, what can I say.

I guess that’s all for tonight. I am tired…there’s that tryptofan (sp) setting in…and it is going to be a busy busy weekend. Wait until Sunday’s blog, those of you who keep up with our crazy life.

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While surfing the internet tonight I came across this super cool website. I am totally going to promote it because I think it is one of the coolest sites out there. It is completely free and has e-cards and other neat stuff. Every page is linked and it is provided by the Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, another cool site. Anyway…check it out. All the pages are linked to each other, like a circle. You can get lost in it. the website

I have had a sinus infection for a week now. I am getting sick of not being able to BREATHE out of my nose! Josh, bless him, has put up with his absolutely LEAST favorite noise in the whole world (me amidst a box of tissues) for too long! Something needs to be done! Somebody needs to do something about my nose! I am taking prescription de-congestant, anti-biotic, cough syrup, vitamin C, a daily vitamin, prescription allergy medicine, and goodness knows what else. How many more trips to the bathroom to blow my nose? Because you can’t blow it at your desk, especially if you are as loud as I am. AND at a new job…just not good PR.

By the way, I am LOVING my new job. I don’t know exactly what I will be doing yet, but I am looking forward to what I think it is. I like the people, it’s a great company, and I am actually DOING something. Plus, it’s a mission organization! AND free Starbucks coffee in the morning. Life is good. Now if only my nose would get with the program…

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Give me something good to eat. I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween. Monday happened to be the worst day of the year for me, but that’s water under the bridge now. Tomorrow IS another day. I hold fast to that promise every night.

All joking aside, I hope everyone managed to get home after fighting the extraordinary volume of traffic on Monday evening. A normally semi-unpleasant 30 min drive from the train station turned into a horrible 1 hr 15 min drive. I stumbled out of my car to almost kiss the ground and Josh still wasn’t home. No time for savoring the end of my horrific day, I had to rush in and get ready for the onslaught of trick-or-treaters I was sure were only minutes away. Since I live in an apartment complex I was sure that I could count on a lot of kids swarming the neighborhood looking for candy.

At 7:15 I had my first and only batman.

I had put the caramel chewy candies with the white stuff in the middle (whatever they are called) into the bowl first, thinking that only if I were bombarded would I then pull out my chocolate stash. You don’t think that I was about to put my mound of chocolate-y goodness out for first picks! No way! What do you take me for? I had some good stuff! Anyway, I put out the caramel thingys in the bowl and sat back to wait. Pretty soon Harper went nuts and I went to answer the door:

Me: “Hey! Look at you, Batman! How are you doing?”

Batman: “uh”

Me shoving the pumpkin bowl under his nose: “Take as many as you like!”

Batman taking only one candy: “oh.”

Me: “Are you sure you don’t want anymore?”

Batman: “that’s ok.”

Me: “oh”

Batman: “thanks”

Me regaining composure: “Well, Happy Halloween!”

He scampered off up the stairs to join his buddies. That’s right. His buddies. I could hear them. I think they sent him down to me to see if I had good candy, and when he saw my caramel things, he went back and told his friends not to bother with the nice lady and her crazy dog.

I was passed by on Halloween. Children didn’t WANT my candy.

Oh, well. That just means that there is more chocolate for me. Plus, when Josh got home, he asked me how I knew that those caramel things were his favorite.

*smile*

P.S. Goetze’s Caramel Creams! That’s what they are. Christmas Idea for Josh…
Goetze’s Candy Co., Inc.

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