Spring Break 2011

Here are the pictures of our Spring Break! We went to Nashville, Tennessee. It was a total blast! Seriously...I hadn't been back in years since right after my mission and it was just so much fun! We stayed with cousin Alison Leonard for the first 3 nights which was really nice. She is the sweetest cousin of Tom's who is just lovely. We got to make a fort underneath the ping pong table...Wonderful. We also got to go and meet all of Tom's high school buddies over in Lebanon. They were so nice. All of his Germany high school peeps live out there. He LOVED Nashville and said over and over how he would love to live there.

The highlight for me was seeing Mary Towns family. Mary was a young 20 year old back when I served a mission who I was able to help teach the gospel to. She was baptized and is now married to an awesome guy who serves in the military living out in Ft. Huachuca, Arizona. It is wonderful to see how the gospel helped her and she's got four beautiful little boys. What a neat story. Love her so much.

Another wonderful time was going to the home of Andrew Jackson. President of the United States in the 1820's. What a cool tour. We loved it. The other thought that Tom and I had the entire trip was how nice it was to vacation with our girls now that they were all 3 and up. It's like we realized that we entered into a different chapter in our lives. They all played with each other and were cute with each other and were happy. It was seriously one of the best family vacations EVER!

We got to stay at the Embassy Suites for 5 nights. That was also a highlight. Amy and Courtney Scheeser met us there and we swam and saw the sights with them. We got to walk all around the Grand Ole' Opryland Hotel. Went downtown to the Parthenon and walked all around. Ate some really good pizza one night. Tom and I also got to do a temple session in the Nashville Temple. That was amazingly beautiful to be there. Toward the end of the week I got a phone call from my mom telling me that Nena had died. I was sad and had to fly out for her funeral early in the morning on Saturday morning. It was a beautiful funeral and it really made me miss her and wish I had gotten to see more of her the last 10 years.

So, that in a nutshell is what we did. Here are the photos! The one of me in front of the house is where I lived when I served a mission. Great memories! Great time!