Cravings...

Yes, I have a craving. No, it's not what you're thinking. I crave BOSTON. If you remember, I was a professional airline traveler in 2007 as I had visited 7 major airports in 4 trips to Colorado on 4 different airlines :) so I signed up for those Expedia deal email thingys. Anyways, last weekend I got one of those "last minute fare" emails and low and behold....a $79 round trip deal from Atlanta to Boston. DANG IT!!!! I told Bradley the next week and he had this look of amazement. "Why didn't you tell me?!", he says. Well, so after that I am really craving a view of the city, the Charles, fun restaurants, GREAT WEATHER, and a Sox game :) What I wouldn't give to go back and stay for about a week.

When I dream, I dream big (and expensive, unfortunately). Just thought I'd share my desire to travel again!

Love to you all. We go to pick up Dansby Friday so I'll post again sometime early next week, hopefully.

New Addition to the Kirkland Family

After much anticipation, reasearch, reading, waiting, hoping, and searching, we've found our first little guy that we'll be adopting June 5. He's a full blooded German Rottweiler puppy whose name will be Dansby, after THE Karlos Dansby, who is Bradley's all-time favorite Auburn football player. Now, before any of you freak out, I'll do some damage control about the breed. Rotties as a whole are NOT, I repeat NOT dangerous or "bad" when they ARE TRAINED CORRECTLY. I hope you caught the emphasis there. The horror stories of any breed, chihuahuha or rottweiler are caused, most every time, by neglegent or ignorant owners who do not invest the necessary time and effort into training and raising a calm, submissive, and obedient member of the family. We have read books, watched instructional dvds, talked to other rottie owners and trainers, and are thoroughly prepared to take on the challenges and rewards that accompany owning a Rottie. Now that the disclaimer and/or preventative crowd-control has been put in place, I'll tell you a bit about him.















Right now, Dansby is just over four weeks old. He was born on Friday, April 17th, in Clarkesville, GA to the wonderful breeders, Bill and Susan Johns, at Little Brook Farms. This past weekend we went to "meet" our little guy and pick him out. There were two boys in the littler and we got to choose. Both little guys were really cute. Dansby is a little more laid back than his brother, we think. While the other little guy was running, well, waddling around everywhere, Dansby stayed close to us most of the time to sniff us and climb all over us. They did play so much that they fell asleep about three times in the hour and a half that we were there, haha. It's very true that babies sleep a lot! I'm prepared (and hopeful) that he sleeps most of the 3 and 1/2 hr drive home when we get him. He's about 5 lbs right now and should be significantly bigger when we pick him up in 2 and a half weeks. He won't be fully grown until about three years of age at which time he should weight 110-120 lbs. His dad is pushing 120 but his mom is a little lighter, so we'll have to wait and see where he ends up. The males are significantly larger than females, so we're expecting big. Anyway, he's cute and he looks like a little baby bear right now. He'll change so much over the next few months, so look for future posts. For now, I'm going to post pictures of him from this past weekend and a picture of his treat jar that I made him today. Can you tell we're excited?!

HOUSE!

Ok, we close on our house this coming Tuesday, April 14, on our 10 month anniversary. I can't believe we've been married almost a year. Anyways, I went to the house this past week to do the "walk through" to make sure everything was good to go. I am going to post more pics of the inside when we get things moved in and settled, but I just wanted to post a picture of the front of the house for now.

*This is for you, Chris!

I want a baby...

Ok, well not a literal baby, trust me. But here's a picture of the furry little guy that we both can't wait to get. I don't think we'll be getting him any time soon, but I can dream, right? Anyways, this is a picture of our future "first born" little one :)

Grad School!

...is consuming my entire life. Maybe I'll be able to post again once I graduate....in a year and a half. :) Here's a look at my stack of books for this semester.

Praise God!

After 5 weeks of stress and anxiety, I found out today that I have been accepted into Auburn's Masters of Education program for January! This is something that we've been praying could happen, and the Lord has really opened the doors for me. So, I'll start the graduate program in January and it is a 40+ hr degree course. I should finish in May 2010. It seems like a long way away, but it's only two years and it will be well worth the effort in the end. Anyways, we're both very excited (me especially) and I can't wait until Jan 5! (I never thought I would be this excited about going back to school!) Please pray that we will be able to manage everything this Spring. Baseball season starts at the end of February and Bradley works a good bit from then until the end of May. Just pray that we will have good time management skills, as well as the financial ability to pay for school without taking out loans. We need Him to provide in a way that only He can do. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers! These past six months have been the best of our lives!

Family Picture

Here's our first Christmas picture of our newly expanded family :)