Spinach Dip

I got this recipe from Hayley but I made it for the 1st time for our Halloween Party and it seemed to be a great hit, there wasn't much left. It's easy to make the night before and it's served cold so no heating or anything. It's great to bring with you somewhere since it's so easy and yummy!

Ingredients

1 package Knorr Vegetable recipe mix

10 oz frozen chopped spinach (thawed and squeeze dried)

1 cup of mayo

16 oz sour cream

Mix all ingredients together and chill for 2 hours. Serve in bread bowl.

I used the sweet hawaiian bread pieces to dip in it but you can use pretty much anything you want.

ENJOY!

Happy Halloween

Last night Melissa from work had all of us over for a Halloween Party. She did such a good job decorating. She had about 30 pumpkins and decorations everywhere. Scary music playing, eyeballs in the punch. It was really cute!!! We carved pumpkins and got all dressed up. This year Josh and I didn't want to spend a bunch of money on a store bought costume so he came up with the idea to be a pair of dice (he found in on the cheap and easy Halloween costume website). So he brought home 2 large boxes from work and I bought $16 worth of paint and stuff. Yep, $16 to make our costumes and we had fun making them. They were a hit! Hope everyone has a safe and Happy Halloween!

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Inspiration

My cheerleaders minus a few
Mile 5-still feeling pretty good
About to cross the finish line and about to die!
Meredith, Jason, Me, Mom and Josh
Me and my mom, she got me flowers!

Lacy and Darby's blogs about the Breast Cancer Race made me think back to when I ran the Atlanta Half Marathon. It will be a year ago on Thanksgiving. Praise the Lord I am not training right now like I was last year. Every day I had to run or at least walk. Running that race was well worth it but I wouldn't say the training was very fun. Anyways, I wanted to post pictures since I wasn't blogging at that time. For those of you that don't know I ran in honor of Robin (my stepmom). She is such a tremendous inspiration to all and especially me during my training and the actual race. I just thought of all she had to endure and I knew if she could win that fight then surely I can run a measly half marathon. I wish I could have been at your walk last weekend Robin, I know it was a very special day for you!

P.S. I ran it in about 2 hours and 45 minutes, here is a link to the results page if you are bored. As you can see I was almost last in my age group (20-24) but who cares...I finished right. I am number 338 http://www.atlantatrackclub.org/at03072.htm.

Lunch with the Adams Family

I love this picture!

Lacy makes me feel short!

On Sunday we got to eat lunch with Jeremy, Lacy and Kiley in Jacksonville. We had a great time visiting and of course loving on little Kiley. I know it wasn't long but we are thankful we got to spend the time that we did especially since we didn't get to see you guys in Knoxville. Thanks for coming out on your Sunday to spend time with us!

Go Dawgs!

How excited is Josh!!!!

Well this weekend Josh and I made the trip to Jacksonville for our 1st Georgia vs. Florida game. Needless to say it was worth the trip. What a great game!! As you know I am a VOL fan but I got all dressed up in Red and Black and cheered the Dawgs on the whole time. Partly for Josh and partly because TN really needed GA to win. We went with our friends Daniel and Morgan and about 20 other people, some we knew and some we didn't. We spent Saturday at the Bulldog Pavilion and had great seats we got at face value from Daniel's dad. It was a great time and we were so excited for a victory at our first game. Go Dawgs....Sic Em!

Monthly Madness

One of my fun roles here at work is being in charge of "Monthly Madness". Once a month we like to recognize our girls for such hard work and even lift their spirits if it hadn't been a great month. So since July we have had little parties here in the office, a mexican fajitas bar, chick-fil-a day (cows, milkshakes and nuggets), spa day (15 min massages here in the office). I'm not sure why I haven't taken pictures until now but I will start doing that from now on. Anyways the point of this blog is because today we had our October monthly madness, Fall Picnic. We ordered gourmet boxed lunches and gave each of the girls small pumpkins for their desk and a bag with little Halloween goodies and candy. It's great to have this time because for the most part we are all business around here so it's nice to relax every once in awhile and treat the girls. Here is a picture of our spread before they devoured it and a picture of the lobby decorations I did. Like I said, this is one of my fun roles!

Poor Dozer

For some reason Dozer has a sore on his paw and during the day he has been licking it raw. We had to resort to his boot. We first bought these because he drags his feet when he walks and sometimes his nails get too short and will bleed. If you look close you will notice the fray on the end from where he drags it. Anyways, if anyone knows of a home remedy for helping his sore get better please let me know.

Also Dozer is leaving to go stay with his Granny for 1 week today. Hopefully he won't get into as much as he did last time. Dozer can't wait to come stay and cuddle with you Granny!

Flag Football

Sunday Josh had a big flag football game with guys from Chick-fil-a. They were all IT guys but divided up by the teams they work with so it was pretty competitive and there had been a lot of talk leading up to this. Luckily Josh's team pulled off the win, they were very excited. Then we went to a cookout at Robert's. Way to go Josh! Unfortunately he had to sacrifice some strawberries and some other minor injuries in order to win. I guess you gotta do what you gotta do!

Oh and if you need any ideas for Christmas for Josh he could use a nice pair of gym shorts. He is the one in the picture wearing the funky patterned swimming trunks. Only Josh! :)

Max and Travis Visit

There is just something about Atlanta and people wanting to come visit this city. At the last minute our friends from high school Max and Travis came down to visit since we were actually in town. We had a great time just hanging out, watching a terrible TN game, and having a nice dinner on Saturday night. Here are a few pictures from the visit.

Golf Tournament

Josh is so excited because today he is playing in a big golf tournament here in Atlanta. Him and 3 other IT guys from Chick-fil-a are playing at Atlanta National Golf Club, a REALLY nice course. I wish I got to be out on the golf course on a Monday morning. Anyways, hopefully he will play well and win a cool prize or something. GO JOSH! Hope your having fun! Here is a link to the tournament website. http://www.metroatlantachamber.com/macoc/members/golf_highlights07.html

Nothing to do...

Dozer climbing on the couch
Dozer playing the cute card so he can get a treat
Sleepy Dozer hiding his face under the covers
Me and Josh cheering on the VOLS, well not Josh, he was just watching

Well we had a much needed relaxing weekend. We ordered pizza on Friday and watched a movie. On Saturday we went out to watch the UT game since it was on PPV and back home to watch the Georgia game, and Sunday I didn't even lift a finger. We enjoyed it while it lasted...this weekend Josh has a flag football game and one, maybe two friends are coming to visit and the next weekend we are going to the UGA/FL game. Hope everyone has a great week!

LAUNDRY

I know this is bad but this is what happens when you get so busy and travel alot. I made them into piles and am doing them one day at a time so I don't get overwhelmed and never want to do laundry again. Anyways thought this was funny, well actually it's not for me anyways. Also please keep my mom in your prayers this week. She is in Charleston with her family on vacation so pray that she has safe travels and a great time!

Silly Dozer

Yesterday at Mom's Dozer was making the funniest face. He has been known to stick out his tongue from time to time but this time he crinkled it and you could see his teeth. He was just walking around with this silly face like he didn't even realize it. He is a picture...silly dog!

Maybe this is his grumpy face...since Georgia lost!

Sweet Victory!

Carrie, Me, Hayley
Me and Jason
Liam (Carrie's nephew)
Go Vols, Boo Georgia!!
Poor Josh! Maybe next year babe!

I had such a great time on Saturday at the TN game. It was my first one of the season and and of course I was so thrilled that we beat Georgia!!!! Josh on the other hand was not as happy as you can see in the pictures! GO VOLS!!! On Saturday we went by a couple of tailgates, I got to see my best friend since childhood, Carrie. She now lives in Cleveland, Ohio. I also got to meet her adorable nephew, Liam. I got to hang out with my brother all day and I was very excited about that! It was a great day and a sweet victory!!

Brimer Family Vacation

Last week we got to take one last vacation of the summer. Josh's family got a house in Myrtle Beach and 13 of us went. We had a great time relaxing by the beach, the guys went golfing and of course the huge family meals each night...we ate very well! It was great to spend that much time with little Bella, she did such a good job being in a new environment with so many people. Thank you Bob and Bev for a wonderful trip, we had a blast!

Thank you Mom for watching Dozer, I know he loved being there and playing in your yard!

Georgia vs. Ole Miss

Me and Morgan at the tailgate
Josh so excited to be at the game
Being a great girlfriend and supporting the Dawgs (TN wasn't playing that weekend)
The stadium
UGA-my favorite part of the GA games

Two weekends ago Josh and I drove to Athens so he could go to the Ole Miss game. He was so excited to be back in Athens! I must say I was too, it is a great little town! We did some tailgating with our friends and had a great time. The best part was how we got tickets. We didn't have them when we got there and were only going to pay face value. I happened to see this older man walk by with two tickets so Josh went to talk to him. He came back with tickets at face value, they were his season tickets but he happened to come across even better ones so he was just trying to get rid of them. The best part though was that they ended up being literally 5 rows behind our friends so we ended up getting to sit next to each other. It was a great day and Georgia won. From there we were off to the beach! Here are some pics!