Meet Lori’s kids. Lori wanted some updated photos of her kids so we met on Shawnee States campus and had some fun. She also wanted a special collage of her daughter doing a round and several somersaults. This girl is good. Enjoy.
Our Summer vacation, yeah I know (remember I am catching up). We took a trip to Gatlinburg for our summer vacation. We all loved it. We took a drive to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. We decided to do the Cades Cove Loop Road Tour. During the whole drive Connor kept saying he just wanted to see a bear and that it would make it this his most perfect day. At the end of the drive just before we left the loop we saw a black bear. An actual live, walking and looking for food, black bear. It actually came right up to the cars and walked between the cars that were stopped in the middle of the road to take pictures.
Wonder Works
Our Family - See if you can pick me out of the group.
Proof that I was actually there.
Mini Me
Gatlinburg at night
Ripley’s Believe it or not Aquarium of the Smokies at night
Before the driving trail we stopped for a picnic lunch. A couple people riding horses came through and actually stopped so that the kids could see the horses up close.
Mini Me take 2
Some sites along Cade Cove Loop
A young elk
Ivan Watkins: Hey Teresa, I loved checking out your vacation photos. You have now made me want to go on vacation. I'm hoping that we can get away for a week to North Myrtle Beach once the children get out in June. This may sound ironic but I've at times forced myself not to take my camera. This photography stuff is a bitter/sweet thing. The sweet part is that I love looking at all the memories that I've captured with my children. The bitter part is that if I take my camera on vacation I get obsessed with trying to capture everything that we're doing and I realized that I've experience my vacation through the view finder of my camera. How to you balance the urge to capture everything with spending quality time with your family "camera free"? Ivan
OK, so I am obviously playing catch up with my posting. These are things we did and pictures I took that I just never found time to share. So, I am sharing now. In October we decided to have a “mini vacation” weekend in Columbus, Ohio. We had never been to the Columbus Zoo, so we went. Here are some of my favorites from that day. It was absolutely perfect. It wasn’t too hot, it wasn’t packed, the animals were out and people were friendly. The only issue we had was it was off season so most of the vendors and shops were closed.
This is Trinity, our newest family member.
And I just loved the way the bridge looked when we headed home.
This is my niece Hannah. While they were here for Christmas, I seized the moment and snatched her away to the McConnell House to get a few current pictures of her. Maya also joined in on a few.
annette moore: Teresa, so sorry to hear about your granny. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family during this terrible time in your life. You know God just needed a special flower for his bouquet. Hang in there!!