vacation photos...

Well, I finally found time to post our vacation photos. We went to Gatlinburg the first weekend in March with our friends, Dylan and Sara. For those of you who haven't heard, I fell the following weekend and fractured my elbow, so that is why i haven't posted in a while. My elbow is on the mend. I am able to remove my brace as needed throughout the day and, hopefully, when i go back to the dr. in two weeks, i will be able to keep it off!! the following photo is the cabin that we all stayed in...



the living room...

kitchen...

one of the bedrooms...

brad (the grill master)...

game room...

the 7 foot t.v. in the game room...

view of downtown gatlinburg from the side of some road...

one day we went hiking. we went on the same trail that brad and i went to last time we were in Gatlinburg. This is Dylan and Sara...

view of the smokies...

the huge waterfall that was at the top of our long hike. Definitely worth it...

look at how small dylan and sara look next to the waterfall...amazing!!

dylan, sara, and brad decided to hike further up the mountain where there weren't any trails. I decided I would rather stay where I was and take pictures. I have discovered that I am quite the klutz since I had kids(or at least the kids are my excuse) and I didn't want to break a leg and have to trek down the mountain.

look closely...brad is in there somewhere:0)..

Brad and Dylan climbed to the top of the waterfall...

a cabin that belonged to a noah ogle(i think that is his name) not really sure who he was...

his barn...

we went to the Ripley's Aquarium. I personally like it a lot better than the Newport Aquarium. I like Jellyfish, they amaze me....

Okay, so only people in the Mahan family will get the humor in this photo. Brad's great-grandpa's name was Fred Mahan. We were walking past this parking garage and it was named after "Fred McMahan". We decided to cover up the "Mc" and take a picture. We aren't sure who Fred McMahan is, but he must have been important enough to have a garage named after him.

Lastly, a little side note to my blog readers.... My Grandma went in for open heart surgery yesterday. They replaced an aorta and did four bypasses. The surgeon said the surgery went very well, but she isn't out of the woods. She has a long road of recovery ahead of her. Brittney has a prayer that she says every night before bedtime...

Now I lay me down to sleep

I pray the Lord my soul to keep

May angels watch me through the night

and keep me in their blessed sight

Amen.

(She has added this part recently and I think it is so sweet)

And please make Grandma C. all better

Amen.

So, please keep our Grandma in your thoughts and prayers and may she get "all better".

Sorry, about the spacing in this post...not really sure what happened!

noisy...

We are in the process of remodeling our upstairs bathroom (photos of that to come later). Brad was sawing the bathtub to get it out. It was really loud, so b had to cover her ears.
I decided it was too loud for the girls' little ears so we moved to the bedroom. love the grin in this pic...

and finally mel who always goes with the flow...so thankful for that because sometimes it is pretty chaotic around here!!:)

miss mel...

This is what I get to wake up to every morning!:) Mel is a morning person like her daddy! B, on the other hand, is NOT a morning person, like me! That is why I don't post pix of b first thing in the morning!
It was warm this past weekend and, while Brad and I were on vacation, I thought our parents might be taking the girls outside. Melaney needed a hat, so I dug this one out of the closet. B wore it a lot when she was this age and, as you can see, she stretched it out. B's head was a lot bigger than mel's at this age!:0)

She has been crawling for a little over a month. She has been staying in the living room, but made her way into the kitchen last week!

a picture to share...

In a previous post I wrote about a little girl named Cora who passed away at the age of 11 months. She had neuroblastoma cancer. I was just reading more about this precious babe and saw this photo. It truly looks like she is looking up to Heaven and grinning at God!

I don't know this family at all. They live in Kansas(i believe), but I still find myself weeping while reading about this little girl. I have never met them, but I feel like I have known them all my life. My heart and prayers go out to them!

mel...

check out this cute collage i just made for melaney's room...

Nathan...

This is Nathan. The "famous" Margaret's little brother (and their mommy, Jamalyn). I recently took his six month pictures. I was pleased with how they turned out!!
love the half grin....

blue eyes...i love taking pictures of people with blue eyes...in certain light they really "pop"...

this photo might be my favorite one of all...

I took a lot more, but there were just too many to post. I always take a ton that way, there is at least one that they will like!:)