our week as visitees

Goodness, has this week been flying by or was that just me??
Don't mind us over here slacking on the pictures I promised, not to mention on documenting Sawyer's first baseball game and other random fun. Sawyer and I had friends over to visit this morning and had such a great time. It was so good to just hang out and chat with another -and fabulous- adult while the kids played. It's been a long time. I loved every minute of it.

Anyway.
Back to last week...
I don't have a ton of pictures. I really only snapped a few out on our hikes. We had a great time, a fabulous weekend away with the Wests, and a blast just hanging out here at home with them here. Fun times with the kids, lots of games played after they went to bed every night, and lots to look forward to for the next time they grace us with a visit here in Tennessee!















Here are the rest of some of the pics of our weekend away all together...
Touring the Great Smoky Mountains National Park:





















(not sure what my wackos kiddos are doing here)







Some from the trails:






































Stopping for snacks:
























and Sawyer showing off his skid marks (which turned into lovely bruises) from a nice fall



















And more hiking:





































The kids (and the dads!) liked doing a little off-road rock-climbing, tree balancing and water hopping whenever they had the chance:












































































We also detoured over to Chattanooga on the way home after the weekend and stopped for a ride up the Incline Railway. It was very cool. This has already been a lot of pictures, so I'll group those together another time.

My sister has a handful more pictures over at her blog if anyone's interested.