Mountain Vacation

We woke up early this morning, had a quick breakfast, packed the car and headed up to the mountains! On our way to Hendersonville, we picked up Aunt Lorie & Peyton in Columbia. It was a fun ride to share with our most favorite aunt & cousin! The boys entertained themselves by watching movies, snacking and chatting. The next thing we knew, we were there! Nana & Poppa met us on the porch full of hugs & kisses (everyone was excited to see each other!).

We made some lunch & let the boys play together with some Whoopie Cushions Poppa bought them. Oh what fun they had!

Aunt Lorie got a super cool new camera for her upcoming birthday as well, so we were in hog heaven snapping away pictures of our boys! She also got an upgraded lens and I was dying to try it out. I am in love & promptly called Dan and told him what I wanted for my birthday :) Look at these pictures!

Next the boys wanted to go check out the creek behind the house. Beautiful!

We let them throw rocks and dip their toes in the cold freezing water. They loved every minute of it!

Next, we headed to the apple orchard to pick some fresh apples. The boys had lots of fun searching the trees for the perfect apples, running around the orchard, eating the apples and seeing the mountains.

There were many different kinds of apples and we had the pleasure of taking samples as we picked. Peyton found one almost as big as his head and commenced to eating. it. all. Stryker was not as impressed with the apples.

And of course we'll never pass up the opportunity to take pictures of our boys together!

After the apple picking, we enjoyed some boiled peanuts and started back home. Nana's directions we're not as good as Peyton's though but we luckily made it back up our mountain! After a delicious dinner prepared by Aunt Lorie, we went outside to play with some sparklers. They weren't too sure at first, but soon wanted to hold them all by themselves.