Way Down South in Dixie

We took another trip down to South Carolina this spring to visit lots and lots of relatives on both sides of our family. One of my grandmother's will soon be turning 90 and although we weren't there on her actual birthday we were able to celebrate Mother's Day and my birthday with her which hasn't happened since I was a kid.

We spent one of our days there with Josh's cousin and his Aunt and Uncle. It was such a wonderful visit especially as this was the first time both Josh and I had met his Aunt and Uncle. We learned a lot about that side of Josh's family and really enjoyed spending time with his cousin again. She took us all around her home town and gave us a little life history tour. Josh's Uncle was so sweet and gave Josh several mementos from his Grandfather which we are honored to have.

 

And we were able to take a side trip to Tennessee and meet up with one of Josh's brothers and his family. We had a brand new nephew to meet which was awesome and we had missed our niece so much since the last time we were together! We spent a couple days together and went to Dollywood one day and a Titanic museum the next.

 

Pigeon Forge is definitely a unique place - it's like the redneck version of Vegas! It was awesome!

 

We were able to see a little bit of the Great Smoky Mountains for the first time too and just had a fabulous time!