Our New House!

45 E Hackberry is the address of our new home! We are very thankful, excited, nervous, etc. about moving into our new house. We've done a lot of driving around in the Raleigh area the past several months and have worked closely with our wonderful realtorand this is the house that we have fallen in love with. On May 15th we will sign the papers and be able to move in. This is actually the only picture I have of it right now, but I'll be posting more soon, and updating on the progress of the move!

A Few More Pictures.....

Although we were really hoping to see a bear or at least a wild cat, this is the extent of the wildlife we encountered, and actually this first picture is not wildlife :) they are fenced in weird-looking cows--I think they're yaks, but they look like Dr. Seuss characters. The deer was also not very wild, in fact they were very tame--that pictures was not zoomed, they were really close to our car!

A Weekend Getaway!

A couple weeks ago, my sweet husband decided we were going to take a weekend to go away and be together and not really have a plan. It was so much fun!!! He's been wanting to go and drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway since last fall, and it just hasn't worked out for our schedule until now. We left on Friday after I got off work and drove over to the west side of North Carolina and got on the parkway and started driving. It was so beautiful to see firsthand God's amazing power through His creation!

Although we can only imagine that it is even more magnificent in the fall with the brilliant autumn colors, we loved the peaceful drive and gorgeous sights we saw along the way! We stayed overnight at a hotel in a small town in Virginia and ate dinner at a quaint log house restaurant that was built back in the 1700's and the food was delicious!

We got a pretty good start on Saturday morning to get back on the parkway. We stopped numerous times along the way at the overlooks to take lots of pictures (I have such an amazing husband :), but he can't say anything when I ask about taking pictures because he bought me the camera! We also took the time on Saturday to stop and take one of the trails at one of the peaks. The Peaks of Otter is a hotel that overlooks a lake and a restaurant and giftshop. At the spot is also where you can take a trail to the top of what was once thought to be the highest spot in Viginia (later they discovered there was another peak that was about 200 feet higher). The information about the trail said it should be an hour and a half hike to the top, but we did it in about 40 minutes.....we were so proud of ourselves :) It was a very satisfying feeling, although I was really feeling it for the next 2 days! After the hike we were both very hungry, so we stopped along the way and ate a picnic lunch we had packed.
Chad & I had such a great time just being together and talking and enjoying the amazing views--I'm so thankful that he is so sensitive to making sure that there is still time for romance & spontaneousness in the midst of our busy schedules!