A little summer vacation.....

We had not been to Kentucky for a while so this summer it was at the top of our "MUST DO" list. May I say We had a blast! We decided to fly into Lexington this time. It truly is beautiful horse country. Another cool thing about Lexington is this castle. It was once rumored to be built by Lee Majors (The Fall Guy) an actor from the 80's, who was building it for Farrah Faucet. That was just a rumor from fairy tail land. It was really built by a wealthy developer for his new bride. They had traveled to Europe for their honeymoon. She fell in love with the castles so Mr. Martin (the wealthy developer) built her one.
The homes are so beautiful.


One thing we did this time was go to "Dale Hollow Lake" and go camping and cruise the lake. We had SOOOOOOO much fun. We had a picnic on the lake and the girls got to do some tubing. My cousins even got to ski. Emma wanted to but her feet were too small for the ski's.

After the lake we drove over to my Aunt Sue and Uncle Malcolm's house. It was so nice getting to visit with them. My Uncle is amazing cook and has many cook books from all over. My Aunt was born with a green thumb and has plants that I could never imagine so big. I really enjoyed spending time with them.

That same day we took the girls to the ferry. This is the only working free ferry in the State of Kentucky.

Here is a slide show of the fun!

Emma turns 9!!!!

This year Emma wanted an "Alice in Wonderland" themed party. It was a lot of fun putting it together and turned out super cute.

This is a candy bar we did.

Then of course the food bar.

Picture of her opening gifts with some friends. They have bathing suites on because we did a 30 foot water slide down the back hill. They had the best time with it. I think even a few adults got in on the action.

Here is the party tent prior to party.

We even did the cupcake route. Just like the movie.



Here she is on the actual date of her birthday. That is granddad sitting in the background.

Emma wanted to go to the Japanese Steak House.....this is the "cake" they brought out to her.
They even TRIED to sing Happy Birthday. It was so funny, but very thoughtful.


Emma and Grace waiting for the rice. :)

Happy Birthday Emma! I hope you have at least 90 more! Love you lots!