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

Handmade Ravioli

It's a wonder that we aren't huge blimps! We have blogged about food more than anything since we've moved. The portions are huge but 9 time out of 10 we can't eat it all. What can you say we love food!

Anyways, the other night, actually it was Easter dinner, we made homemade ravioli! We didn't want to spend $30 on a pasta machine to roll out the dough so we used a rolling pin instead. Wow, what a mistake! It was very hard to get the dough rolled out into thin sheets. After awhile, we decided that thin sheets weren't going to happen. So, we ended up with fat ravioli.

The pasta machine wasn't the only thing we didn't have. We looked all over town and couldn't find a ravioli form so we used a fork instead to seal the edges. Needless to say, our ravioli looked a little weird and none of them were the same size.

We made spinach ravioli with a ricotta, marjoram, and parsley filling with an artichoke, tomato sauce. Everything was homemade. It was delicious.
-A

Farkle, our new found love

We got a new game introduced to us last Christmas and wanted to share it with everyone. It is really easy and very fun! Thanks Mark and Sandi.

-A

A new decoration

In January 2006 Matt got this idea that he would make me a new decoration for the kitchen while I was in Mexico and surprise me with it when I got home. Well, he started the project but never finished it. It wasn't perfect so he gave up. I, on the other hand don't care that it isn't perfect and actually prefer it that way and wanted it done. So, when we moved we didn't really have a place to store it and I finished it!
-A

The ferocious Tiger

Upon request of one of our regular viewers, here are some pictures of our ferocious cat. Plus we thought everyone might enjoy the pictures as well.

Tiger survived the long journey and has settled nicely in the new apartment. He loves the staircase! His new game is to hide behind the highest set of rungs that are head height if you are standing on the lower level. He waits for one of us to walk by and tries to attach us through the rungs. His legs are too short to actually get us. Even if he did it wouldn't hurt because he is declawed in the front.

What a cute kitty!

-A