1st year in SC

We decided that we would try to start our blog with a pictoral representation of the last year in South Carolina and then start the blog fresh as a journal of sorts.  It wont be fancy or pretty but it should keep you updated at least.  So here goes.  The first few are actually from our road trip getting here.



Grandfather mountain in NC.  Simply amazing.




Some intense trail we find by the side of the road that lead to some incredible waterfalls.




Hawaii




Every possession we own upon first arrival.

Nicholas and Pearl, our new roomies!

Garret and Meagan Bradham at the Southern living festival in Charleston.  Some of the best food I have had in my lifetime in one convenient location.  I look forward to going again next year.

Also Charleston

Charleston ghost tour, creepy






Where it all started in Hotlanta, the Coca Cola Museum

Where Martin Luther King Jr preached,  Ebenezer Baptist Church

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The annual gingerbread competition in NC, seriously insane, everything is edible.

How I spend my leisure time

Charleston again for the weekend, this thing is called a joggle board.  Which was invented here as a way for the sick or elderly to get gentle exercise.  Thank goodness for modern medicine eh?

This is what our bedroom looked like for the first 6 months or so.  Tonna didnt really want me to add this but  here it is in all it's glory. And yes it is an air mattress, good thing I kicked that crack habit.

One of the cool old southern houses in a small town near where I work.

One of the other, not so cool awesome that are pretty standard in some of the areas where I work. 

Chimney Rock and lake lure.  Lake Lure is where some of the filming from Dirty Dancing took place.

A bluegrass concert in a barn in Atlanta, they have been doing this on Saturdays in the same barn for over 45 years.  It was a pretty cool southern experience.

Wathcing some old men play the guitar and mandolin

Mini trip to Boston to see Nate and Elwyn for the weekend.

                                Old Ironside

Awesome game of frisbee football at a father/son campout.  This huge, mowed, open, grass field was in the middle of a forest and was the most humid place of planet earth.

Our cabins for our family reunion in Nouvoo where not quite luxury but they go the job done.

Look who we ran into halfway across the country.

One of the original Sunstones from the temple

Mark Twains boyhood home on our way to the airport from Nouvoo.

 



 Right after our sealing in the Salt Lake Temple


Tonna and Benson                                                                         Jaclyn, Tonna and Natalie








Natasha, Christian and Jenika.

Tonna doing the electric slide at her work party, Holy Cow some of her co-workers can dance, at least she tried right, because you know I wasn't out there.

Our trip to Asheville had a literal bump in the road and we ended up with a flat tire for about an hour freezing waiting for it to be changed by the AAA guy because we couldn't get the jack to work.  The AAA guy drove in reverse about a 1/4 mile on the freeway to get to our car.

Probably the coolest thing about the Biltmore was this blacksmith, OG fo sho.

Why yes, yes that is a man playing the anvil as an instrument.

  

Ashville again at Christmas time.

 

Mom would love this store

The Biltmore in the background, the largest private home in America

A fountain we found in Houston while we were laid over for a day.  Thank you to Jason, Jillian and Lincoln for providing a good time and a place to stay.

Sledding with the family over Christmas break.

Weekend in Myrtle Beach with the Lopez family.

Joanna, Noel and Alexander

Hailey, Jefferson and Brandon in the lazy river.

Nice hats, dorks.

A weekend in Savannah, GA

We got a drunk guy to take a group picture, hence no group picture is included.

This is a famous cemetery in Savannah, if I remembered the name or felt like googling it then I would put the name here . . .

The SC state fair, and yes there was fried butter, we stayed healthy by sticking with the fried Oreos, snickers and fried cookie dough.

Alex's 1st birthday party complete with two pinatas.

So that represents about .1% of what we have been up to over the last year.  We will now try to stay a little more updated on the blog to keep Y'ALL updated.