Time to Post a Few Missed Events

It's been a busy time at the Gott house.  We've been waiting to close on the yellow house.  First we were told, maybe we'd close LAST Thursday.  Then it was for sure Wednesday, for sure Thursday, most likely Friday, probably Monday, and now hopefully early next week!!  The waiting game is hard for us... (like it's easy for anyone else!)  On the bright side, I suppose it's been a good learning experience...  Keeps our expectations low, I guess.  And gives us a lesson in patience.  We know we will get the house, it's just a matter of when.  We should hopefully close next week.  Please say a little prayer that we do; we are suppose to be out of the apartment by the first.  I have a husband, a realtor, and two managers at the loan office pushing our gal along.  Hopefully she won't make anymore mistakes (she's made a lot!!)  Oh, and hopefully I don't get so upset that I decide to call her.  Jared has been handling these matters.  He's a lot calmer than me.  (For that I'm ever so grateful.)

And so now I have time to post the Events that I've meant to post earlier, but didn't...

First Event:

Bobby May's Benefit Brunch...

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Jared and I sponsored a table and had some of our friends and coworkers sit with us at this event.  Bobby was one of my friends my first year and a half at Freed.  We were both in Phi Kappa Alpha together and shared some fun times.  Bobby died in a car wreck on his way home before Christmas in 2002.  Bobby was a great guy with a big heart and an amazing voice.  He was in the Ambassadors (a vocal group at Freed) and now there is a  scholarship in his name that raises money for them.  I'm happy that I was asked to be part of raising money for this year's event.

Makin' Music '09

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Who's who in this from Left to Right:

*Brother in Law was a black in white character in XBX's show!!  

*The crew plus me who came from Gasden, AL to watch the show.  (Jared is missing because he was doing XBX's tunnel talk!)

*My alma mater club, PKA!!! And my cousin Justin was a wizard!

*The winning Makin' Music show!!  Whoo-hoo XBX!! (Let it be known that I will always be part red, BUT I am also biased to XBX since the Gotts are purple and gold)

Extra note that we just learned:  Eric (brother in law) earned a spot as a XBX Makin' Music director for '10!!  "Huzzah!!"

I Love Old Main...

The lighting for my favorite building on campus was just right.  If only I had snapped the tree and not its shadow!!

My Crabs Had a Growth Spurt!

They are so big now that I don't really handle them anymore... :o(

Lads to Leaders '09

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This year was our first year to attend the Lads to Leaders in Nashville.  We attend this event because Jared needs to be there for his job.  During the weekend he sees TONS of prospective students.  I get to go and tag along - what a perk!!

We stayed in the Opryland Hotel and were lucky enough to get a suite sized room!!  Literally it was HUGE!!  The Great Oaks congregation, out of Memphis was staying in the next room.  Ohh, how I love King Sized beds!!  I want one some day.  :o)  The scenery at this hotel is A-MAZ-ING!!  If you've never been, GO!!  Also, eat at Wasabi's!!!  We ate there TWICE!! :o)

The second time our friend, Frank paid..  

Other Noteworthy Tidbits:

Nemo and Sunshine - the guppies - kicked the bucket.  Ohh and one of the neons that we didn't find for days died also.  Actually the neon sorta decomposed.  I new he was missing but was so busy packing I didn't bother to look until I smelt him... Then I asked Jared to look.  Oh, Brave hubby who's nose doesn't work well... you can handle any smell!

At the yellow house, the Irises are just blooming.  I love that there are already flowers and plants in the yard.  I'll try to get a picture of stuff soon.

And the apartment is a disaster zone!  I will definitely update you on that process once we're outta here!!  A documentary, if anyone cares to look at it.  (I know my following is small)

So that's that.

Oh wait - a snapshot of me and Jared at the CrowHop Concert tonight.  We saw Eric Hutchinson perform.  I tried to take pictures but my little digital camera is just not powerful enough for me to post what it took!!  (I'll save it the embarrassment!)

Weekend Events

Whew, This weekend was packed full of events for me and Jared.  I was so glad that my body had the energy to last through it all.  Today I'm feeling the overexertion and I've been pretty tired, but I am happy that my medicine seems to be working and that I've had so many good improvements. 

Friday - I had the energy to actually do a ton of housework!!  The Christmas decorations finally got to me and I put them ALL up!!  I also vacuumed, did laundry, rearranged different parts of the house, and reorganized a closet!!  I felt like super Sasha!! :o)

Saturday - Mom Gott and Munner came for a short visit and took us out to lunch.  We had to wait for Eric to get off work so we passed the time by going to Besso's (I had the espresso gelato - yum), window shopping downtown, and hanging out at Freed.  Once Eric was off work we went to Los Portales for a late lunch.  May I just say, I'm so excited that we have this restaurant in Henderson!!! Below are a few pictures of our fun.  They were taken with Jared's iphone.

Munner and Mom Gott look at the bricks in front of the library to see who all they've met or know.  Jared and I find this funny because the bricks have been there forever and they've been on campus numerous times and hadn't seemed interested before.  Munner finally exclaims that it doesn't matter anyway because they're all dead!!  This was funny to me and I laughed really hard.  I hope it doesn't offend anyone that I put that.  You and I know that they are not ALL dead yet...

Mother and Daughter a.k.a. Munner and Mom Gott

Jared and my brother in law - Eric.  Eric does work study in the Library.  I was so glad he was done for the day because it was 2:30 and I was starving!!!  The black poodle is his dog... hee hee.  He'll hate me for telling people that!  Mom Gott brought it for him to see since he can't have it in the dorms.  I thought this picture was sorta picturesque... I like it a lot.

Me - Happy :o)

Sunday - After morning services we enjoyed lunch at Sharon and Clint Kea's house.  It was really good and Jared and I had fun visiting with them and the kids.  I wish I had taken a picture of the event, but I forgot my camera!!  Later we went to a youth fellowship in Corinth, MS for Jared to recruit.  We had worship at 4:00 and then at 5:00 we had a Superbowl Party.  If you didn't watch the Superbowl, the Steelers won.  I was rooting for the Cardinals, because they had never been to a Superbowl before.  They might have won had this player (I'm not good with their names) from the Steelers not made an interception and ran for 100 yds to make a touchdown!!  It was very impressive though and I'm glad that the Steelers guy was given the touchdown (it was reviewed a lot).  Had he ran all that way for nothing without a touchdown, it would have made me sad for him...  but he got it as the second quarter ended.  With the end of half-time, my enthusiasm for the game dwindled and I don't really remember much after that.  Here are some pics of the students that Jared and I met and hung out with.

 

Jared tries to give me his "look" because I took away his iphone to take all these pics... hee hee.. I love it when he tries to act angry! HA!!