Birthday Fun

This weekend we celebrated my 25th birthday again! Ha! My birthday is actually tomorrow, but celebrating on a Monday would be a little difficult. I hate Mondays! Several of our closest friends came out to eat with us at Shogun (my favorite restaurant), then we went to 17-16 for a couple of drinks. Josh bought me a Soki  shot! It was my first time to try Soki. To my surprise it wasn't that bad!

Our sweet friends!

Tucker and I

"Please Do Not Put Cigarette Butts or Spike 80DF In Our Plants"

Saw this and had to take a picture!

Tomorrow for my birthday, my sweet husband, Tucker is taking me out to eat at Amsterdam's. I am also getting a new rug to go under the pool table in the dining room! I'm so excited! I'll update the blog soon with before and after photos!

Amanda

Our Roots Grow Deep

Tucker and I went to Toomer's Corner this past Sunday to pay our respects to the oaks that defined our traditions as Auburn fans. It hurts my heart to know that those trees may never be rolled again. Not only am I an Auburn fan, but I'm also alumni. I walked underneath the oaks' branches on my way to class. The idiot that poisoned the trees will never truly know what he has taken away from us. Our children may never see the famed oaks at Toomer's Corner. They may never know the joy that comes from rolling a tree after a big win. I thank my lucky stars that I had the opportunity to take part in rolling Toomer's Corner Iron Bowl 2010, and I plan to roll my own yard next year when we win! War Damn Eagle!

R.I.P

Mardi Gras!

This Saturday, Tucker and I were invited to a Mardi Gras ball held at the conference center in Auburn. It was very last minute. My friend, Tricia, whom also teaches third grade with me, invited us. She also was nice enough to let me borrow one of her beautiful dresses. Tucker was fortunate to also get a tuxedo at the last minute. We were very excited to have a great time with new friends!

Who wouldn't want to be on his arm?

All dressed up!

The table decorations were gorgeous! I did accidentally almost burn the whole place down when I placed my Mardi Gras mask on top of one of the little candles. We smelled something burning and realized my feathers were burning off of my mask. Luckily, we caught it in time!

The dangerous Mardi Gras mask.

The food was delicious. The appetizer was some sort of crab cake we believe. For the main course we had steak with potatoes, and for dessert, we had apple pie topped with ice cream! Yum! (I forgot to take a picture of the main course, but you can just imagine how delectable it was.)

Appetizer

Dessert

The most exciting part of the night was when the girls at our table were asked to model some of the fur coats for the auction. I got to model a snow white, $2000 rabbit cape with a hood. I was hoping Tucker would buy if for me considering my birthday was coming up. No such luck! I decided I didn't want to wear real fur anyway, because I love rabbits especially snow white rabbits. Unfortunately, Tucker couldn't get any good snaps of me making my modeling debut! Shoot!

We would both like to say a special thank you to Tricia and Blake for inviting us! We had a blast!

Tricia and I

Tricia and Blake

I'm obsessed with Mardi Gras now! This may just become one of our yearly traditions!

Amanda





Spray Tan?

Tucker and I were invited by my sweet school friend, Tricia, to attend a Mardi Gras ball this weekend. Even though it was last minute, we decided it was an offer we couldn't refuse. The thought of getting all dressed up was exciting. That and I haven't seen my incredibly handsome husband in a tux yet. Can't wait for tat! I have to thank Tricia for allowing me to borrow one of her beautiful dresses to wear.

In preparation for the ball, I realized that the sun has not seen my pasty skin in quiet some time. I'm translucent I tell you! Not wanting to tan, I opted for the spray tan. If you have ever seen that episode of "Friends" where Ross gets a spray tan, then you know how nervous I was. I was also thinking about that episode and giggling to myself while the tanning girl was going over directions. As soon as she left I realized I didn't know what to do. Then the spray tan machine started talking to me! The machine had a nice, soothing voice, but it was very frustrating because she kept telling me to exit the booth. I had not even gotten sprayed yet.

So there I was scantily clad....waiting on the spray tan machine....awkward and cold I might add. Finally Doreen was ready (yes, I had time to name her). She sprayed me very well. I did not realize she would spray me in the face! You could just imagine my surprise. I'm afraid my teeth will now be brown. When I was exiting the tanning facility, the tanning girl said it would take 4 hours to develop. I'm scared...at this point I'm half way to Oompa Loompa!  

Waffles 101

Waffles are very important in the Boswell family. Tucker's grandmother, Rae, perfected the recipe then passed her knowledge on to her children and daughters-in law. This weekend I received the wonderful opportunity to also carry on this tradition and learn to make the famous waffles.

I separated the egg whites on the first try!

1 1/2 cups of flour...

Mix it all together...

A little frustration...

A few of these...

Finally perfection!

Lake Life

This weekend Tucker and I spent the entire weekend at the lake. It was so nice to have a weekend away expecially after the stressful couple of weeks at work I have had. The sea wall needed to be repaired and the whole gang came down to help.

There was a lot of rock throwing...

Lots of rock hauling...

A little rest...

and some horseplay! (Guess who was in charge of the horseplay?)

We go back next weekend to finish it all up!

A Shout Out

Happy Birthday to one of my most favorite people, my mother-in-law, Phyllis! I absolutely love and adore you! I'm so lucky to have someone so wonderful in my life. I'm super excited about seeing you this weekend. I'm also super duper excited about the waffle making lesson-I hope you didn't forget! Love you much!

Amanda

Sickly

Yes, folks, I'm sick. On this beautiful day, I'm stuck inside resting with a throat infection. Yesterday afternoon around lunch time, my throat began to get a little sore making it hard to swallow. Very quickly this progressed ,and I knew I needed to go to the doctor. Thanks goodness I have a fabulous principle! He let me leave early to head on down to the Urgent Care.

I went to the new Urgent Care on Moore's Mill Road. It was absolutely wonderful. I didn't wait at all. And the doctor called in my presciption to my pharmacy. By the time I arrived, it was ready for me. It was a great experience, one that doesn't usually happen at the Urgent Care.

Fortunately, I do not have strep throat, just some sort of throat infection. The worst part is the fever, and why I'm not at school teaching today. My temperature this morning was 100.6. This was also followed by chills and then sweats. I also have wonderful friends at school to whom I sent lesson plans and they have taken care of everything. I hope to be feeling much better very soon, and off to school I'll be tomorrow morning!

Life

Sorry for the delay in posts! Tucker and I have been very busy, and when we are not busy doing something, we are exhausted. We were really looking forward to a nice, relaxing weekend at the lake. The sea wall needs to be repaired before the water comes back up, and we had all planned to go and help. And by help, I mean supervise. I think all of us girls planned to let the men do all the work! The weather was terrible and cold, and our trip will be delayed a couple of weeks. I can't wait though! Being at the lake just puts me in another state of mind. All the cares in the world vanish when you are sitting on Mymama's couch, reading Southern Living, and drinking sweet iced tea!

Speaking of cares in the world....I commend those of you who have gone back to graduate school to get your master's degree when you had children at home. I always thought people exaggerated when they complained about how tired they were and how much work they had to do. I now completely understand why every person has told me to get my master's before Tucker and I have children. I barely have the energy and the time to keep my humble abode in order. By the time I have worked all day, came home, made lunches and coffee for the next day, and cooked supper, I'm too exhausted to even think about school work. It's hard, but I am very fortunate to have such a wonderful husband. He helps me every chance he gets and he doesn't get too upset with me when I get too overwhelmed with everything and take out my frustrations on him.

This reminds me that our one year anniversary is coming up! Neither of us can hardly believe it has been a year since we said our vows. It was such a wonderful day! I cherish every one that made that day especially special for the both of us. We are both very excited to be celebrating one very happy year of marriage! I am also very excited to get to actually eat a piece of my wedding cake. I hope it is as delicious as everyone said it was!

Hopefully after midterms, I'll have more time for blogging! For now, it's back to the daily grind!

Amanda