Home Sweet Cabin

Home sweet cabin...

This cozy cabin was our home for four days on our recent vacation to the Smokies. It had been years since we'd had a real vacation, so this one was extra-nice. No hospitals or language barriers. Just a cute little boy and his family...

...some heavy machinery...
...and beautiful views of the mountains from our bedroom window and back porch.

Normally people might complain about having construction near their peaceful cabin.

But our boys couldn't have been happier. Their favorite thing was to play on the deck with their riding toys and watch the dump trucks back down the hill below our cabin.

We took it easy and enjoyed each other's company

We tickled and wrestled

We air-hockeyed

We even played a few holes of golf...sort of

(This golf game was somewhat addicting, even for a certain Grandmama.)

If you look carefully you can see Micah keeping up on his sports news

There were friendly bears...

...and silly little monkey with a cell phone

One of Nathan and Micah's other favorite activities was stair-climbing. (Not necessarily a favorite of the dads.)

The cousins had a blast together eating,

and playing,

and being just plain silly: Yo cousin! Yo cousin! Yo! Nate Dawg rockin' tha Gat-lin-biz-urg!

We even had a home-theater in the basement.

What did we watch??? Bob the Builder (Nathan's favorite)
Close encounters of the "digger" kind. Our son was in Caterpillar heaven.

Thank you, God, for the mountains, for Krispy Kreme donuts,

and for family vacations.

SNOW and CAKE

Snow plus Cake equals ... a very fun weekend
First, the snow

was beautiful. It blanketed everything,

so we put on our layers (every shirt and pair of pants this boy owns plus his John Deere boots),

and went out to play!
Everyone made a snow angel.




Nathan loved walking in the snow

and looking at the snow

and walking in the snow

--not so much falling in the snow--

giving hugs in the snow,

and especially walking and holding hands in the snow.

That in itself would make a perfect weekend, but there was more. There was CAKE!

We treated the birthday girl to a fancy cake from the coolest store in the boro.

It looked very pretty,

and although we were impressed

it didn't take long

before we tasted how good it was.

It was so good, we had to share it with Nathan.
Um, yeah, he liked it.

Later in the day we had some more good, silly play time.

This little boy loves hats. We had gotten our hat bin down before we went outside. After lunch he started bringing hats from the bedroom to the living room, one by one,and gradually piled them on

his mommy's head.

Nice hats, mommy. Happy Birthday!

Hope everyone was able to take time to enjoy the snow and your family this weekend.