the noon-free wedding!

walking down the aisle


the raleigh clan

What a sweet weekend! We went to one my best friend's wedding up at the Maggie Valley Resort. Despite the chilly weather, everything was beautiful and a lot of fun. The events included meeting up with old friends, playing a cornhole tournament, feasting on yummy food and relaxing by the fire. Can't ask for a better weekend! Congratulations Amy and Ross!

ummm...need i say more?

as we were enjoying an otherwise wonderful thanksgiving weekend at the soderbergs home in salisbury, we suddenly became aware of the neighbor's peculiar looking statue...

blacksburg weekend

meredith and virginia at VT


aidan

Blacksburg, VA is the home of the Hokies. We visited the burg over the weekend and had fun, relaxing fellowship with some old friends. Meredith and I feasted over pumpkin chocolate chip muffins at my favorite coffee shop called Bollos. The time was sweet! We also had the pleasure of meeting sweet Aidan Andrews, a new addition to our friends, John and Catherine. What a handsome boy! And if the weekend wasn't perfect enough, VT pulled out another football victory...go Hokies!

home renovations continue...

the fun part_demolition

the realization that demolition is over...and i have to fix the gaps...

quite a while later with some help from an electrician...

virginia has been very patient with the mess...and though i'm not quite finished, we both are happy with the new space!! now that we have a true living room everyone needs to come visit us!!

Virginia conquers the Baltimore Marathon!

Post marathon...what running beauties!


"What am I doing?...Where is that finish line?"



Watch carefully...watch for the woman shuffling her feet...aka Virginia at mile 26.


So...I finally did it. I've been saying I've wanted to run a marathon for a long time, but never have until Oct. 13, 2007. Thanks to my running buddy, Lauren, I crossed the finish line of the Baltimore Marathon. Yes...I actually ran...or should I say shuffled 26.2 miles. The Lord blessed the day richly with beautiful weather, an awesome running route and a great run. My theme verse was Psalm 73:26, "My heart and my flesh may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." So, on to the next challenge. Any suggestions?

down comes the wall!

before


in the middle

finished...to be determined

So, Daniel and I were inspired by all the HGTV projects and decided to take a wall down in our house. It's quite humorous to watch Daniel and I work together. If it were up to me, I'd start knocking into the wall with wild abandon...if we run into a problem, we'll solve it then. Daniel, on the other hand, thinks about every detail and possible problem well before the project begins. Needless to say, in most cases, Daniel's way is much better...and probably safer.

Blog Slacker

So, Daniel and I have this agreement that he deals with the technical posting of pictures and I'm supposed to do the writing. As you can see by the long delay with the writing of the previous posting, I am the slacker of the two of us. But, don't you worry...I am very faithful in reading others posts. I admit, I'm addicted to reading blogs. I love it...so keep em coming (and I'll try to do better too). As for the McNamee household, things are fairly unremarkable...the garden is producing tomatos left and right, only 5 more weeks left before the Baltimore marathon (I'm up to 18 miles next week-ouch!) and our Sunday night lifegroup is back in full swing for the fall. Stay tuned for more exciting updates;o)