crazy weekend

This weekend was a whirlwind! Friday night we drove to Susan Ada's family mountain place. That was the first time we had done the drive from Lynchburg - 3 1/2 hours and it was quite pretty. Here is a current pic. . .the stone is well under way!


Saturday we spent the day painting cedar shakes (the green part above) for the new house. One person sprayed, two people painted with brushes, and one person carried and mixed paint. It was quite a job, but definitely needed to be done. Curt forgot his crappy shoes, so here he is all geared up:

And the boys working hard. This is Steve's "house-workin' uniform." He has an endless supply of these beauties. I'm assuming nobody fought him for them at work.


We were pooped afterwards. Note the 11 empty paint cans. . .

Still smiling (and very green)!


While the boys cleaned up, Susan Ada and her mom went over to a friend's house that had grown them some pumpkins. Yay for lots of free home grown punkins!!! That evening we drove down to Charlotte and stayed with Jon in his new house. . .so that Sunday we could go to the Panthers game!! Gotta love those Panthers even if it was rainy and they played terribly. . .I might have made a new tacky teal sparkle scarf for the gloomy day:


We finished it off with some Bojangles and headed back to start our week. A very good first weekend of fall.

happy fall!!

That's really all I wanted to say. I love fall and am really glad it's here. . .now if only the weather would get the memo. We Hamiltons celebrated with pumpkin waffles for breakfast! One of the best things about Curt going to work so early is that we get to watch the sunrise most everyday. Wow. Here is this morning's:

Now, let us eat pumpkin!! Yahoooooo!!!!!

our last summer weekend. . .

Curt's job operates on flex time which means he gets every other Friday off. . .this is awesome!! Thursday night when he got home from work I had the car all packed and we drove to the Blue Ridge Parkway for our first camping trip(lett). It was so fun to spend the night in the woods, and then have a lazy day on Friday. We stopped in Bedford on the way home. Nothing much happening there, but we ate some good fish - gotta get those Omega 3's. Saturday was jam-packed. We started the day by walking to the farmers' market - a weekly must for us. We get all our fruits and veggies for the week. Then we went to a huge art show on the grounds of the high school:

We were very surprised at the amount and high quality of the art for sale. Definitely fun to look at everything. While we were there, Curt discovered this ginormous tree in the middle of the field. He was pretty excited about it. . .


Then we went home for a quick lunch and it was time for our afternoon adventure. . .the Lynchburg Beer and Wine Festival. We were excited about this because it was downtown and we could walk. . .and we hoped to learn about some tasty local wineries. The newspaper said there were approximately 8000 folks in attendance. . .quite a showing for our little 'burg.' We tasted a lot of bad wine - Sweet Blackberry - seriously? We should have known better. Thankfully, there were a few good ones in the mix. It was fun nonetheless and we ran into all 2 of our local friends. Yay!


You can also see the huge fountain in the background of the above picture. Somebody thought the James River needed a fountain to shoot very high. . .the Hamiltons are divided on just how high. . .Susan Ada votes 40 ft, Curt votes 100 ft. You'll just have to come visit and decide for yourself. Curt uses it to determine which way the wind is blowing every morning on his way to work. I'm sure you will hear more about the fountain in the future. And, finally, the happy couple. . .cheers to a fun weekend in Lynchburg! And cheers to baby Finnegan!! We are so happy for the Robinson's new addition!

the last straw

So, we just got married and moved to Lynchburg, Virginia. I am quite certain that getting married and moving to new places each come with their own stories to tell. However, we've been wondering if our combination was particularly entertaining. . .we were quite sure, but this sealed the deal:


We live in a loft downtown, and this is the storefront directly by our "front" door. They change these dresses at least once a week and they are always just as hideous, I mean special, as these. For serious?? Thus, we begin our blog. . .