Vacation

We are home again from beautiful Gatlinburg,TN.
I am so thankful we were able to go away for awhile. We needed it more than I think we realized.
I am thankful for my awesome family. My parents decided last year to make memories with us instead of buying Christmas gifts.
So this was our second annual Rainey-Kemerly-Goodman-Fletcher getaway.
My parents rent a cabin for a week and my family, my brothers family, my Mamaw and my Aunt&Uncle go for the week.
The most amazing thing is we all get along and really enjoy each others company.
That is probably a miracle in itself!
The 4 grandkids have a blast. They get to sleep in a room by themselves. They played Indians in the woods, went on hikes and the best was Ober Gatlinburg.
My brother,sister-in-law, Randy & I took the kids up in the tram and then on the ski lift to the Alpine Slides. we had so much fun racing each other down. we would pick different people to race and see who could win. We all acted like big kids. It was AWESOME!
I am scared of heights so Randy thought I should ride the ski lift with Elijah since he was older. Big mistake. This kid is fearless. He was swinging around, getting it to bounce and wanting to jump out of it. I had to close my eyes most of the time. I love roller coasters, but going slowly up the side of the mountain in a tiny metal seat, where you are very aware of how high you are off the ground, not fun!
Ethan and Lauren are the youngest and they kept saying they wanted to ride the "Charlie". It took us forever to realize it was the trolley. So much for adults enunciating when they talk.
I also realized that I talk like my family. Do you know what "Yunt to" means?
Stay tuned to the next installment of Vacation to find out.........
Same Bat time, same Bat channel:)

Good News! Good News!

To most people this would not seem like something to be excited about, but I am ecstatic!
We can FINALLY buy the remaining 75 acres of our land!
God told Randy and I to move out here almost 7 years ago. We have been in 2 different court battles over our land since then.
Talk about a major cause of stress.
God has helped us to grow through it and this last time we just said"what happens ,happens, I will not continue to loose my joy over this!"
I just heard the news that we will close on it before Dec. 1. I felt like a huge weight was just lifted off of me.
I kept telling Randy that this land must have gold buried in it somewhere for it to be such a huge deal to so many people that we NOT buy it.
I am excited because I feel like I can move on now. I don't have some weight from the past holding me down. The future is always uncertain (things never turn out how we think they should), but I feel like I can put both feet forward now and find out how this dream we have been dreaming for so long is going to turn out.