Friday Family Funnies - The Last One There's A Rotten Egg

We were riding along the other day and the girls were having a conversation about who was born first, middle and last. Here's how it went:

Hannah Grace: Who was first?

Me: Bubba.

Hannah Grace: Who was second?

Me: You were.

Hannah Grace: Who was last?

Me: Faith.

Faith: Yep, I guess I was the rotten egg!

Have a great week-end!

Friday Family Funnies - Awana Test

This funny doesn't come from one of our kids, but from one of our music ministers kids, who we love like one of ours.

Wednesday night I was helping out in the girls class of Awana; they were reviewing what they had learning throughout the year. The leader ask, "Does anyone know what a test is?". There were several different answers, none of them correct. Then our music minister's son raised his hand and said: "Testing 1,2...Testing 1,2"

Spring Fun

During Samuel's spring break from school he hit the road. The first of the week went to Kentucky with Memama and Granddaddy. He visited with his great-grandparents. On that Sunday, Grandmom and Grandpop were honor at Clearfork Baptist Church for their years of of service and ministry there. I am so glad that Samuel was able to be there, he came back with so many stories; he spent a lot of time talking with Grandpop about WWII. I pray he will treasure those memories.

Grandmom and Grandpop

During the end of the of his Spring Break he made a trip to see Aunt Kristi and Uncle Eric. He loves his travels and we are so happy that he has a chance to see family and give them our love when we all can't get there as much as we would like to.

While Samuel was away we wanted to do something fun with the girls. So on Friday night we had a Chipmunk Party. Faith heard the word "party" as she was on board. We had chocolate chip pancakes with bananas and whip cream with pecans. And while watching "Alvin and the Chipmunks" we ate potato chips.

We enjoyed the beautiful weather last week with a picnic outside and then fun playing in the yard.

And then, this past week-end Travis had a training session in Charlotte. The kids and I drove up on Friday afternoon and met Memama and Granddaddy at the church. They were able to see Travis doing the job he loves, but the job that takes him away so many week-ends. They were so proud of him and were excited to here the Vision of Upward. Later that night they took the kids home with them and gave Travis and I a night together, it was wonderful. We were able to have a meal out with great friends and I was blessed with a late morning of sleep.

I was so proud of Travis during the week-end. He does such a great job. Sometimes it's hard to understand what he does when it takes him away from us so much. But, he is really good at his job and he loves his job (most of the time, ha! ha!). I am so thankful that the Lord has allowed my husband and our family to be a part of the ministry of Upward!

Thanks for catching up with us!

Family Friday Funnies - Stars Have Gas

This is how it went on the way to take Samuel to school this morning:

Hannah Grace: Mommy, I know what stars are made of!

Me: Wow, what are stars made of?

Hannah Grace: Gas.

Faith: (laughing) Yep, that's what stars are made of, gas. That's why they poot all the time!

I don't know what makes gas so funny to a four year old (not to mention a 10-year-old boy), but the other day I had laid a envelope with money for gas for Travis' car on his dresser and at one point during the afternoon, Faith asked me what it said and I told her it was for gas for Daddy's car.

When Travis got home, Faith followed him into the bedroom and proceeded to tell him, laughing and whispering, that envelope is for gas!

Have a great week-end!

Friday Family Funnies - Hannahtizer

I don't have a funny story from this week, but with the last round of sickness we had, we have been using a lot of hand sanitizer when out and about.

But, Faith doesn't call it hand sanitizer, she calls it hannahtizer.

Cute, don't you think?

Travis caught me calling it hannahtizer the other day; just as he caught asking one of the kids to bring me my pocket-purse, which is what Hannah Grace calls all bags.

I guess I need to be around adults more...

Have a great week-end!

Whew!

Alright, there are about four new post today, thanks for visiting and we hope you enjoy seeing and reading about our fun times over the past weeks.

A Visit With Aunt Kendra

The girls had their Spring Program at school this week and we had a special treat - Aunt Kendra was able to come and spend the day with us!

The other week-end, Aunt Kendra was up again and she and I went to paint pottery at Flying Saucers. We had so much fun and we get to do it again - her plate won "Piece of the Week" and received on free hour of studio time. I can't wait...

The Rest of the Week-end

On Friday night in Pigeon Forge, we treated the whole family to a nice supper at the Apple Barn.

After supper we spent some time shopping and then back to the room for a early night to bed after a long day.

On Saturday, we met up with Popeye, Mammy, Nanny Ray and Cookie for a picnic lunch at Patriot Park. We all enjoyed the visit and the kids loved playing outside, blowing bubbles, taking a walk and flying kites.

This if Faith flying her kite. She is standing in the left corner and her kite is in the right corner just above the cloud.

Here are more pictures of our fun afternoon at the park.

First Trip to Dollywood of the Season

Last Friday and Saturday were spent in Dollywood. We love to go to Dollywood, because there is a great variety of rides for all of us. The tulips and trees were beautiful through-out the park.

A newer ride that all of us could ride together is called River Battle. Now, I don't like to get wet but I was talked into riding this because all of this could ride together. I didn't get too wet, but there was a man standing on the side with a water gun pointed directly at me. The kids loved it! It was nice to all ride together...

Here is Faith, after the ride, aiming a water gun at another family.

The other rides that we could ride together were, Blazing Fury, which Faith did not like. The whole time she was crying and saying - "I want to get off, I want to get off" Hannah Grace jumped off the ride saying - "That was awesome, can we do that again?"

The other ride was, Mountain Slidewinder. After the longgggg walk to the top they made the five of us step on a scale to make sure we didn't go over the weight limit for one boat. Thankfully we didn't got over the limit and it was a fun ride for all of us.

One of Samuel's favorite rides is Tennessee Tornado. You can't see Samuel, but Travis is waving as they take off.

Here they are going up-side-down.

And, here they are coming around one of the loops. You can see they close the front of the picture, Travis has on a orange Clemson shirt one.

Another one of Samuel's favorite rides is Thumderhead. I road it first with Samuel and then on Saturday morning, Travis road it with him. It is a great roller coaster!

While Samuel was riding rides, the girls were able to play at Lil' Loggers' Landing.

Our last ride for our trip to Dollywood was Faith's pick, the Village Carousel.

Thanks again to Grammy and Big Daddy for our Christmas gift and we look forward to using it again soon.

I will do another post with pictures from the rest of the week-end.

Holiday Tour

Last week-end, the five of us spent the week-end in Pigeon Forge and we had a great time together. On Friday, we went to Dollywood and then on Saturday we met up with Popeye and Mammy and Nannie Ray for a picnic lunch. But before I get into that, since I didn't get a Friday Family Funny posted yesterday, I will start with that.

We left for Pigeon Forge after Samuel got out of school and headed up I- 40. We got to about the TN line and traffic STOPPED. We found out that there was construction up the road, but we did not know how far up. If you have ever traveled that way, you know that on that stretch of road there are no exits. About 10 minutes into the traffic, Faith starting saying she need to go to the bathroom and then about every ten minutes she was reminding us that she needed to use the bathroom. After about 40 minutes she was crying that she need to go the bathroom. There was a Holiday Tour bus that was traveling along the road with us. Faith was now crying hard...

So, I called the number on the back of the bus and asked the sweet little teenage girl who answered the phone the situation and asked if we went up to the bus, was the driver allowed to open to door for me and a four year old that was about the pee all over herself. There was a long silence on the other end of the phone and then she said...please hold. As someone came back to the line, I could hear tons of laughing on the other end. I again explained to the situation to the lady on the other end and she told me that Mr. Blanton was driving the bus headed to Gatlinburg and he would be happy to open the door for a little girl. She did tell me this was the first time she had ever had this question, but was happy to be able to help us.

In the end, we did not have to ask Mr. Blanton to open the door traffic starting moving and we stopped at the first exit we found, which did not have anywhere to use the bathroom - but we made it work.

Pictures from the week-end coming...

Happy Resurrection Day 2008

We hope that everyone has had a wonderful Easter. We had a great family week-end this past week-end in Pigeon Forge and then a great service at church this morning and a wonderful lunch with family this afternoon - and even great naps for everyone after hunting eggs.

Faith said it all this morning as we were opening our last Resurrection Egg - She asked "Is it Easter" and we said yes and she begin jumping up and down and yelling "He Arose! He Arose! He Arose!"

Happy Resurrection Day!