More of summer and vacation

Many days of our summer are spent swimming in papaws pool! We usually go after church on sunday, eat, and swim ( thanks for all the tasty food Mendy- we love you!)  Anyways, my kids love to go to papaws, and despite being a little timid in the water ( no going under for them!) they love swimming in the pool.  Jude swims all around the pool, but Elsie usually sits on the steps and jumps up and down them saying "mommy, I jumped in!" haha  And also when my kids have been swimming all day I know we are in for a pretty good nap- and my kids will eat just about anything you set before them b/c they are sooo hungry! 

Daddy has also been making fires alot ( he's the next Bear Grylls ) and cooked us up some good summer food! :) YUMMY!

We also did alot of swimming on our vacation this year- we went with Steve and Mendy and the girls to Gatlinburg and stayed in a beautiful log cabin about 10 miles outside of Gatlinburg.  My kids were sooo excited to go on "daycation" and they loved the wood house so much! 

We went too Dollywood 2 days and we went to the Forbidden caves and of course did some shopping:) We also did a little bit of hiking.