Life is short so LET'S RIDE

We had a wonderful weekend filled with lots of riding, laughing and wonderful food, of course. We thoroughly enjoyed having friends ride with us this year to the mountains. There was never a dull moment and I think it's safe to say that we all enjoyed it so much that they are already planning on next years ride LOL

Before we headed out on Friday am

Our first stop was Fall Creek Falls, this is my handsomeness :)

Our crew

Michael, me, Dawn, Dale, Darryl, Kim

 

The guys at the top of Cherohala Skyway

 

The girls :) Kim was too scared to stand on the ledge ha!

All weekend we saw tons of these type signs with squiggles on them :)

Just passing through NC

Robinsville, NC

 

This was our "hotel" for Friday night, the lady owns these houses behind the actual hotel that she let's people have for the night. It was actually pretty cool, it was 3 bedrooms and there was plenty of space for us all plus it was only $150 for the night so we all saved some money :) It's called the Phillips Motel and it's somewhere we would definitely stay again.

We were anxiously awaiting getting back on The Dragon! This time we bought shirts & little dragon stickers for our helmets.

Our crew, we all made it safely down :)

Lots of these signs :)

 

Our friends coming down the dragon

 

When we got to the end it started raining so we pulled under a church awning & Dale decided to pull out his "beer googles" that we had found in the house the night before, what makes it even funnier is Dale doesn't even drink but he thought it would be cool to have them in his "man cave" lol

 

This place was amazing! The Apple Barn in Pigeon Forge, we all got way too much food and Michael left both our pie slices in the hotel so I was a little upset on the ride home thinking about how good I'm sure they were LOL Next time I'm eating my pie no matter how stuffed I am :)

It's was fixed up all kinds of "fall"

 

Where we stayed Sat night, it was a great place to stay and they had a variety of things for breakfast on Sun am.

Think everyone likes blue? LOL

 

Yeh, they are pushing off Darryl, it was quite funny to see them but hey sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do LOL

Just gorgeous scenery but I can't put all 400+ pics on here.

There were 3 tunnels that we went through coming through the Smokey Mountains, of course, they all reved up the motors going through them.

Just a cool pic of our friends coming around the curve we just went around :)

We went up Clingman's Dome and it was freezing cold but just gorgeous up there, it's the highest point in TN and you could see forever.

 

Not sure why this is dark 

Going through the edge of Cherokee, NC to come home.

 

We all decided next year we may just have to stay near there because it appeared to have lots of things going on as we were riding through :)

 

 

 

My crazy crazy life lately

Wow what a wild ride my family has recently been on :) We had no idea we were going to actually close on our house and only have one week to pack up & get out. We signed a contract stating they could take possession the day of closing but we didn't find out for sure that it was going to close until Aug 24th giving us a total of 6 days to get completely moved. We are very greatful to have it sold though, it's been on the market on & off for about 2 1/2 yrs now, we knew it would come in God's timing so it was just a matter of praying & keeping the faith.

 

I had planned several things for the Labor Day weekend without realizing everything would be taking place LOL It was crazy but all in all everything worked out just fine. We ended up having an extra day to move because of some paperwork so we were able to mow the yard & meet the sweet couple that bought it. They were first time home buyers & as excited to move in as we were to move out :)

The first thing I had committed to was telling Angie I would help with Cheyenne's baby shower at church. Thankfully I was able to get everything done in time & really not be too stressed about it. I got the wrist corsage, the guest sign in book, the registry book & the food cooked that I was supposed to bring & honestly I did it all within hours before the shower began lol Yep, I'm that procrastinator.

Dawn did a great job on this little baby :)

Angie & Cheyenne

Angie, Cheyenne, Dawn & me

Love this girl & it's hard to believe that she had her precious little girl 8 weeks early and a week before the shower, she's already lost all her baby weight.

 

Then there was Lizzie's 3rd birthday party that I promised I would help with :)

 

 

Dominique did a great job decorating her house, as she called it was all "Dorified"

The morning of the party I put together the candy bouquet, baked cupcakes, cooked all sorts of food :)

Love my 2 bald little guys :)

 

Levi or as Lizzie calls him "Wevi" couldn't wait to go get Suzy so Lizzie could take her first horse ride :)

Bentley was excited to take a ride too lol

Then when I signed up to run the Children's Mercy Hospital 10K & 5K I had no idea we would be selling our house & I wouldn't have time to do any training, whatsoever, for 2 weeks prior. However, I managed to run the 10K in a shorter time than my previous 10K so I was pretty excited about that :) I ended up walking the majority of the 5K with my friend Summer because she's the one that ask me to join her in both so my time wasn't so great for it but still I completed 9 1/2 miles without any training :)

This was Eugene's first ever marathon & I'm so proud of him for completing the entire 9 1/2 miles ahead of me on both the 10K & 5K

 

My wonderful photographing husband lol

 

Yep, we had just finished the 10K

 

At the starting line of the 5K

 

At the finish line of the 5K

Things have slowed down just a bit for us & we are so thankful to be able to live at my parent's house while we are building, they are never home, we are in & out and actually in the last week we've only seen each other in passing. We all know this is a temporary solution and we are excited about getting to build a house at our farm where everyone feels like that is our "HOME"