Get Together with Friends in TN

Our afternoon... in no particular order...

Tony playing Frisbee

All the children and Daddys playing Frisbee on the hill

The Mamas... Nina with LeAnna, Kim O, me, Toya, Kim C

Randy showing Isaac how to walk like a sheriff

Kim C teaching me all about heavy weight lifting

Brandy, Molly with Nehemiah and Cassie

Hannah, the Monkey!

hhmmmm.... I don't remember what we were discussing... but it must have been interesting!

Isaiah the Adorable

a more subdued conversation with Nina

Kim with Garrison, Toya and Kim

Bradley and Nina, me, Kim O

We had such a great time!!! Thank you Randy and Toya for opening your home to all of us!

TN trip, quick recap...

Left here Thursday at 4:20 am
Drove to Birmingham for a picnic breakfast at the park with Faith
Got to Brownsville around 6
Rebecca and Jacob were there, we visited
Set up our campsite and drove to town for supper
Rain
Decided to sleep in Daddy's shop
Left Friday morning for Hendersonville
Our picnic was rained out
Went to Tony's mom's and spent the day
Spent the night at his grandmothers
Had a great visit with everyone
Grandmother treated us to breakfast at Cracker Barrel Saturday morning
Left there and drove to Smyrna for a get together with friends there
Met Kim, Kim and Nina at Toya's house
Had a great, great time
Ate supper with Toya and Randy and family
Got back to Daddy's at 2am
Thud
Sunday spent time visiting with Daddy
Spent Sunday afternoon with Mama and Rebecca and Jacob
Had a really nice visit
Mama said Nehemiah looks like me :)
Left there and drove to the Sheltons
Lora and her children came over
We had a great visit with them too
Monday we drove to Paris
It was an inpromptu visit
We drove by our old house and church
And we played at the park where we used to play when we lived there
It was a nice nostalgic trip
Visited with Lisa and her children Monday night
It was a really good visit
Haven't seen them in years and years
Tuesday it finally wasn't raining
We drove to Memphis to the zoo
Very nice
Lots of fun
Wednesday woke up at 2am to a child being sick
Uh Oh
Prayed and prayed and he wasn't sick any more
Went by Mama's office before we left Brownsville
Had a tour of the police station and got to see the fire trucks
Great fun
Had a safe, uneventful trip home

We got to do almost everything on our "Wish We Could Do This While in TN List"... we didn't get to visit with "cousin Terry" and Vickie or Uncle Bobby and Aunt Wanda. Next time, hopefully!

Home!

I'm afraid I wasn't a very faithful blogger on our trip. Sorry. Our connection was blotchy at times and the battery didn't have a long life.

So we are home, safe and sound. I'll be sharing pics soon. Molly will be too, on the children's blog, www.lewischildren.blogspot.com

Later!

on the road again, AGAIN ~ Day 2 - Pics added with Faith's family

On the road again... :) Today we are heading to Hendersonville to spend the evening and tomorrow morning visiting with Tony's family! His mother rented a pavillion at the park and we are eating lunch there today!

Yesterday we met Faith and her children. They made us a wonderful picnic breakfast -- it was very yummy and Much Appreciated! Her children are delightful and mine are already asking when we can visit them again. Thank you Faith and family!!! You are very gracious hostesses!

We drove on to Brownsville after several more stretching/potty/nursing stops and got there around 6pm. My sister and her son were at Daddy's. It was so good to see them!

*********** LAST NIGHT'S ADVENTURE ************
It was a long, long night... we got the tents all set up and then went back to town to get some supper. And it rained. And rained. When we got back to Daddy's the tents were a little wet inside. Not too bad but we didn't know if was gonna keep raining or not.

The children need their sleeping bags for tonight and if they got wet last night we would be in a mess. So we decided we could either go back to town and get a hotel (trying to save money so that wasn't our first choice), we could sleep on Daddy's screened-in porch (pretty dry but no protection from the wind) or we could clean out Daddy's detached single car garage and sleep there. That's what we did.

Pulled out the mower, weedeaters, etc... put plywood on the floor, covered with old blankets and put down the sleeping bags.Tony and I slept on twin air mattresses. :) We were dry and warm. Life is a fun adventure!!!