the last of the summer fun

my last week of the summer august 3-9 we had a HUGE family reunion. it was a pretty interesting week. full of fun and family. sure we had some tears ( from the creek in the back anyway) but they were quickly over come by getting RIGHT back in the game.

on our way down there we stopped so many times. we went to Andrew Jackson's hermitage. that was a really interesting and awesome. the house was beautiful. we would have taken pictures but we couldn't. we did get some pretty interesting pictures tho...

that would be the house... she was short and chubby and he was tall and skinny. but none the less they were adorable...

Andrew Jackson and his wife's Tomb. it was something that demanded silence and heart just when you looked at it... i suppose the entire cemetery and garden felt that way. it was a very strong sense of peace there.

we stayed at an awesome cabin literally on the mountain. the road to the cabin was scary. steep and one way. that never helped when we were pulling a heavy trailer with 2 motorcycles, and about of luggage. so it was pretty scary around the turns which were way to tight. but we got over that...

our cabin had and awesome arcade...

looks like the kids took over. there is sierra, Emily and Meagan playing air hockey. Tyler playing pool and Aubrey playing ski ball.

yep...even the adults were up there...

the bedrooms were amazing and huge. although me and Sam had to sleep in the arcade..oh well..lol there were 6 bedrooms, each with flat screen TVs, the bathrooms were phenomenal and HUGE.

our own creek. haha. everyone found a joy in this.

we went to the aquarium one day as a huge family.wearing our family reunion shirts. every one looked at us. it was pretty awesome.

they were leaning in to pet the sting ray. and this...this doesnt even put a dent in our group... haha

after the aquarium we went to eat at subway. it was a sea of green. haha.
under the shark tank...

we stayed out in town all day. it was pretty awesome.

finally before we went back to the cabin we crammed into the small space of bubba gump. thats was so much fun. our waiter was a total stud muffin and he was so awesome. we all joined in on the movie trivia game. it was fun. i got a postcard and my mom got a bumpersticker.

from one side...
to the other...

that was the last night that we went into town. the rest of the time it was either a schmid family biker "gang" or game night. it was quite the excitement. i did all the girls toes and nails one day. so we all had matching nails. my DAD even wanted me to paint a crown on his thumb. i tried. but it didnt last to long. but that was something really cool that he let me do.

our last day at the cabin we had a family water fight. oh boy was that so much fun!

it first started out as just the younger boys having their own water gun fight. then grandpa had the idea of getting the boys to work together and after that was said he filled a pitcher up with water and poured it on them. thust creating a war between the girls and the boys. well after a while the adults got ahold of some guns and water balloons and were all over the game. it became adults verses the kids. with some adults helping the kids. that was so much fun. the upstairs bathroom was a safe place. but not to long. it flooded with the water that spilt and the adults sprayed the kids from the bedroom with their guns. and that created more screaming and drama. haha. but it was so much fun. they had use of the hose and guns and balloons.

it was nothing but relaxing after the water war. everyone was wore out and soaked all the way thru. only thing to do was to just relax either playing games, tubing down the rapids in the creek, or chillin in the hot tub...

while the girls played a fun game of dare or dare the men played risk...which boggles my mind immensley. haha
on our way home. we made a trip to Frasier History Museum. it was something amazing! there are alot of pictures for this trip. but i will only put two. and i like them to much...lol

whatta goober...

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