Our Trip to NC, Part 1

This past weekend we made the trip to Statesville, North Carolina for the wedding of two of our very dear friends. The wedding was beautiful, but I will share more of that in the the next post. We took so many great pictures that I want to share with you that we really need to do this in two posts.

We headed up on Thursday. It was an interesting 9 hour drive. The GPS was set to shortest path rather than shortest time. So it took us at a diagonal through Georgia which made for an very interesting route. But we made it with only a little whining from the little one.

We went a day early so Shane could work in a business meeting, so we had plenty of time to enjoy ourselves. And with the weather as beautiful as it was, we wanted to spend some time outdoors. So we found a very nice park complete with a pond full of ducks! J loved them. In fact as I was sitting here making the collage bellow, J is pointing at the screen yelling, "Ducks... Ducks!"

We also did some swing and sliding which are a must at any park for J. I love the picture on the bottom right. She had slid forward in the swing and her face was priceless!

We did try to get some family shots, but the temptation of the surrounds were just to much for J. Here are a few we were able to capture by asking her to look for the moon (a new obsession for her).

And I am in love with this picture of J and I being silly together!

And Mimi went with us on this trip. It was so wonderful to have her help and be able to spend time with her. J really loves her Mimi and they were two peas in a pod this trip.

So I will be back in the morning with pictures from the wedding!