What a wonderful Life. .: September 2011

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Sept 17, 2011

All great compossers start somewhere.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Sept 11, 2011

9/11

A day none of us will ever forget, let us not forget so we can grow from it.

left to right:Tamara, Abie,Karla, Jessican, Carrie,Reba, Sybil, Hollie, Betty

What a better way to end the trip than with an awesome group of ladies at a Beth Moore conference in Lubbock. There were a total fo 11 of us, (two not pictured).

9000 ladies at the conference

simalcast to 731 places

48 states

11 countries

3 military bases

180,000 viewers in all

Chimney Rock, all I can say is I DID IT!!!!! It is over 400 steps to the top of chimney rock, then an additional 300 plus to the top of the mountain and I climbed every one of them. As you can see NC is an absolutely beautiful state. The mountains, rivers, trees, and it was all so green and the weather was perfect. Too early for the trees to change colors, but maybe we will just have to go back and see it again sometime.

The Biltmore manison. You hear about this place all the time, but wow, you gotta see it to beleive it. We spent almost a full day there. Can you beleive it was built in 1895, sorry no pics from the inside. There were 40 something bathrooms, 60 something fireplaces, over 1 million sq feet of living space. Totally seperate servant quarters. Pool, bowling alley, library, a garden that has about every flower and plant you could think of.

Wow, this was the most amazing trip. I could have done nothing but seen these fine ladies and it would have been worth it all. I could see my mom in each one of them so many times. It's nice how you can love someone and only seen them once or twice in your lifetim

Let me introduce you to these sweeties:

sitting down are, Moms oldest sister, turning 90 soon is Aunt Gertie, then her daugther and moms niece Yvonne who is closer to moms age than mine, she is 67, then her second oldest sister who is 88 Aunt Violet. Next to me is Yvonne's daughter Vonda Kaye. We spent house with them and it was like we lived next door is was so comfortable and warm.

Yvonne made this awesome chocolate pie that I will be making soon.

Sharing some our photos and introducing them to my family.

Aunt Violet, myself and Aunt Gertie

This year Bruce's shellers conference was in Asheville NC. I didn't hestitate to go with him, since my mom was from NC and I had not been over there in many a year, actually I was 9 when I went. I arranged to see two of moms sisters and her neice (my cousin) and her daughter. I had not seen my aunts since 1975.