University of Tennessee

At the end of October we traveled up to Knoxville for Ryan's youngest brother, Nathan's, official visit to UT! We left at midnight on Thursday and got into town at 8am on Friday! You could say we made great time, or something like that! We went to breakfast & shopped around for a little while, and then checked into our hotel. We had a couple hours down time to get ready, and then we were off! We were going going going allll weekend! Lunch with some coaches, touring the campus, touring football facilities, and then dinner with the players & coaches. That was just the first day (2pm-8pm). When we  got back to the hotel and get ready for bed it felt like it was midnight...and it was only 8:30! The next morning we were up and at 'em by 9am for breakfast with the team & coaches, touring more of the school and meeting the dean's of the two college's Nate is interested in, going to the Vol walk, and watching the team warm up on the sidelines. Tennessee played South Carolina that day and unfortunately lost, but as if just being up there didn't make Nathan want to be living there already, we know he got even more excited to be up there after watching that game. The rest of the weekend kept up the same crazy fast pace but it was great for everyone to see and learn about the place Nate will be spending the next 4-5 years! We are very excited for him, and may have even donned that strange shade of orange for him that weekend. But I guess we're warming up to it...at least for the next 4-5 years ;)

Halloween

In the spirit of fall and Halloween, we went pumpkin picking with the Frye's in mid October (see previous post). And then our pumpkin sat. and sat. and sat. We didn't do anything with it! So finally on Monday, such an odd day of the week for Halloween to fall on, we decided we better carve this baby or it was totally pointless to get! Clearly neither of us are artists, but we gave it our best shot! We ended up with an off center smile and one buck tooth haha!