Adventure Mountain

April 11, 2012, Wednesday - We arrived at the park right before 10am when they open.  We headed right to Adventure Mountain.  We have to hook on a harness & we are attached to the elevated challenge course with a rope.  There are 3 different trails and it was fun for the whole family.  We enjoyed lots of rides and had a full day at Dollywood.  We enjoyed one show "Spirit of the Dance" from Ireland.  It was amazing how fast they could get their feet to move!  Purchased their famous Cinnamon Bread and the kids finished the day playing Skylanders at the resort.

Pigeon Forge

April 10, 2012, Tuesday - Dollywood is closed every Tuesday in April so we had to find other things to do.  We had a late lunch at a Pizza buffet place that had an arcade.  The kids had fun there and Daddy too.  He kept trying the basketball game to make the high score of the day...and he did!  Then we drove into Pigeon Forge and went Gem Mining.  Always a fun thing!  And then later we went to the resort clubhouse and Nathan decided to build a pyramid & did a great job!

Dollywood here we come

April 9, 2012, Monday - Dollywood here we come!  We got in the park about 11:30am.  Great weather and so many things we all want to do.  One thing on the list is find the Gem Mining for Nathan.  We couldn't find it because they moved it.  But thankfully they still have it at the park.  We would have had one sad child on our hands.  We rode Chad and Nathan's favorite ride - Daredevil Falls and got wet.  Man, Nathan loves this ride.  It is a super flume water ride with a  60-ft, 50 mph drop.  Nathan is a Daredevil!  On the log flume picture below that is Chad and Nathan in the front seat and Brittany behind them. :)

Easter 2012

April 8, 2012, Sunday - Mark 16:6  “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him.

Happy Easter Everyone!  What a wonderful day we celebrate. The kids got up about 6:40am and headed downstairs to see if the Easter Bunny had hid their baskets.  Then we got ready and attended church, changed clothes at church and then hit the open road for Sevierville, TN!  Here we come for a week of fun at Dollywood!

Palm Sunday

April 1, 2012, Sunday - Here is the next post that I need to insert.  Palm Sunday - The kids walked down the sanctuary isle carrying palm branches and singing.  Then they sang at the alter.  So proud of them both!  After service we enjoyed a covered dish lunch in the fellowship hall, followed by some Easter games for the kids.  Then the much anticipated Easter Egg Hunt on the church lawn.  Nathan was worried about running out of room in his basket so we brought back up grocery bags for him.  A beautiful day!

New Carpet

March 27, 2012, Tuesday - I am sorry if you are reading this and wondering what is wrong with the date.  I realized that I forgot 2 important events that happened & blogger will not let me change the order of my posts.  So let me insert them here. 
Today we got new carpet!  This is exciting to have this new change in our house.  The 3 men arrived about 8:30 in the morning and started moving the furniture.  Thank goodness it was a pretty day outside because they had to move our sectional couch outside on the deck.  There was no where else to move it to.  They went right to work cutting and removing the old carpet.  Then they used a long handled scrapper and scrapped padding that was still stuck to the wooden floor.  Padding went down and then the carpet, they left the stairs for last.  And they packed all the old carpet in their van, cleaned up and left by 4pm.  And WOW - our floors look different.  They look so nice and new!  I love new!  I was amazed how they laid the carpet on the staircase and went around the spindles.  So perfect!  We look forward to walking around on our new soft carpet. Here are the before and after pictures.