Back to the real world...

Well we are back to the real world. After a week of vacation in the mountains we came home yesterday and are back to the normal grind tomorrow. We had a great time and could have stayed longer. Enjoy all the pictures. There are many many pictures, but tried to find some good ones to share.

Stop at Maw Maw and Papa's house on Friday before the mountains

Gorge's State park

Pose with Paw Paw and GiGi at Gorge's

After our hike up the .5 mile trail (I think it was about a 2 mile trail)

Love this pic!

White Water Falls

Bridal Veil Falls (we drove under this waterfall)

Dry Falls (can walk under this one)

Under Dry Falls, wasn't quite dry

One of our beautiful views of the moutains

Our visit to Santa's Land in Cherokee

Bottle feeding the 9 month old bear

Kylee feeding the goats

Kolton feeding the goats

They LOVED this slide!!!

Kylee participating in the magic show

Helicopter ride at Santa's Land

Look who we FOUND!! Kolton wasn't to fond!

Kylee loved the reindeer

PawPaw and Kolton walking down one of the many dirt roads we drove on

Using her new rod

Fishing with PawPaw

Daddy showing me how to fish. The fish just didn't want to cooperate

Watching the squirrels on our back deck

The bear outhouse on the putt putt course

LOOK who we found on the way home...SABRINA!!! :-)

Sickies & Crazy Hats

Kolton had his 2nd ear infection this past week. He had a cold and just wasn't himself last weekend and into the first of the week. On Tuesday afternoon we took a trip to the Dr. and her exact words were "his ear drum is bulging with pus". He wasn't eating, sleeping or a happy baby so we knew something was up. Here was his clingy days, but was giving lots of love to Mommy that evening!

Love for Mommy

Look at all those teeth in his mouth!

Like this picture with Kylee in the background

Kisses for Mommy

Kylee has started Awana's at church and Wednesday night was crazy hat night! Here is Kylee's CRAZY hat...

Straws, hair ties, bows, ribbons, etc

She won best crazy hat girl for her class

Here they are this morning prepared for the 45 degree weather at 8:15. When we came out of church at 12:15 it was 70 degrees.

Kolton: "Thanks Aunt Brooke for my sports coat!!"

4th of July Pumpkin Hunting

Kylee is a week and a half away from finishing out her first season of T-Ball! She has done a great job of learning the ropes and here is her team and Coach Dan.

Yesterday evening we went to the pumpkin patch to find the perfect pumpkin, but let's just call it a 4th of July pumpkin hunt because we sure weren't dressed for fall weather since it was 85 degrees outside. By the way, the outfits were not planned to coordinate with red, white and blue; we just realized it after we were all dressed and ready to go. I guess we should have waited until today to go since the high was only around 60 today. Oh well, it was a great time and we found just what we went for. :-) Kolton sure was interested in everything EXCEPT the camera!

"Wow, what are these orange balls with a stick coming out of them??"

Hay maze

Off to find the pumpkin patch

Kylee's first pick was her pumpkin

Kolton's first pick for his pumpkin

Just my size

WOW, let's go get some MORE!

Mommy, do you want this Mommy Pumpkin???

Are we going to get all these???

Daddy found his Daddy pumpkin

The best picture we could get while fighting the gnats off their faces

Off we go with our pumpkins

Well, hello Mr. Donkey



"Whoa Whoa Mr. Donkey, I didn't ask you to come this close!"



In the corn maze, "Which way do we go??"

She has been asking for pumpkins for a few weeks now and she is so proud!



I think know these are two of the cutest kids in this world!!