Busy, Busy, BUSY!!!!

I thought summer was a time to SLOW down and take a deep breath after a hectic school year, but the Mellette household has been anything but SLOW!

A few days after school was out, we headed to KENTUCKY to visit the hottie hubby's grandparents. What a memorable visit. It happened to be our 10th anniversary and the hubs did a fabulous job surprising me the night before our big anniversary. He took me to a quaint restaurant I had never been to before...BUT, earlier that day he had dropped off a mini rose bush, card, and present so that when we walked into the restaurant, the gifts were decorating our private table! SOOOOOO romantic!

So, on our actual anniversary - June 17 - we were in London, KY visiting with his Granny and Papo (pronounced PaPaw). His Papo is a Korean War Vet and OH the stories and pictures he shared with us when the kiddies went to bed!!!!! I felt like I was sitting with royalty! He is a TRUE AMERICAN HERO! He was one of EIGHT men out of his platoon of 800 who survived Korea. His love for Jesus and his love for his wife is precious and at 81 years old, that's just too cute!

After a night's visit in KY, we joined up with my family in North Carolina to begin a week-long celebratory vacation...and, just what we were celebrating? My dad's upcoming 70th birthday! You'd never guess my dad was reaching that milestone...as my hubby pointed out the other day, "Your dad is one of the hardest working men I've ever met. He's hard to keep up with!" They had been chipping wood together and my dad is one energetic dude.

Anyways, in NC we tutored the largest private home in AMERICA: the Biltmore! Wow! What a home! It was 250 rooms and we spent 2 1/2 hours there and still didn't see everything! My children walked away from the experience saying they were thankful for where we live because they'd get LOST in such a BIG house....plus, there would be WAY TOO MANY toilets to clean! hee hee

From NC, we traveled to Tennessee - the Smokey Mountains and stayed in one of the coolest cabins ever! The cabin was stocked with a pinball machine, air hockey table, arcade games, Foosball game, pool table, hot tub, swimming pool, movie/theatre room and so much more! We never heard, "I'm bored" from any of the 9 grandkids there! We also went to DollyWood which was soooo much fun! It was a neat amusement park that was so family friendly and sold many Christian t-shirts. I'd go back in a heartbeat! Like Pretty Little Princess said, "We just need to go home to get Rocky (our beagle) and Pollyanna (her hamster) and then we can move into the cabin!"

My hubby's brother-in-law, his prego wife and almost 2-year-old son spent a little more than a week at our home. We shopped, showed them the sights and did a little of this and a little of that. And, today I just finished a 2-day INFO packed grad class! Now to do the homework!!!!

I'll post more pics...my computer is being a stinker!

How are you spending your summer?