Favorite Time of The Year :)

I LOVE this time of the year!

The smells.

The music.

The food.

The fun.

The lights.

The joy.

& family time <3>

We always go to see our family in GA on Thanksgiving and we took some pictures!

I'm proud of my huge, giant, big ol' family, so I have to share them :)

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WHOLE family :)

Sisters & Cousin

Typical Browns..

The Family :) 

Whoever took this picture needs some photography lessons.. jussst saying lol

Merry Christmas errybody!!

Trip With The Fam

 *sigh*

Home at last.

Mountains are pretty, and being in the country is awesome, but I did miss my town, my cat, and my bed!

The mountains weather was beautiful, and our cabin was right on a river, so when the windows were up it sounded like it was pouring down rain! 

It was a 5 hour trip to Grandfather Mountain, and to some that might not seem too long, but having lots of siblings will make things a little more crazy. 

I absolutely love car trips though! 

I sat in the seat right behind, and between my mom and dad, and it was sweet to listen to their conversastions.

Not that I don't listen to their sweet conversations all the time, it's just that I was sitting there listening and thinking about how blessed I am to have parents who love each other so much. 

They are constanly giving their children something to look forward to one day.

♥ Pretty sweet. ♥

Ok, I am now moving on from all that mushy stuff! hehee

There was lots of wild flower picking

I was supposed to bring my camera, and it was all ready to go, but we were in a rush to get out the door, and the camera was left behind. 

All the pictures we got were taken with a phone.

{I know this is itty-bitty, but it's just so cute!}

We went Zip-Lining

{and y'all, I'm so scared of heights!}

Paddle Boating

Hiking

We did other stuff too, but I don't have a pictures to prove that. hehee

Wishing these pictures were more clear and a little bigger, but these'll do just fine. ;D

Well, I'm off to go unpack my bag now.

Hope everyone had a great spring break!!

Fun in Florida

This past week we were in Florida visiting our friend, Mickey, at Magic Kingdom.

It was alot of fun family time, and we were particularly excited because my dad came to the park with us!

The main reason we went was so my dad could go to a seminar, and his plan was to take us to Disney and drop us off then he would go to his seminar.... ok, just imagining Disney World with out the one person Max almost listens to just stresses me out! hehee

I actually knew the whole time he would come!

I don't think he knew, but I knew!

When we were on the road to Magic Kingdom, and we started seeing Disney World signs, I was just waiting for him to say the words "I'm coming too" I know my daddy all too well.

I think I had even more fun on my second trip at 17 than at 10.

I think maybe because I'm now old enough to really enjoy watching my little siblings have so much fun.

I do have to share with you all that Florida was cold for Florida!
As you can see we bundled up! ;)

•Dinner•

I'm at my grandparent's house in GA now, and we just finished eating dinner about 30 minutes ago.

 It was a very yummy country lunch....I mean "dinner".

My family (dad, mom and all of us kids) call the meal you eat in the middle of the day Lunch.

There's breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I think country people that eat delicious country food call the three meals breakfeast, dinner and supper.

 Today when Kamryn was trying to get a snack to take back outside so she could eat while she made this huge leaf pile was stopped by my grandma who told her to wait for dinner.

You should have seen Kamryn's face!

It is oftentimes very hard to tell what is going through this girls head, but I'm guessing it was something like "You mean it's 11:30, I'm hungry, and I have to wait till dinner to eat?!)

I had to explain that from the time I first started eating at my grandma's house wich was 16 years ago, lunch is always called dinner. It's just fine with me because I know that dinner usually means Fried chicken, blackeyed peas, cornbread, sweet tea, hush puppies, slaw and, my favorite, cabbage from a pan... I have no idea what cabbage from a pan that is cooked down with butter is called, so I'm going to be calling it "cabbage from a pan". =)

I love dinner!

•Jessie's New Toy•

We went to the mountains last week and while we were there, we all went to our favorite little gift shop called The Wrinkled Egg. It's so cute and it has lots of toys, candles, candy, real bunnies and pizza. Jessie, my 15 month old little sister, who usually doesn't have too many tantrums "threw one" in The Wrinkled Egg. My mom was holding her, and she showed Jessie a little toy. Ok, I say toy, but this thing was no toy. Especially not a toy for a baby girl. The toy was shaped like a jelly octopus, and it had eyeballs on each of the many, many tentacles. When my mom put this "toy" back Jessie started to cry. Then it got worse, and worse. She got more and more mad and she was screaming, and she was crying. We were leaving, mainly because she was being so loud, and we got in the van. My dad got in the car and my mom told him why she was so upset, and so my dad sent me in to go buy it for her. My dad came in after me with Jessie. He told her in her ear all the way that" Daddy's gunna get you the toy." It was very sweet and gracious of my dad. She went from crying histerically to VERY happy. It was so cute. That was the first time she has ever cried because she wanted something from a store, so my guess is that's why my dad let in. He's just getting too soft in his old age. Jessie is the youngest and just might end up being a little bit spoiled. =D

Our Trip

Well, we made it, and I'm alive! We left our house at about 8:45am and made one quick errand, and we were grandparent bound. We're now here after a 5 hour drive. The ride down here wasn't too bad at all. It was actually much faster than I thought it would be which is usually not the case at all! Well, hope every one is doing good! It'll probably be a week or so before I post again.

Proverbs 10:19

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

Vacation

This is the ONLY picture of Cole where he wasn't making a crazy face. HA!

It's always been a race in the Brown family to push the button on the elevator first. At this time it was only Max, mom and myself so he didn't have any competition. Cason and me don't do it any more. Well, sometimes we do just to antagonize the other competitive kids. = D hehehe!

Nona and Jessie

Jessie eating something yummy.

Kamryn on the balcony

Cute little Nona Klare

I LOVE that crazy boy!!!!

This was in the room I was staying in and I told him to make a happy face and this was the best he could do. = )

Vacation

Well, I just got back from Myrtle Beach today. It was a lot of fun. I'm so exhausted! We went to a hotel on the beach and it such a beautiful view. There was also a water park with two three story water slides It was so much fun! I was mostly on the beach. I ran every morning and I'm going to try and start running every day now. The breeze on the beach is so nice! It's so much fun to run on the beach! I didn't even use my iPod because I would rather just listen to the waves anyway. I also went and got in the ocean with Cason. It was soooooooo cold! I think the coldnes made it more fun though. I don't like freezing cold water but luckly I had my bigger younger brother there to splash me. I didn't like that at all, but I got number faster than him so he was the one that got out first because he was cold. = P I think the weather was maybe 68 degreese so it was cold in the water. On the hottest day we were there I fell asleep in the sun and got VERY burnt. I was also wearing my sunglasses and after four days I still look like a red racoon! = D We were up extreamly late every night. Well, at least Cason and I were. They had a pool table and ping-pong so Cason and I played that a lot. That boy beats me at EVERYTHING! Im ok with that though because he's more competitive thank I am, and that's very competitive! All together it was a great vactaion. We want to go to that same hotel next year. Well, that's it for me! I'm going to go help get little kids to bed. = ) Hope every one is doing well, and having a Blessed day!

~Karis