Emily,Mason,Automn,Larry,Jonathan,Michelle, Sav,Des,Koby,
My cousin Cinda was planning a trip from Lakeland Fl to N.C. some where in the mountains and they were going to stop by the Coca cola Museum on the way. So I asked her to stop by house for an afternoon and spend the night. She said are you sure? Cause you know their will be 11 of us, after all we do have 9 kids! I said sure why not!
So they came up, got to my house about 5:30 pm or 6. I had dinner waiting for them. I was soooooo impressed! After everyone ran around for a little while saying hello, Michael made all of the kids go wash their hands, line up at the back door, gave them a drink and made them go sit on the back deck around the table hands in their lap. Then we served them their plates and they were not aloud to eat until each one of them had received their plate and then said the blessing then they all ate together. The adults ate inside. I was amazed at how well behaved they were through that meal. Then afterwards they were not aloud up until they were told!
We then went to the park so they could burn off some of that built up energy from sitting in a van for 8 or so hrs.
Some of the kids playing Frisbee with Ricky
Larry and Ricky getting up a game of football
I mentioned before we have a cat named Molly. She is the sweetest cat I have ever know! I didn’t know that cats could be like dogs and come up and lick you, but Molly showed me this is true! You can be sitting down doing whatever and she will come up to you sit in your lap and start purring away, rub up against you and then just start licking your face or hand with that sand paper tongue. It is the weirdest feeling! Also something odd about Molly she can sometimes be belemic! She eats then throws it up. I have been trying different thing’s for her food and it has helped.
Molly
The girl’s and I made home made dog treats last night. I have never made these before. My sister-in-law Francine sent me a website with some recipes. So the easiest one called 
for flour, dry milk, butter and eggs. Oh and salt. So basically it tasted like hard biscuits! The girl’s thought I was crazy for eatting one. I told them it was harmless. It had basically no taste. They never would try one. Oh well! By the way Alyssa’s friend Alex helped, instead of Emiley. Cause Emiley was to tried. And yes the dogs loved them.
everything from the store we needed, and FINALLY got them both together to do the baking which was very HARD, we all 3 had a good time bonding!
there 8 hours before check-in .. no big deal! I casually strutted up to the front counter and said … “Can we get an early check-in?” The lady said that they were totally sold out but she would check and see. She found 1 room which she said we could have if we didn’t mind staying on the first floor. That has never .. ever.. happened to me. This was going to be the best vacation ever. Within 30 minutes Shannon had almost 100 brochures scattered across our king size bed. As we began to map out our 3-day plan, we noticed one thing we wanted to do was 150 miles north of where we were staying. Another thing was 40 miles southwest. It didn’t take us long to find out that you can make anything and everything look wonderful in a brochure. We didn’t care. We could go hiking. We could spend time in our heated pool. We could also watch our 45″ flat screen TV. We also brought out “Skip-Bo” cards.
