Hurricane Irene

We were "hit" with yet another natural disaster this weekend. I say "hit" lightly because well she kinda changed directions and didn't really hit us at all. Hurricane Irene made her way into town Saturday. They were expecting us to get hit pretty hard, people over reacted in my opinion.

Allll the water in Giant was gone as you can see from the above photo, people were filling up gas cans with gas, people were freaking out.

We did end up loosing power for about 2-3 hours on Saturday night, and of course it was right as I stated to fix dinner. So I had to get creative.

I had to cook over a Sterno. Sesame seed chicken over a Sterno, I'm kinda proud of myself :)

After dinner we decided to play Mexican Tray. Its a game of dominoes and it lasted 5 hours.

The next morning, praise the Lord, the only damage we had was this little guy.

Not sure where he came from, but he was lying perfectly on our stairs...hope he isn't to important, since we just trashed him :)

And on Monday night Brett started his last first day of a Fall semester for his Master program:)

And since he is so wonderful he takes pictures for me:)I'm so proud of him and thankful for his dedication and hard work! He's almost done, graduation is in 9 months!!

A First

I survived my first earthquake today...True story. I was sitting at work, felt the building shake, looked at my co-worker, said do you feel that, then everyone started screaming "Earthquake!!" and running around. I of course found this funny, stayed in my seat and laughed..then ran to a doorway. Some people ran outside, others just feel on the floor. I'm thankful that it wasn't that bad and that we can laugh about it. But it was kinda scary now to think about. It was a 5.9 and We survived. And just for fun a photo from the quake today.

Just kidding, this photo is going around on the web. We do over react...

On other news Brett starts his fall semester next week, so summer is officially almost over, bummer.

Where oh where have the Jeschke's been...

We're back! Sorry for such a long delay, I have a whole list of excuses but I will spare you those. Well all but one, my computer died:( (pretty good excuse right?) and well since Brett uses his often times for school, my blogging becomes lower on the list. Good news is I have the most amazing husband ever and he got me a brand new beautiful blue (the cutest little thing) Netbook for Valentine's/an early birthday present so I can now keep in touch with the World Wide Web!

Since June we have had lots of fun! We celebrated my 23 birthday in July, which I can say without any hesitation was my most interesting birthday in the past 23 years. I had sharp pains in my lower left abdomen, and my doctor thought it may have been my apendix, so I got sent immediatly to the hospital for a CAT scan, (which is quite possibly the worst thing ever, due to the yummy drink they give you), which then sent me to the ER. See interesting right? Brett was a trooper and even thou we didn't get to go out to the fancy dinner I had desired, we made do with a local sandwhich shop then he had made a cake for me at home that we had for dessert.

In August we celebrated our 3rd year anniversary! I can't believe we have been married for over three years, time flies! This year we spent the weekend with friends at Smith Mountain Lake. Then we headed to Harrisonburg, got a hotel room, and dinner. We were able to walk around JMU's campus and enjoy some of our old favorite spots and the next day we finally made it to Redish Knob (Brett promised me when we were dating that someday he would take me:))

September was a blur, Brett stated Grad school, we went on a camping trip (with our new camping gear!) and in October another best friend from home got married. Jess and JJ had a beautiful wedding and it was such a fun weekend!

Halloween this year was a blast, I usually hate getting dressed up as something I'm not, but this year was a little different. My friend Caitlin and I headed to target the day of in search of the perfect "couples" costume for Brett and myself. Well I did indeed find the perfect costumes!!

Also in October we were finally able to go to a JMU football game with some of my girlfriends, we tailgated and had tons of food!

November was a slow month we pretty much laid low and prepared for the upcoming holidays. The early weeks of December were filled with lots of work for me and resting for Brett and he began his winter break. This year we headed to Martinsville for Christmas and had a wonderful time with the Knighten clan. The day after Christmas Brett and myself along with my parents went on a sleigh ride through the festival of lights! it was very cold but so much fun!!

We rang in the New year dog sitting, I woke up with 5 seconds left until the ball dropped! I also began a new project, Project 365. It has been my goal to take one photo a day for the next year, so far I think I'm doing good:) and will catch you up on that next.

We just recently celebrated Brett's 26th Birthday!! Its so much fun to celebrate with him! I had to work a couple of hours that morning but I was home before he woke up and was able to make him Breakfast, and we hung out for the rest of the day then went out to Outback for dinner.

Birthday Cake at Midnight (this is a tradition of ours!)

Oh and I made him a Hobbit Hole Cake:)

And well today is Valentine's Day and as you already know I am loving my Valentine and my new computer <3.>

Ok, so I will try to keep up better, now that I have no longer have the excuse of no computer.