First Southern Road Trip...

Steve and I took our first road trip since we've been here in South Carolina. My mom was visiting my sister and her family in Florida so we decided to meet up for the weekend in Tennessee, where a lot of my dad's family lives. Growing up in Alabama, we spent all of our holiday's and most of our summers there together. Although things have changed over the years, it was great to see my uncle, aunts and cousins that I haven't seen for a long time. I was glad Steve was able to meet them too. Here are some pictures of our trip.

On Thursday, we went up to the mountains, had a picnic and the kids played in the water.
The kids had a great time in the water. They even found a little "waterslide" in the rocks so they were all excited about that.
Uncle Lloyd took us on a "quiet walk". He was our tour guide. We weren't very quiet though.Steve and I on our "quiet" walkAunt Nancy, Aunt Judy and mom

My grandparents passed away a number of years ago, however, their house is still there with some of the their things still in it. The girls had driven by it a few days before, but I wanted to take Steve by so he could see where I would run and play with my cousins. As you can imagine it's not in the best of shape since it has been sitting there for years without much care, but I thought I would share these pictures anyways, mostly for my family that hasn't seen it in a long time.The light post
The front of the house
The back patio... for some reason, my grandparents put their garbage cans in the ground... kind of interesting, but I guess it was a space saver.The downstairs patio, we used to ride the big wheel all the way down the sidewalk from the upstairs patio to the one below, and there was mint that grew along the house to the right of this picture.

There used to be a huge pine tree and a willow tree back there that I think all of the grandchildren made forts under at one time or another.