My husband the hypochondriac

I swear that man is the biggest hypochondriac I know! I massaged his back a week ago, and ever since he's been waking up with a stabbing pain under his ribs on the right side. It happens about the same time every night.

Well, I made an appointment for the chiropractor for Wednesday. He went and felt better after being adjusted. BUT, the doctor sent him to the hospital for X-rays. He mentioned that sometimes that type of pain is associated with a tumor between the ribs. He told Pete not to worry, which is like telling a hungry baby not to cry!! I told him to take it one day at a time and to pray.

He went to the chiropractor for the results today. And, he has no tumor! Praise God! He said that once he found it out, he sat in his car & cried. He said that he told his deceased Grandpa yesterday that he wanted to see him, but just not yet. He said that he is so thankful to God for taking care of him yet again. He wanted to know how to repay HIM. I said that he needs to go to church with me. He said that he should.

Hopefully, I can get him to go with me. :) I hope everyone has a nice Easter!

Very first blog ever...

Well, I have wanted to start a blog for a while, so here it goes. I guess maybe I'll start with last weekend. Pete and I have wanted to have a night to ourselves in a while. We wanted to do something special before I went to Disney in March, but it didn't work out that way. We had hoped for March, but again no luck. Mom offered to watch the kids on Saturday during the day and all night long, so we jumped on it!

I took the kids to Mom & Dad's after we had breakfast. Pete wanted to do some things to his "new" truck before we took it to Wheeling. He started on that, while I took the kids to the golf course. Mom & Dad have breakfast at the Auman Timbers Golf Course every Saturday...they tend to be there all morning, so they were still there when I arrived. Haylea was excited to go. She had packed 2 bags and brought her baby stroller as well.

He wasn't finished with the truck when I got home, so I gathered everything. I also picked up the house a little. What I can get done without the kids under my feet!! I was zooming around the house doing five things at once! I had the dishes in the sink, laundry going, trying to get on Ticketmaster (with my extremely SLOW dial up)... Pete asked me to bring him a couple hot dogs, so I walked them down to the garage (it's about a 1/4 mile from the house). I finally got the Crue Fest 2 tickets ordered from Ticketmaster! We got our showers and hit the road.

He had never taken US250 from by Tappan Lake all the way to Bridgeport. He was not impressed with all of the hills & curves, especially with the truck being a standard! Once we got to Bridgeport, it wasn't all that far to go to Cabela's. We went there to check it out. We liked it, but it was very similar to the Bass Pro Shop we went to in Savannah last summer. We had heard that they served Elk, Ostrich & such, so we wanted to try something different. We assumed it was a sit down place, but it was more burgers & deli stuff. He had Elk, and I had Wild Boar. They were both really good! We looked at all the stuffed animals (elephant, lion, zebra, wildebeast, wolf, polar bear, etc) and the fish tanks (with all fish that are found locally). Then, we decided to find somewhere to stay.

We used the GPS to find a Holiday Inn. We decided to find somewhere to have a drink or two. We used the GPS to find a Finnegan's Pub. We followed the directions exactly, but we never found Finnegan's. Then, we plugged in another place, and it took us to a residential area! I was laughing my head off! I told him that years from now we're going to say, "remember when we went to Wheeling and the GPS got us lost!" Third time was a charm, and we went to some little bar. It was funny, because they had a bunch of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome signs everywhere. (Lots of pregnant women in West Virginia must drink!!) We headed back to the room and found a bar just down the road!! Oh well, maybe next time.

We had a wonderful time...just by ourselves! (Reminds me of "Mamma Mia" with their dot dot dot...he he.)

Sunday morning we ate breakfast at Bob Evans. We then decided to find something to do in the area. We saw a fishing sign, so we decided to see where it went. It was Bear Rock Lake.

We looked at the various lakes, and of course, did not bring our fishing stuff with us. They have 4 lakes, with dikes & streams connecting them. We walked the paved walkway around the one, and then hiked through the woods to see another.

We walked all the way around the one lake, and then found the hiking trail. We noticed a good bit of rocks along our walk. We saw a huge one that was just off of the trail, and then he saw some more that were behind it that were even bigger. We had to check them out of course!

As we climbed around the rocks, we found some caves. I wondered why the place was named Bear Rock. Did bears live there? He was more brave than I, and he went inside to check them out!

We had so much fun climbing all over these rocks! It was much cooler inside the rocks. I was nervous that they might shift or something, so I looked around outside. We even stepped over a ravine to look out over the valley. Pete's not usually scared of heights, and it frightened him. I had to not look down, or else I never would have gotten anywhere close to that ledge!!

We walked back on the path & found the main lake. It's a shortcut we'll have to take next time! When we were done there, we decided that it was time to head home.

Since he didn't like 250, I told him we could take 7 & 22 to get home. It's not as busy as 70 & 77, but it's a straight shot home. We ate in Martin's Ferry, when Mom called and offered to keep the kids another night! We agreed, and then took our time getting home.

Once we were home, he took a nap, and I checked my e-mails. All in all, it was a wonderful weekend!!