Off to Tennessee!

Last week/weekend we traveled to Charlotte and Tennessee again. It will be our last trip for a little while...I've loved seeing family, but am ready for a few weekends at home! Anyways, we drove to Charlotte on Wednesday in preparation for our drive to Tennessee on Thursday. Wednesday night we stayed at Grams and Das' house and Hailey had to try out Grams' rollers.

And then Das built her and Tucker a fort and let her use a flashlight!

Thursday we left around lunchtime for Tennessee. But that morning Hailey got a special treat...going thru the car wash! She just giggled the whole time!

Thankfully we rode with my parents so I could entertain Hailey while someone else drove. The highlight of her car trip was stopping at the giant Bass Pro store. Girly girl had to bring her purse in with us.

 And of course drive the boats.

Before we even went to Granny's house and unloaded our stuff, we had to stop at BJ's to ride Ting Ting. Hailey's only been talking about it since last Christmas.

She may have almost fallen off once. I was right beside her and caught her before she totally fell. But the "cowgirl" that she is got back on and rode some more!
She also got to watch the cows,

 and visit the chickens and goats while we were there.

Friday afternoon we drove to Nashville to Gigi's house. While we were there we made a worm friend,

 played with the scarecrow and saw Jacob and Mitsey!

She was so funny with this scarecrow. She was looking at it and said, "It has a carrot nose. That's silly! Scarecrows don't have carrot noses. Only snowmen do!"

Saturday morning Mary Katherine, Justin, Julie, Trey, Mack and Tucker arrived. Hailey spent like half an hour playing in Justin's car with him. It was hilarious! Then a little cousin bonding time...

That afternoon we went to David (my uncle's) reception for he and his new wife Pat. Unfortunately it was right at naptime and I had a very grouchy girl so I didn't get any pictures of her in her cute dress. Oh well... After the reception we went back to Jamestown to Granny's house and fed the fish.

Then we were up and out of there early Sunday morning for the trip back to Charlotte. Hailey did ok in the car, considering how much we were in it (at least 2 hours everyday for 5 days). But that morning we had to pull out all the stops. We stopped a rest stop for new "books"

and she even got to go on a treasure hunt in Grams' purse where she found a measuring tape that kept her entertained for a good 10 minutes.

When we got back to Charlotte we went up to Mimi and Poppi's house to spend the next two days. Mimi was gracious enough to watch Hailey while I attended a conference to keep up my teaching certificate. She had a ball making breakfast for the dinosaurs (the same dinosaurs Daddy played with as a kid)

 playing with Mimi's antique high chair/stroller,

and making cute turkey crafts!

We had so much fun visiting family in Charlotte and Tennessee but we were glad to get home Tuesday afternoon! Truth be told, Mommy was glad to get home and back on a normal sleep schedule... We had a big surprise waiting for us when we got back. Daddy had finished Hailey's big girl bedroom! Pictures of that to come...