Thursday was mostly just getting ready for our guests and finishing everything up. I got the lawn mowed, but nothing really to mention so we will keep moving on.
Friday
All of the cleaning was done and we were ready for the guests, but with a 1 yr old it was trying to play and learn without making too big of a mess. We don't need all the cleaning to go to waste right? Mom was already worried that I wouldn't have it clean enough without her being able to check it over first. Friday evening we picked up mom fresh out of a surgery and headed to the Nashville airport. Ashley's dad and stepmom don't travel a lot and it was only like the 2nd or 3rd time they had flown so we were glad everything went smooth.
We picked up something quick to eat and headed home to try to get Makenna home close to bedtime. Of course after we get her to bed and about ready for bed ourselves Ashley gets a call from the hospital that she has a patient in that is ready to deliver. However, since we had picked her up to go her car was still at the hospital. Luckily we had the grandparents to stay with Makenna as I brought her in. Ahh the life of an OB doctor!
Saturday
Most of our big plans for Saturday got rained out. Ashley finally got home after the baby delivery somewhere around 2-4am. Don't ask me, I was trying to sleep. ;) There was a festival going on in the small town adjacent to ours that we wanted to check out and we were thinking about going to Chattanooga for a huge 150 year celebration of a battle for a re-enactment. The strong rain all morning wiped that away, but it was nice to sleep in a little and have a low-key morning and really most of the day. Getting to watch football on a Saturday, so rough, hah. In the afternoon we did go check out the festival, which wasn't that impressive anyway and we ate at the great BBQ restaurant in town.
Sunday
Another trip to Nashville on Sunday for the Tennessee Titans game. It was a beautiful day for a game and to be outside all day. Makenna did way better than I thought she would at a game for 3+ hours. Plus the Titans came from behind to score a touchdown with 15 seconds left to win! A great finish to the day, but it wasn't done. We had quite an adventure just going back to the car.
We are walking back to the car of course with tons of traffic and all of a sudden a loud screech and bang! That's right someone talking on the phone and going way to fast and rear ends the car in front of them. Been a while since I had seen/heard an accident, not that I really car to see them.
Then as we are walking back to our car we see it as like the only one in the "free" lot we parked in and there are guys kind of walking around it. Well we get back and are loading up and some people walk over and ask if we paid to park there. After we say no, they say well count your blessings because everyone else was towed! We definitely thought of this as we parked there because no one was taking money and hoped and prayed we wouldn't be towed. For some reason God was looking out for us in not having our car towed. We are not sure that everyone got towed, but there were at least a few people there not really sure where to call or what to do because of this. There were no signs up about possible towing. Praise be to God!
Monday
Boy what a day Monday ended up being! Not what I expected when I woke up, but in a good way. We kind of chilled in the morning to make sure Makenna got one good nap and then after lunch we headed up the mountain to do some hiking. Ashley's dad wanted to see a waterfall. We stop by the visitor center to get some info and off we go. The waterfall we were headed for was the biggest in the area, something like 62 feet. There was a great path to an overlook to see it and it was quite impressive. Then we head down to the base of it. The path then becomes all rocks to use as steps down, a difficult path alone and that much harder caring a 20+ pound 1 yr old strapped to your front to make it harder to see where your stepping. All went well thought and we go some great pictures from the bottom.
I thought the was kind of the end as going back up the same path was more of a toll on our out-of-shape legs. Boy was I wrong! We then headed in the opposite direction and end up walking all the way around the waterfall to get pictures from every side of it.
I have no idea how far we hiked, but all in all with a few short stops for pictures we walked for 1 1/2 hrs. It was very beautiful and worth it, but if you would have told me this when I was getting out of bed, I may have stayed in a little longer.
After the hike we stopped at a nice little dutch bakery we found and headed for another trip back to Nashville as grandpa and grandma had to fly out early in the morning. We found a very good mexican restaurant to fill our stomachs up with and mostly because of Makenna we were all in bed and sleeping by 9:30.
Tuesday
We totally messed Makenna up with the 4:30 wake up and trip to the airport, then trying to get more sleep, up at 8:30 for breakfast, pack up and a nap while heading home at 10. To say she was thrown off schedule would be more than accurate and we had kind of a fussy toddler for the rest of the day. Of course we did expect this to an extent and overall she was a very good trooper again and we wouldn't change it or her at all. The rest of Tuesday was full of trying to get back on schedule, realizing grandpa and grandma where no longer here to play with and lots of laundry. Oh yeah, and back to more cleaning!
We this is probably more than enough to read so I think we will end it here and hopefully get back into normal posts tomorrow. Hope you had a great weekend as well and I would love to hear about it, please connect with me and tell me all about it. And thanks for coming on this adventure with us!
Hope to see you back for more!
God Bless!
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