Saturday, February 14, 2009

New Year's in Tennessee with family

We were able to spend a couple of days in Tennessee with several members of the Bryan side of the family. We rented this lovely home in Townsend, TN from our good friends the Hobbs. It was beautiful and perfect for all of us. We had a gorgeous view of the mountains.
Mom brought all her coordinatingly (my word) wrapped gifts.
Brown paper packages tied up with strings.... just a few of my favorite things. :)
The twins and Bryan slept upstairs.
I thought this was a really good picture of my dear brother in law, Daryl H. Uh, you could use it for your profile picture on Facebook, Daryl. ;)

The boys got to go to Cade's Cove.

These guys were just happy to have made it through Thanksgiving and Christmas...safe for another year. :)
Then we were able to get together with all of Andrew's cousins at Ryan's in Pigeon Forge. I have many more pictures but I will probably only post a few. We had such a good time, but we missed Esther and Derek Miller and their three kids, Lincoln and Lyn Bryan and their two kids and Heather and Phillip Dickinson and their four kids. Otherwise we were ALL there. It was really an awesome visit!
Grandmother (Gigi) and all of the cousins that were there.
Back row: Susan Scarbrough Hunt, Laura Bryan Hausman, Cheryl Scarbrough Vernon, Andrew Bryan, Jane Roush Allard: Front row: Martha Scarbrough Sams, Grandmother Scarbrough, Christa Scarbrough Fulton. (Missing - Lincoln Bryan, Esther Roush Miller, Heather Bryan Dickinson)

All of us.

Thank the Lord for allowing us to all be together again.

7 comments:

The Dickinsons said...

Thanks, Vonnie for the sweet comments.

I enjoyed seeing this post of all the neat pics from Tennessee and our family. Thank you for posting them! We really wish we could have been there. Maybe we can do it again next year. =)

Hope y'all have had a Happy Valentine's Day! =)

Love and miss y'all! =)

The Dickinsons said...

Forgot to say that that is a nice pic of Daryl and would be a NICE FB profile pic. Hint, Hint. HA! (Poor guy he is tooo swamped right now to add another thing in his life. But...maybe one of these days he'll join us =)

Moma's gifts looked beautiful as usual. Loved the cabin y'all stayed in, very nice.

Like your new background, very cute.

Kim M. said...

That looks like a blast! I love Tennessee.

sankey family said...

So glad you got to be with both sides of your family while you were out for this visit! We love you!

Anonymous said...

Dearest Andrew and Vonnie,
Thanks again SO MUCH for all you all did to make those few days (hours really) happen for us there in TN... but MOST OF ALL for Grandmother Scarbrough! The BESTeST Grandmother EVER! We loved getting to be together... so many happy memories! Love, Laura
P.S. LOVED THAT PIC OF MY GORGEOUS MAN!!! Yippee!!

Beth Stetler said...

What a great family!

Kimberly said...

Somehow I had missed seeing these...enjoyed catching up on your blog. Looked like a wonderful time together!