Well it has been awhile since I have blogged and I'm sorry for that. I've had the boys home all summer and was getting ready for vacation. So, let me catch you all up. Again, boys home all summer!!! We did go to Tennessee and visited two colleges. Vanderbilt University and Swanee of The South. Personally, I LOVED Swanee. Funny, both Andrew and Cody loved it too. Could it be that the boys who can't stand to be in the same room together end up leaving home and going to the same college??? It is a small college so they will see each other A LOT! Well we will see hopefully they will go there together because I get a multiple kid discount! We also visited my Aunt Carolyn and that was a lot of fun. She is so good with Cody and I think she liked having us visit which with my boys thats saying something. Then after the Nashville experience we went to Gatlinburg, TN and had a blast. Yes people I said the five of us had fun together! I don't think there was much fighting at all? Or, maybe I have just learned to tune them all out? Either way it was an awesome vacation. To start, I saw a bear!!! I have been to Yellowstone and to Gatlinburg before looking for a bear and they have always avoided me. Not this time! Yes, I was the dumb tourist that jumped out of the car to get a closer picture. No, I don't care that it was stupid because I got a good one! I also went white water rafting and lived! I used muscles that I didn't even know I had! Oh, and I fell into the boat before it even got going in the river. ~lol~ I was the entertainment besides the rapids but I did not fall out of the boat so yea for me! So, next day we drove into Cades Cove where I saw turkey's, dear and two bears! We also went to this place called Magi Quest and had a blast pretending to be wizards and completing tasks with our wands! There they also had a really cool mirror maze and black light putt putt golf. Let it be noted to all that mommy kicked some serious a$$ and beat ALL the boys in putt putt!! One more awesome thing we did was rent a pontoon boat and went out on Lake Fontana in NC. The most amazing place I have ever been! The water was emerald green and surrounded by mountains! There were waterfalls that fell into the lake and we pulled our boat up to one and swam. The water was so nice not cold but not warm and no alligators! All in all the boys were really good and we will remember this for a long time!
