1st year - My cousin Shane's wedding
2nd year - final exams in PA school - particularly a Doc test
3rd year - my brother Joel and Nate's sister Rach - highschool graduation
4th year - NOTHING!!!!!
In celebration of having no further engagements for our anniversary we decided to plan a little get away. ...
We took a trip to Chattanooga, TN. We stayed at the Chattanooga ChooChoo http://www.choochoo.com/ which was pretty neat. They have renovated an old train station into a huge hotel with actual train cars turned into guest rooms. They had restaurants and shops in the complex as well so in the evenings we pretty much ate there and relaxed - quite fun actually. Friday night when we arrived we ate at the "Station House" where the waiters/waitresses actually got on stage and sang in between serving patrons, and they were good! We had the BEST mozzerella cheese wedges with homemade marinara sauce - so impressive that I'm now mentioning it in our blog :-).
Outside of the Station House
Who wouldn't love this hottie on the train???? :-)
Saturday we went to Rock City, Ruby Falls and the Incline Railway.
Rock City was pretty cool. We were able to just walk at our own pace and take our time looking at all the awesome rock formations .... "fallow deer" imported from Europe, a swinging bridge, little caverns, and of course my favorite part..... Lovers leap with the WATERFALL :-)
http://www.seerockcity.com/Flash/index.htm
Nate still doesn't like to follow directions
Nate of course rocking the swinging bridge
Nate going through the "Fat Man Squeeze" - the irony is almost too much to handle
Us with lovers leap in the back ground and a random person in our picture :-)
Lovers leap and the waterfall :-)
There truly is one on every corner!!!
The outside of Ruby Falls
Our professional pictures on the ticket stubs - better than my pics :-)
Rock City was pretty cool. We were able to just walk at our own pace and take our time looking at all the awesome rock formations .... "fallow deer" imported from Europe, a swinging bridge, little caverns, and of course my favorite part..... Lovers leap with the WATERFALL :-)
http://www.seerockcity.com/Flash/index.htm
Nate still doesn't like to follow directions
Nate of course rocking the swinging bridge
Nate going through the "Fat Man Squeeze" - the irony is almost too much to handle
Us with lovers leap in the back ground and a random person in our picture :-)
Lovers leap and the waterfall :-)
There truly is one on every corner!!!
After Rock city we headed over to Ruby Falls. http://www.rubyfalls.com/
Here we took an elevator over 200 feet down into the ground and then hiked back through a cavern until it dead ended at the waterfall .... we really enjoyed hearing about the history of how this cave was discovered - and of course again - love the waterfall :-)
Couldn't resist taking a picture :-) Do you see it??
The end of the cavern - what a better way to end it??!!
Here we took an elevator over 200 feet down into the ground and then hiked back through a cavern until it dead ended at the waterfall .... we really enjoyed hearing about the history of how this cave was discovered - and of course again - love the waterfall :-)
Couldn't resist taking a picture :-) Do you see it??
The end of the cavern - what a better way to end it??!!
The outside of Ruby Falls
Our professional pictures on the ticket stubs - better than my pics :-)
Our last stop that day before we headed back to the choo choo was Incline Railway... http://www.ridetheincline.com/
This was the end of the day and our feet were tired and it was the hottest day thus far of the year. So this was a welcome change where we just sat down for the ride down the mountain. Ate some ice cream at the bottom, and then rode the incline back up the mountain.....backwards!!!
Here's the view from the top. It's really cool how they've crafted this on a pulley system....
This was the end of the day and our feet were tired and it was the hottest day thus far of the year. So this was a welcome change where we just sat down for the ride down the mountain. Ate some ice cream at the bottom, and then rode the incline back up the mountain.....backwards!!!
Here's the view from the top. It's really cool how they've crafted this on a pulley system....
So that was the gist of our trip. We had a lot of fun Saturday - squeezed a lot of sightseeing into one quick weekend trip - and yet still felt very relaxed :-). We already want to go back....
On a more serious note, God has truly blessed us. We see so many other couples our age struggling and either divorcing or living pretty unhappily. We thank God each day that we both had parents to model our relationship after. We thank our family and friends for their constant prayer and influence in our lives.
Many of you know that we are trying to get pregnant. This has been a long 14 month road thus far and we don't really know when that process is going to end or where it's going to end. It's brought many frustrating moments, many disappointing moments, and many moments to draw closer to each other and to God. Through it all He has and is showing us that He is faithful. We're leaving the future in His hands and rejoicing in the here and now. He is worthy of our praise, even when our plans aren't going according to plan :-). It's taken me especially a while to be able to say that; but this past month he's given us the opportunity to sort of take the month off. In this time we've been able to refocus on Him and Us and all the many reasons we have to praise Him regardless of where we're at in our earthly lives.
I leave you with my new favorite scripture....
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1)
On a more serious note, God has truly blessed us. We see so many other couples our age struggling and either divorcing or living pretty unhappily. We thank God each day that we both had parents to model our relationship after. We thank our family and friends for their constant prayer and influence in our lives.
Many of you know that we are trying to get pregnant. This has been a long 14 month road thus far and we don't really know when that process is going to end or where it's going to end. It's brought many frustrating moments, many disappointing moments, and many moments to draw closer to each other and to God. Through it all He has and is showing us that He is faithful. We're leaving the future in His hands and rejoicing in the here and now. He is worthy of our praise, even when our plans aren't going according to plan :-). It's taken me especially a while to be able to say that; but this past month he's given us the opportunity to sort of take the month off. In this time we've been able to refocus on Him and Us and all the many reasons we have to praise Him regardless of where we're at in our earthly lives.
I leave you with my new favorite scripture....
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1)
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