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 There's no place like home...there's no place like home...LOL.  We are SO thankful to be back home from our little trip. We had a WONDERFUL time visiting family, friends, and seeing beautiful scenery in the mountains...every day was an amazing new adventure...and I will try to share more in the days and weeks to come.  I don't want to overwhelm you with too many pictures all at once so will try to break it up into events and places.  However, tonight I am tired from traveling all day long, leaving literally at the crack of dawn before the sun came up over the mountains of Northeast Georgia.  After traveling for about a half an hour, this was our view at a scenic overlook:

You can still see the mist in the mountains as the sun was rising over the hills...it was absolutely stunning.

For those of you who saw my Facebook post last week on our trip up to North Carolina for the family reunion, you will know that because the rental car we got turned out to be a little smaller than expected, my DIL Rose and I had the great joy of holding two sweet grandpups all the way up to NC from Florida, and all the way back home again today from GA.  Here we were last week at the beginning of our journey...Rose is holding Spice, and I am holding Sugar.

This was the view in my lap on the way home today...that's pretty much the way we rode for all of our trip all day long, except for pit-stops.  But thankfully these pups are the sweetest and best and they fully cooperated and slept most all the way.

However, I believe the doggies were just as happy to get back home as we were! LOL.

I will cut through all the fine details for tonight and show you this picture of our family reunion:

This is my side of the family, members of each of my sibling's families and also a close cousin (Becky) and her hubby (Pat).  There were four of us siblings, and my oldest brother Russell has passed on in 2019. But his oldest son and daughter in law were there. My next oldest brother Clifford and his wife Caryl and their two daughters were our hosts for this reunion. Some of their grandchildren also we able to attend. My sister Doris and her husband Art were also there from Florida, and their oldest daughter Debbie also came. Then there was me (the baby of the family), and my hubby John, and our oldest son Benton and wife Rose.  We were each missing some of our kids and grandkids, but still this was a pretty good representation of our family.  We are so thankful that we were able to do this and hope to do it as often as possible in the future, Lord willing and as our health permits.

This is how our "original family" looked many years ago...

My how times have changed!!

I will share more pictures from the reunion in future posts, as well as pictures from the cabin where we stayed for the rest of our vacation in the north Georgia mountains.  But for tonight I think this will be enough as I am very tired, and tomorrow hubby has the (outpatient) medical procedure that we've been waiting for for quite a while. It will be a long day and I don't expect I'll be able to do much writing tomorrow...but we shall see how things go this weekend.

So I will close with a few pictures of some of the many wonderful little inspirational signs that were hanging in the cabin where we stayed. The owners of this "AirBnB" cabin have named their cabin "Our Mountain Blessing"...and I must say it lives up to its name....

I loved each of these different little plaques and signs...they truly did bless us as we spent our days there together...

I like what this says "Collect moments, not things..."   Oh yes!!!

Amen to these verses!

And I saved the best for last..."Friends are God's way of taking care of us."  

I do hope to get caught up with each of you in the days to come. I feel like I've been away forever and I haven't been able to read blogs while away due to lack of computer (and it's too difficult to do on my phone) and spotty internet.  So I know you all have your own special stories and adventures and maybe even prayer requests going on out there.  Hopefully we can get caught up with each other really soon.

Until then, 

Thank you for being very special friends.

Good Night and God Bless you all!