Weekend Wrap-Up

Happy Monday, Everyone! :) We had a nice, quiet weekend here in good ole Mississippi. But we are really looking forward to next weekend. Derek gets a four-day weekend and the Dawgs play the first game of the season on Saturday...woohoo! We are really enjoying living in the land of the SEC again and the fact that we'll actually get to see most of the games televised!
We've got Uga (he's near the bush) & our Georgia flag hanging proudly in front of our house (even though our neighbors are Techies!) in preparation for this weekend's game!

Anywho..back to our weekend. We had our neighbors over for homemade pizza on Friday night, and we had a lot of fun! We are loving the fact that our neighborhood actually feels like a neighborhood here. Most of our neighbors in our condo in VA would barely muster a smile when you passed them, so this is a really nice change of pace for us!

We were scheduled to have our maternity pictures taken on the beach early Saturday morning..but Mother Nature had other plans. We ended up having a very wet weekend, so hopefully we'll be able to reschedule and have our pictures taken later this week. Speaking of Mother Nature, we watched lots of documentaries about Hurricane Katrina since this weekend marked the 5th anniversary of "the storm" (this is how everyone who lives here refers to Katrina). It's amazing to think how far the Gulf and Keesler Air Force Base (which was 95% destroyed) has come in 5 years! Derek has always been obsessed with the weather, but he definitely watches the tropical activity a little closer now that we have seen first-hand what could happen. It made it very real for us when I went to my first doctor's appointment here and we had to choose an alternate hospital to deliver our baby at in the event of a hurricane...crazy to even think about!

We mostly stayed closed to home this weekend and got little projects done around the house...including hanging Baby Girl Smith's name above her crib! :) Pictures to come soon!