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Tennessee- part 1

The month has flown by and I'm realizing that we will be back at school next month!  Crazy!

We've been having fun playing with friends, going on a trip, and swimming a lot!

The kids and I were able to go out to Tennessee for a week to visit with my sister Ann and her family.  It was an experience driving with the kids by myself, but the kids did great!  We had a fun time out there getting to know her family better and visiting some sights from my childhood.

We drove up to visit Granny and Pa's graves.  It was in the high 90's and very hot, but the kids then searched around the cemetary to find different ancesters that are buried there.

We then drove over and showed the kids the Ford Holler (mom and dad's farm)... you can't see much of it from the road, but there's the little bit we saw.



Another day we started the day off swimming at the Rickard's pool.  The Rickard's knew mom when she joined the church, and she has stayed in touch with them through the years.  They open their pool for the people in the ward to come and swim with kids on Wed mornings, so we went and had a lot of fun!


Then we changed into dry clothes and went and played at the Nashville children's science museum.  The kids had a lot of fun!  They have a large tower in the center with 9 levels of differnt activities going up to a big slide on the top.  They had a space walk activity that Alex and Ashley got to do, and tons of other fun hands on activities that the kids all couldn't get enough of!  We wound up staying later than we had planned, and so the kids all dug into the snacks in the car while we sat in rush hour traffic headed back to the house.




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