We went to Maryville, TN in March of 2025 for the wedding shower for our nephew and new niece. We searched VRBO for a place to stay around the area. We looked at all kinds of accommodations. We looked at homes and apartments looking for what appealed to us. We ended up choosing Blue Bella…
Category: Family
2025: A Year of Memorable Travels
2025 has been a great year for traveling! We started in January with a trip to Guntersville, AL. We went to look for the bald eagles. I had seen lots of people talking about them on social media. We thought we found one, but after doing more research it was a crane hunkered down from…
Family Adventures in Tellico Plains: Food and Fun
In July, 2024 we made a trip to visit our nephew in Tennessee. We decided this trip to stay in Tellico Plains. Mileage wise it is not far from him. However, it took a little time to get to his apartment because we were in the mountains. We stayed in a cute cabin that we…
Exploring South Pittsburg: The Lodge Cast Iron Museum
Back in July, we were coming back from the wedding of our nephew and new niece. We made a detour on our way home. From the Chattanooga area, instead of getting on I-59 South, we stayed on I-24. We stopped in South Pittsburg, TN at the Lodge Cast Iron Museum and store. They are open…
My hearing story
I feel like there is a stigma around females with hearing loss. I’ve dealt with it for the past 15 years or so. There are women in my family history that had hearing loss and just lived with it. I tried that too for awhile. My Dad had profound hearing loss too. I don’t know…
My Birthday & Wedding Weekend
This year for my birthday we chose a new restaurant that we had not been to before, we went to Vino in English Village in Mountain Brook. Jeff made reservations and we met there after work, yes I had to work on my birthday. Traffic was awful going into Mountain Brook that night, there was…
We are Grandparents again!
You know that saying “ask me about my grandkids”, well if you’ve talked to us or follow us on social media then you already know that we love our grandbabies. We are Grandparents to 2 beautiful grandchildren. Our baby girl, Jane Elizabeth Jones was born on November 17, 2024 and weighed 6lbs 8oz and was…
He’s growing up!!
This weekend our Grandson has decided that we are dropping our funny names. He’ll be 3 in 2 weeks. I’ve called him Judah Woodah and Jeff Pepaw Womp-ah and I was Mina Bobeana. Or as he said Pepaw Wawa and Mi Bobean. This weekend we were told that we are now JUST Pepaw and JUST…
Cruze Farms – Knoxville, TN
Back during the fall on one of our trips to visit our nephew in Tennessee we had a day of fun. We started the day by playing a game of putt-putt followed by a trip for homemade ice cream. If you’ve been around for awhile you know if there is a place serving homemade ice-cream…
We’re Grandparents!!
If you talk to us at any time or follow us on social media you probably already know that we are now GRANDPARENTS to the sweetest Grandson ever! Judah Charles Jones was born February 9, 2022. He weighed 5 lbs 14 oz and was 19 1/2” long. He is the cutest baby ever and such…