Surprise....

Well as I'm sure most of you are not aware.... I got MARRIED on Saturday! We decided on Friday Nov. 9 that we were ready to get married. We set the date for Nov. 17...the race was on! A wedding in a week...are we crazy?! We decided that it would be small, private, very informal and just a good ole country wedding. So that's what we did!! Sorry I didn't get to invite anyone, I wanted to invite the world, but we just couldn't, especially on such short notice! I will include pics at the bottom. First I shall tell you of honeymoon disaster.... We decided that we would just go stay in Gatlinburg for a night and then come on back home. No big deal. So we book a room up there that has a jacuzzi and a fireplace! Trying to make it as romantic as possible on such short notice.. We finally get there Saturday evening after fighting traffic for a couple of hours. We go in and it's like 95 degrees (literally) in this room, so we turn on the AC downstairs and up in the loft bedroom (aka. cave) It starts cooling off finally and I'm just relaxing (it's been a crazy week) and Trampas decides he's getting in the jacuzzi to relax. He gets out a little later and we're just chillin on the couch watching a movie.. well he says it is a little cool in here now you want me to light a fire, I said it don't matter, whatever you wanna do, so he gets up to light a fire. They already had the starter log and some crumpled up paper in there so he went on to light it. Well here comes all the smoke rolling out into the room. In a matter of seconds it is so thick you can't breathe. I went upstairs to get some things and it was awful. I was getting sick b/c the smoke was so bad. I told him there is no way we can stay in this room, we'll never get all of this smoke out of here. Because the bedroom cave was upstairs and there was no ventilation we had no choice. I called the front desk and they didn't have any more rooms!!! So @ 10:30pm here we go loading our stuff and driving around to find another room. The only room we could find in busy Gatlinburg was a small room w/ 2 what they call "double" beds. HA! When you are used to spreading out in a KING size a double is like trying to sleep in a toddler bed!! Not so much!!! So to end our honeymoon we slept in separate beds!! Horrible...but I know it could've been a lot worse! We were so thankful to finally be back home Sunday! Whew..what a week! But on a happier note....we are married and happier than ever! ~Mrs. Rue

My Little Deer Hunter

Gracie decided she wanted to be a deer hunter "like Trampas" for Halloween. So here she is... my little deer hunter!! Also you will notice the new glasses. She has had them since Monday and is doing very well with them. She can actually see.

I will have more pics soon, but my camera broke yesterday and I had to resort to the cell phone and the ole 35mm camera. These are from my cell phone so they aren't very clear! I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween!!