Feeling romantic...

So, I'm feeling romantic today! It's been a really wild week and I just love that today is Valentine's Day and I get to reminisce about all of the wonderful moments, secrets, adventures, etc... that Joe and I have shared.

I looked back at some older photos of us. Here we are...


















1st house!

Married!!!

Wedding Rehersal

Jerusalem

Dead Sea

Masada

We were baptized in the Jordan River, in Yardenit, holding hands.


Nazareth


Mt of Beattitudes (the place where Jesus gave his important sermon on the mountain (Mt 5, Lk 6:20)) Joe and I took communion there.

Capernahum

Sea of Galilee (It is the lowest sweet water lake in the world. The hills around the lake are even higher: 400-500M above the lake's level. This depression is part of the Syrian-African fault line, which includes the Dead Sea.)

On the Mediterranean in Tel Aviv

Hiking Mt. Leconte








Valentine's Day 2005

2004 New Year's Eve

This is the 1st time Joe brought me to Knoxville to see his parent's house.



Thank you, Joe, for making my life so wonderful!! I love being Mrs. Joe Scott!!

Valentine's day par-tay

Thomas' 2-year-old friend, A.j. invited him and Catherine over today for a Valentine Party.

Rachel, A.j.'s supermom made lots of yummy food for us all to enjoy. I call her a supermom because she managed to pull of a fantastic party for a house full of adults and diaper-wearing, nap-needing, sippy cup-sucking toddlers. You go girl!!

Here are pics from the day...


(this little boy is NOT Thomas)

I love coupons!

This is what I got for free tonight between Walgreens, Rite Aid, CVS and Publix (the sugar was the penny item)

The total was $58.26. I actually ended up making a little over $3 by using coupons and checking out the sales.



I went to Publix on the way home and saved $40 using coupons and buying things that were advertised on sale- all things I actually needed.



I really owe a big "THANK YOU" to Tracy for inspiring me and teaching me the ropes.

These were some sites she recommended to help me get started.
http://www.moneysavingmom.com
http://fiddledeedeeblog.blogspot.com/
http://thecentsiblesawyer.blogspot.com/
http://www.stretchingabuckblog.com/
http://www.faithfulprovisions.com/
http://www.dealseekingmom.com/

Southern Savers is my favorite!!

**Look for all of the Cottonelle .50 cent coupons. At Kroger they always double anything 50 cents or less and they have thier 4 pack for 99 cents--so you get free toilet paper.

Inside the eye of a needle

This is so amazing!

What do moms do all day?

While I can’t wrap my head around the idea that Tacoma was sincere in her below question, if she was, I hope she gives birth to triplets.

Strong-willed ones.

And then has to stay home with them.

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Bucket List

100 THINGS I WANT TO DO
(Things I've done are in BOLD)

1. Start a blog
2. Visit Hawaii
3. See the Harlem Gospel Choir perform
4. Do mission work in Africa
5. Go to Disney World
6. Tour Italy with Joe
7. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
8. Learn a second language
9. Grow my own vegetables & herbs
10. Sleep in an overnight train
11. Pet a kangaroo
12. Run a marathon
13. Ride a gondola in Venice
14. See a total eclipse
15. Piece a quilt
16. Organize my family reunions
17. See an Amish community
18. Serve in a soup kitchen
19. Donate blood
20. Visit a Nazi Concentration Camp
21. See the Changing of the Guard in London
22. Have a motorcycle license and know how to ride
23. See the Grand Canyon
24. Visited the Vatican
25. Own a brand new car
26. Visit the Holy Land
27. Read the entire Bible
28. Visit the White House
29. Sit on a jury
30. Join a book club
31. Have a baby
32. Float in the Dead Sea
33. Travel to Europe with my children and husband
34. Have a good relationship with my youngest sister
35. Be baptized in the Jordan River
36. Learn to play guitar
37. Do medical missions with Joe
38. Give away something of great worth
40. Own a SLR camera
41. Swim with a dolphin
42. Watch the launch of the space shuttle
43. Tell someone the story of my life, sparing no details
44. Be a member of the audience in a TV show
45. Ride a camel into the desert
46. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally
47. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia
48. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich
49. Be someone's mentor
50. Shower in a waterfall
51. Teach someone illiterate to read
52. Be a grandparent
53. Lead someone to Christ
54. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it
55. Sing a great song in front of an audience
56. Create a will
57. Spend a whole day reading a great novel
58. Forgive my parents
59. Spend Christmas on a beach
60. Have my custom-built home
61. Own our home- no mortgage.
62. Look into my children's eyes, see myself, and smile
63. Get a college degree
64. Live to see my great-grandchildren
65. Learn to make sushi
66. Write a song
67. Get Lasik
68. Go to my high school reunion
69. See an active volcano
70. Snow ski
71. Shop at Harrods
72. Be pulled behind a boat on a big giant inner tube, really fast
73. See Ireland with Joe
74. See Germany with Joe
75. Take an Alaskan cruise
76. Visit Australia & New Zealand
76. Visit Central Park
77. Milk a cow
78. Learn to cook authentic Italian cuisine
79. Totally fill up a passport book with stamped pages
80. Have one lifelong friend and confidant
81. Have dinner parties for my neighbors, friends, and family
82. Make my own set of pottery dishes
83. Own a saltwater swimming pool
84. Learn how to pair wine with food
85. Live beneath my means
86. Master the grill
87. Visit Napa Valley
88. Own a dog
89. Try head cheese with some really good French bread and spicy mustard
90. Have a perfectly cooked Kobe beef steak
91. Eat caviar out of a live sea urchin
92. Take a candlelight bath with Joe
93. Take a cross country road trip
94. See Tori Amos in concert
95. Ride a horse
96. Influence someone NOT to get a diamond engagement ring
97. Sponsor a child
98. Host a baby shower
99. Totally organize my whole house
100. Learn to take good photographs