Well, definitely all settled into the house. Now I understand how home owners are never done with fixing up a house, and it will never be perfect. But our house is homey and comfortable, and it's nice to know that I am making a great investment. Our vegetable garden is doing great. Our tomato plants are as tall as the corn... not sure if that's how it supposed to work out or not. The only produce we've gotten so far is our sugar snap peas, but I'm anxiously waiting for tomatoes. We have a few green ones so far, but none have ripened.

Made a trip to Tennessee to visit my family. J met the whole family for the first time and I thought it went very well. We spent one day in Dollywood, yes, a theme park built by Dolly Parton, and no, it was not all Dolly all the time. It was actually a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be. We spent the second day a little split up, cause I didn't want to spend the entire vacation in Dollywood, so Dad, J and I went hiking in the Great Smokey Mountains. On the way up, we saw a bear. Too bad I didn't get a picture of the entire bear. He was non chalantely walking around all the cars.


We hiked up to a waterfall

Saw some pretty flowers
And even saw a salamander
Afterwords we wandered around Gatlinburg, TN. Let me tell you, what a weird little tourist town. It was like some sort of bizzare mix between Las Vegas and a county fair.

The cabin we stayed in was very cute, and the surroundings were beautiful.
We also even had the pleasure of letting the kids hit a pinata, which used to be a tradition at the family reunions we had growing up with my mom's family.

It was the hungry little caterpillar. All and all, it was a very good time.