Birthday Weekend!

Friday we drove up to Lenoir City. We took all 7 cousins to a beautiful farm in Sweetwater, TN and Jill's sister in law, Ennette, took some wonderful pics of the kids. After that our kids spent the night at Jill's house and Josh and I had a night off. Thanks Jill!!

We started birthday weekend off in Lenoir City on Saturday morning with my nephew's, Will, 2nd birthday. See him chillaxing waiting on his cupcake! :)

My neice Sayuri celebrated her 1st birthday, here she is looking super cute!

We ended the birthday weekend with Dax's 4th Birthday Party at Partyville, the kids loved it!

Chuck E Cheese, Monster Bash & Pie Run!

Marley has been doing better not peeing in her diaper at night so went to Chuck E Cheese to celebrate. My mom was here for a couple of nights so she went with us and she also helped me redo our backsplash. It looks great, thanks MOM!!

Everybody, hands up for the pretend roller coaster!

Ty was pushing the gas for Marley, too funny.

Thursday night we had a delicious dinner with the Beard family at Seki Sui and then fun at the playground.
These kids crack me up! I went out on our front porch and this is what I saw... what imaginations!

Friday night we went to the Monster Bash at the Creative Discovery Museum! Here is Bryce the firefighter, Ty the Big Bad Wolf, And Marley Little Red Riding Hood. Too cute!



Saturday I ran the Pie run with my neighbor and good friend Lisa, it was great! Then just Chillaxing the rest of the weekend. Now it is time for another fun week!

Football, Festivals, and Columbus?!

Our weekend started off with Signal Mtn. High School's homecoming parade, then a FABULOUS dinner at the Pastaria, followed by going to the football game. What fun and they won big!

Saturday we went to Alexian's Fall festival. They had face painting, music, cake walk, petting zoo, cotton candy, popcorn, corn dogs, snow cones, and the list goes on. It was so nice to walk there and it was free!

Sunday we went to church and just hung out and then Monday Josh had Columbus Day off. So he worked on the house and I went to work for a little bit. I will miss having him at home today!

Taking a Time Out

Well we got back from Spain and it seems like we have been going nonstop! :) Last week we went to Huntsville with Josh's work (see the 2nd pic) which was a lot of fun, then Thursday we went to Lenoir City to visit and drop Ty & Marley off. I came back on Friday, picked up Josh, then the Masters and then we went to Atlanta. Saturday we went to Thomasville, GA (almost on the Florida/Georgia line) to see Bradley and Corinne get married. It was a beautiful wedding and a lot of fun to hang out with our dear friends Anthony & Tessa. Sunday we got up and drove to Lenoir City to pick up the kids and then back to our home sweet home. Hopefully this week we will just take it easy!
Here are the boys, Bradley, Josh & Anthony!

The kiddos in Huntsville.

Madrid, Spain (LAST Spain Posting) Sept 20-22

Well what an adventure! Josh has been a trooper and was able to drive in Madrid to the hotel and car drop off. He did much better than me! Our GPS went bizerk in the tunnels in Madrid and it was crazy. This is one of the parts of traveling that stresses me. Anyway we are here, eating, playing, shopping. Tomorrow the Museo Prado and then more Madrid. Here is to the end of the trip!

We had dinner in this market. Wow! The food was great, but not too kid friendly. We might try it again tomorrow and maybe I will take some pics. The tapas...yummy!!

Yes more playgrounds! I think we have hit every one that Spain has to offer. The kids love to play and meet other kids. They even met some from San Fransico. We tell Spaniards we are from Tennessee and they think for a minute and say Jack Daniels...guess that is what we are known for.

Well we have all day tomorrow here to explore and then we start our journey home on Wednesday. Can't wait to get home and tell you all about it in person. Buenos Noche!

Nerja, Spain Sept 16-20

Nerja has been one of my favorite places. We have relaxed and had some really good meals. We can eat for 30 to 40 euros on the beach, while the kids play at a playground and we eat a delicious meal. So nice!
One of our first days we went to Alahambra, a moorish castle. It was really neat and has some "unique" history.

For 4 days we have built sand castles and buried each other in the sand. The beach is always fun, no matter what country you are in!

Ty has gotten Josh to play A LOT of soccer with him.

After Nerja, we drive 5 hrs to Madrid and try to drop the car off. That should be fun! Adios!!

Parador Sept 14-16

Wow! We left to drive down to the Parador and what a trip. We got stopped on the interstate for over 2 hrs. When I say stopped, I mean we got out of the car and other people around us had a picnic! We finally got going again (apparently there was a protest going on) and then added 3 hrs to our trip because the GPS took us 1.5 hrs too far...argh! Try asking for directions in a different language! Despite it all the kids did well, it was Josh and I that were bitter. As long as we stop at playgrounds they are fine. :) Our car trip took 11 hrs. Luckily we got to our castle right before dark and it was fantastic! So nice we decided to stay here 2 nights and not go to Sevilla. We have rested, played in the castle's pool and playground and eaten good food!

Forgot to mention that Josh pushed the car to back up at first. We couldn't figure out how to put it in reverse...ha! And Ty has kept us laughing, he thinks the guy from Star Wars is Obie Kanobie #1.

Tomorrow is suppose to be a 6 hr trip to the beach for 4 days, so hopefully it will be less eventful! Much love!!