Visit with the Henry's!

This past weekend, Phil's parents drove down from New York to visit. They got to see our house for the first time, helped us work on it, met Tucker, and took a drive up to the NC mountains. Our camera should be getting back from the shop any day, but we did have to buy a cheap one to get us through the weekend! So the pics aren't as good as they'd be with our good one, but they'll give you an idea of the fun we had!

We visited an apple orchard right off the Blue Ridge Parkway, which was fun. They took us on a hayride, told stories about the history of the area, and had lunch and live music. We decided to test Tucker out on a real excursion, and brought him along. He actually behaved VERY well, and we were extremely excited that he didn't bite the two little girls who pulled on his tail the whole time we were on the hayride! I was about to pop them, since their mom didn't seem to care!

This first picture was just me trying to take fun, pretty shots- I love split-rail fences :) The next shot is off the back of the flatbed during the hayride. It's a little blurry, but you can still tell how many apples were on the trees- I've never seen anything like it!


The orchard grows one kind of apple called a King Luscious, which can weigh over a pound! Here's a (very blurry- sorry!) picture of me and one of these HUGE apples!

Here's a shot of my happy little family :)

At one point, we left Tucker in the car to go into a store, and when we came back, we didn't see him anywhere. When we opened the door, he had curled up into a tiny little ball in the front seat, where the sunshine was :) Such a cutie!

We drove along the Parkway after our orchard visit, and while the leaves weren't changing much at the southern end of our journey, as we got closer to Grandfather Mountain, they were amazing! The pictures do not do it justice! I'm thankful Phil's parents were able to see my mountains in all their splendor :) (Along with hundreds of other people driving the parkway that day- it was wild!)

Price Lake was gorgeous:

When we got home, Tucker was worn out! He was ready to go again on Sunday, but we made him stay at home and hang out with Phil and his dad while they worked in the yard. Here's a picture of Tucker with one of his most favorite things ever- a stick. Too bad it was thrown up on my carpet about 15 minutes after this picture :(

Phil's mom is one of the best cooks ever, and she shared a ridiculously yummy recipe with me to use some of the apples we bought from the orchard. See my massive baked apples below... each one is like it's own apple pie. Quite tasty with some vanilla ice cream!

Tucker's grandparents totally spoiled him, and he didn't seem to understand what was happening if we stopped paying attention to him. Here he is, with quintessential puppy-dog eyes, trying to figure out why I'm not playing tug-of-war with him and his Frisbee :)

We took this picture this morning, as his parents were getting on the road to head home. We really enjoyed having them down here and hope they have a safe trip home! Hopefully we'll get up to NY to visit soon- preferably when there's some snow :)

I'm still waiting on pictures from our trip to Greensboro the first weekend of the month. Again, with no camera, I had to steal control of my brother's camera and proceed to take an embarrassing amount of pictures of Emma :) As soon as they have time to send them to me, I'll post them, so everyone can be assured that she's only getting cuter as she gets older :)