Charlotte is AMAZING!!!

Four more reasons why we love living in Charlotte:

1.  So, I know that I am not the most knowledgeable when it comes to politics, but since my wonderful husband insists on watching Fox News almost every night and almost hyperventilates if he misses Sean Hannity's talkshow, I sort-of know that John McCain is the Republican presidential candidate. :) Needless to say, when Jared and I saw a small group of people (and by small, I mean like 5 people) standing on the side of the road holding signs and yelling, "Vote Ron Paul for President," we couldn't help but laugh. I think that's one of the cool things about living in this area...there is always some political event of sorts going on. Obama and Hillary have both visited this area more than once in the last month or two and as one radio show host said this week, "It's always interesting when the circus (aka...the campaign people) come to town."

2. Friday night we drove down a road about 10 minutes away from our house and discovered a wonderful park/boat access area and another lake! :) It is so peaceful and beautiful there!! I have a feeling we will be frequenting that spot a lot! 

3.  We have baby birds!! The eggs in the nest right outside of our back door hatched sometime this week and Saturday we discovered that there are four baby birds in the nest!  They are so cute!!!  I actually saw the mama bird feed one of them yesterday...it was a beautiful sight!

4.  We think we found a church!!!  We went to this church today that is absolutely amazing!! We were so blessed and walked out of the church quite refreshed. The church is huge!  We went to the 8:30 service and there were probably 1,000 or more people there...it was packed!!!  We are going to try to get involved in a class or small group so that we can get to know some people. 

Things here are going well and we are preparing for another busy week at work.  Jared is leaving on Thursday to go to Darlington, SC for the weekend (for the race). It's always bittersweet when he goes to a race...it's great because he loves going, but it's sad because we are apart.

Anyway, we hope everyone has a blessed week!