A weekend fit for a "King"

This past weekend, we went to Memphis to visit some of Randy's family for the holiday weekend. Friday evening we were able to spend time with his Aunt, Uncle and cousins, before they headed out to the lake! I was so bummed that I forgot to bring my camera to their house...sad face! We absolutely adore Uncle Jerry, Aunt Carol and their sweet family! They are some of the most peaceful, compassionate and godly people we know! We had an "old time" Memphis BBQ, and enjoyed a great evening together!



Saturday, we had a great time doing the "touristy" thing! We have obviously been to Memphis a lot throughout the years, but we usually don't "hit the town". I thought it would be fun to take the kids to the Peabody, and let them watch the DUCKS!!! So, the ducks it was....

AND THEN...

OH, YES WE DID...

I mean, come on....how could we not make a visit to the "King"?
So, we didn't actually tour the house, or the museum on this trip, but we did do a quick drive by of Graceland!

As we were driving away my 3 year old actually said, "there's Elvis Mommy"
Hmmm?

Saturday evening, we had the chance to meet some new friends over at Grans house! Julia made a WONDERFUL meal, and we had a wonderful evening getting to know some of her family.

This is a tree in Gran's yard that tried to eat Palmers football! If you look closely up in the top of the tree, you will see it!

Several hours were spent trying to retrieve this ball. In the process, 2 other balls got stuck up there, but eventually...

The ball was rescued!
Julias grandson, Matt, came to the rescue!

Palmer was so relieved and thankful :)

Not only is it just that time of year, where we love to CONSTANTLY toss the football, but P has his first football game this Sunday!

We went to church Sunday morning, and got to see the new Highland building...beautiful, and all the lovely people that fill it! It was wonderful to worship there Sunday morning, and to see some folks we rarely get a chance to visit with.

We had such a great and fun filled weekend visiting with Gran and Julia, and we thank them for their warmth and hospitality!

We left them after lunch on Sunday, and headed to Nashvegas to see the rest of the family.

On our way in, we did a drive by of the old homestead...

This is a picture of the first house we ever purchased...it seems like a lifetime ago!
We didn't get a great shot, because we already looked a little crazy, stopping in the middle of the road to take a picture of someones house!

We finally got to Granna and Poppers house, were we met up with all the cousins!!!

It is always an adventure trying to get a snapshop of these 4 little sweeties!

This is the latest version of what we usually come up with...

It totally cracks me up!

It looks like Bennett is trying to explain this to Charlie.

He's saying "Come on buddy, you know how this goes..."

Randy, Ashley, Travis

Uncle Ash & Aunt Mereby

Uncle Trav & Aunt Kell-Kell

I know it's hard to tell in these pics, but both of those beautiful ladies are due to have babies in the next 6-8 weeks!!!

More cousins :)

It was SUCH A BEAUTIFUL EVENING that Grana and Popper fired up the 4-wheeler and took the kids on a "quilt ride"! Ha!

Popper, preparing for take off

Grana, with all the grandbabies!

It is pretty much a small miracle that I got this shot of Charlie, because he was actually screaming the whole time.....bless.

And they were off...

They traveled all over the yard, and down to the creek!

As Aunt Kelly said, on her blog, it was a great kick-off to the fall season.

It was a great Labor Day weekend, and we are thankful for a safe and fun-filled trip!

We are now safe and sound back in the homeland of Michigan, and ready for a great fall week!