We headed over to Stephanie’s to play this past week and had so much fun!
We swam….
the boys did some bowling while lunch was cooking
after refueling with some hotdogs it was time to cowboy up
then in true cowboy style… they hopped in the ford and were off for a drive
Monday was our 1st day home from vacation and with Jeff off work it still wasnt completely back to normal until Tuesday! Then he was headed to work and Matt and I went to the movies! Gotta love the summer kids series with $1 movies and $1 popcorn and $1 drinks! Wednesday was chiropractor and then the day at home followed by church that evening! Thursday was summer reading program at church and that was fun. Here are a few pics from that.
our 1st field trip was to the newspaper which is right across from the courthouse.
austin and matt on the bus to our next field trip
we went to cripple creek farm. they have some exotic animals and such.
this is an Eland antelope. they are the largest of the antelope species
after 4 hours of summer reading which included 3 field trips then we came home and went to grannys to swim for a couple hours with abbye and austin. it started raining so the kids played in the rain for a bit. we got home and matt had supper then next thing we knew he fell asleep playing trains!
Friday was a work day for me so matt hung out with granny. I actually enjoyed spending the day at the office! I also got an email Friday from Wendy, my uncle John’s girlfriend with a few pictures of Justin, Rachel and the girls! It was so great to get the pictures and I actually cried when I opened them up. Wendy and John met them in New Mexico for a couple hours. And just like I thought from the last pictures I saw of Skyler, she looks just like Justin! And Malorie is such a cutie! I would love to see these little girls and hopefully one day I will!
Sunday morning we woke up at the hotel and made our way towards Middle TN. We made it in time to go to Amanda’s baby shower. Amanda is Jeff’s cousin (his mom’s brother’s oldest daughter).
Al put together her a family baby shower and did a great job! She made her cake of course and for being her first try with fondant it looked awesome!
Abbye and Aunt Al making a bow
Amanda, baby AJ and the cake
While us girls did the baby shower thing, Jeff and Matt went up to visit Pa. Conveniently they made it back in time to have some cake! Matt asked to go home with Aunt Al and this time we sent him! He always wants to go with her and usually we have something to do but this time why the heck not. She didn’t say no so she ended up taking Matthew and Abbye home with her! We may get a call to come get him sometime in the middle of the night but as of this post at 9pm all seems to be going good!
We have everything unpacked and looks like time to call it an early night! Pictures are done from the week, blog posts are made, and now time to get back to reality!
Saturday morning showed up and it was time to load up and head back home.
a few shots of the condo’s living area
The guys did this the entire week… people watching
photos on the balcony
So our road trip started…
of course we had to grab an ice cream cone at one little town
coming into the blue ridge mountains
some South Carolina to North Carolina… One more state line to go
Our road trip got interesting about mile marker 17 on Interstate 40. Construction had one lane shut down and all the weekend vacation traffic had to merge. Of course the actual lane closure wasnt until mile marker 7 but since people cant merge it was backed up for 10+ miles! It took us a couple hours just to get the 17 miles to the state line. What a mess that was!
Random shots during the traffic jam
After we got down to one lane we went through a tunnel and saw some neat waterfalls on the rocky sides since it was and had been raining.
We met up with granny and pappy for some pizza just after coming into TN.
Not too long after getting back on the interstate we came to a complete stop. All 3 lanes were shut down due to an accident that was just a little ways ahead of us. So here we sat. We had the CB radio on listening to the truckers around us. It was quite humorous actually. So many people were shutting their cars off, walking along the freeway to check things out, and just hanging out. We sat on the freeway for another couple hours. When we finally got moving we didnt ride to far before realizing we just couldnt make it all the way home so we stopped for the night just a couple hours from home.
