Tennessee Spring Break 2009!

Meghan enjoying the sun after a rain. It rained really hard in the middle of the day, so Meghan and Tessa got on some summer clothes and ran in the puddles. This picture was taken a few hours after the rain and you can't even see a trace of puddles. You could tell when you stepped in the mud though. The boys shoes were covered in mud after they ran around.

Alex getting ready to throw a strike

Cemetery

Cemetery from the street view

You can see the house in the left of the picture and the cemetery in the background.

Laton playing hunting game at bowling alley

Tessa and Meghan playing Dance, Dance

Eating at the Rain Forest Cafe

Logan- being cool- and sitting at the end of the table by himself!

Jesikah and Jaidyn eating SpaghettiO's

Jesikah and Meghan playing house with Jaidyn

Jarem entertaining Jaidyn

Beautiful Blooms!

Feeding the ducks

You know you are in the south when you see a sign that says "Speed Hump"- since when did they become humps instead of bumps?

Jesikah sharing her sucker with Jaidyn

Two Cute Girls!

We had a great spring break. The first leg of our journey we flew from Sacramento, Ca. to St. Louis Mo. In St. Louis we rented a car and drove 4 1/2 hours south to Clarksville Tn. My brother, Eric and his family live there. We got there on Easter Sunday and had dinner (which was delicious) with them. Eric made ham hock and black-eyed peas over white rice for us for dinner the next night. This is something we ate when we were growing up and I hadn't had it since. Funny how eating certain things can bring back memories. Rozanne and I stayed up late chatting and catching up. We both love to talk :) The kids joined us- they stayed up until midnight and had school the next day. On the drive the kids enjoyed all the beautiful scenery, they saw lots of planes and helicopters. My brother works at an Army hospital on the base near their home. So you can imagine the amount of air traffic!

Monday Rozanne and I took a walk around their new subdivision. All the homes are beautiful. Rozanne wanted to show me one of the homes that was recently finished, and we thought was still for sale, we walked into the house and it was furnished with someones belongings! WHOOPS! Good thing no one was home. We had taken the walk because I wanted to see a cemetery that Rozanne had told me about in someones back yard. In Tn. you can get buried anywhere you would like, but that part of the land becomes dedicated to a graveyard. So in this new subdivision, their is a cemetery in the middle. It was pretty cool. The earliest birth we found was 1725, but some of the headstones were so worn you couldn't read them. We took the kids bowling Monday night and I saw three graveyards within 5 minutes of their home. Logan and Laton enjoyed having airsoft wars while the kids were at school. Rozanne had let the girls stay home from school on Monday, so Meghan and the girls liked playing mommy to Jaidyn. Jaidyn was never short on getting attention the entire trip!!! Jesikah will be a great mommy, she mothered right up to Jaidyn.

On Tuesday we went to Nashville. They had a great mall there next to Opryland. We shopped and ate at the Rain Forest Cafe. Yum! We took the kids to the park that afternoon and let them feed the ducks and geese. We tried to bribe Logan into catching one, but he would get close and decide differently. Logan even tried to convince Jarem to help him. I will post a cute sign we saw while we were at the park.

Wednesday Rozanne and I got up and got a little more shopping in before I headed out for my dads house in Annapolis Mo. We really enjoyed our trip to Tn. I would love to go back and spend a week. We don't get to see our family nearly enough.