My Old Kentucky Home

We’re back!!!

That’s right, we are finally back after being away for two weeks. (Thanks, Val for taking care of our house and our furry kids while we were gone.) We spent one week in Kentucky and one week in The Smoky Mountains with my family. It was our first vacation with Brennan and although we did have a lot of fun, it is very nice to be back home. If you’re up for a picture-heavy blog post, read on.

Brennan experienced his first plane ride. He was a good flyer and only made a few fusses. We had a lay over in Baltimore.

He fell asleep right before we boarded the plane in Baltimore, but woke up before the plane took off and was awake for the remainder of that flight.

My sister and dad met us at the airport. It was my dad’s first time seeing Brennan! Lauren said he teared up as we were walking towards him, but he held it together while he held Brennan. I didn’t take pictures at the airport, but here he is with Lauren and with my dad.

We arrived in KY on Wednesday and weren’t leaving for Tennessee until Saturday, so we had a few days to relax. Ha! There is never much relaxing when we’re at home; too many people to see. We stayed at my parents’ house, also known as “Marilyn’s Bed and No Breakfast”

We saw Kyle’s dad, brother, and Linda. We went out to dinner with Kyle’s friends Danny and Deirdre. We also went to dinner with Kyle’s extended family.

We also got to see my old roommate, Val, when we ate at Steak-n-Shake. YUM!

We started driving on Saturday, but made a stop in Lexington to see the old gang there and eat some Chick-fil-a!

Then we finally made it to Tennessee! My mom, dad, sister, brother-in-law, half-sister, two nephews, and granny were already there. Instead of writing about each and every single day, I’ll just post some pictures with captions of some of the highlights of our time in the Smokies!

We went swimming almost every morning.

We met Laura and Peter in Spartanburg, SC!

Brennan watched some TV. (Without mommy knowing about it!)

We ate good food! This is the whole gang at the Mellow Mushroom.

We went to Ripley’s Aquarium.

My nephew, Tevin, went bungee jumping.

We had my family's traditional breakfast at The Apple Barn!

And of course, Brennan got spoiled rotten!

On Saturday, we drove back to Kentucky and finished making the rounds of seeing everyone!

We visited with Kris and Phil who just recently moved back from Germany.

We also saw Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton. Thanks for a great dinner and for our birthday presents!

Here are a few more of my favorite photos from our vacation.

Tonight it was great to pull into the driveway and see this:

Time for a vacation from our vacation! :)