A couple of things.

I have so much to blog about right now and have had a hard time finding time to write it all down but here are a couple of things I want to share for now.  I will be back soon with part two of my trip to Asheville as well, but I need to finish downloading the pics.

• No, your eyes are not playing tricks on you.  The sign really does say SOLD and it really is in our front yard!!  Thanks to much prayer and turning the situation over to God, our house sold last week.  The buyers looked at it at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon and we signed the contract at 6:40 p.m. that same evening.  After more than a week of not having any showings, we were feeling pretty down, but that feeling quickly turned to a feeling of huge relief!  So, now we have a lot of packing and moving in our future, but at least we can be excited about it (as excited as we can be about the process of moving).
• Along with selling our house this week, I also had another huge stress relief that came on Thursday.  My many months of planning came to fruition on Thursday night when President George W. Bush spoke at the Chamber's Annual Meeting.  We had a sold out crowd of 5,000 people who were all very excited to hear the President and from what I hear (I didn't exactly get to listen to the presentation because I was trying to get photos approved for the media) he did a fantastic job!  My family decided to come to the event and they were all very pleased and I heard a lot of positive comments from other people as they were leaving the event.  While it was a lot of work for a lot of people, the event was a huge success! 
• Since my family was in town for the Bush event, I talked them in to spending the weekend with us.  My siblings and their spouses stayed the weekend while my parents took the grand kids home with them for the weekend.  I think everyone had a great weekend and I know my siblings enjoyed a little grown-up time :)  Us girls went to lunch on Friday, got pedicures and shopped at Target for two hours (ha!) while the guys played golf.  Then, we capped off the day with a sushi dinner and a little night out.  Saturday we watched a lot of football and hung out with other family members who live in town.  Today ended a little abruptly when my mom called to say one of the girls had the stomach flu so they all left earlier than planned to get the kids and head home.  We spent the rest of the day cleaning up the house and running errands.  Now, we are sitting in the couch and letting our bodies catch up from a crazy week!