marwage, marwage is oh, so great!

Joseph and I had our first official 'lazy' Sun-DAY/NIGHT. We did not wake up until 12:30 pm with the sky dark and rainy and then we saw the clock we both freaked out of how late we slept! Neither of us have done that in years! So, obviously we did not make it to church, and what did we do?! Went down stairs, I poured me a bowl of cereal and Joseph heated up left over pizza from last night and we began our eating marathon! Ha, from there we ate corn dip, pretzels and peanut butter (I did eat an apple to balance things out), candy corn and twizzlers galore! We laid on the couch and watched movie after movie, then realized I had assignments due tomorrow morning at 8 am and he has a test tomorrow! So we mustarded up so  motivation and got to work... til about 5:45 when we decided we needed to eat dinner. He was craving chicken tetrazinni, which I have never ate or made, so he called his mom for the recipe. So I was going to document every step but I now call this dish that he wanted so badly, chicken tetra-wieny. It was awful. Sweet Joseph said it wasn't too bad and that he would eat the leftovers, and I said good. I am not eating the leftovers! So after my failed (in my opinion) dinner, we wanted ice cream! So i went to Winn Dixie and got bye-one-get-one-free ice cream and we enjoyed.

Don't let looks deceive you... it was not that great, but I didn't want to waste all the time I spent taking pics of each step of the way, I just had to put one on here!!

Around 9:30 I just kept telling him over and over how wonderful Brittany's Alabama Fire Crackers were at the tailgate, and he was like, then make some! So- I did!

We had our late Sunday evening snack of blue moon, which we split, and Alabama Fire Crackers! See http://goodnitedearvoid.blogspot.com/ for the recipe!

I am calling it a night- to food that is. Tomorrow I will begin my strict eating regime and work out like its going out of style so that I can keep my youthful figure. Aside from our day of eating, I realized how much I loved being married to Mr. Drake. God has blessed us so much to be with each other. I thank God daily for putting Joseph in my life. He is my everything and I love him more than words can describe. He is so fun, loving, sarcastic and wonderful I just can't seem to get enough of him! I pray that our marriage would be a light to others and that we would glorify God in all we do. We fail at this miserably, but by the grace of God, He gives us chance after chance to shine for Him. I hope everyone has a wonderful week!

it's fall ya'll!

God is amazing at giving us 4 seasons to look forward to each year. I love aspects of each season, but my love for Fall out weighs them all! Yesterday, September 22, marked the first official day of fall. I absolutely love fall. As I left my other love, Kroger, I was thinking of all the fallish things that I love so much. I thought that I could make a list a 500 long, so I am gonna go for it.

Why I love Fall:

1. Beautiful trees in Auburn, AL

2. Pumpkin bread

3. Fall decorations (no witches, please!)

4. Weather getting cooler

5. Fall clothes

6. CANDY, but especially, candy corn

7. Pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks 

8. Pumpkin smelling candles

9. Breaking out the scarves and fall-like accessories

10. Auburn football (college football, in general)

11. Experimenting with pumpkin recipes (more to come!)

12. Time with family

13. Thanksgiving meal 

14. Engaged to my wonderful husband (October 17)

15. The farm

16. Roasted pumpkin seeds

17. Cute trick-or-treaters at my door

18. The sight downtown Auburn on Halloween night (what are people thinking?!?)

19. Being able to run more than 3 miles without having a heat stroke

20. Pumpkin spice flavored coffee creamer

Ok, so I guess I can't come up with 500 reasons why I love fall, but I do believe it is the MOST wonderful time of the year! I am sure I will think of more as soon as I post this, but I think 20 will get the point across. I hope to try more pumpkin recipes this fall, and I will be sure to share.

Nathan Angelo sings a song dedicated to Autumnal equinox, and of course I listened to it yesterday as I went to work, but it did not get me near as excited about fall as it usually does, because when I got into my car it was a whopping 98 degrees outside. Hopefully, God will give us grace, and give us cooler weather! I can tell its coming because on my way home today from Montgomery, the leaves were falling!! Yay! I hope to capture some of the Auburn trees with my camera and I will be sure to post, the best description I can give its beauty is that its so colorful you would think it was springtime! Enjoy fall!

i love weekends.

We had a full-house this weekend with Joseph's brother, Wesley, and his girlfriend, Leah, and our friend, Eric all stayed with us. We had a good time Friday night, celebrating Nichole's completion of her COMPS for school by going to Sky Bar. Well, to say the least it was terribly crowded and Joseph and I were in bed BEFORE midnight. :) Aside from the crowded bar, we enjoyed spending time with friends, away from school work.

Joseph has a HUGE test Friday. He has been working non -stop preparing for this test. He even woke up at 7:30 Saturday morning (I guess going to bed early paid off for him!) to study before we went to the tailgate. I am so proud of him! I decided to wake up an go for a run, hoping that the weather would feel like it did the last time there was a home game at Auburn, boy was I wrong!! It was so hot Saturday.

Joseph and I had such a great time tailgating. We have such great friends and we truly enjoyed making our rounds. We did our usual tailgate party with Suzanne and her crew. I made boiled peanuts this weekend and learned a new (and better) way of boiling peanuts! I put them in the crock pot. It was so easy. I did have to boil them down the old-fashioned way for about an hour so that all could fit! Once I did that I put the crock pot on high for about 5 hours. They were a great treat for us to sample when we got home from the bar! Here are a few pics from our tailgate.

Suzanne and her wonderful boyfriend, Shane. Shane made jello shots for the occasion. Let me tell you, whatever Shane does with alcohol, he does well! Last home game he made some concoction called "voodoo juice" It was delicious! Now, he didn't make ordinary jello shots this week, of course. Here is his recipe:

orange jello

cranberry juice

peach schnapps

vodka

THEY WERE AMAZING!!

The Drake boys- Wesley, Ben and Joseph

My beautiful friend, Brittany. We stopped by the Jackson-Thornton (where Brittany will be employed in August!) tailgate. We saw a lot of people we knew there! 

This weekend Auburn played the Clemson Tigers. I am not a huge football watcher, even my beloved Auber Tigers, but this weekend, I was unusually glued to the TV, until about the 3rd quarter, when things got exciting. I woke up (haha) with a score of 24-24, and I was like WHAT?!?! So yeah, close game I hear! I did get to see the lucky over-time win. Overall, this weekend was great and I even made it to the gym on Sunday! Go me... not really.

priorties.. psh.

Today I come home and I was completely exhausted, so I ate before I went to the gym (which I never do that) and when I came home instead of learning about some intense medical nutrition therapy I decide to bake homemade cookies and to learn more about my camera. I found the BEST chocolate chip cookie recipe known to man. I found it online from allrecipes.com, which is a great source to find any recipe, but they are not always good, so I was quite surprised at the outcome of these cookies! I made them especially for Miss Nichole Ross, who will be taking a huge exam Friday.

The recipe goes:
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 stick of butter
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cup AP flour
1/2 tsp baking SODA
1 tsp hot water
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven at 350 degrees.
Cream butter and sugars. Add egg and vanilla. Dissolve baking soda with hot water. Add mixture and add salt. Mix together flour and chocolate chips. Bake for about 10-12 minutes and you have PERFECT chocolate chip cookies!!
Here's a picture of the creation.

For my graduation, Joseph bought me a VERY nice camera, a Cannon EOS Rebel XS, to be exact. We have truly enjoyed it, especially during all the wedding festivities and honeymoon. We automatically noticed how great of pictures the camera takes compared to the rinky dink little digital camera we had before. My wonderful friend, Brittany, inspired me yet again! to learn more about my camera. So another thing I did tonight was learned more about my camera. I am going to take it to the tailgate Saturday and play with it some more so hopefully I can have some shots to post! Have a good week and WARRRR EAGLE!

long time, no see.

So I told you that I probably wouldn't be too great at all this blogging, but thanks to my wonderful friend Brittany, she has inspired me. Joseph and I FINALLY live in our house- by ourselves. We absolutely love it. I do regret not blogging the whole process, because it was quite an adventure! Aside from our moving experience, we have (I think) finally settled into our new lifestyle. Starting in August, Joseph began pharmacy school at Auburn and I began my dietetic internship in Montgomery. Joseph studies A LOT and I drive A LOT. Ha, no its not that bad, I actually have enjoyed everything about internship- so far! We do love living in Auburn!

For my birthday Joseph gave me a sewing machine. My two best friends, Brittany and Jessica, both have sewing machines, so I told Joseph one day that I just HAD TO HAVE ONE. Well he is awesome and he surprised me for my birthday with one. We came back last Saturday from tailgating ALL day and my brand new sewing machine is waiting at my front door! I was really really excited about it, but a little intimidated by it, so I did not open it right away. It took me until Monday to open it! I opened it, looked at it for about 2 minutes and then put it back in the box. Brittany and I will be having a sewing lesson very soon.

I know I have a ton to update you on, but for now I am content with the progress I have made. I will leave you with a wedding picture. Caleb Chancey did an amazing job! Can you believe it has been over 2 months since we got married?! Time flies when you are having fun.