Every time I am with J and we are kidless for a short time I am reminded of why I married the man--I LOVE BEING WITH HIM. It is quite simple really. I love laughing with him and talking with him AND he can fix/build/figure out anything, he is great with kids, he loves serving others, he is not a difficult person to make happy, he is down-to-earth and would do ANYTHING to make his family happy.
We got a cute cabin in TN and spent some time exploring Great Smoky Mtn National Park. The pic is of our cabin, "Time for Two," it was called.
The others are of Cades Cove and its beautiful valleys and mountains, and us en route and AT the 2 other waterfalls that we hiked to. We were thrilled to know that we can still walk 4 miles straight uphill gaining 2k feet and keep our time of more than 2 miles an hour! We may be old, but we're as good once as we ever were--as the old country music song says! Now, we did have some blisters and some achin' backs...but the views were worth it in the end! One is of me in front of this HUGE Hemlock about 3 miles into one of our hikes.
I was ticked that people are carving in these amazing trees and in all the old home places in the park. It is sad to see folks have such a disrespect for historic landmarks and other amazing natural beauties. Don't even get me started on all the trash on the hikes..but back to our good trip...
We had the best steak I've ever eaten and some relaxing time in the hot tub on our deck AND I beat him in putt- putt; It doesn't get much better than that!
Jeb was excited to know that we had seen "Gilbert" (elk like his elk) in the park. We also saw some deer and fawns in Cades Cove.
We had some good talks about what we hope to do and who we hope to be this year and generally thought about God has been so good to us for the 10.5 years we have been committed to each other!
THEN--we missed our kids like crazy and came home as quick as we could to see them...I have kissed Cay about 2,000 times a day since I got home. I missed those cheeks BAD. No speeding tickets this trip--yeah!
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