To The Mountains We Go!!!

We got to Pigeon Forge about 7:00 Saturday night and checked in to our room at The Oakmont Resort. We used our timeshare to book a week in Tennessee. We unpacked our truck and headed to Wal-mart for some groceries. We stopped at the candy store and bought some taffy on the way back to the room. We also went by Krispy Kreme and bought 2 dozen doughnuts by my request of course. I rented the new Scooby Doo movie for the girls at a red box in Wal-mart. They are only $1.00 a night for a movie. Where I live it is $4.50 to rent a movie, so we always catch up on our movie watching while we are at the Smokies. We popped some popcorn and settled down to watch the movie.

Down on the farm pumpkin patch!!

We found the pumpkin patch in Rainsville, Alabama a little town outside of Fort Payne. It was misting rain and cold, but we went anyway. They actually grow the pumpkins there, but the lady told me that they had to buy some extra because they did not have enough because of all the rain. They had a corn maze, but we decided to just do the hayride to the pumpkin patch. We loaded up on the trailer and headed to the patch. It cost $7.00 to go on the hayride and that included a pumpkin. We got off and picked our pumpkins and then headed back to the farm. They had paint for the girls to paint a face on their pumpkin when we got back. We had a really good time. We loaded our 5 pumpkins up on the truck and headed to the mountains. I think we were the only people at our resort that had pumpkins by the door.

Trip to the Smokey Mountains!!

We planned a week long trip to the Great Smokey Mountains. We are staying at the Oakmont Resort in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. We acquired a timeshare about six years ago and we usually travel to the Smokies about once a year and use our timeshare. We have had some really great vacations. We are better able to use it now that we home school our girls because we can travel anytime not just peak time. We decided to leave a day early and travel half way and spend the night in Fort Payne, Alabama, and drive the rest the next day. Fort Payne has some pretty mountains also and we decided that we would plan to stay their for a weekend in the future. We drove through a State Park in Fort Payne and stumbled on to a beautiful waterfall. It was well worth the drive. I wanted to take the girls to a pumpkin Patch, so I asked around and found out they had one. My wonderful patient husband drove around until we found the patch!!!!

Homeschooling in the Camper!!!

My husband and I recently acquired a travel trailer from my sister and decided to put it in the town where he works. He has about a 45 minute drive to and from work everyday. We decided that since I home school that we could spend a couple of nights a week in the trailer. We equipped it with everything that we would need so I will not have to pack every time we go. We spent our first night in it the other day. I loved it and I think the girls really enjoyed staying in it also. I stress a lot about keeping my house very clean. I will enjoy having a tiny space to keep clean. It will free up more of my time to spend with my girls. I think staying in the trailer will make us grow closer as a family. We will not have so many distractions to keep us from spending time together as a family. Our first night was great except for the fact that we are parked under a pecan tree and it stormed and pecans fell all night long. I am looking forward to some really great times in the camper!!!!!

Homeschool Day!!

I just had to blog about this and put up a picture. The girls were in the home school room doing there work when I looked out the window and our dog Emma and Cat Jasper were just standing at the window watching us do our day(I guess they were learning also). I went and got my camera but Emma had moved but Jasper was still there. The girls thought that was the coolest thing.

Just the girls and I!!!

Friday I had to pay a bill in Meridian so I decided that we would school early and take the afternoon and go shopping. We went to Sams and looked around at everything and of course the girls had to sample everything. We decided to eat there because they have a good price for pizza. We left there and went to Lifeway to do a little shopping(one of our favorite stores). I just have to write about what happened in there. I felt about a half inch tall. One of my twins is always touching things and I had just gotten on to her for turning the volume up on a cd player. She was standing behind me in the checkout line and a lady walked by her and she dropped this cute little candle and it broke. Well of course I preceded to fuss at her and she started crying. I offered to pay for the candle and they said no. I tried again but I gave up and left the store. My oldest daughter told me that my other daughter was standing in line to pay for the candle for me for Christmas. I felt like the worst Mother in the world. My girls love to buy me things. It warms my heart to know that they would spend there money on me instead of buying something for them. We left there and went to Belk me feeling worse than dirt and discovered that they were having a sale. They had an extra 40% off of the marked down items. We found some really cute clothes for a little of nothing. My ticket said that I saved $696.00. I thought that was pretty good. We left there and made our usual trip to Wal-Mart and bought a few groceries and then headed home. We had a pretty good shopping trip and I think that I was humbled by my daughters kindness.

Ballet/Gym Class

My girls started ballet last week. They were so excited to go to class. They were so tired when it was over that they had no problem going to sleep. We had to get ballet shoes and some outfits for them to wear. I can't wait to make them all a cute little bag to carry all of their stuff to class. I love to sew for my girls and this will give me something new to make them. They have a ton of purses that I have made for them. I have so many cute ballet and gym appliques to embellish them with and I have been dying to use them(now just finding the time to do it). I will post pictures of their bags when I get them finished. Since we home school I like them to get some exercise and boy I believe that they are getting a workout which I think is great. I also get an hour to do something for myself. I usually just read a book and sit and watch them. It is so nice to just sit and relax.