Vacation 2010

Me Heston and Jon


Me all wet



me and Jon

the kids at the aquarium

Kate

Josh

Kate and Josh

Jon and Heston all wet

Jon and Heston

Heston

Last week we met Jay, Jean and Steph for vacation in Gatlinburg, TN. We had a great time. We got there on Monday afternoon and left Friday morning. The kids loved it. We had great accommodations with a 3 bedroom 3 bath condo that had a view of a rushing creek and mountains. It had a swimming pool and hot tub, which we visited everyday but Wednesday.

On Monday Jay and Jean kept the kids while Jon, Steph and I went to eat a good dinner at a Mexican food place on the "strip". We came back and got Josh and walked down to the strip to check out what all was there and what we should do the next day. There are just tons of little shops along the way. We had fun looking around. On Tuesday, me, Jon, Steph and the kids walked the strip to Ripley's Aquarium. The kids LOVED it, and we adults had fun too. The kids did A LOT of walking and did not complain once about being hot or tired. They were real troopers. On Wednesday we went into Pigeon Forge and did some shopping and went to Dolly Partins Dixie Stampede dinner and show. The kids loved that too. In fact, Kate and Heston both woke up Thursday morning asking if we could do again. Josh loved Gatlinburg in general and told us and I quote "When I get older, I am going to bring my family to Gatlinburg.:" It was sweet to hear. On Thursday, Steph took Josh and Kate to play mini golf while Jay, Jean, Jon, me and Heston drove up the mountain to see the views and explore. While there we saw just amazing views all around us. Jon and I walked with Heston up the last 1/2 mile of the mountain to be at the "tallest point in Tennessee"-needless to say it was a hike up a big hill...once we got there we did see more amazing views and once we started back down, came the rain. Jon, Heston and I got soaked. Heston had a change of clothes in his diaper bag but Jon and I got to stay wet one the way back to the condo. We then went to eat a late lunch/early dinner. When we all met back up the kids wanted to go swimming, so Steph and I took them.

Thursday was also a BIG day for me and my boss, Jeff. As you know he was running in the election for Hamilton County Chancellor (judge) and he WON! He will take office immediately. It looks like September 1st will be the "big day". I will be going with him and will become a county employee. This is considered a "promotion" but I will miss the people I work with here at Burnette, Dobson and Pinchak. They have made it easy to come to work each day.

On an additional note, Jon has had several calls for All Glass and Mirror and completed his first job on Saturday. We are hoping the business takes off so he has some flexibility we need for our family. Above are pictures from the trip.