I told you I would post this...

Today is my 15th anniversary! We are going to go the the Creation Museum in Northern KY on Saturday as a continuation of the staycation, but last night we dropped Grant with his amazing great grandma and headed to Movie Tavern for eats and a movie, then off to a local Lexington coffee shop, Common Grounds. Oh, that's sweet you might be saying. Well, as Grant is my witness, here is how our amazing evening conversation started:

Jenn: You know John, I need to start weight training again instead of just running.
John: Yes you do (silence...)
Jenn: (assimilating the silence...) What is that supposed to mean?!?
John: (in his head, "i didn't mean how that came out")I'm just saying you don't have to be so hard on your body to stay slim. You won't have to run miles and miles...
Jenn: Are you saying my body feels flabby?
John: You are perfect! (actually he didn't say this but this is what I thought in my head :-)

oh, i gets better. Now mind you we had a good laugh out of this but I will end this blog with a moral...
(in the car)Jenn: You know for our 20th anniversary I want to get Rejuvaderm for these lines in my face (pointing around my mouth, don't point them out when I see you)
John: Don't you mean ReBOOBaderm (as he laughs at himself because the word association is so close, NOT)
Jenn: What is that supposed to mean? (didn't I already say that just 30 minutes before? Yep.)
John: (Still laughing) I don't mean that, I just thought it was so close sounding, so similar...ha ha ha ha ha (and he says again, "Get it,ReBOOBaderm")
Jenn: (silence)

15 second delay of laughter by John and now Grant

Jenn: Grant, please take note that when you are married 15 years, do not make jokes about the size of anything on your wife. You will remember this interlude today in the car. That is the moral Grant, don't make fun of your wife ON her anniversary, no matter how true or funny.
Grant: I'm not getting married.

That's another blog.

Seriously, we laughed and all was well. John, when you read this, one of the reasons I wanted to be married to you is because you are funny. You make me laugh and are a comfort for me to be around. Growing old with you is going to be hilarious...now let's go to Cracker Barrell...WEEEEE!

house for sale

since our realtor can't seem to sell our house I thought I would advertise it on my blog. There might be 7 or so people who read it, and albeit they are homeowners, they might have a friend who isn't and lives near Soddy Daisy, TN. I would like to officially start my life in KY with a home and can't do that until it is sold. So please, all seven of you, start advertising.

Summer, think harder because you said you were going to WILL it to sell. Create more WILL.

Jeanne, call one of Jim's ag people and tell them that there are no cows in Chattanooga and they need more.

Everyone else, just pray. In all seriousness, it's the only thing we can do and I need that chapter to close. God knows that though, and so I wait...


I saw the Dark Knight with John and Seth and Candace York and Heath's mouth sounds almost killed me during the movie, but he was amazing. Worth the movie ticket.

Heading off to Historic Casa Cafe again, so get crackin' on the whole house thing!!@!

I've got two tickets to paradise...

Oh Eddie Money, what happend to you? So I continued the "staycation" with Jeanne and her boys and Grant yesterday at the famous Paradise Cove of Lake Reba. It was going well, and by well I mean Grant and Kirt and Jake hanging out with me and Jeanne while we tried to run them off to the slides of death, and I thought, "Staying in Richmond ALLLLL summer isn't so bad." Out of nowhere the whistles blow and we are all asked to evacuate the pool. Why? Someone stooled in the pool! Seriously. Agian. For like the 4th time this summer. We watched them net "it" out of the pool and did they close? No. They shocked the pool and we had to stay out for an hour. MMMMMMMMMM. We bailed out and left because a Legends Game was waiting on Jeanne and her family via me that night.

P.S. Those free tickets scored Jim winning round trip tickets to Chicago. Like they haven't vacationed enough this year...(He "earned" them by beating a woman from California throwing toy planes through a hula-hoop. Wouldn't it have been great if he would have had to actually hula-hoop, do the Cupid's Shuffle, run the bases? If you know him, you can appreciate this)

I'm in MyTime doing homework for my finals week and wanted to plug something I found on the internet. Pandora radio is free internet radio. You get to make your own radio stations and rate your favorite music. I LOVE it.

John and I are going to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary this week. I think that's awesome. Thank all of you who have supported us since we've been back. We're excited about it this week. Grant has asked to not be included in the festivities. What's wrong with him? We are so the coolest to hang out with...

think of the summer's of the past, adjust the bass and let the alpine blast...

If you know the song of the above forementioned, then I applaud you and your taste! I have some pictures now of some of the stuff we've been doing this week. A lot of it was fun and some was just an attempt to "staycation" here in Richmond at the local free events. Last Saturday we went to a send-off celebration of a dear friend of ours, Amanda Bolin, as she embarks on an adventure of a lifetime. She is going to teach Kindergarten in Brazil. Her party was fun and all of our old youth group from John's first two churches were basically there. That is always a kinda weird thing. It's like two worlds colliding. It was a great time and she is going to be dearly missed. She coined the term "crackhead" to me. I would see her right before Sunday School at Red House, when I taught high-school girls, and she would say things like, "What's up crackhead" or "Don't act like a crackhead". I told her its now a term of endearment to me.


She is a crackhead!


We went for a hayride too!



We also took some time to visit the free concert series on Tuesday nights at the park. Some guy named, I don't even know now, was there and he really was good. The really awesome thing was that every person there was like 60 and above. The kids played in the park and I sat and waited on John to come from work. I saw my old aerobics boss there and we talked about his knee replacements and cycling. Then John came and we hung out while the sun went down. The music was nice, not like a Guns-N_Roses concert or anything, but peaceful and relaxing.




So I thought, we should do the free Richmond Historic Downtown walk on Thursday nights to keep this free gravy train rollin'. Well, it was much more fun because Grant and John were acting like crackheads and making all sorts of jokes about our historic town. John once said, "Jenn, I'm afraid someone is going to drive by and be like, dang they weren't gone that long, have they forgotten where they live..." This was basically like a Civil War reenactment but not. Like a play on the streets, but not really. Like a tour of White Hall, but no, not really. We finally left after we hit 1st street and Cassius Clay was telling us of his life and decided we would visit the amazing historic site of Casa Cafe. The historic site of Tsing Tao was too busy for our blood. If you are interested in going, it's every Thursday night at 7 p.m. I don't paint a great picture, unless the art you're thinking of is like Picasso, then it's right on the mark...


I liked her dress!


Did women suffragist wear mini-skirts? In Historic Richmond they did...


We will continue our "staycation" this week with Grant and I going to the pool with Jeanne before she travels the world again and I will be revisiting my favorite vacation spot of the summer, EKU library.

Oh yeah, I did change my hair color this week. That's exciting news. Well, for me. And the geometry test went well. And the midusmmer's night run is in two weeks. So there is plenty of action going on in the Martin house. The girls are in Myrtle Beach with grandparents and its just me, John, and Grant. There is no telling what might happen.

school's out for the summer...

well, in one week anyway. i'm not finished studying for an exam in math, but found some old friends to put in my post. you can check out their blogs in my friends section. amazing people, they are. John, the kids, and I have been doing some fun stuff lately so I'll throw some pics up soon of that. in the meantime...off to talk of geometry and assessment...weeeeee...

"raindrops keep fallin' on my head"

This was the big 4th of July weekend and it got started this year with the Bluegrass 10,000 in Lexington, KY. Me, John, Tyler, Marie, Jeanne, Ragan, Joy (Jeanne's sister-in-law)and Jim all took off at 5:55 a.m. to get there, parked, and in line up. It was supppppeeerrr rainy (which I love to run in) and all of the runner's were so thankful to John (event photographer) and Tyler (event towel boy) to help us along. The race crowd was not as fun as the 1/2 marathon crowd, but the rain didn't stop some from rooting us on. I got to run next to a man dressed as Iron Man (which was crazy since he was in a full costume and I was still breathing hard in running shorts and underarmor). We ended the race with a trip to Panera for some coffee and a bagel. My time, you ask? 66 minutes. I think i've hurt my hip flexor while running this summer and had to walk one mile of the race, but still good time considering I was almost crying from mile 4-5. Marie ran a race for the first time doing this race (not many can say that!) and she ran in with my running partners!! 60 minutes. (I hate her:)

Here are some pictures:


This was my reaction when someone said, "There aren't any porta-potties until the end of the race..." uhhh....


the latest in running fashion...apple scented bags...



this is what crazy looks like on a rainy 4th morning




here I come...66 minutes later...so glad that's over...


and the reason why we run...we run to eat!!!!!

This was so fun and I appreciate john standing in the rain to take pictures (sweet him). Now the Red, White, and Boom event later was not as much fun to stand in the rain at, but I digress.

I'm in week 3 of summer school and am so ready for it to be over! This summer is flying by. John and I are still waiting on the persons to buy our home (that is something all of you can diligently pray for), so until then we are just staying in Waco and trusting God with it. There must be a reason it's not sold yet. Our good friend Amanda is leaving soon for Brazilia to teach Kindergarten and we will get to spend some time with her before she leaves this month. It's amazing to see the missionaries that God is raising up in young people. Ginger Daniels, a friend I used to teach Sunday School with, is coming to KY in August from TX and I am really looking forward to seeing her. She's one of those people who feels like home when you're around her. And she loves me in the Lord in such a unique way. I can hear her rebuke and know it is really from a heart of love and I've needed that lately. She's filling in the gap when no one has been there to do that and I thank God for her.