Fall Frenzy

I know, I know, I've been slacking lately and I have not had a blog post since August. Maybe one of my New Year's Resolutions should be to keep my blog updated...we'll see how that goes. But I will try and make more of an effort.

Where to start? Well, I'll start by saying that I can't believe this year is nearly gone! Seriously, what happened to 2009? It was certainly an eventful year for us. This fall has come and gone like a whirl wind! Football is pretty much the first word that comes to mind when I think of the fall time. Leon and I had several football parties for some of the big Auburn and Alabama games, and of course we had some of our friends over for the Iron Bowl! We love having our friends around and what better way than football to spend time with your closest friends?!

Of course, we do focus on more than football occasionally. We went to the Zac Brown Band Concert at the Amphitheater here in Montgomery. Despite the pouring rain and mud it was a lot of fun! I volunteered in September to work at the LPGA Tournament in Prattville for three days. This was a fun experience and I was able to meet many of the golfers and drive them around on the golf cart. My little sister, Catherine, was cheering for Goodwyn and I was able to make it out to a few games to see her cheer for my old junior high Alma Mater. It was neat to watch the girls cheering and see that not much has changed in the ten years since I was in her shoes. They still did a lot of the same cheers I did when I was in
school and cheering there. I also took a tour of an M&Ms packaging plant in Auburn as part of a course I took for work. It was pretty interesting to see how quickly the machines package, label and seal those little M&M tubes.

October was a great month! Halloween! Leon went with some friends to visit another friend in South Carolina for Halloween. He dressed up as Niki Sixx for Halloween and it was a pretty convincing costume. I went out with some of my girlfriends for Halloween since Leon was out of town. I dressed up as Alice in Wonderland. My sister actually helped me pick out the costume and it turned out to be cute.

For Halloween our church, Taylor Road Baptist Church, hosts 'Taylor Road Treats the Town'. There were over 1,000 people who turned out for this great family friendly event and our Sunday School Class did a trunk or treat with a Farm Theme. A few of us brought our dogs and dressed them up as farm animals. Penny was dressed as a cow. It was so funny!

For work I have also attended some fun events in the past few months. The beginning of November was Frontier Days at Ft. Toulouse. This is a great event for kids of all ages. Ft. Toulouse was 'garison' which means people come and live at the fort and around it just like people would have in the 1800s. These garison actors show the children how life was like for them during the 1800s. I also went to the Battles for the Tallassee Armory. This is a Civil War re-enactment showing how the South fought off the soldiers from the North who were trying to find the Armory in Tallassee. Leon's Dad is a re-enactor and I was able to get a first hand look at some of their canon demonstrations by firing the canon myself.

Also in November, Leon was in a jui-jitsu tournament in Trussville. He won first place in his weight division and I was so proud of him and he was extremly excited for himself as well. The rest of the guys from his jui-jitsu school also won first place in their weight divisions. In case you're wondering, jui-jitsu is a type of martial art. Not MMA or anything quite that extreme. Leon really enjoys it and he will be attending the NAGA regional tournament in February in Atlanta.

Life Was Good Today...

Although the summer seems to have already come and gone, Leon and I took full advantage of it while it was here! For Memorial Day, we went to the lake with our friends, Anna and Bryan, and spent the day riding around on their boat on beautiful Lake Martin. We found a great rope swing and enjoyed it for a while and then went skiing, well, I attempted and was not very successful. In June we went kayaking on the Coosa River with a group of friends and had a great time. Kayaking is one of my favorite things to do and we couldn't have asked for a better day to go.

During July, Leon and I attended my family reunion at Ft. Rucker. We also took a trip to Destin with our good friends, Rob and Mary Alice. We had a great weekend of just lieing on the dock soaking up the sun and swimming in the bay. Rob also cooked us all a great meal of fresh crabs he caught in his crab traps and red snapper. While we were there Penny took her first swimming lesson. She is a very fast swimmer but I'm not sure if that's because she wanted to get out of the water or because she was just good at it.

I also took a trip to Orange Beach one weekend with my family and we had a great time enjoying the sun and the sand. The Robbins, the family I lived with in Mobile, brought their boat over and we spent the day riding around the bay and the intracoastal waterway. It was so much fun to get to spend time with them. They are like another set of parents to me and always treated me like their own child when I lived with them. Leon was on call for work that weekend so unfortunatly he was not able to come with me, but I think he secretly enjoyed the time to himself.

Our summer has also consisted of a lot of softball and baseball. For anyone who knows Leon this should come as no surprise. Leon played softball for our church team, Taylor Road Baptist Church. They won first place for their division. Leon also played baseball for the Montgomery Metro Baseball League on the Dodgers team. This league basically consists of a lot of guys who played ball in college and who still love to play the game. The Dodgers won first place, a win that

was well deserved and much earned by all the boys on the team.

We have also attended several weddings this summer. One of which was that of some of our good childhood friends, Brittany Folmar and Cody Eiland. It was a beautiful wedding and we are
always very excited to see our friends happy and married as we are!

Now, as the summer winds down we are gearing up for football season! I know many of you are too and I'm sure this season will prove to be an interesting one for all teams involved.

Just a Thought

Just a thought: More often than not I find myself and many others simply wishing their lifes away. What I mean is we often find ourselves at work wishing we were at home (I'm extremely guilty of this) or when we're at home we wish we were out with friends or when we're out with friends we wish we were back at home. I guess what I'm trying to say is we are always wanting something else or to be somewhere esle. Maybe we (myself included) should all just stop and thank God that we are were we are and he has put us here for a reason. Just a thought. Take from it what you will!

About the Brasington's A Little About Us
Good morning! I'm finally giving in to this whole blog thing and I'm going to give it a try. I figured 'why not?' since I do like to write. Plus, everyone else is blogging so here goes. (Oh, I'm a pretty honest person which means sometimes I tell the harsh truth about things, so I'm not sure my blog will always be as sunny as you might expect)

Leon and I were married on May 16, 2009! Our wedding was truly perfect and we had the time of our lives with all of our friends and family there to support us. We were married at Taylor Road Baptist Church and our reception was at Arrowhead Country Club, complete with the best band ever, the Reloaders. We honeymooned in Jamaica at the Sandals Royal Carribbian. Amazing! I highly recommend a vacation to a Sandals Resort if you can. All inclusive is the only way to go.

Life together has been great for the most part. I dare any newlywed to tell me that everything is perfect and all roses for them all the time. Our beautiful home is in Forest Hills and we absolutely love it. It is a convenient location for both of our jobs. Leon works in the IT Department at the Montgomery Water Works and I work in Wetumpka as the Tourism and Recreation Coordinator for the County. (If you're ever looking for something to do just let me know, I'm you're go to girl.)

We do plan on having children just NOT anytime soon (I know you were wondering) so we bought a dog instead. Well, I really wanted the dog and Leon was sweet enough to entertain me and just go along with it. Our beautiful, energetic, fiesty dauchshaunds' name is Penny. She is 12 weeks old now and has more energy than we can contain. But, she brings a smile to my face everyday and no matter what she seems to always know how to make me feel better.
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