Happy Thanksgiving! We have much to be thankful for! We have our issues like; needing to sell our house BUT we are healthy, all of our family is well, we have a loving strong marriage and a Heavenly Father that loves us and for all of that we are thankful!
I started cooking yesterday…and stopped today around 3:30pm when we ate. Odd time to eat I guess but it worked for us. We had 2 turkeys (one roasted in the oven and one deep fried), dressing, gravy, cranberry sauce, broccoli casserole, sweet potato soufflé, green beans, deviled eggs and mashed potatoes. Yum yum. Laura our 14 year old had asked yesterday if she could ask the blessing for Thanksgiving. We were shocked that she asked and told her she could. She did very well! There was a time that she was too shy and timid for most anything, especially praying out loud. She not only asked the blessing, she had a loud strong voice and did not hesitate one second. She thanked God for our family, for our food and for those that don’t have homes or food. There was more but is that not wonderful for a 14 year old?!
If any of you know the kids you know that they are skinny, skinny, skinny! Catherine is 18 and can out eat me and her dad put together without blinkin’ twice! Well after dinner, the kids have chores and Catherine’s is to wash dishes. I’m helping her and putting leftovers in bowls. She looked at me and said, “Hm, I think I could eat again!” What?? I am barely moving and she is ready to eat again! I don’t even have room for desert….and believe me…we have deserts! We have 2 pecan pies (Aunt Jeans’s recipe), 2 pumpkin pies and pumpkin gooey butter cake.
We cleaned up and retired to the living room for some Thanksgiving Day football. We were lying like stuffed turkeys on a platter. It wasn’t long before the kids were asking for desert. I told them to wait until 6:30 and we would have desert. At 6:28 I couldn’t hold them off any longer. They had a plate full and went back for more. Cat and Laura like all of the deserts but they all 4 love pumpkin pie with whip cream….and they finished off one of the pies! Once again we retired to the living room and the kids were back and forth from the living room to the basement playing video games.
Around 9pm Larry left to take his brother Terry home. (Terry is without transportation at the moment.) I’m pretty tired myself and I think I will sleep like a log tonight!
To the men and women in the armed forces stationed away from home, thank you for what you do and we pray that you had a blessed day and return home safely. To those stationed outside the warzone, we also thank you for what you do and sacrifices made. To the military families left behind; we pray for peace for you until your soldier returns home.
Today I have thought about our friends, Robin and Chris Guthrie and their 3 kids who attend my church in GA. Just over a week ago their house caught on fire and they lost everything except the clothes on their backs. It started around 8:30am and they were at work and school. They have strong support from family and our church. I can’t even imagine what they are going through. This family is absolutely precious and they have seen some tough times recently. Chris had a really bad wreck that lead to a long recovery, he lost a parent, Robin lost her job, Robin has had medical issues not to mention all of the worry that goes along with those things. I’ve thought of them and prayed for them often today. I know there are many people helping to take care of them but I also know that their heartache must be heavy. Please pray for our friends. Thank you to all that have taken donations on their behalf to help them begin to rebuild their home and lives.
From the Parr family, we pray that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! To our family and friends, we love and miss you!
kdp
Thursday, November 27, 2008
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Smokey Mtns Part II
Wednesday the 22nd was our 3 year anniversary. We love each other more with every passing day! We both feel blessed!
We spent the day shopping around Pigeon Forge. We had dinner at The Old Mill Grill and it was awesome! If you ever go there you have to have the appetizer; fried green tomatoes, fried pickles and chicken tenders. Wow, that was so good. Then we shared a steak and it was just perfect. We went back to the cabin and hit the hot tub. Then we shared a bottle of wine while sitting in the rocking chairs. What a relaxing evening.
Thursday we drove into Gatlinburg for the day. We walked around doing a lot of window shopping. We both got in one of those massage machines that you lay fully clothed and the pressure of the water massages you. Wow, we LOVED that! You know we had to follow the smell of fudge! Yumm, it was good. Larry really wanted to have fondue chocolate with strawberries and bananas. So, we took our fondue pot and chocolate with us. He wanted to have it on our anniversary but we were just too stuffed. So our plan was to have a larger lunch and have popcorn and fondue for dinner. Also, Thursday afternoon was to be an early day so that we could enjoy the cabin and spend time with just the two of us in the middle of nowhere…oh and Molly! We got back to the cabin round 3 or 4pm. A little later we decided to have the fondue and fruit. Well…we had some problems. We have had fondue at home many times before but that night it didn’t work too well. I emptied it over and over until we ran out of chocolate. I do think that something was wrong with the chocolate. So we had the fruit! We are watching the episodes of The Closer to catch up to the present. We took some of the DVD’s and watched it for hours. Sound boring to you? Nope…it was wonderful! It was a quiet evening relaxing together.
We spent the day shopping around Pigeon Forge. We had dinner at The Old Mill Grill and it was awesome! If you ever go there you have to have the appetizer; fried green tomatoes, fried pickles and chicken tenders. Wow, that was so good. Then we shared a steak and it was just perfect. We went back to the cabin and hit the hot tub. Then we shared a bottle of wine while sitting in the rocking chairs. What a relaxing evening.
Thursday we drove into Gatlinburg for the day. We walked around doing a lot of window shopping. We both got in one of those massage machines that you lay fully clothed and the pressure of the water massages you. Wow, we LOVED that! You know we had to follow the smell of fudge! Yumm, it was good. Larry really wanted to have fondue chocolate with strawberries and bananas. So, we took our fondue pot and chocolate with us. He wanted to have it on our anniversary but we were just too stuffed. So our plan was to have a larger lunch and have popcorn and fondue for dinner. Also, Thursday afternoon was to be an early day so that we could enjoy the cabin and spend time with just the two of us in the middle of nowhere…oh and Molly! We got back to the cabin round 3 or 4pm. A little later we decided to have the fondue and fruit. Well…we had some problems. We have had fondue at home many times before but that night it didn’t work too well. I emptied it over and over until we ran out of chocolate. I do think that something was wrong with the chocolate. So we had the fruit! We are watching the episodes of The Closer to catch up to the present. We took some of the DVD’s and watched it for hours. Sound boring to you? Nope…it was wonderful! It was a quiet evening relaxing together.
Friday…time to head to GA. It was a rainy messy day. We had plans to stop in Cherokee, NC for a while but it was just too yuckie. We continued on to GA and it was still raining like crazy! When we got to Lula we stopped at Jaemore for some boiled peanuts. I was craving them and could not wait to introduce Larry to them. We got the peanuts and he ate his first boiled peanut. He did not like it at all. After talking to him and him describing the taste to me and was confused. So he was a big boy and tried another on. He said that the second one was much much better. The first one was rotten! I laughed and laughed. Then we went to Tim’s and settled in. Molly was glad to see her Uncle Tim! Tim cooked dinner and we just talked and caught up.
The rest of the Ga visit will come soon…
The rest of the Ga visit will come soon…
Sunday, November 9, 2008
I LOVE The Smokey Mountains!
Well, it’s been a while. I’m so behind on bloggin! I am working many hours trying to get my business off the ground not to mention all the other stuff we have going on.
I last left off when we were traveling to TN and then on to GA. I guess I’ll pick up from there and will try not to ramble on and just get caught up. Molly went with us and she is such a great traveler. We got to the cabin which was up on a mountain and it was just beautiful. There was porch on the front and back what went the length of the cabin; the front had a swing and the back had rocking chairs and a hot tub. We unloaded the Mountaineer and went to the back deck to try out the rocking chairs. SO relaxing!
Many years ago me and a group of girls went to the Smokey Mtn. Jubilee to see a show that is singing, dancing and comedy skits. So, I suggested we go there and we called days in advance to get tickets and just so happen someone had just cancelled for the front row center so he gave us those. When we got to the ticket counter to get and pay for the tickets but the lady didn’t have tickets held for us. I told her the day I called and the row and number of our seats. She checked again and again found no tickets for us and someone else had purchased those seats. You could tell she felt horrible about the mix up. She asked if we wanted two tickets on the 4th row and we said that was fine. She gave them to us FREE. We were cool with that! Well, we get inside and we were absolutely positively the youngest two people in the place. There were several senior tour groups and we were out numbered. It was SO FUNNY! We laughed and giggled about that all night. Get this; the seats we were to originally have were empty the entire show and we still got our tickets free! The show was great and just good clean fun.
After the show we went back to the cabin. When we got back what did we hear….the hot tub. It was calling us…and we answered! That was SO awesome to be on the side of a mountain, the air was crisp and cool and we were warm in the hot tub. After that we sat in the rockers listening to all the critters talking in the woods and shared some wine that we picked up at a winery earlier that day. It was a wonder ending to a wonderful day!
Tuesday we slept in a little and enjoyed the morning in the cabin. We had coffee and sat in the swing then we went to the rocking chairs. It was peaceful and quiet which is something we have not had near enough of lately
Hahaha...bet you thought it was a XXX rated picture!
I last left off when we were traveling to TN and then on to GA. I guess I’ll pick up from there and will try not to ramble on and just get caught up. Molly went with us and she is such a great traveler. We got to the cabin which was up on a mountain and it was just beautiful. There was porch on the front and back what went the length of the cabin; the front had a swing and the back had rocking chairs and a hot tub. We unloaded the Mountaineer and went to the back deck to try out the rocking chairs. SO relaxing!
Many years ago me and a group of girls went to the Smokey Mtn. Jubilee to see a show that is singing, dancing and comedy skits. So, I suggested we go there and we called days in advance to get tickets and just so happen someone had just cancelled for the front row center so he gave us those. When we got to the ticket counter to get and pay for the tickets but the lady didn’t have tickets held for us. I told her the day I called and the row and number of our seats. She checked again and again found no tickets for us and someone else had purchased those seats. You could tell she felt horrible about the mix up. She asked if we wanted two tickets on the 4th row and we said that was fine. She gave them to us FREE. We were cool with that! Well, we get inside and we were absolutely positively the youngest two people in the place. There were several senior tour groups and we were out numbered. It was SO FUNNY! We laughed and giggled about that all night. Get this; the seats we were to originally have were empty the entire show and we still got our tickets free! The show was great and just good clean fun.
After the show we went back to the cabin. When we got back what did we hear….the hot tub. It was calling us…and we answered! That was SO awesome to be on the side of a mountain, the air was crisp and cool and we were warm in the hot tub. After that we sat in the rockers listening to all the critters talking in the woods and shared some wine that we picked up at a winery earlier that day. It was a wonder ending to a wonderful day!
Tuesday we slept in a little and enjoyed the morning in the cabin. We had coffee and sat in the swing then we went to the rocking chairs. It was peaceful and quiet which is something we have not had near enough of lately
We had tickets for the Dixie Stampede on Tuesday. That was a lot of fun. Prior to the show there is a pre-show with singing…OMG it was wonderful. There were 3 guys and a girl and they were a talented bunch! We purchased their CD which is great. Then we went into the main arena and we had excellent seats. I had been many many many moons ago and remembered what it looked like but that was about it. Once seated we got to talking with folks to our right and left. The show started and not too long after then began to bring out the food. WOW it’s a lot of food and this list is Per Person; roll, soup, whole roasted hen, a slice of pork tenderloin, ½ of a twice baked potato, corn on the cob and an apple fritter. Can you believe that? The kicker is there is nothing to eat with except the utensils God gave you…your fingers. At the end they bring out warm towels to clean yourself up and believe me, you need it. Just watching them bring the food out is entertaining. The show was fabulous and we enjoyed it very much.
I will leave off here and pick up on Wednesday in the next blog…Until then here is a nice picture of us in the inside jet tub.....
I will leave off here and pick up on Wednesday in the next blog…Until then here is a nice picture of us in the inside jet tub.....
Hahaha...bet you thought it was a XXX rated picture!
How Precious!
Today we went to see our new love…Anderson!
First we all met for lunch. Anderson was sound asleep in his carrier. Of course that didn’t stop me from holding him. What a honey he is. Just adorable! It was time for him to eat and I got to feed him. He didn’t want to stay awake so he only took about an ounce. Shelly went to change him and came back with a diaper on him and he was wrapped in his blanket. He pee’d on his clothes as she was changing him so she did as most moms do; she made do with what she had. She left in a hurry for church and didn’t grab a change of clothes. It was so funny but he was wrapped up in his blanket and trust me, he was plenty warm. We took turns holding him and his little body was rather toasty. After a yummy lunch we headed to their house.
Shelly wanted to take some random pics of Anderson (in his birthday suite which he was wearing 2 weeks ago today…oh but he did have a diaper on today). It all has to do with the announcements they are having made. That was fun just taking pics.
Mike fed him not too long before we left and Anderson gracefully gave a nice big burp and gave the formula back to Mike. Too funny! It reminded me of the commercial that has the baby trading stocks online. If you haven’t seen it I know I just lost you but if you have seen it, you are shaking your head and laughing.
They had plans this evening so we left in time for them to rest a while. It was great being with them and so hard to hand him back to him mommy. He is simply beautiful! Mike and Shelly are doing a wonderful job as first time parents. They don’t pretend to know everything about babies and being parents, they are learning as they go and doing a fantastic job.
I’m sure you will be hearing more about him in the future and seeing pics too!
First we all met for lunch. Anderson was sound asleep in his carrier. Of course that didn’t stop me from holding him. What a honey he is. Just adorable! It was time for him to eat and I got to feed him. He didn’t want to stay awake so he only took about an ounce. Shelly went to change him and came back with a diaper on him and he was wrapped in his blanket. He pee’d on his clothes as she was changing him so she did as most moms do; she made do with what she had. She left in a hurry for church and didn’t grab a change of clothes. It was so funny but he was wrapped up in his blanket and trust me, he was plenty warm. We took turns holding him and his little body was rather toasty. After a yummy lunch we headed to their house.
Shelly wanted to take some random pics of Anderson (in his birthday suite which he was wearing 2 weeks ago today…oh but he did have a diaper on today). It all has to do with the announcements they are having made. That was fun just taking pics.
Mike fed him not too long before we left and Anderson gracefully gave a nice big burp and gave the formula back to Mike. Too funny! It reminded me of the commercial that has the baby trading stocks online. If you haven’t seen it I know I just lost you but if you have seen it, you are shaking your head and laughing.
They had plans this evening so we left in time for them to rest a while. It was great being with them and so hard to hand him back to him mommy. He is simply beautiful! Mike and Shelly are doing a wonderful job as first time parents. They don’t pretend to know everything about babies and being parents, they are learning as they go and doing a fantastic job.
I’m sure you will be hearing more about him in the future and seeing pics too!
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