Great Friends, Great Families, Great Weekend

We just got home from a super fun weekend in Asheville, NC with some of my favorite people.  These 3 ladies are great friends of mine from our playgroup in Pensacola.  For now we all live in GA, NC and SC so we decided to all try and get together again (spent a mom's weekend in SC in Oct.) with our families this time before Melanie moves to AL.  

Brooke, Melanie, Lisa and Robin

 Robin found us a wonderful house in the mountains near Asheville where we could all stay together.  8 adults/10 kids, 7 and under!  It was so great seeing all of our kids playing together again.  Lisa posted some great pictures on facebook of the kids 'then and now'.  I'll try to copy them and put them on here.  

The first afternoon we spent exploring and playing outside.  

 Lisa's 2 older girls enjoying the hot tub on the back deck

 CeCe was so excited to see her best friend Sam again.  

 The Barger girls made the hot tub look so fun, more kids had to try it out! 

 We were all so excited about the fire pit, but it was impossible to get a fire started.  It had been raining all week before we got there and ended up raining for a lot of the weekend while we were there.  

CeCe's first friend sleepover.  She asked to sleep in Sam's room instead of ours!  

 Sunday we all headed to Chimney Rock state park.  GREAT place for everyone.  

 There was a great kids trail that everyone except baby Julie could walk (she rode on her Daddy's back in a backpack)

 CeCe and Luci chatting on the trail

 9 of the 10 kids (baby Julie was still in the backpack!) 

 Chimney Rock.  This was high up, but nothing like after riding on the elevator (yes, we rode instead of climbing the steps up but we did climb the steps back down!)

Here is the top!  It was a gorgeous view.  We watched the rain clouds roll in, pretty neat from so far up!  

 Lisa's husband Taz had to work Monday morning so they headed out Sunday evening.  We were sad to see them go but before they left we had to get an adults only picture.  Jaelyn did a much better job than Bryce with this picture!  Bryce cut out 4 people in all of the pictures he took!  

Monday morning cartoons with friends

After checking out of the house we drove to downtown Asheville to explore and eat lunch.  We played in park and had a delicious lunch at a super cool Mellow Mushroom.  

CeCe and the red heads! 

 Bryce and Liam riding the bronze turkeys

Here are the pictures Lisa posted!