School's OVER... for the spring

Yes, you heard right.  The Spring Semester is OVER.  Thank goodness.  It's been one crazy, long, stressful semester and it's finally over.

Now, I have two weeks off before school starts again for the summer.  What am I up to, do you ask?  Well, let's start with Saturday, April 28th.  I was suppose to have my volunteer orientation for The Tallahassee Museum but unfortunately it was canceled, without my knowing until I got there. Oh well... but I was able to get some much needed yard work done.  This is the side of our home walking up some steps that go into the garage.  This was FULL of leaves... and those stones were all underneath the leaves around that little tree.  It took a total of 7 yard waste bags!

I also started some compost!! I'm super excited.

Sunday we had the missionaries over, so I made my sister's amazing chicken tortilla soup.  Very yummy and thank you Lindy I shredded the chicken like a pro with my kitchen aid.  

 I also made these really good Pumpkin cookies.  The recipe is vegan friendly and really yummy.  I added chocolate chips tough and happy that I did.  

Monday I went for a bike ride on the St. Mark's Trail and then came home to clean the house.  I'm happy too because I was able to go and have lunch with Chris.  This not having anything to REALLY do is pretty nice.  I also started on part of my garden... 

I'm going to have a lot bigger one but still collecting some things for it.  These two little planters were given to us by our good friends almost a YEAR ago and now I finally got them started.  The tin one is tomatoes and the trea cota one has baby leaf, spinach, and arugula.

Today, I went for another bike ride however when I had a little less than one mile left I had a little accident.  Let's just say I experienced what all LDS missionaries experience... I flipped over the handle bars.  I was going pretty fast and next to the trail there is a recycling center with trucks going in and out of it.  There was one truck waiting to turn and I didn't see another one turning in and I slammed on the brakes and went flying.  Thankfully I was actually at the time just passing a kind man who stopped and helped me up.  The truck driver even got out to check on me.  I'm totally fine and it was most definitely my fault I should have seen the truck coming.  My knees are sore and my hands scratched up. Well, it's the first bike accident of the training.  

Stay tuned for more up dates on my little vacation.  I'm going to be starting the garden soon so I'll have to before and after pictures. Also, Happy May!!

Hargrett Happenings

I realized that if Chris and I weren't an interracial couple, most likely this blog would be called "Hargrett Happenings" however, I personally like how things are.  The last post was about me and school.  But lately we have had some exciting things occur.  Easter was very nice.  I got Chris a little Easter bag of goodies.

His favorite candy, a movie (three actually all three x-men in one), books (I found 1776 at Goodwill for $3.99 and couldn't pass it up.  We both have been wanting to read it for awhile, so it's really a gift for both of us. and The Odyssey, Chris wants to read, also a Goodwill buy for $0.99), and chapstick because he was running low.

I did make him go on a little hunt for it.  I decided to have him look for it Saturday night so we could watch one of the movies and also because Sunday we were going to have a busy day.

Currently Chris's sister is at a rehab. center in Carrabelle so as a family we all went down to visit her and we brought dinner with us too.  His sister is only like 33 or 35 and this place is kind of a old folks home so she had some good stories to tell us.  Hopefully she won't be there much longer.

Last Sunday we attended the funeral for Chris's grandfather.  It was a really nice service.  He died at the age of 88 and lived a long full life.  It was great to see all of Chris's extended family again.  His family has a family cemetery out in Wakulla county and so we are excited to go back to possibly get some rubbings of the tomb stones for family history.  We also recently received some great family pictures as well.  FYI, if you haven't been to a Missionary Baptist Church funeral it is pretty awesome.  I'm not going to lie I have never felt the spirit as strong and any other church thing outside of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  It's really a great experience.  The music is by far my favorite part.

Well, ONE MORE WEEK and I'm done with this semester!!! I'm so ready for a break and I have lots of plans to fill my time.  The most exciting thing that has occurred lately is Chris's new job.  He will be a sales manager at the Four Points Sheraton.  For those living in the Tallahassee area it's the old Holiday Inn round building off Tennessee Street.  This has been just an amazing blessing in our lives.  Chris is going to be going back to school for his MBA and his current job's hours would not work with school time and this new job will definitely help him to be able to focus on school.  Here's a picture of the building.  Sales is very much up Chris's alley so we're excited for the move and change.  The Lord truly has blessed and has been looking out for us.