Sunday, July 19, 2009

Family Vacation with the Hanleys!

The Hanley's came up to see the house and Shellie helped me decorate a bit. We ran around like crazy for a day and a half - then we all packed up and headed up to Helen for a 2 day 3 night vacation. We had a great time...
This is the house that we rented - it was great!
Rich and I stayed in the loft bedroom...Rick and Shellie stayed in the room below - you can see the door in this pic.
The girls (Cierra and Caleigh, who are 15, Rachel, 11, and Kalee) had the bottom floor to themselves. The game room was on that floor, too, and Kalee was in heaven! The hot tub was also on the deck of this floor, which she loved almost as much as the game room!
Kalee wasn't too sure about this horse, in Helen. I LOVED his hat!
Kalee in the hot tub!
The loves of my life, in Helen.
Cierra and Caleigh
Shellie and I bought Crocs - we both said we would never buy crocs, but these aren't your normal crocs! Comfy!
Rich grillin' our dinner...
The hot tub. We had to limit the girls to 15 minutes on the last day, so that the adults would be able to get in AND have hot water, too!
Eating snow cones in Dahlonega. Notice it is only the girls who got snow cones...funny...
After Dahlonega we went to Amicalola Falls. This picture doesn't do the falls justice. From the top of this picture to where we were standing is 425 steps! My legs are still killing me - and we only walked down them! We followed a different trail out, instead of going back up the steps...Unfortunately, it led us to the wrong parking lot, so the boys hiked a mile back UP the mountain to get our cars while us girls waited in the wrong parking lot! Such love!
Rick and Shellie at the falls.
The fam...
While we were following the wrong trail out we came across this truck that appearantly fell down the side of the mountain many years ago...
After the falls we went gem mining - Kalee's favorite!
The girls, enjoying the ride home.
Rich and Rick went back into Helen on the last night to get some real german beer. Rich doesn't care for dark beer, and this one was really dark AND smelled like smoke.
Rich's reaction was priceless! He still doesn't like dark beer!
Roasting s'mores by the fire...yum!

2 comments:

Stacey said...

The picture of Kalee in the hot tub is adorable! She is just absolutely beautiful! Can't wait to see you guys again (and Kalee) in just a couple weeks.

Arlene Price said...

Great pic's I especially love the one of Kalee and the horse :) That's a classic !