Family Fun Weekend

Well, sadly, it has come and gone but it was definitely one of the most favored weekends of the summer. Mom has some cousins that live in Georgia and some that live here and town and we all try to get together at least one weekend out of the summer. In recent years we have stayed in a cabin at the top of the Smoky Mountains in Gatlinburg, TN but this year we decided to have everyone stay at our house! 

Here are some of my cousins last year...

We had so much fun this year!!

Thursday we enjoyed a day by the pool while the guys played golf. That night we had a low country boil and it was delicious! Every year it is tradition after dinner for everyone to sit around and tell stories so that is what we did all night. 

Friday we went to Joe's cousins campground on the New River in Sparta, NC (here is the link if you're interested http://www.canoeingthenew.com/). We floated the river and had so much fun. We had floated about half a mile when we got hit by a thunderstorm so we had to get out of the water. Little did we know we were venturing into a cow pasture and making our way to an old, abandoned house on the side of the river. We thought we were safe to get back in the water when a lightening bolt hit within a hundred yards from us. Talk about loud and scary. We've never seen mom move that fast and she may have even wet her pants... Haha!

We were able to finish floating with a gorgeous day! We enjoyed a nice picnic on the side of the river, too! 

Friday night we found out that one of mom's cousins is deathly afraid of Gummy Bears.. weird, right? He's a grown man and afraid of candy. We can only laugh..... and play pranks on him. He was at work Saturday night so some of the cousins showed up and decorated the inside and outside of his truck in everything gummy. So. Much. Fun. So we set up camp and waited for him to get off work Saturday night. He was livid. And of course we were in tears laughing at him. 

 Here's the gummy bear crew!

We enjoyed a lot of laughs and made a lot of memories this past weekend. We are all a little fearful for what could happen next year. The revenge may not be so sweet. But we will enjoy it and laugh the whole time! 

I'm so so thankful that we are close to our extended family. 

Until next year... 

Here's the one who is scared of gummies...

Aaand this is everyone a few years ago...