Georgia Days

Joyeuse fête de toussaint! (Haha, that's kind of a contradiction!) Alas, my posting has been non-existent since the big move. We're loving GA (though not the 90 degree weather we had for weeks which didn't compliment our broken air conditioner...). We've spent lots of time settling-in (I still have boxes to unpack), seeing our families (we've ended-up in Fayette County every weekend since we've come, though we keep trying NOT to make it a weekly trip), and getting to know our ward (which is awesome. AWESOME!). Sterling serves as a ward missionary, specifically catering to the large Brazilian population here (our Bishop even asked us to attend the Portuguese sacrament meeting that happens once a month in our building. I'm seriously going to have to brush-up on my...Portuguese?? Yeah, I definitely never had any to begin with!), and I'm now a counselor in the YW Presidency...again. At least it will still be less work than in Chicago! I'm actually really excited about it.

Ethan celebrated Halloween by going trunk-or-treating at church Saturday night and ceremoniously going out the back door and up the front steps of my parents' house to ask for candy on Sunday evening, though he was more intrigued by the door handle than the kit-kats. Go Ethan!). Because the kid is obsessed with the theme music from Star Wars (we're still not sure why), he went as Yoda this year, and we were thrilled he kept his costume on all night! Sterling was a LOST survivor, straight from Oceanic flight #815, and I went as...the amazing and uber-talented Ginny Weasley. Here's why: At the age of 26 I finally began my obsession with the Harry Potter books. I read the first one in high school, loved it, promptly became too busy to continue the series, and never finished, though I'd seen movies 1 through 5. I read the second book right before Ethan was born, enjoyed it, promptly became too busy to continue, and here we are. In September, not wanting to have completely missed the boat of this pop-culture phenomenon, and knowing the 7th movie would soon be released, I finally dove-in to the rest of the books headfirst, and I've been blissfully swimming in them ever since! After finishing a book, Sterling and I would watch that movie (I've found that I'm a bit of a purist, and much prefer the depth of the books to the movies, despite the films being well-made. And the 6th movie's director has been my favorite by far, so I'm thrilled he's doing the 7th as well). I've just started book 7 (excuse me, year 7), and I'm having a hard time with the realization that with every page I turn, I'm one more page nearer the end of the "final installment of the epic tale of Harry Potter." Seriously, I might cry. At least the film in broken into two so the end won't be so abrupt. I LOVE HARRY POTTER!