On friday night Mike and I went over to our new friends, Chelsea and Wehan's (pronounced Vion, he is South African) house. They had a pasta maker and Mike and I had so much fun. I unfortunately did not take my camera but Chelsea took some pictures and she is supposed to be sending them to me. Like always, I had flour all over me. The guys thought they were the best pasta makers ever and kept correcting me until Chelsea and I just let them take over and they were quite amused for some itme. We decided that this would be a great activity to do with other couples or when we had students over, so we are going to keep a lookout for one at the thrift stores.
Mike and I are leaving tom (thurs) to go to St Louis for the weekend for a conference at Covenant that all the RUF campus ministers and interns were invited to. We are riding down there with Brad and Rachel and we are excited about getting to spend some time with them that is not completely consummed by RUF stuff. We are staying with 2 Clemson alums (Will and Christy Spink) and are so excited about getting to see them and the city. I will be sure to take some pictures and will probable post them some time Sunday.

My parents came this past weekend for the first stop on their quick trip to visit all of my siblings and move my sister back to Florence. We had a great time and really appreciated all they did. We hung lots of pictures and they helped us decide where things looked the best and what pictures to put where. As you can tell it looks alot more homey (sp?) now that it has pictures on the wall. They also brought us our beautiful monogrammed pillows on our bed and our curtains, I am still looking for something to pull the curtains back with but who knows when I will have time to do that, and the pillows that are on the bench in the kitchen. I meant to take more pictures of us together but as you know I am terrible at taking them. We went out friday night to a local restuarant here with Brad and Rachel and it was really neat because it was in an old church turned into an Italian restuarant.
Since I am not posting this til tuesday I also have to say Happy Birthday to my mom and I wish I could have been there to celebrate with everybody in Birmingham unfortunately KY is not that close though. Thanks again for everything.
Thanks also to the Caldwells for sending up the rest of our stuff and the chocolate chips, they will definately come in handy.

Float Trip....After only getting 5 hours of sleep I had to get moving along with alot of the girls and head to the student center to go on the float trip. We went down to the KY TENN border on a river and got tubes to float down. It took abnout 2 1/1 hours to get there and was ab a 2 hour float. Needless to say Mike and I did not get back home until 6 o'clock on Saturday. It was a very long weekend for both of us (he had a poker tournament with some of the guys on friday night while I was at the sleepover- dont worry there wasn't any gambling invovled) and we were so glad to finally be home. Everyone seemed to have a lot of fun on the river though and we had a good mixture of age and new and old students.

Slumber party!!! Friday night was so much fun and I was so excited. We had about 25- 30 girls show up throughout the night. Everyone seemed to have a good time and many of the new girls got to know each other and some of the other RUF girls. We basically just talked and ate the whole night but we did spend an hour going around and telling what our family dinners were like growing up. It was amazing how much you really get to know about someone by hearing this. You knew how many family members they had, what their parents personalities were like and what their personality was like, and a little bit of what made them what they are like today. The girls seemed to really enjoy it and I was so thankful how much fund everyone had and all the new friends they made.

Alright so we had our 3rd RUF of the semester last night and yet again I was overwhelmed by the new freshman girls that showed up, but I am very excited about it. We have had ab 60 students the past couple of weeks which is great for an RUF only in its 3rd year. The girl in the pic with me is Laura she is a soph and lives in the house we are having the girls sleepover at on friday night. She is alot of fun as are the other 9 girls that live in the house. Pray for Mike and I as we continue to try to reach out to the new students but are feelling a little overwhelmed by it.

So I am already discovering that I am terrible at remembering to take pictures at things Mike and I go to...and I dont like to post anything unless I have a picture to go with it but I will try and get better at remembering to take pictures. Mike and I joined a fantasy football league on Sunday with 8 other couples in our church. It was a lot of fun because we were invited by the host couple (Chelsea and Wehan) but didnt know any of the others so we enjoyed making some new friends in Lexington. It was alot of fun to see how the guys were all into it but the girls ended up having the better teams by the end of the draft because most of us just asked our husbands who to pick and they gave us the better players. We have become good friends with Chelsea and Wehan (he is from South Africa) and are really enjoying when we get to hang out with them. Chelsea is also very crafty so I am trying to learn some things from her in the decorating area. Alright well here are a few pictures of our apartment and the curtains my mom maid for the kitchen I think they look really cute and I was very excited about them. I also got this tray to put my makeup on at a second hand store for a great deal the other day.