Weekend Get-a-way.

This past weekend Stephen and I had the chance to getaway. It was so relaxing and fun. We got to stay in a wonderful little cabin right on top of look out mountain it was beautiful. I think God is the greatest artist ever.

At the place where we stayed there was this 2 acre pond full of brim and large mouth bass I think.... I am not for sure. Anyways, my wonderful hubby had to get some fishing in. I swear this man loves to fish more than anyone I know. He said it was good therapy. Whatever floats his boat it was nice to just be with him.

There were also these huge boulders across the road from our cabin. Stephen looks so tiny standing in between them. We had a blast climbing all over them, until we saw a SNAKE! curled up on top of one. I told Stephen there was to be no more climbing, and we needed to go do something else. So we decided visited Little River Canyon. This place is amazing. We followed a 23-mile drive along the canyon's ridge. There were some amazing views. The canyon goes 700-foot deep. It was scary to stand on the edge of some of the cliffs to take pictures.




At the end of our 23 mile journey through winding roads with no shoulders we came to the falls. They were beautiful! By then it was 1:30pm and, we were starving so we had a wonderful picnic lunch we packed before we left for our day journey. It was the perfect ending to a wonderful day.

How sweet.

We have been doing this wonderful bible study at church for the newly weds. It's called love and respect. It is based upon Ephesians 5: 33. The book is by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs in the book he talks about how as wives we desired to be loved, and that our husbands desire respect. (respect in a good way) This past Sunday the book was directed towards the guys. It was saying that husbands needed to esteem there wives. That's true. And Stephen does a great job.

(Esteem: the regard in which one is held ; especially : high regard)

Which lead to a discussion of women love to be surprised with unexpected things such as roses, chocolate, having the house clean after a long day etc... Well... I guess that the Sunday school lesson made a impact on my hubby. Because, I now have a dozen white beautiful roses sitting on my counter at home. He is so sweet, and it is very true we do like getting roses.

Finally

Finally! I think the computer here at work is messed up. I haven't been able to upload any pictures this week until now. YAY! Last Saturday I had a Pampered Chef party it was wonderful. I got to spend some great precious hours with my memaw. This was the first time she has ever been to our home. She seemed to approve of everything. My mom and sister came too of course. I love my family.

Later Saturday night Stephen and I got invited to go and see some of the band members from Heart Land play. It was a blast.

Skyler and Hayley

David and Rachel these two couples are awesome.

On Sunday Stephen and I had our first picnic of the year. Oh it was very nice, even though it was a spur of the moment thing and didn't get to cook anything. It was great to just get outside and goof off like kids. I love our picnics together.

Subway was very yummy.

Tuesday Night

Tuesday night Stephen and I had Jerry, Linsey and the sweet boys over for dinner. It is amazing how big they are getting. Elijah is only 2 months old and he can already rollover. Strong baby.

Scared half to death and peace is made of steel.

Stephen and I are so sleepy today. Last night about 10:30pm Stephen and I just turned the lights off to get some sleep. Well.... When I rolled over to say good night to Stephen I looked up and the way we had the blinds you could see the moon light shining in. Our bedroom window is also right next to the deck, and I am as serious as peanut butter is there was a man standing on deck looking into our kitchen. I very quietly whispered Stephen honey there is someone out there. Well the superman that my husband is, got up grabbed his pistol told me to stay inside, and took off outside to take a look around and left me all by myself. That was not the best move in the world. (I was trying to keep it together) While Stephen was walking around he ran into our next door neighbor, James with his pistol was looking around too. ( We carry guns in the south its what we do) He said that this was not the first time that some peeping pervert tom has looked into houses at night. Just great that make you feel real good and safe. James also said that they called the cops before but they never did anything about it. How sad. After everything was over and I quit crying hysterically and called back my parents and told them everything was fine for the moment. Stephen told me to go lay back down and try to get some sleep. I didn't want to I was far to scared, and all to furious. I was also thinking way to much, like how many time has this person done this and we have not noticed. What has he seen. Or what if he comes back and his intentions are not to just look in, but to come in. AHHHHH!!!! If it wasn't for my trust in Jesus and me asking for comfort and safety for the Wheeler household I would have not been able to calm down and get what little sleep I did get. I feel even more bad for my husband he stayed up all night with only two hours of sleep to make sure the idiot didn't come back. Please pray that this person who ever he will stop and never come back.

Shopping with mom, and the funky food we ate later.

Stephen and I had a full fun weekend. Saturday I had the pleasure of going shopping just my mom and me. We found some really great things. After we shopped, Mom and I ate at this new pizza place called Brixx wood fired pizza. It was very yummy. Then we got to share some marble slab together. It was so nice and much needed. The whole family finally got back together and attended the Wild Game Dinner at the church. We had some really weird food. I tried black bear which was not that bad, but the moose I had on the other hand was not that great. Imagine that. Stephen said he liked it alright. (He's silly) They had a auction after we ate and we had fun on bidding on a few things. It was a lot of fun to spend time with my family. Thanks mom for taking me out.

Please Pray.

I was reading Kelly's blog (the one with sweet baby Harper). She was asking prayer for a lady who lives in Texas. She has a little boy, Grant, and is pregnant with a daugther, Aubrey. Last month her husband went to the hospital with a few problems, and 10 days later he passed away from Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. http://www.mckayfamilylife.blogspot.com/ Please pray for this family.