Consolidated Gold Mine

We took the girls to Dahlonega to see if we could strike it rich by finding gold!


Our tour guide showed us where the gold used to be.  I guess we got there a little too late to strike it rich.


We did see a small underground waterfall that was pretty cool.


Chess danced and galloped through the mine.


We learned a lot, saw some bats sleeping, then climbed out of the mine.


We were given another chance to find some gold!  The girls are holding their tokens to do some gold panning.


Ready to find some gold nuggets.


This nice man did some magic and pulled gemstones out of the girls' ears!


Panning is hard work.


Chess did it mostly by herself.


We found some!  It didn't make us rich, but we sure had a good time! :)

Cousin Halloween Party at Nan-Naw and Paw-Paw's

One-Nighter

Chess has been asking to go camping, so when we had a free weekend and the weather just happened to look amazing, we decided we had to do a one-nighter.



Playing by the water quickly turned from this...


to this...


It was a warm evening, so it turned out okay and the girls had a blast.







Unfortunately, our wood was old and slightly damp, so we had no fire.  But we had sparklers and cooked our hot dogs on the stove.

The next morning we ate, played at the playground, played around our campsite, had lunch, then packed up to go home.

Kinsey Family Farm

With the big cousins at school, we took the little cousins on a field trip to this cute farm.

Hillcrest Orchard 2013

Weekend with the Thompsons

Grandma was in town to play softball, so we had some Thompson family time.


The girls talk about Aunt Lorraine's dolls quite a bit - they love them!


Here is Aunt Lorraine helping Lera open a new monster doll.  You can see the dollhouse she made out of a bookshelf in the background.


They played here for hours, and could have played all day!


Mother and son.


We stopped for some yummy Mexican on the way home.




Here we all are the next day, getting ready to cheer Grandma on at her game!








Warming up.


Watching the game.




Enjoying Uncle Trevor.


Grandma's team won the championship!


Finishing up with a little park time.

We loved seeing everyone!