Norris Lake

Sam, getting his comeuppance from Luke. Sam has been regularly beating the tar out of Grandma Mary, so it was refreshing for the rest of us when Luke won. Sam is still smarting, but I think he needs that!


We have been back from vacation for over a week, so I really think it's time to get those pics uploaded!



We had a great time at the lake. Our house, named "Bullwinkle" for reasons I am not privy to, was very nice. Ninety three stair steps from the house to the dock, so we all came home with serious glutes! The weather was beautiful, too. It only rained on the last day, so we got lots and lots of sun and fun.

Getting ready to go boating. The water was so clear and green there!

I have to practice relaxing. I am so used to being needed somewhere that I was a little nervous with all of the free time I had...I kept feeling like I needed to be doing something somewhere else. This was probably the first vacation we've been on where we didn't have to pay attention to the kids 100% of the time. The cousins were there, so our kids hung out with them alot and didn't really talk to us very much!
Mark, Nancy and the kid from the house next door relaxing on the mega station floaty thing


I did wind up needing to go to Walmart to buy fabric while we were there because even though I took a quilt to work on, it wasn't 'getting it' for me, so I had to buy something and start a new project. I'll post pictures of it one of these days.
Niece-in-law Danean with great nephews Mason and Johnny.


On the way home we stopped for dinner at the Sander's Cafe--across the street from the location of the first place that the colonel made fried chicken. It was a KFC and a museum in one. Interesting. It made me want to take one of those road trips across the country to see all of the obscure monuments and such...you know, like the world's largest ball of twine.



Peace!