Wedding Pics

New Year's Eve - and the New Year

Well New Year's Eve was fun. We went to Bruce and Joyce Yorgey's house...Martain and I were supposed to be in charge of the activities...but we mostly just hung out, chatted and ATE!!!
Right before midnight Bruce Yorgey wanted us to pray in the new year...so we were actually in the middle of praying as the new year hit. I still snuck a quick kiss from my hubby, since I have one, hee hee.

The first day of the year I woke up felling under the weather and by 1pm Martain decided it was time to get me some help...with no Doctors open on New Year's Day, and us living in a small enough community that there are NO urgent care facilities, we had to go to the Emergency Room. Did I mention I hate hospitals...AND NEEDLES!
They needed to take blood and after the diagnosis of UTI, I needed an IV with antibiotics, another needle. After a few hours we were allowed to leave and for the most part I am feeling better. Every once in awhile I don't feel well...but I'm hanging in there!

We are planning a reception for this area...January 24th. more details will follow.

Honeymoon Pictures!

We went to St Maarten in the Caribbean for our honeymoon. We actually traveled back to PA and spent a few days here before flying out to St Maarten. It was nice to have a vacation after doing a lot of the moving from one house to another.


Our first glimpse of St Maarten from the plane




another view of St Maarten from our plane




view off of our balcony....AAHHH!




view off of our balcony - 2




view off of our balcony - 3




the entrance to our One bedroom Suite




first door on the right - the Master Suite



Second door on the right - the Bathroom



Bathroom part -2



Our living room




The Kitchen




The Kitchen - 2




Living Room - 2





Balcony




Balcony - 2



Our first sunset in St Maarten - so beautiful




Phillipsburg - Capital of Dutch St Maarten




Sunset #2




Us Watching the sunset... we did this every night...VERY ROMANTIC!!!







On Monday we took a tour of the Island by bus... these are a few of the pics from this tour...













Border between Dutch Saint Maarten and French Sint Martin


The yummy French Bakery...oh man I wanna go back!!!























We decided on Chocolate Croissants with Cafe au Lait










To Be Continued....

Our House....

These pictures were taken in October when we found out we would be moving from Martain's other house to this one at the entrance of the camp.


the back of the house...this faces the entrance of the camp



Our driveway and porch.



Our driveway and garage, it's a 2 car garage with a carport



The main entrance.



Our cute little cabin...it's a play house. And our fire pit.

you might have red-neck neighbors

if they tell you not to call the cops when you hear the .22 going off 'cause they're just killin' pigs


if they invite you over 'cause they're making a huge pot of ham and bean soup in their backyard...with the ham from a pig they slaughtered.


if one of the kids runs up with a piece of meat in his hand and tells you to "try 'at" ... so you do, and then he tells you .."'at's pig heart!" with a huge grin on his face.


if they ask you if you want to try some homemade wine...the flavors include peach, cherry or dandelion wine, they also brought out some homemade cherry/pineapple hooch.


if they offer to have you bring some of the bean ham soup home with you, you just need to grab a container. (they ended up giving up a container)


if they make homemade scrapple in their backyard over an open fire ( and if you don't know what that is, you are NOT a red-neck)


if they offer to send some puddin' home with you (this is NOT some sort of sweet thing you may eat as dessert...it is meat from off the bones of the pig...yes odd)


if they send so much pork home with you it seems like you have the whole pig.


YES - I have red-neck neighbors