Mountains of Fun

The last time we went to the mountains, we promised ourselves we would go back often...and we did! I wasn't feeling too well on Sunday morning, so we played hookie from church. We were all very lazy, so the kids were allowed to watch a movie during naptime instead of actually attempting to sleep (which they rarely do on Sundays, it's an entire "day of rest" why do we need an actual NAPtime??). We left around 3:30 and got some more Kentucky Grilled Chicken (it really IS good, for those that haven't tried it) and headed to the Cades Cove picnic area, bypassing two of our "regular" spots. We played a bit in the creek there and then moved a ways down to the underpass near the campground and horse barn. It's one of our previous favorite spots and it proved to be that again on Sunday. Since the kids didn't nap, we actually had a lot of time to spend and weren't rushed to get home and in the bath, which was a nice change.

I'm going to have to dig, but I think I have this same exact picture from last year, same pose. Also, he's standing on a bank that I took his picture on when he was about 4 months old. Let the picture digging commence...

Oh, my happy girl! Kendall and I took a little field trip into the woods while Daddy and Cooper played with boats in the water. She was quite photogenic...proving my theory that in order to get any fabulous photos of my kiddos, I need to do seperate photo shoots!!!!

Too cute for words, really (in my opinion). He was SO very, very happy playing with the boats. He and Chip raced 4 boats...which turned into 3 eventually b/c Mommy made a pretty dumb mistake of taking a brown boat, which blends in nicely with the mountain water.

Yup. She's doing the jig.

This is his pure excitement over watching the boats race for the first time! "Who's gonna win??"

Putting it down in JUST the right spot.

For about 2 seconds, Kendall had ALL the loot.

Another perfect day in the mountains. Our peaceful mountain play time will soon come to an end, as everyone east of Montana will be joining us to watch the leaves change in about 2 months. We can still go and play, it just requires a camper and food for a week. The amazing thing about that mountain water is that it's basically the same temperature in November as it is in August: COLD. Painfully, bitterly cold.