The Buerglers

For a wedding shower gift, Eric's parents gave us a "beer of the every-other-month club".  We've thoroughly enjoyed, but the last box came as we celebrated our one year anniversary. In the past, Eric and I have really enjoyed going out for great beers and food pairing dinners.  This has been getting rather costly. In attempts to save a little money and share time with some friends - we called the "Beer of the every other month club" and found out that they have a "rare beer of the month club" that also provides information on food pairings.  Four beers in a box.  Four chairs at the table.  Four friends. Sold. This month the date for our dinner with Sam and Rosemary also coincided with the day Eric needed to bottle his two recent home brews.  Perfect.  We started with our beer tasting dinner.  This month it included a ploughman's lunch (think British) of cheese, apples, pickles, hard boiled eggs, bread, soup.  The o...

Part of my job includes faith formation for the tenth grade students at our parish.  In tenth grade, they are eligable for the Sacrament of Confirmation... Thus I spend about 12 weeks in classes and on retreats with them.  This year we had a smaller class of only 156 candidates.  For two weekends in the Fall I am gone on retreat with them.  One half one weekend and the other have the second weekend.  Yikes!  I orchestrate about 30 volunteers and guest speakers, musicians, priests, deacons, etc to make this happen.  It is one of the biggest challenges I face each year, yet the most rewarding two weekends of the year.  Chapel at Covecrest  This year because our two groups were smaller, we actually fit in the chapel for Mass.  There is something so sacred about this tiny place of worship. Working on their pumpkins  The last few years, the retreats have landed over Halloween - so for a team building activity, the kids have a pumpkin c...

Pardon the total slacking on blogging.  I haven't kept up my promise to blog ever Tuesday for about three weeks.  Life has been just a little crazy insane with work.  Fortunately, last week I took a few days off to spend with my grand parents in Highlands, NC, thus missing another Tuesday blog. Anyway, without further ado, here's a little catching up from three weeks ago: Eric's great aunt and uncle, who are basically "grandparents" to Eric and Leeann, have retired to a precious town in South Carolina.  We've visited them once a year since I've been "serious" with Eric.  And they come to Atlanta as often as they can.  It was great with the weddings last year to be able to spend so much time with them.  While we were there, Eric and I went on bike tour, and well as a family walking tour.  By tour I mean "hey, lets go for a walk".  Of course, we had to watch the ND game, since Uncle Jim is also an alum (but let's not talk about the r...

A few months ago I discovered a bocce league in Atlanta.  It was sponsored by one of our favorite hangout bars and our favorite beer.  It was seriously a win-win.  I rallied the troops and the final cut was made.  An all-girls team was formed and we were ready to kick serious butt. Until... Our only win all season was a forfeit. The girls and I had a great time, met some fun people, and enjoyed our weekly evenings in Piedmont Park. Though a few of our opposing teams took the game a lit-tle too seriously, we had our own fun! Two weekends ago was our tournament.  The team we played lost horribly to ended up winning the 32-team bracket championship, so we didn't feel too bad about losing in the first round.  My family came to the game, and my dad was our team photographer (he was testing my camera to see if he wanted the same one for his birthday). Is it good? Close game! Seriously, I am terrible. Real courts on the left...the res...

I know, just wanted you wanted to know... we went to another Braves game!  This was a few weeks ago - but since I didn't blog last week, you get to know now :) Like I said, Rosemary's been a champ at scoring us tickets from her friend Colin .  Colin bought a pair of tickets to all the play off games in Atlanta.  He'd made a list of eligable friends who could take his second ticket, or even the pair, based on how well the Braves performed when that friend was in attendnace at the game with him during the regular season.  If the Braves won when you were there, you got a point.  So, Rosemary and I were pretty high on the list.   And after the Braves lost terribly to the the Giants in game three of the five game series, Colin decided he couldn't bare the emotional rollercoaster of another tragic lost.  Enter: Elizabeth and Rosemary.   Colin gave us his two tickets to the NLDS game four playoff game. My 14 year old self kept pitching herself. ...

This past weekend Eric and I celebrated our first anniversary.  I cannot believe how fast time has gone!  To celebrate the weekend Eric planned a series of events for us to enjoy and celebrate some of the milestones in our relationship. Thursday night we at dinner at home and hung around the apartment.  Nothing special, but as always it's nice to just be in each other's company. Friday we both took the day off from work to go camping.  The day took a turn for the never-ending when Eric realized he had to go TO the airport to book a flight using a gift card we had received for our wedding.  Turns out we only had the receipt and the gift giver is in the coast guard on a boat far far away from Blackberry service.  We're disappointed things didn't work out in time, but alas the weekend went on...  Once Eric came home we hit the road to go backpacking in North Georgia. Hiking has a special place in our hearts, as it was our first hike together that we...

Rosemary has been a champ at scoring us tickets to the Braves games this season.  One of her (former) co-workers has season tickets and could sometimes get a few extra seats.  She was able to get tickets to the Bobby Cox retirement celebration game.  For those of non baseball aficionados, Bobby Cox was the managers of the Braves for 25 years, the winningest manager of all time, and the most likely manager to get ejected from the game (not because he's nasty, but because he stands up for his players!). As a die hard fan since the '94 strike (yes, an odd year to start following baseball), it was an honor for me to be a part of Bobby's big day, and the largest Braves crowd EVER for a regular season game. Glad to celebrate the day with Eric, Rosemary and Sam! Eric is not amused by Rosemary and my giddiness over our matching cameras Former players there to celebrate (my boy Javy is out there!) Celebrating #6 Celebrate Good Times Hank Aaron unveiling ...