Emily's Birthday

I can't believe that I have a 9 year old!  We had a wonderful party at the skating rink.  18 kids showed up and it was a lively party to say the least.  Emily had half her ball team there and lots of other friends.  She was so excited to have such a good turn out.  Some of the softball girls talked Emily into playing basketball so they would have enough girls to make a team.  I guess we will be signing her up on Monday.
We had plans to go to the mommy and me dance from 5-7pm and while at the skating rink Emily decided she didn't want to go because she wanted to have friends over.  She had no plans with anybody, so I don't know what she was thinking.  I told her we had to go to the dance and she was fine with that until we got home and she realized that the neighbors across the road were out playing and she wanted to go over there.  Abigail wanted to go to the dance so I let Emily put play clothes on and me and Abigail put our dressy dresses on and went to the dance.    We had such a good day.  Thanks for everyone that helped make her day special!

Gatlinburg for Halloween weekend

Girls playing putt putt at Ober Gatlinburg



Ober Gatlinburg restaurant

Burnette's enjoying scenery in Cades Cove

The girls found them a friend-they wouldn't let him get a word in edgewise

Girls trick or treating at Tanger Outlet in Pigeon Forge



Standing on a rock over the waterfall




Super Girl and Cheer Girl with our favorite Hooter's waitress, Cousin Lacey

 We enjoyed our long Halloween weekend by taking a trip up to Gatlinburg.  We visited Ober Gatlinburg 1 day and cruised and cruised/hiked Cades Cove on the next day.  We left on Thursday after school and came home on Sunday.  We had a wonderful time.  The leaves were absolutely beautiful and the weather was nice during the day for us.  As always we packed as much as we could in one trip and came home exhausted. 
When we got back into town we decided to stop at Hooters in Concord.  We told the girls that Lacey was working and as we got out of the car Abi said,  "Gosh she works a long way from home!"  I thought me and Brandon would roll!   She thought just because we were in the car all day to get there Lacey had to do the same.  We had to explain that Lacey doesn't have to drive all the way from Gatlinburg.  She was like "Oh yeah..."