Labor Day Festivities

Well, since Chris was off for Labor Day, we decided to trek to Knoxville for the babies' first visit with grandparents' houses. We thought we were going to get a good start because Chris got home around 2:00 the Friday before. I had just fed the kids, so it was a good time to go. By the time we got everything loaded up in the car, it was time to feed again, so we had to wait for that. Then we finally took off. Jake was not happy, so we stopped in Lebanon to check his diaper. He finally calmed down after that. As we started off again, we hit a HUGE traffic jam. It took us about an hour to go 9 miles. Of course, Emmy started to scream. We assumed this was because she was hungry and the car wasn't moving anymore. We got off at the first exit we could to feed the babies. I had a bottle, so I fed Emmy and Chris gave Jake a bottle. When we got the babies out, we saw what Emmy was screaming about. She had the biggest blow-out I have ever seen. She had poop all over the place! It was all in her car seat and even in her ear! I had to give her a baby wipe bath in the McDonald's parking lot. Soon, we were on our way again. We traveled back roads for a little while to get out of the traffic, which we managed to do. It was about 11:00 p.m. when we got home. Needless to say, what would normally be 3 hours at most took about 5. It was not too fun.

The next day, Chris went to visit his family and I took the babies to see my Nanu. Everyone enjoyed seeing the babies. They were held and spoiled the whole entire time. I was so glad that Nanu got to see the babies. We got a lot of good pictures with the babies.




Then on Sunday, we headed to Crossville to visit with my Granny and the other side of the family. They were having a cookout at my Aunt Betty's house, so we visited Granny and then went to the cookout. Everyone enjoyed seeing the babies there as well. My only complaint was that it was outrageously hot. The babies were passed around to all kinds of people and they were extremely hot, which is pretty uncommon, so we left after visiting for a few hours. The twins and I feel asleep on the way home. In fact, Chris has a pretty incriminating picture of me sleeping. By the time we got to Grammy's that night, we were all exhausted. The babies slept well and Chris and I did too.






Finally, on Monday, Chris visited his family a little more and the babies and I hung out with Grammy and Poppaw. Soon, we were on our way back to Smyrna. The babies slept the whole way home, so we were afraid that they might not sleep that night, but that was definitely not the case. In fact, they slept the best they had. Jake slept pretty much all night and it scared me to death! I'm just not used to it (but I'm getting there


All in all, it was an exhausting, but enjoyable weekend. We had a great time visiting with family and everyone loved seeing the babies.