Cole, Alex, & Anna Grace

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Weekends....




We spent the Labor Day weekend camping in the North Carolina mountains and visiting family. My grandmother has been very sick lately and has just been released from the hospital, so we made a trip to visit her and spend some time with just the 5 of us camping. We had a difficult time making last minute campground reservations since it was a holiday weekend, but Mike finally found a campground that had a vacancy. But, when we arrived late Friday evening, we decided that it was not the campground for us. We pulled up to trucks that had been sitting so long they had flat tires and piles of garbage on the camp sites. Our camp site was right next to the dumpster, which had a very foul smell coming from it. It was then that we realized that the car was almost out of gas, we were in the middle of no where, Mike's internet access on his phone was not working, and it was getting darker by the minute. We had a camper, 3 kids, and a dog to find a place to stay for the night. Thank goodness that my cell phone worked long enough for me to call Mike's dad who started searching the internet for somewhere for us to stay. We found a gas station and Mike's dad started making phone calls to make us another reservation. We did not realize that not only was it a holiday weekend, but it was the biggest weekend of the year- the Apple Festival. We finally got settled into a new campground at 10:30 Friday night.

It was a very small campground with not much for the kids to do, but it was safe and clean. Our plans of letting the kids play in a creek and hike in the woods changed to plans of visiting the Apple Festival and hanging out at the camper. We also enjoyed visiting my grandmother, aunt, and cousins on Sunday, and we saw some really beautiful scenery as we were driving through the mountains. And, of course, we bought some apples!!


Several weekends ago we went to Mike's uncle's surprise 60th birthday party. We had a great time introducing Anna Grace to some of her family members and celebrating with Uncle Jerry.


Last Sunday I went into Anna Grace's room to put away some laundry while she was sleeping and found that she had fallen asleep with Cole's flash cards. Apparently she was working on her division facts as she was drifting off to sleep. I knew she was smart!!

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