Posting Question?!?

OK, folks. The ceremony went off without a hitch. Now it's time for the reception. I have 32 pictures to share with you. Now, my question is...........do you want them all at once? Or half at a time? Or maybe 8 a day for the next four days?! Let me just warn you before you decide.........I have AWANA at church tomorrow night, then choir practice. Then Thursday night we start our new Beth Moore women's Bible study on Esther. This means it may be several days before we finish this up.

When I get atleast 3 comments regarding this post, I'll decide which one it's going to be.

I'm waiting!!!

You are cordially invited........

OK, let me come clean..........I didn't actually take any pictures "at" the wedding. I just didn't feel right doing that. I wanted to be completely consumed by the moment and ball my eyes out and sniffle and snort (I AM the proud Aunt, after all!) and I knew having the camera there would have taken away from that. So, these photos are "stills" from my brother's camera. They are good shots, none the less. Hope you enjoy them.

Mr. and Mrs. Jason Beale!!!

The bride and her daddy, Owen

The bride and her mom, Jenny

Mr. and Mrs. Jason Beale and the Dickens girls

Jason, Dad and Mom

Mr. and Mrs. Jason Beale AND Mr. and Mrs. Joseph (Jody) Beale

Mr. and Mrs. Jody Beale, Mr. and Mrs. Jason Beale and Granny

And now for my favorite "candid" shot....................

I don't recall it being hot in the sanctuary. And.........the ceremony was already over, so it couldn't have been nerves (unless Jason has severe delayed reaction!), but for some reason, Jason was melting like a Popsicle in the middle of July! His (new) wife was fanning him, his mom was looking on nervously and even the photographer was puzzled, as Jason wiped the sweat from his brow. Poor fella. His ears were even beet red.

OK, so now you've seen the wedding. Hope you'll stop back by tomorrow and join us for the reception. I'll save you some cake!

Wedding Day Sight Seeing....

Saturday morning we all got up and headed down for our continental breakfast. It was pretty good. They even had a waffle iron and batter and you could make your own waffles! Haley made waffles for all of us! They were very yummy. They had fresh fruit, a couple of different kinds of juice, coffee, hot tea, oatmeal, dry cereals, bagels, sausage, a variety of danishes, and muffins. It was a nice start to a wonderful day.

Our first excursion was to the High Bridge Park. On the way there, we kind of got turned around a little but I still got some neat shots of where we first ended up. Here, this is what we found off the beaten path. I just thought these were some good photos.

I don't know what this used to be, but it was enormous!! Oh, I wish you could have seen it!

OK, so then we got back on track and headed down the right road to the High Bridge Park.


Once inside the park, you walk out onto this:

Once you reach the end, down there, THIS is what you'll see:

Then to the left:

Then a little more to the right:


The view was breathtaking! These photos do the view NO justice! This water is the Kentucky River. Personally, I think they should call it Gatorade River. Well, it looks just like Gatorade!

Then, to the right:

Oh, hey. Yeah, "CHEESE"! OK, now move! I'm trying to take pictures!!! (Just kidding!)

Now, then to the right............

The majestic High Bridge railroad structure, considered an engineering marvel of its time and featured by the Smithsonian Institute, is an honored landmark that spans the Kentucky River at the breathtaking Gorge and Palisades. When built in 1877 it was the highest railroad trestle in the world.

OH, MY!!! It's nearly NOON! The wedding starts at 2:00! There are 3 of us girls having to get ready for the wedding!

So, we hurried back to the room and started primping.

See ya'll tomorrow, at the wedding! (I know, I've held ya'll off yet another day!)

Kentucky Road Trip Part 3 The Rehearsal Dinner

It's a good thing we made good time. We had just enough time to stop by our "place" to freshen up before heading to the rehearsal dinner. We had about 15 minutes to spare. So, we finally got there and.......................

Everyone was lining up for dinner. It was buffet style. Everything was yummy. We had ham, turkey, scalloped potatoes, baked beans, broccoli casserole, rolls, and cherry cobbler. Not too shabby!

It was nice to mingle and get to meet all of Abby's family. Oh, yeah, by the way......Abby is the bride. She and her family are all SO very nice. Her father is a Hebrew professor at Asbury college. The rehearsal dinner was held at one of the student halls and we stayed in a townhouse on campus and the wedding was held in one of the chapels on campus. It was all very nice.

OK, back to the rehearsal dinner. Come on, I'd like to introduce you to some folks.............

This is my brother, Joe (we call him Jody) and my sister-in-law, Becky. (Jason's parents)

I think everyone reading this probably already knows who these adorable people are!!! But, just in case....it's me and Jimmy.

A shot of me and my brutha.............

And me and my mutha.........

Here's one of the cousins. Jason and David and their ladies!

This is Jody, Becky and the bride's mother.

Me and Becky, sharin' the love........


Two of the most important men in my life!! (Gush, gush!!)

OK, now for some after dinner shots.........

This is Abby with her maid of honor and brides maids. Abby is the one in the middle with the gray sweater on. Her maid of honor is the redhead on the far left side. The two women on the far right are the bride's sisters.

This is Jason and his groomsmen. His dad, Jody, my brother, is his best man. He was busy running around and missed out on these photos! All these fellas, except the far right one, are his college baseball teammates. (I think)

And this is the guys being................well............"the guys"!


See ya'll tomorrow at the wedding!!!!

Kentucky Road Trip (Part 2)

You see some pretty interesting things when you travel. We saw two especially interesting, uh, I guess you would call them.......landmarks?! There was this: (at the Alabama/Tennessee line)

And then there was this: (in Tennessee)

"They" say it's a real life size T Rex and the thing behind it to the left is a lift to the top of that mountain.

(Please excuse the quality of these photos. They were taken through a dirty windshield! and going 80 miles an hour. Hey, I did the best I could with the resources I had!)

I just thought this was neat because the trees grow right out the side of the mountain. I thought that was pretty cool. I mean, how much soil can there be inside a mountainside?

The song says, "the sun'll come out tomorrow", but we didn't have to wait that long.

It shown on us for a good fifteen minutes!

Just enough to let us know it was still there......somewhere. It turned shy and hid again behind another cloud for a while.

We stopped in Bowling Green, Kentucky for lunch. Our car had some "soup" too. We only had about 2 1/2 hours left to go. Oh, and the sun finally came out in full force and it was a consistent 50 degree average for three states. Nothing but snoring and slobber from the back seat since our lunch stop. Jimmy and I, we were getting delirious. Everything is funny when you're going on 2 1/2 hours of sleep.

We made excellent time to Kentucky with only 1 fill up, 1 "top off", a 20 minute lunch and three bathroom breaks. We ended up making the trip in 11 hours instead of 12! WooHoo!

Once we got into the mountains good (Tennessee through Kentucky) I saw so many awesome old barns on the mountain sides. I wish I could have photographed them all. It's kind of impossible to do riding down the road at 80 miles an hour! But I deeply appreciated the character of each and every one. I reflected on the time of their raising and then to see the historic skeletons that remained. I wonder about the stories they could tell if I could have only stopped for a spell and interviewed each one. If walls could talk.

Oh, and we drove right through Washington County! Kentucky, that is....

11 hours in the car, 2 1/2 hours of sleep.........my head felt like it could roll right off into the floor board and I kept having to "turn the other cheek" ---- IF you know what I mean!?!

Once in Kentucky real good there were lots of black barns. I was curious to know and had to ask a local about them. I was told that all the black barns are/were tobacco barns and they are black to keep the heat in to dry the tobacco. They were actually kind of pretty. And all the black barns were HUGE!

Hmmm, learn something new every day!

Be sure to tune back in tomorrow. I'll be taking you to the rehearsal dinner!

Until then...................

Kentucky Road Trip

Friday, January 2, 2009.

4:30 a.m. and we're all in the car off for a Worley Family Adventure. Headed for new territories. (Well, new to us anyway!) We're on our way to Kentucky for my nephew, Jason's, wedding. Jason is my brother's youngest son. He just graduated from college and is starting a new chapter in his life. And we wouldn't miss it for the world!

I always considered my car a roomy sedan. That was, until five of us and all our gear, snacks, pillows, electronics, books and, and, and............all piled in there. And the longer we traveled, the smaller it seemed to get. It went from roomy, to cozy, to, well......cramped. But we all wanted to go to Kentucy so badly, we made it work.

Around 5:30 a.m., somewhere on the other side of Dothan, the sun peeked out for a few seconds to greet us with a new day. It was a really fresh crisp morning. Wonderful travel weather. Just really overcast.



10:00 a.m. we stopped in Blount Springs, Alabama, just North of Montgomery, to refuel and stretch. This guy met us out front of the very old but still functioning store. I felt like we stepped out of our car right into the 70's.

He (we'll just call him Tom) greeted us at the car door and talked to us the whole time we pumped our gas. No doubt telling us about the area and asking us where we were headed. I scratched his head and thanked him for the info. He meowed again a few times as we were all loading up to get back on the road as if to say, "Ya'll come back now, ya hear!"

The weather was overcast pretty much all day. We hadn't seen the sun since Chipley the day before. It was real nasty weather all the way through Montgomery. Good sleeping weather obviously!

I-65 was insane with exits every which way. I'm glad that Florida interstates aren't that way. Go, FDOT! Jimmy said he felt like we were trying to maneuver around in a big bowl of spaghetti!

Next stop........................Tennessee!!!

Check back tomorrow for the next installment of our adventures to Kentucky!

Technical Difficulties

I have nearly 100 photos I'm dying to get souped up in Picasa so I can post them on my blog. However, Picasa and I have been duking it out for two days. I don't know what the major malfunction is, but only this evening have I had any type of luck at all. I don't know if it's them, or me, but something's got to give.

I hope to have a post for you about our Kentucky trip by the end of the week. I'm working on it, I promise! Keep checking back.