Emily's birthday

So Emily had her well check today. She is 51 lbs and 49" tall. She is now 50% for weight she is turning into a string bean. And 80% for height. Doctor says she should 5.6". But we know how they can be wrong since I was suppose to be tall also. :). Emily had a great day on Saturday her actual birthday. We shopped and ate at Chuy's a favorite of hers. We went and saw Ice Age in the theaters. Daddy also took the day off. We also went swimming after dinner.

Last day of six

We went to the fun pool today with Aunt Jenny, Isreal and Caleb. We had a good time swimming. Enjoying the sun. Specially we had a crazy storm last night. We are with out Internet until Monday. Bless my iPhone.

Thursday...Day 1 of birthday stuff

Emily is taking two girl friends out for her birthday. We are going to get pedicures and head over to sweet Cece's for some fro yo. Emily is not very friendly lately and I deiced that throwing a party this year was just not going to work. I did not want to waste the energy for her to deiced she did not like anyone that day. :) So she picked two friends Reese a girl from her class this year and Ella the neighbor girl down the street. Doing this extra girly party worked out great since daddy is not needed and he is swamped with work. I think the girls and I will have a lot of fun. I have got my camera ready!! I hope we don't hurt anyone's feelings. I am trying to keep it under wraps. :( Also this evening is a Lindsey Family party for Emily and Irelynn since Irelynn's birthday is 4 days after Emily's. With this Lindsey family if we had a party every time there was a birthday we would be busy every weekend some months. We already celebrated Isreal's birthday while we were all camping. :) I will let you know how it goes.

More of our first full day camping and exploring

Did I mention yet that my camera is dying? Well really the lens died. I only just figured that out. Plus I only brought one lens on the trip. So I aplogize for any horrible pictrues. Also they got rid of spell check on this blogging thing also. Sigh.

Part 2 iPhone pics

There was lots of bugs. Chloe liked the thousand legger but still hates butterflies. She did not like the wood peckers either. I even got bug bites. Mine don't itch and have not swelled like the girls. I even got stung on the bottom of my foot by a bee. Again my second time in life getting stung by a bee on the bottom of my foot. :)

iPhone pictures of our trip

Here are some of the pictures that I got on my iPhone. It did not get service up there so I did not take a lot of pictures.

More Pictures

2nd post BEAR

On the second day we went for a hike with grandparents and the kids. We hiked up to Laurel Falls. This is a very popular hike it is 3 miles round trip. We had to drive to the hike. Thegirls complained to whole way, Chloe was carried most of the way. Emily is the worst hiker. Ashley on the way back down was getting pretty bad also. I did not bring my camera on this hike. I wish I had. The falls were awful there was no room the fall was small. Nothing to get excited about at all. The girls all had to pee. We did see bear poop twice on the hike to the side. We herd rumors there was a bear that everyone was seeing. When we got to the falls there was a man showing pictures of the bear they had seen on the hike. On the way down we saw a baby bear it made the whole hike worth it for the girls. It was a small black bear. THere were lots of people getting too close to the bear to try and take pictures. I had my hand on the bear spray. Because all I could think about was where baby is momma is close by. I never had to use it and we were safe. I wish I had gotten a picture of baby. Chloe was so excited to see a baby bear!! The other girls also.

Camping first post

Our camping trip in photos. We had a great trip. The drive up there went pretty well. We stopped just once for lunch and a once to pee... Ithink. We made great time and were there by 1 pm CST/ 2 pm EST. Check in was 1 pm. We drove through and found our sight. We had to sign a contract on not leaving anyfood out for the bears we had to keep it all in the car. This ment tooth paste, soap and bug spray also. This was our 5th camping trip in Tennessee and it was the cleanest one I guess because of all the rules. Cindy and Marv came up on 4th of July also a day before the others. I love fire works but there was a burn band in Spring Hill so I am glad we were not at home or trying to see fire works with everyone else. There was no cell coverage. We went exploring that first day a bit, set up camp. Got the girls some ice cream. Grandma and grandpa showed up later we helped them set up too. I made a beef stew dinner for all of us. Stew meat, veggies of bell peper, onion, and yellow squash. Also a side of corn.

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