My Special Lunch Date

I wanted to share with you a special date I had this week, with of course my #1 and only love, David. Since we are new to "Bama Land" its been fun to explore all the new territory. I have such admiration for the old sort of Victorian houses with Southern porch styles. We happened upon this and discovered it was a new restaurant that has been opened for a couple of weeks. I love, love being back in the South, where its a given that your tea is SWEET, and so I got to introduce to David the wonderful appetizer of "Fried Green Tomatoes". They were so good, and it brought back memories of days of my youth. We had a lovely time, and was also shown a part of the house that hasn't quite opened yet. It was joined to a old fashioned train car. We look forward to going back. As I tell you every time, you have a open invitation to come for a visit. Have a great good Friday!

Looking in at our new life here in Alabama

Two weeks ago, our journey began to move Alabama. We've moved so many times, we should start a business. But, we will pass on the idea and hopefully not move for a very long time. We arrived to our new home we were "southernly" welcomed. There were 50 or so people unload our trucks, setup our beds and unpack boxes. We were also surprised with full cabinets of food, gift certificates and a refrigerator full of food. We felt so special. On our first Sunday here, we were welcomed with our first "bama" snow. Our first week here was the famous Rock Mills Bar-b-que week! We are very impressed. Every night was a different project from making the special secret sauce to packing bread and bagging cakes. We enjoyed seeing so many working with such unity together, and of course joking and having fun. I think the total fed was near 3000 plates. See, Bar-b-que here is a big tradition. Here on the home front, most of the decor is finished. Routines are started and we are loving life. Speaking of life... our little family has grown. We have two dogs Jack and Lucky plus we've added 10 new baby chicks. David the farmer wannabe and Austin the wildlife man, have decided we need to grow our own country eggs. We were spoiled living near my parents in Tennesssee, when their chickens supplied us with good country eggs. Emily the horse rider is looking so forward to riding some horses owned by our members. We give the Lord all praise for His many blessings. P.S. To all my northern gals, I've already planted flowers in several pots. I'm working on finding a beautiful front porch swing. Come see us!

Our New Journey Begins......

What a beautiful day the Lord has given us, I do believe Spring is around the corner! To all of my Northern friends, come on down for some ice tea and some Sunshine! As you know, I have asked many of you to help us pray for God's will in our lives and God has surely blessed us with a very sweet peace. We were down in Alabama last weekend for a trial message. We had such a nice weekend, and felt God's Awesome presence. The church is very beautiful as you can see, and the people felt like we were made for each other. Yes, as you can guess we had a wonderful potluck lunch... and it was as Southern as can be. We were privileged to meet Bro. Rusty who gave us a good tour of the city. Austin and Emily loved going to his beautiful home and loved feeding the horses. We also enjoyed the good supper at the Gedneys after the meeting. God Is Good, All The Time, and we really praise his precious name. Have a super week, I'll not be blogging for awhile...... I'll be packing, packing, and packing.

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Our Wonderful Holidays

I am a little behind, so Blogger friends just forgive. Our Holidays were so much fun this year. We started off with our traditional Christmas at Papaw and Nanna's house. We ate lots of delicious food, enjoyed listening to David reading to us the Christmas Story, and then played a silly-fun game which included opening a layered present w/gloves on and a Santa hat. Santa Young was very good to us, the last present given out was to David. He opened a box as light as a feather-- inside was a certificate for all of us to go to Graceland and then stay at the famous Heartbreak Hotel. David was so excited. This has been one of his dreams. We left for Memphis on Monday to tour "The Big House", and had a wonderful time. Just as we were about to leave, Austin and I were taking a break and guess who walked beside us......John Stamos. Remember Jessie on Full House, and the ER Dr. Tony. David asked if we could take a pic w/ him and he gladly said Yes. Of Course, I have been teased for girlishly saying,"this is so-oo exciting". Our New Years week was so very fun. We headed to Chattanooga to our dear friends Joe, Greta, Kirsten and Christopher Rhyne's house. We welcomed in the New Year on our knees in prayer. We continued the Holiday visiting our good friends Craig and Debbie Downs. We had a delicious dinner at Famous Dave's, and then headed to their house for a fun party with some friends that we haven't seen in a long time. We had such a nice evening. We enjoyed sitting around while Craig's mom played the piano and we sang so many nice hymns. We loved playing with Marabelle, what a sweet puppy. We still had more celebrating and went to our old neighbors the McBrides house. Emily loved playing w/ Maddie and Maclaine, while Austin and Ben played a racing game. We woke up to the wonderful aroma of Brad's Special Pancakes. Yum.. We enjoyed our visit. As you see we love good times so we ended our celebration with our adopted Grandma, Mrs. Ford. We enjoyed dinner with the Daughertys and visited with Mark and his soon to be family. We feel so thankful having such wonderful friends. God has blessed us with so many special people in our lives. Happy Late New Year!! *To see pics, just click on the picture.

09 New Years Week

This weekend we had a wonderful time at the Opryland Hotel. It brought back so many memories of the day when we were married. It was decorated so beautiful for Christmas, and we shared our touring with David's brother, Brian and his family. We took the boat ride and ate pizza, and topped it off with delicious Haagen Dazs ice cream. If you ever get the chance to go see Opryland Resort Hotel with the beautiful decors it is well worth it! We enjoyed the rest of the weekend, and celebrated Austins 13th birthday. I am still in shock, that my boy is a teenager. Wow!! He is still such a sweet boy, and he loves life and nature to the fullest. I have started making my candies, buckeyes, oreo choc. dips, and Italian Gallettes. Have a very merry day, and I hope you enjoy everyday of this blessed season.

Opryland --Austin's bday

Home For The Holidays

The Holidays will be extra special this year, because its been a very long time since we lived near family. I hope to enjoy every single minute. I look forward to making our family favorites, fudge, cookies and maybe some new receipes that we will try.

God has blessed us in so many ways, and we have taken on some new challenges that I know he will help us through. This is truly a special season, and I am so thankful.... Have a wonderful Thanksgiving .

A Funny Little Story

As most of ya'll know I live with a son that just thrives on nature, and anything to do with it. He sets traps here, there and wherever he's allowed. We woke up to quite the little problem when Austin came inside and yelled, " Dad, Dad come see what I've caught... I'm not sure what it is." David gets dressed and ventures out to check out whats new for their trapping records. They both come back inside and quickly look up skunks on the computer, yes I did say SKUNKS. They discuss this creature that doesn't resemble a skunk, but finally found a picture of this special creature. The game plan begins.....now to let the animal out you have to get close enough to lift the lid. My dear husband, who supports his kids thru any trial..decides to take this matter into his own hands. Pictures tell all.... Emily and I had a inside view thru the sliding glass doors. It was the funniest comedy I have seen in a long while. I won't say to much more but yes, he did get sprayed even with the black armor of protection.ha I wish I could say it all has ended smelling like a rose, but no way, the little guy has treated us to his aroma two more times! I just know all of you will call me to book your visit with us in TN real soon!

Fun, Fun, Fun!

We took our family and my sister Awanda with her kids to Disney On Ice @ the Sommet Center across from the "Batman" building in downtown Nashville. We had a nice pizza picnic at Centennial Park where the Aparthenon is located. It was a fun evening, our favorites were the Lion King and of course good ol' Mickey and Minnie. The rest of the weekend was busy with the Homecoming Football game. I must say Austin thought this ordeal of escorting a cheerleader was pretty awful, he raced her down the isle and had a embarrsed look on his face. We'll see how long that last...... ha. We are half way thru the season, then hopefully, our lives will slow down. Have a great Day!

Big eagle

While travelling from our home to my parents house this week, David, Austin, Emily and Bailee saw the most beautiful Balde Eagle. They could hardly believe they had such a close interaction with our American Symbol. David took this picture before it majestically flew down the valley. This is the second one my family has seen in the wild. This reminds us of the scripture which says how good God is in Psalm 103:5 "who satisfies your mouth with good things; so your youth renewed like the Eagle's". God bless and have a great day!

Go Team!!!

We had our first football game Saturday night, and the mighty Warriors won. Yeah Team!! We took a van load of cheerleaders and Austin and my nephew Chase for a road trip to the ballgame. It was so fun, and very exciting to watch the kids in action. Unfortunately Monday night at practice Austin got his arm broke. We go next week to get the big cast on it. Yes, he is very bumed. He played such a great game and loved football. The coach told the team tonight that they have to go to the Superbowl so Austin can play one more time. The boys are being very helpful to him at school. Emily has cheerleading practice every night but Wednesday, this year its competitive cheering. She loves it, and we hope no broken bones for her. The weeks fly by, hopefully we will get some fall temps soon, it still feels like hot summer to me. I hope all my blogger friends have a great day!

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