need your opinion

I'm re-designing this blog!

We had high hopes for the version you're looking at now, but life keeps us pretty stinking busy, and we never really got around to it.

Plus, apparently I'm a bad judge of these things. Steph never likes the templates I like.

But I'm trying anyways. I moved our stuff over to a wordpress account at http://therieslands.wordpress.com. Once I get it all prettied up, I'll point therieslands.com to that address.

Wordpress makes it really easy to switch between a lot of nice templates, so I want your opinion! Please go take a look and let me know what you think about the current theme, and in a few days I'll try a new one.

Eventually we'll settle on the one everybody likes the most :0)

July 4th

Steph and I met face-to-face for the first time on July 4th, 2006.

This year, we re-lived our evening by returning back up to Gloucester and heading out on the Dayspring (named for Luke 1:78). It was an awesome evening -- except for getting home at like 2 in the morning.

Here are some photos for your viewing pleasure :0)

Wedding Album Online

Hey everyone,
Well, our wedding album came out today. It's been a little crazy for a few months, but here is our link to the wedding album and let us know what you think about it. :)

http://www.alwaysautumnstudios.com/rieslandalbum/

Moving In

Well, this weekend was amazing. Quick Re-cap.

Pirates of the Carribean was great, but I have to wait for the next one! Goodness gracious. Saturday was packing day and can I just say for anyone who's ever packed make sure you have everything organized. I still can't find stuff! The other night Zack said "just put the bedroom together while I unpack" (from our camping trip). I couldn't even find the bed skirt to the bed!

After we packed everything in the house we set out on our adventure to the mountains. Zack took me to Asheville. I think I was going stir-crazy and I just needed a weekend away from Durham. I'm so used to going somewhere every weekend, and my honey decided that we'd go camping. I was really excited about it except when we got to the camp site and realized there were no stakes to hold down the tent. In my mind, I could see a gust of wind picking up the tent and putting it in the creek (just kiddin). We just rested, which I really appreciated because lately I haven't felt like I could take a breath.

We puttered around Montreat and the towns soaking up all that God created. It was a chance for us to laugh and have fun. Hmmm...what else? Oh yea, there was a baby bird that fell out of the nest and for 20 minutes I was worried sick about the poor thing. The next morning he was no where to be found so I'm going to believe that the parents put out a rescue mission and saved the bird.