We took our first family vacation to Maggie Valley, NC. I will blog it in installments since it was such a fun-filled, packed to the hilt, week!
Saturday: Saturday was our travel day. We left at 7:30 AM (30 minutes later than we wanted but still OK), with Phebes (you may call her Phoebe) giving us all of our directions. After the trying-to-find-our-way-home-from-camp fiasco (did I forget to mention that in the camp blog...)we purchased a GPS!
We did all of the babies' feedings on the road. I climbed into the backseat and fed them their bottles. Then I fed them their vegetables/fruit. Jonah had a banana explosion so we had to pull over and clean him up and his car seat. I'm pretty sure it will smell like bananas from now on!! We got to the family condo at about 7:00 PM. Needless to say we were a little grumpy from our long drive! We tried to take pretty pictures on the deck, but it kind of just turned into this: (Jonah on left, Claire on right)

and this: (Claire on right, Jonah on left)

We enjoyed a thunderstorm Saturday evening as well! One thing you should know about me, I always enjoy a good dark, scary sky! Anyway, the thunder echoed off of the mountains so every time it thundered once, we heard it 4 or 5 times. It was really cool!
It was bed time so we set up the
PeaPods for the kids to sleep in. I found these while reading "
the other quad chick's" blog. Instead of taking 2 pack-n-plays which are very handy but very huge to travel with, we got them these that fold up to about the size of a school clock. This is the babies napping in them at home to get used to sleeping in them:
Sunday: On Sunday, we went to church and met another set of boy/girl twins. And we saw the guy that used to preach at North Lowndes before my dad, and his wife. Crazy how small of a world it is!
Here are Claire and Gigi, all ready for church (with the outfits that Gigi gave them):
The J Man all dressed and ready for church:
No, your eyes are not deceiving you...Claire's foot is digging in my Cheetos bag! And yes, she was doing that on purpose!

And here is Claire honking Uncle Matt's nose:

Claire is practicing her crawling skills. However, she has not quite figured out how to crawl forward. She started out on the blanket and made it backwards to between the car seats!

We ate supper at
Butts on the Creek . Somehow we made it out of the house without any cameras! We also went to
Lake Junaluska and took a stroll and had a family devotional. It was really neat to do that! It rained on us a little, but it wasn't too bad! And we saw LIGHTNING BUGS!!! Lightning bugs are my favorite! I really miss seeing them down here! The lake is a very pretty place and we really enjoyed spending time out there!