The Heard Life: Vacation

Wow, it has been a while since my last post. We went out of town the weekend before Easter and are just now getting caught up. We have had showings for our house 4 out of the last 5 days, and even have an open house tomorrow, so we have been busy.

Well, we took Richard's second week of paternity leave last week (we had saved it to use as a vacation/house looking trip). Our vacation did not feel much like a vacation though. Although we got to spend time with friends and family, which was wonderful, it was still a very stressful week.

We started off on Friday afternoon (April 15th) and headed to Knoxville, TN to see our sweet friends Ramey and Brent and their new baby boy, Hampton! It was SO good for all ~~four~~ six of us to be together! Here's a few pictures from our overnight stay in Knoxville. Ramey has some better pictures of the babies on her camera, so I will add those when she posts or sends them.

The first time they met...

You can't really tell here since the picture is so blurry, but Hampton looks so much like his dad!

The guys hanging out once again...just this time with babies. Notice Hampton in the chair on the floor, Kirksey in Richard's lap, bottle on the end-table, and the Baby Einstein video on the tv screen. Do you think they pictured this would be the case the first time we all were able to get together again?

Brent snapped this picture and I think it scared Kirksey!

Take two

All of us after brunch just before we got back on the road.

Our next stop was Memphis, TN to look for houses. We looked at about 30 houses over the 3 days we were in Memphis. We saw everything from brand new, really nice houses to kinda creepy houses, and even one that looked like it could be on the show "Hoarders". Poor little Kirksey got toted around for 2 of those days. She did well, for a baby in a car seat ALL day long. I felt bad for her though. We definitely wore her out and she did not wake up one time that Monday night. Long story short, we did find one that we liked and we made an offer on it, but that house is not going to work out. So the looking continues.

(Some of these pictures were taken with phones, so they aren't the best quality.)

Mimi and Papa came to watch Kirksey while we were looking at houses on Sunday.

Emmy, Libby, Neely, and Cassie (Neely's friend) also came for a quick visit on Sunday.

Kirksey liked the piano at Madelyn's house!

Our next stop was Birmingham for a night. We had dinner with Mammaw, Michael, and my parents. It was a short stay in Birmingham this time, but it was really good to see everyone.

Mammaw rocking Kirksey

We had to get a picture of Kirksey and Maci together

Poor thing so worn out

Then we headed on to Brooksville, MS for the rest of the week through Easter. Other than me being completely tired and stressed over the house situation, I really enjoyed being back in the country! I got to ride on the mule again (which Kirksey loved) and even fished a little. I did catch one, but it jumped off at the last second (which might have had something to do with me not paying attention while fishing and screaming when it startled me that I had something on the end of my line) I guess I need more practice fishing, ha!

Emmy and Aunt Bee hanging out with Kirksey