Gatlinburg

We took an adults only trip to Gatlinburg with 3 other couples and it was so much fun.  I had never left Addi for more than one night before so I wasn’t sure how I would do.  She was excited to stay with Nina and Papaw though so that definitely helped. 

We left Saturday afternoon and got to the cabin, unloaded our stuff and headed out to dinner with everyone.  I had just had a birthday the Monday prior and my best friend Ann was having a birthday the following Monday so Justin told the waiter and he got us up in front of the restaurant as everyone yelled happy birthday to us!

When we got back to the cabin, Jason disappeared for a while and when he came back, he was carrying a big, beautiful chocolate cake that he had ordered for me and Ann.  It had two “7” candles stuck in it.  We couldn’t figure that part out but Jason told us that it was our ages added together…  NICE.  Only him.

After cake everyone was excited to watch the UK/Florida game (which was terrible) and then it was board game time…  We played games until about 2 AM and then got in the hot tub.  It was 3 before we went to bed and I was awake at 7 the next morning…  Ugh.

We fixed a big breakfast and then the girls headed out to the outlets for a day of shopping.  Yes, we shopped for 5 hours.  We found lots of deals though—mostly children’s clothes, of course.

We met up with guys for dinner at another steak house and then headed back to the cabin to get our game playing started a little earlier!  We only played until midnight and then called it a night.  I think everyone was kind of worn out from the night before.

We got up the next morning, packed up, and headed out… to a pancake house!

After a great breakfast, we all headed back to KY—excited to see our kiddos!

This is a picture that the kids took and sent to me while they were gone--so sweet!