High on the hill was a lonely goat herd.....

lae-deo-de-lae-deo-de-lae-HE-WHO!!!!!! That's one of my favorite silly songs (at silly times). It was perfect for this weekend. Since Christal and I aren't going to Sanibel Island this year, we decided to get away for a girls' weekend up at Pigeon Forge in a beautiful rented cabin. The other big reason we went...Christal turned forty earlier this month so it was her birthday party weekend. I do have to say...we girls can have some fun; and I'll leave it at that!!!!!

Before we really even took the time to look around, I made Christal open her presents and see her cakes.

This is my favorite gift I got her. It says, "I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food."

Check out these cakes. Demetria Gilliam-Williams made these. She's the cool chick that made my birthday cake back in November. A friend of Amanda's and now my friend as well, she has got some kind of talent!! The coffee cups and saucers are edible and the chocolate cake inside is combined with chocolate mousse filling and coffee-buttercream icing. Heavenly!! Ya'll check out her blog noted on mine and order some cakes - she's awesome!

Check out this view! All I can say is.... with a driveway like we had to go up and a nervous driver (me), we better have had a good view!! Ha! We were literally hanging on the side of a mountain. The good thing was that the hot tub on the deck was facing this view, so lots of time was spent in the hot tub reading and singing 'high on the hill'....

A couple of cabin pictures....the owners had the cabin decorated with bears. This Mama bear and her cub were hanging in the rafters. Very cute.

Here I am snuggled up and waiting for Christal to get the stupid TV to work. OMG.....could it get any more complicated. I didn't want to show her up with my technological expertise....as most of you know, I am incredibly talented in the areas of technology and driving directions...two areas at which I excelled this weekend. Anyway, I just kinda supervised and let her show off some of her skills! HEHEHEHEHE!!!

The Supa Speeda Reada! She read an entire book in one day. Could I have been shown up any more than that? Nah, just kidding. Again, as you may have read in other posts, if I could sit down for more than two seconds at a time, I may could read more than three pages at a time. I have a problem relaxing....but I did okay this weekend, didn't I Chris-tyal?

Last but not least, two signs that may rank as my favorite. After all, I am Mountain Chick, Thomas is known as B D Rooster because he can crow like one and my girls are my baby chicks. All their friends get called little chickens at my house. I stopped by this lovely living arrangement to ask these people if I could take a picture of the signs and they didn't mind....as the rooster crowed in the background. We have laughed about this all weekend.

So anyway, we had a great time this weekend. Happy Birthday, Christal!!!