Oh, the month of May

Wow! The month of May has flown by. A couple of my good friends are getting married exactly one month from today and I have yet to finish their gift. I'm sure most of you know how that goes, 'oh it is a ways away, I can give it a few more days!' But now it's getting to be crunch time!

This month my time has be occupied by Harry Potter. I have had the first 4 books for years. I started collecting them shortly after they became popular but I never read them. I would always start the first one and never found time again to continue reading it until a year later. By that time I had forgotten what I had read previously, so it turned out to be a never ending battle and I gave up. Now, that I no longer have class and homework to do, I have rediscovered them. I love them and I'm reading the 5th book now. I haven't decided if I'm going to go on to the 6th book right away or wait until the 7th comes out on paperback, which is about 6 weeks after the hardback comes out. I hear the 6th book leaves you hanging. Anyone got any suggestions?
-A

Fall Creek Falls

Tuesday Ashley and I drove about an hour and a half to Fall Creek Falls State Park, the home of eastern United States' tallest waterfall, plunging 256 feet. The park sits at the junction of two largish creeks(almost rivers), Fall creek and Cane creek. There are miles of hiking, horseback riding, and biking trails (thankfully they are all separate) which wind through a moist Oak and Hickory forest.
We did 2 hikes on Tuesday. First the very scenic Gorge Overlook trail, which gives a few expansive views the northeastern edge of the Cumberland plateau, and then the 1/2 mile Cable trail, which descends 300 feet down a rocky face to the bottom of the falls.
After we climbed out, we were beat. We went to a Mexican restaurant for dinner and Margaritas, YUM!
-M

Pottery pieces

I'm going to start this post with a big sorry! We realize that we have not been the best at keeping this up to date, and we're going to try our hardest to get better at it.

I thought you all would be interested in seeing the pieces that Matt and I have painted at Painted Clay Studio (the place I work). Painting pottery is so much fun and surprisingly enough, it is a stress reliever!
-A