TN Vacation Pics

We just returned from TN where my parents live. While I am totally a "city" girl, I love that the kids get to experience so many things they miss out on living in the city. (I have often said I don't want to live anywhere I have to say I'm "'goin' to town today.")

Nolan did great once the traveling portion of the trip was over. Riding in the car, well lets just say this is the first trip where I SERIOUSLY contemplated turning the car around and going home. We actually had to stop the car a few times and I do not remember EVER doing that with my older 3. LOTS of crying, LOTS of whining, lots of noise on top of the other 3 trying to watch movies and the new Steven Curtis Chapman CD all swirling around the car at the same time.

We learned 2 important lesson about Nolan on this trip: he does not nap well in the car and it is IMPOSSIBLE for him to be quiet. He must be making a noise at all times.

Okay, we learned one more thing... He grinds his teeth at night. Some nights were worse than others, it did seem to improve when he was feeling more secure; but what an awful noise!

Another trait that reared it's ugly 2 yr old head on this trip was his determination not to obey... He decided that he did not have to obey, and gave us a run for our money to see if we could find a way to make him obey! This has started to go away now that we have been home for a few days thankfully!

I've been working on this post for few days and have had trouble adding pictures. They are not all here. I will try to add more later.

This pic is of Milton & Landon jumping off a rock at a river nearby, (or should I say swimmin' hole). The water here is so cold, when you go under, it takes your breath away. Daddy is such a good sport! He jumped twice.

Here's Landon in his element.

He loves every minute he can get out in the water no matter how cold.

Summerlyn REALLY wanted to jump (she did it last year)

But decided it was just too cold! (Mama's Girl!)

Lorelei on the other hand shocked us all this summer by doing so many things she was scared to do in the past. She jumped 2x before deciding it was too cold.

It's hard to judge the height from these pictures but it's a pretty good jump.

That's right, no sign of Mama here, water too cold ! I went shopping with my Mom.

Nolan playing King of the Mountain at my brother's house which is currently under construction. He loved every dirty minute of it.

down at the creek with Papa

Not too crazy about Warheads...

Cookies on the other hand... he held this one for awhile clearly pleased to have it. We don't normally eat in the car like this.