Vacation Time

What a fantastic time away we all had! Being in Greer for six days and five nights was wonderful. Papa John (my dad) and Grandma Pat were amazing hosts to us, as usual and we had a lot of great laughs, smiles, yummy food, and times we will all put in our ‘memory banks’. Besides our Fourth of July activities (other blog entry), we did so much more, mostly outside to take in all the beauty and cooler weather!

First off, on Wednesday we all went fishing (well, Pat and I were spectators/cheerleaders). We have a little fisherman on our hands! Our Nathan was a fishing maniac! In the first 10 minutes he caught 3 trout and was jumping up and down for joy. My dad and Jon did well too, making the other fisherman around come asking for advice. Baylee too was a trooper, determined to catch one on a new fishing pole. Thank God her perseverance and patience paid off. Just minutes before we said we’d all be done, she got a ‘catch’. She’s very proud of the fact that she has the title of being the “first” to catch a fish off that pole! In the hour and a half that we were there, twelve fish were caught, pretty good, I’d say!


(No squeamish boy here. He loved having Papa teach him how to cut, clean, and cook his fish!)
(Nathan was very proud of the fact that he cut open the fish, right down to its "guts".)



We found some new sights in Greer, which is funny because I thought I knew that place inside and out. Little did we know that we could easily get to the backside of the lakes. What beautiful sights we saw, from a waterfall to a beaver swimming.


The beaver and fish weren’t the only animals we saw! We even had a bobcat in our front yard one evening, elk other nights, our customary chipmunks, squirrels,cattle, a coyote, and a new friend…a Horney toad, named Spikey! The kids were a little bummed that they didn’t get to see a bear yet, although we know they are in the close vicinity (and have been to the cabin before).

We pulled out the go cart for the first time to take up the hill in front of the cabin which was a lot of fun (except for hiking up the hill with it each time).



Baylee and Pat had some special "girl time" playing beauty shop and making some homemade, all natural popsicles for us all that were very yummy!

We also hiked, played in the rain, had our Frisbee golf competition, watched Enchanted and old Batman classic TV shows, Baylee and I crafted, we wrote letters, practiced our target shooting with the bow and arrow, hung new birdhouses with the kids' names on them, and much more. Once Jon and I got the kids tucked in for the night, we played Four Up Four Down (thanks April) and watched an entire season (3) of Lost.

Truly our time together as a family was a blessing and invigorating.