Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton...

Well I know I posted a little bit in my last post about our trip to Tennessee...but here's the whole deal! (Sorry if I'm a bit repetitive) We got there last Thursday evening and had a relaxing evening just soaking up the landscape (which is to DIE for) and weather (also to DIE for) and caught up, and for me, MET family. I hadn't ever met Shawn's Uncle Mike, Aunt Cookie, and cousins Philip, his wife Michelle, and Kristen. Here's a picture of Uncle Mike and Aunt Cookie's awesome house with wrap around porch:

Aunt Peggy came to our wedding so it had been a looooong time since we had seen each other. The whole time Kelly was planning the trip, she managed to keep it a secret from Aunt Peggy that Lorelai and I were coming. It was Awesome. Here's a picture of Lorelai and Aunt Peggy playing together:

and one of Uncle Mike, Aunt Cookie, Aunt Peggy, and Kelly...eating Lorelai's cookies!

Friday we spent mainly getting some necessities from Walmart and shopping at Belks! (A department store not yet in Texas....) they were having a HUGE sale! Woohoo! Saturday was so much fun. It was everything I could ever want in a small town. I told Kelly I felt like I was in Stars Hollow...(the town in Gilmore Girls) They had a Main Street Festival where they shut down their old downtown square and had local vendors set up at booths. I was BORN for this life.




That last picture is at The Palace...the oldest still standing and operating movie theatre! It was built in 1913. Later that night we went on a candlelit tour of the Gallatin Cemetary. It was sooo cool- nothing spooky. We had a guide walk us around and at different graves they had a person dressed up in old clothes portraying the person buried there and giving an account of their lives. Once again...BORN for this. Call me weird if you want, but I really enjoy walking around graveyards looking at super old gravestones and imagining what the person's life was like. I'd like to think I'm just quirky and imaginative. Whatever.
The next day we had a little photo shoot with Lorelai in the backyard:




Cutest. Kid. Ever.
On that note...it's getting late and I'm sick. Woke up this morning with 102.5 and white spotted swollen tonsils. Welcome Home me. SO I will post more tomorrow about our outing to the Hermitage...Andrew Jackson's home. Great pictures. Here's the pic of the week to leave you feeling happy.

Til tomorrow...