Thursday, October 15, 2009

Tennessee Trip 2009

September is always one of my favorite months. The weather starts to change, fall arrives, the State Fair begins and my sister has her birthday, which means we get to go to Tennessee to visit her! I have always made the trip with my parents, for several years now, and this is the first year that we had 2 extra passenger's...Ryan & Eli! It seems like Ryan is either hunting or working and has never gotten to join us for the trip. I was so excited that everyone got to go! All 5 of us loaded up in the Tahoe with what seemed like 1/2 of our house...ha! I never realized how much "stuff" you need when you are traveling with a baby!! Anyways, we got it all packed with lots of movies, toys, pillows and snacks...and we were off! The drive is around 8 hours, but with a baby that has to eat every 3-4 hours, of course the trip was longer. Eli was sooooo good with traveling. I am so blessed to have a baby that loves his car seat and is pretty flexible....8 hours is a long time for an adult, much less a baby strapped down in a car seat the whole time! Here is some pics of the view from the car...
When we arrived, the Green's (Kelly's roommates parents) offered for everyone to stay at their house, this was great bc. they saved us some money on hotels, plus is was nice to feel "at home" and visit with them. Thanks Dave and Karen! I didn't take my camera around with us the whole weekend so I didn't get many pics, but we had a blast!
Ryan was able to join the guys in the Young Life skeet shoot. He was excited to be able to do something outside and fun for him, instead of all the shopping and "girlie" things that the rest of us did.
Besides all of the shopping that we did we ate A LOT of food....which is something that we always take pleasure in on vacation! We had the usual drive through stuff on the drive to and from, but ate at some awesome restaurants while we were there. BBQ the first night at the Commissary, where Ryan said he had the best sweet tea he has ever tasted in his life! HA! I never though I would ever hear him say that somewhere out of the state of TEXAS!!! Then for lunch the next day we ate at Booya's, and had made to order quesadillas. The next day we all went downtown Memphis and met Susan and Russ at the Arcade restaurant for dinner (one of Elvis' favorite restaurants). They are "transplanted" Texas friends that moved to Tennessee, so we were glad that they were free to visit with us.
The Greene Family
After dinner we walked a few stores down and ate dessert at the Cheesecake Corner......mmmmm!!!! Kelly says that it is even better than the Cheesecake Factory here in Texas, and she is pretty darn close! Just looking at it will make your mouth water....
We had so much fun visiting with our dear friends....Thanks for making the drive to come see us....miss you!
Saturday night we went out for our final meal to celebrate Kelly's bday. She turned 26! Wow does time fly. We went to a hibachi and sushi grill it was fun watching the chef cook in front of us and of coarse the food was excellent!
Then for dessert we went back to one of my favorite places that we had previously visited on past trips, the Crepe Maker (or at least I think this is what it is called) We didn't get any pics of the desserts, but Eli was being a ham and so we got pics of him having fun!
His new trick, blowing bubbles and drooling... a lot!
He loves his aunt KK
Mom and her girls
Family pic
Dad and I being silly
We had such a great time just being a family and being together....Kelly, we love you and cherish the time that we all get to have together with you!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
....just remember you can move back to Texas anytime.... :)

1 comment:

The Stanphill Family said...

Awesome fun weekend with you all!!!!