Mountain Trip!

Thomas, Ellie, and I went with Grammy & Grandpa to the NC mountains (close to Asheville) over the weekend. We celebrated my bday, Thomas' upcoming bday, and the leaves changing! The house was lovely and cozy and the weather was perfect: rainy, chilly, then clear, and still chilly! Check out our Wolf Laurel adventure...

Before we got to the house we stopped in Weaverville for lunch. It was raining lightly so Ellie was snuggling up to Mom and wearing her blankie for cover. Ellie experienced her first Gallery here. Weaverville (like Asheville) had lots of cute little shops and many arts/crafts galleries. The gallery we went to had a lot of woods pieces, glass art, and jewelry. Grammy was excited Ellie was already exposed to great art! :)

Lunch time! This cute shot was taken at the Sunnyville Cafe.


We made it! And after all that cold rain, we were ready for a great fire. First of the season!

Ellie & Mom just chillin. :) She is such a big girl. She wanted her own cushion.


View from the porch


Thomas & I played Scrabble Sunday morning while Grammy & Grandpa took a hike. Before Thomas drew new letters after his turn, these were his letters. Promise! He had them all mixed up and then reazlied what they could spell. How special.

Here's Little Miss with her hat on...still chilly!
We were on our way to the top of the mountain to go hiking.

Ellie on her first hike.

Grammy!

Ah...Good Morning!

This was "late" Sunday night and Ellie just did not want to sleep upstairs. Guess she knew all the fun we were having downstairs. Snuggly, swaddled baby.

This is just before the ping-pong match started downstairs! Dad beat Thomas. Dad beat Sarah. Mom & Dad beat Thomas & Sarah. We were pretending to be Florida State and Mom & Dad were Georgia Tech. It was fun, just not successful.

Snuggly, swaddled baby on Monday morning with Dad. It was sooo foggy.

Close up.

On our way back to Charlotte we stopped in Asheville for a little shopping and a beer at the Bier Garden. We bought fudge and a stuffed owl for Emily. Good times.

Thanks Grammy & Grampa for coming all the way from FL to spend a

mountain weekend with us!

Love, Ellie