Outdoors, Neat Sites & Great Friends!

Well after a good breakfast Saturday morning we headed over to Chattanooga,  Tennessee (which was in our original plans for Cloudland Canyon). We went to Ruby Falls and Rock City. Ruby Falls was really neat. Rock City was too,  but the kids were about done with walking around and looking at things. Tanner-Who did like walking over the swinging bridge and going through the really small rock passages.

After exploring the sites we decided to check out a local place for dinner. We always say we are going to do this on trips but Mr. Who is not so adventurous when it comes to food and we always end up eating at well known places. But...we did it, we stopped in at a local pizza place called Mr. T's and it was FABULOUS!  After pizza and ice cream cones we headed back to "the camp hizzy" which is what Mr. Who has Tanner-Who calling our tent (for those of you not hip on lingo like Mr. Who "hizzy" means house)LoL...gotta love him!! Once we made it back to the campsite we carved our Jack-o-lantern. Everyone pitched in to create a fabulous work of art...even Baby Who dug in!

After quite a COLD night we woke up to have absolutely NO luck making a camp fire!! I have no idea what was wrong (the wood, the ground, or the fire supervisors) but we COULD NOT seem to get a good fire going. So we pulled out our grill and griddle and had some yummy breakfast minus the camp fire (if you can't tell...I really like cooking breakfast while camping). We hung out around the campground for most of the day playing games, walking a trail & playing on the playground! It was really nice to not have plans, set times, or too many cares. Just a chance to enjoy being outside and with each other. Something Mr. Who and I decided we will do more of on our next camping trip instead of spending a day doing planned activities.

Then we headed to Atlanta to see some more special people...Uncle E and Aunt Sarah!! The Who's played with Brixie, well not Baby Who because he is scared of our dachshund so he wasn't to wild about their Pointer mix. We all went out for dinner and played a game of putt-putt. It is always entertaining to watch my Whos play. So when added Uncle E to the mix to give Mr. Who some competition we were set for a good time! We gave hugs and headed back to the camp hizzy for our last round of s'mores and a quick game of Memory.

It was a great vacation and although we know some things we will change for next time nothing beats getting to spend time together and getting to see good friends! 

Memories Made!!

So Far, So Good!

Well after our short week at school that ended with a long day of parent teacher conferences (which went really well) we headed off on our Who trip! First stop was Atlanta where we got to stay with some special people but we didn't get to see our buddies Reagan and Jake. Well, Wesley did get to walk with Jake to his bus stop but this Mama and her Whos were still in bed! Before we went to our home for the weekend we stopped to see a precious new addition...Mr. Hagan Anderson and his proud Mommy and Daddy. We were so happy it worked out for us to meet him!

We headed out to what we thought was Cloudland Canyon State Park to realize 5 minutes into our drive that Mr. Who might have made a slight mistake 2 months ago and booked Red Top Mountain instead of out expected destination! Luckily it still gave us a campsite in the mountains and it was only a 40 minute drive instead of 2 hours :)

So we arrived picked our spot and setup. We did some exploring and ended the night with a fire and OF COURSE... s'mores!! Today was a good day in Chattanooga but I will post that blog and this pictures tomorrow.
Oh yeah...Tanner Who just whipped our butts at Chutes n Ladders! Go Tanner!!

Softball Mom!!

Well as we ride home tonight from a softball tournament in Jacksonville (& getting home this late on a Sunday night is not usually my thing)....I am one PROUD Mama!! This weekend in My Karlee Who played in her first "kid pitch" softball tournament (only her 2nd tournament with a travel team). I got to be a Softball Mom and coach...& had a blast!!

My baby (ok not so baby) girl pitched in games for her first time! She has been working on pitching for a couple of months now and just threw to batters last weekend for the first time. She did awesome and it was awesome watch her!! I just thought I loved playing the game but watching my girl play the game with determination and desire took it to a whole new level. Even though she has been playing for a few years now...this was different!

It was great to see her learning more about the game, making friends,  and growing as a person! And as she pitched in the championship game today I absolutely loved hearing one of our other coaches say "she gonna be a pitcher!" It definitely put a big smile on my face.

So thank you to my parents who allowed me to play the game and grow to love it. To my Daddy for learning it, coaching me, and pushing me (even when I didn't like it). To both of my Mama's for traveling with us and taking care of me and supporting me! And to my siblings for sticking it out through all of those hot summer days spent at the ball park! Now as a Mama of 3 with one playing I see how much it took for all of y'all to let me play. I can't wait to see how my Karlee Who improves and her desire to play grows! Thank you to Wesley for watching the other Whos in the heat for 2 days (I know that is challenging) and letting me & Karlee enjoy our girl time!

Oh yeah...we got second place in the tournament. Karlee pitched in 2 games and had 3 strike-outs and 8 walks (which isn't too bad for her first game experience).
Thanks for letting me be a "bragging" Mama Horton tonight!