Ever since Halloween week, we've had one if not both kids sick! We've had to watch a lot of movies around this house for the past 3 weeks! I was noticing that I don't have many photos from the past few weeks since Halloween and the illness and craziness lately is pretty much why.
Granny and Papi (Julio's parents) have been here for about a week now and we are all trying to stay well now that everyone is on the mend so that we can all go to Asheville to celebrate Thanksgiving with the whole family there including my mom who is flying in this coming Monday.
Also in the past five weeks, we began hosting a Life Group through church. We've been pretty busy with that since we host 11 adults and 9 kids under 5 in our house for two and a half hours every Sunday afternoon. I sure have been spending more time cleaning! Ha,ha! But really, it has been a great gift to us and we are enjoying getting to know this new group. We are getting ready to host a Thanksgiving celebration after our 6th meeting (and week) to celebrate officially becoming a group (we will be out of the trial period). For those of you that know about small groups through church, this is one of those.
On another note, I arranged for a overnight trip for tomorrow night to celebrate our anniversary that was back in early October. It will be the first time that I've been away from the kids for 24 hours in over a year and a half or more! Looking forward to it! I'm sure I'll have some photos next week. :)
We hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Well, about a two months late, we finally celebrated our anniversary last weekend on Friday, the 20th of Nov. I took it upon myself to make a reservation at a nice little country inn near Chapel Hill. My neighbor told me about this place and so I checked it out online. You could tell a lot from their website, but it was even better! It was so elegant and the grounds of the village made you feel as if you'd stepped into a posh country home decor magazine! I mentioned on our reservation that we were celebrating our anniversary and so they upgraded us to a suite instead of the standard room I had booked. We had a nice living room, bedroom and large bathroom with a screened in porch off the bath. We enjoyed tea time at 4:30 pm complete with tea sandwiches, truffles, treats and of course some fresh herb tea! Our dinner was a fabulous four course meal that was excellent. We had a gorgeous view of the gardens and countryside from our room...it was heaven! I just loved it! We were only gone for about 24 hours, but it was the most relaxed I'd been for 24 hours straight in over a year. Totally worth it! 
Julio sitting in the living room of our suite! They left us chocolate truffles and a small gift card of spending money (to redeem at one of their boutique shops) for our anniversary. I was so impressed...everything was included at this place. In room snacks, drinks, tea and treats, breakfast and the extras I just mentioned. The only thing that was not included in the room was our dinner. I could have stayed there for a whole week! Loved it!
We used their bikes and took a nice ride around the housing development that surrounded the village. We visited the "Beltie" Cows that they are famous for. :)
