Within these Halls: Blowing Rock Weekend

this weekend we went to blowing rock with my family - my parents rented a house for the weekend and it was so much fun!

me and my handsome dad

my handsome brother

friday my mom and i went to the outlets and we all had a great dinner and drinks. that night was a LONG one. i love seeing everyone's pics from the summer traveling - it all looks like so much fun, but let's be real. are all your kids sleeping? are you not tired?

lawton had a cold, which almost always goes to his chest. jack was in a room with him, because you know, he won't sleep alone somewhere else. not jack, lawton ;) anyway, they were up most of the night with him coughing.

meanwhile, i was in a room with wyatt, who cried ALL NIGHT LONG. he caught lawton's cold and with his palate still open, his drainage goes out his nose, through his palate, down his throat, etc. it is a mess. so, no tubes all weekend because it would just be gross. trent heard him crying all night, therefore he didn't get any sleep either. and when i say sleep, we prob got 1.5 hours the whole night.

good times!

THANKFULLY, we all rallied and weren't that exhausted. don't know how, but i don't ask questions anymore.

we headed to Tweetsie around 9:30 saturday morning. i think the adults were more excited than the kids!

tweetsie brings back so many memories for me. my grandparents had a house in grandfather mountain and they would take all of my cousins up for the weekend and to tweetsie. like at least 12 kids at a time. i remember being TERRIFIED of the indians that came on the train and scared the you know what out of us kids. i also remember getting off the teacups ride and stumbling, then throwing up on the pavement. therefore, i never have been on a spinning ride since.

anyway, back to our day ;)

waiting for the train to arrive

mom and trent got super into it with their hats ;) i think that was the first time trent has worn this hat sober.

here it comes!

wyatt waving to the conductor

we warned lawton about the indians and told him to shoot them (awesome parenting)

then the gun fire started...here are his reactions ;)

the indians were BOGUS. look at this white dude with facial hair in clown makeup?!!

all he did was walk through the car. back in the day, they ran through with tomahawks screaming their heads off!

lawton was just deaf after the shots - indians didn't scare this guy. he rode all the way back like this.

next up was a dog show that travels around the world. trent has seen them on ESPN before. they asked for volunteers and wyatt raised his hand...sorry bud, too young