First Day of Spring

Settles Bridge Park

Travis and I decided to go to the Chattahoochee River last weekend. It was a little cold out, but we enjoyed a picnic lunch and Bailey had a blast!

Let's see who I married...

For fun the other day, I looked up the meaning of Travis' name...

Travis is French in origin and is derived from a Norman French occupational name (from traverser to cross) for someone who collected a toll from users of a bridge or a particular stretch of road.

So, Travis = toll collector.

Hurt is a variant of Hart. In German, it is a topographic name from Middle High German hurt ‘hurdle’, ‘woven fence’.

However, Travis feels that he should follow the Dutch version (based on his ancestry). The Dutch version is: nickname, presumably for a pugnacious or aggressive person, from Middle Dutch hort, hurt ‘strike’, ‘blow’, ‘attack’

So, Hurt = pugnacious or aggressive person.

Therefore, TRAVIS HURT = TROLL.

Unfortunately, troll is what I came up with. Trolls are aggressive and they guard bridges where they demand tolls.

What's odd is that Travis works as a traffic engineer on traffic lights. He truly is controlling when people are allowed to move across roadways.

Chattanooga

Travis and I went to Chattanooga for Valentine's Day weekend. We were limited in our activities because we took Bailey with us and it was snowing, but we did get to see Rock City.

Here we are being silly...

It was beautiful in the snow, but we were not able to see any panoramic views.

Fortunately, we were able to see some views because we went hiking the day before and the skies were clear.

Winter 2009

This year, we planned a big trip to see Travis' family and friends. We started off by spending Christmas with his family...

While there, we built a snowman!

We also went snowboarding... which I had a really hard time with, but Travis did well.

After visiting his family, we headed to California to meet up with his friends for the New Year. Since the airfare was affordable and I also wanted to see his college town, we first flew into Los Angeles for a night.

The next day, we rode the train to San Luis Obispo and I enjoyed the train ride. The seats were really comfortable and the view constantly changed. My favorite parts were watching all of the cars have to stop to wait for us to pass and the sunset while riding along the coast.

While at Cal Poly, we stayed with Charlie and I got to see where Travis went to school. The only pictures I have are from the beach...

After a night at Cal Poly, we headed to Lee's house in San Fransisco to see all of Travis' college friends. We also had a chance to see the city before catching our flight home.

Halloween 2009

Here we are... It's nothing exciting because we recylced our costumes from last year. They were good costumes anyway, and I didn't have time to make new ones because we were busy moving into the new house.

We did create new pumpkins; though, and I worked especially hard on mine this year so I am including a picture of it...

Homeowners!

Travis and I bought a house! Since I am so behind on updating my blog, I now have a picture of it to post from when it was snowing...

Shortly after buying it, we noticed this sign on a road that leads to the back entrance of the neighborhood. Someone put stickers on the sign... Isn't is cute - the cow has boots!