Fall Festival with Beech Mtn. Community Club!!!

Here is a picture of Mack's barn there in the upper middle of this picture.....if you look to the left of the barn, in the grove of trees, that is where our house sits...all nestled in among the tall-tall trees!
Here we all are at the Harvest Festival!

Creston got to draw the names out for the raffle prize winners!

We had a good time! Mark is the only one that BINGO-d! The boys kept saying "Did we WIN??? Did we win yet??? Can I yell BINGO now???"

Bear-Bear!!!

Here's our little Bear!!! He's grown quite a bit, hasn't he???

Cute little booger!

Riding down the Blue Ridge Parkway!

Mark decided that we'd take one last trip this fall and go to PIGEON FORGE via the Blue Ridge Parkway! This is one of the BEAUTIFUL Views that we had along the way! Sun is in our eyes......poor Creston!Here we are at the big Arts and Crafts place going towards Ashville...

No trip is complete without a stop at McDonalds! This one was in Ashville!

One of the 20+ tunnels that we went through on the parkway...

Honk....HONK!!!!!
Here is a picture of Creston, Me, and Mackie......the nice hiker took this, but Mackie was soooo scared of him and his girlfriend that he hid behind me the entire time!

My sweet little boys!

Throwing those "gang signs" again!

I like how Creston is holding on to Mark's leg in this one...so sweet!

This is a shot coming down from Cherokee towards Gatlinburg!

And here is a shot of the traffic that we got into coming from Cherokee into Gatlinburg...

Here is a picture of the sign for Maples Motor Inn....where we've decided that we like to stay! Clean, cheaper, and friendly.....Christian People and did I say cheaper than everywhere else???

At Dollywood!

In front of the "Fire Emergency" sign... :o)

Cute little Mackie...
Mackie Moo!

Creston Bear!

Creston showing us that he's NOT AFRAID of anything!

My little boys!

Woolly WORMS!!!

This is the weekend of the Woolly Worm Festival here in Banner Elk!!! This is the weekend where all of the Crazy Nuts collect their worms and go race them up a string to see whose worm will be the "Winner" and get to predict our winter weather for the coming cold season.........

It's ALLLLL True!

Anyway.........we collect Worms each year and sell them to the Chamber of Commerce or to the Banner Elk School for $1.00 each! This year, we found 30! One died, so we only had 29, but once there, a nice lady gave us 5 to add to ours (she was over her limit of 50 by those 5), so we wound up with 34! $17.00 each for the boys to feed their piggies with!!!

This is what Fall looks like to me...