Tennessee Trip 2009

We made it to Tennessee and had a great time. (For those of you that don't know, my mom's sister and mother live in TN) My parents flew into O'Hare again and they drove down with us so that I had a little help. It was nice having the extra hands, Thanks Mom and Dad for all the help!

This time Lacy, Cody, the twins Alisa & Angie, and Julius drove over from Colorado.

We also had Josie and her baby.

My Grandma made all the girls cute matching outfits. They turned out so cute thank you Grandma Great!

We had a nice 4th of July BBQ and then did a few fireworks in the drive way. There were so many other people doing the big fireworks that we all we had to do was look up to get a great show. I think the girls went through about 400 sparklers and amazingly we only had one small burn.

We spent a few days camping at the lake and took a few rides on Uncle Mike's boat. We built sandcastles, went swimming and cooked hobo dinners, hot dogs and smores over the fire. Yummy! In the lower left hand corner of the picture are my two swimsuit supermodels posing for you. The girls also got to go fishing and even caught one. And now for my favorite of the group: Aniela asleep in the chair with her arm still in the Cheetos bag.

We also took a tubing trip down the river. We were able to go down twice and had had a quick lunch in between. Aniela was so tired from her first trip down that she fell asleep in my lap for most of the second trip. It was amazing how well she slept while floating down a river and even over a little white water.

On our way home from tubing we stopped to look out over the Smokey Mountains.

And of course most of our free time was spent in Kim and Mike's pool. I think we were all part fish by the end of the trip.Thanks again Mike and Kim for having us, we really had a great time. Can't wait for you to come and stay with us next summer.