LEAF FESTIVAL:

Here are a few pictures from a few months ago. We went to a three day festival called LEAF (Lake Eden Art Festival). We can't wait for LEAF in October. They have the festival twice a year once in the spring and once in the fall. Hands down the best festival we have ever been to. The kids loved it. Isabelle set up shop every day at the kids village where she could pay $3 and sell her homemade items. She made rubberband yoyos out of rubberbands that Bryce collected at the bank. Isabelle made around $200 dollars.

Chimney Rock:

A few weeks back Isabelle had a Girl Scout trip at a place called Chimney Rock. It's a beautiful place to see and hike. While Isabelle was doing her thing with the girls, the rest of our family hiked up to Chimney Rock and it's waterfalls. The mountain that Chimney rock is on is the mountain where Last of the Mohicans was filmed at the end of the movie where they show the people falling off the waterfall. Down the road at Lake Lure is also an area where the movie Dirty Dancing was filmed. So there's a little FYI for all you movie lovers. The sad news about this blog is that a few weeks after we hiked to Chimney Rock, a 2 year old made his way under the fence that surrounds Chimney Rock and fell hundreds of feet to his death. After Isabelle was done we made our way down to the river and had a picnic. The kids were playing in the slow paced water, when a lady told Bryce that they had just seen a few snakes up river from where we were at and that they may be on their way down to us. We pulled the kids out of the water and with in a few seconds we had spotted a handfull of snakes. Enjoy the pictures from that day.

Bus update:

Here is a photolog of what's happening to the bus. It's been primed with white primer and we were lucky enough to get a load of nice oak flooring that was pulled from a house with flood damage. Enjoy the pictures.

Boone

Here we are..... we didn't fall off the earth, but pretty close. We are now in Boone, North Carolina. Boone is 2 hours North East of Asheville. Boone is home to the three time champion Appalatian State Football team. It's sort of like a smaller Portland, Oregon at least that's what I think, Bryce probley thinks differently. We have been in Boone since late Monday night. For those that don't know what we are doing, we are in Boone running a nice old polution making firework stand at the local Walmart.
We have put in alot of time and hard work to set up the inside and outside of the tent. We will be working the tent until July 5th. Then we will be able to go and play around Boone.
Boone is where Bryce was born. She hasn't been here since she was around Lincoln's age (5 or 6). Tuesday night we had time to load the kids and the dogs into the car and head out to see the house she lived in when she was born. She really enjoyed it.
Well it's 1:20 am here in Boone and im SO tired. I have lots of pictures to post, but need more time.