Sweet Mountain Escape

What a great vacation we had in early October! We had a wonderful time in the Smokey Mountains with our friends Bryan, Jenny & Noah. We did lots of fun things like the Dixie Stampede, the Nascar Speed Park, Ripley's Aquarium, shopping the outlet mall and sight seeing. Enjoy the pics!

Our cabin
A few photos from the Aquarium.

The Nascar Speed Park
1& 1/2 going on 16??

The Mountains

Climbing to the highest peak

The view

Above is what happens after a long hike to top and back down.

Cheese....So cute!

Like I said... a great 1st vacation for Emma and Mommy & Daddy too! She seemed to really like the Dixie Stampede and the Aquarium. She really did hike up part of the mountain by herself and Mike & I liked her speed of hiking. :) Wish I could have taken some more pics, I took two cameras and they were both acting up. :(

Stay tuned for pics from Halloween weekend at the campground...

Who needs toys...

...when you have a colander. Crazy kid! She even says cheese now when you take her picture. Well... it sounds more like cheee, but you know what she's trying to say.

Western Wingding

On Saturday we went to State Farm Park for the Western Wingding. Emma went on her first pony ride, which she didn't really like so much. There were also a few kiddie games like the bean bag toss and the clothes pin drop. I think her favorite part was hanging out with her friend Aime. Enjoy the pics.

Bean Bag toss

Clothes Pin Drop

Aime & Emma

Going down the slide.

Minier Practice Burn

Here's a few photos of Mike and the practice burn that they did in Minier today.

"Look what I can do."

So, tonight I was washing dishes and I turned around to find Emma in the cabinets. I made a mad dash for the camera and got a few shots. So silly! She's grown up so much this past month. She really started walking over the 4th of July weekend. She had taken a few steps before then but was still mainly crawling. Mike was working late tonight and I got a short video of her crawling into the cabinet. I showed her the video on the camera and she pointed to herself and said baby...baby. She's at such a fun age and we have a great time but at the same time it makes me a little sad that each day she's less like a baby and more like a toddler. But, I'm sure all parents feel that way.

Here's a few photos from June 22. I took these for Beth. She wanted to put a collage together of the girls for mom for her Birthday. Turned out pretty good.

Father's Day

Here's a few pictures from today. We went to the campground for a Father's Day cookout. We had yummy steak and everyone brought a dish to share. While we were there, we went to the playground and at first Emma was afraid of the swing. But after awhile Daddy finally got her in it and she had a blast. Her squealing was cracking us up.

"I love swinging!!"

Hailey & Emma

Emma & Daddy