you're the only ten i see

ok ok, please don't be hatin'. i have a great excuse for not blogging for the last month or so. no internet is a great excuse right? a lot has happened and i don't even know where to start. so how about i fill you in on our fantastic, wet vacation to tennessee. it rained the entire time, but we still happened to enjoy ourselves quite a bit, and spend some quality time with our friends. as far as the title goes, that is what quinn said probably 21 times while we were in tennessee. as old as it got, i guess i'm glad he thinks i'm a ten.

let me warn you, i am going to post a gazillion pictures, which are mainly for karen (who has very discretely let me know that she wants to see pictures of her grand baby. if you call messages on my phone and facebook discrete). we love you karen.

at first we held jayden, trying to keep him clean, but after a while we decided what the heeyo, let the boy live. he played in the cold water, built a sand castle with daddy, and ate as much sand as his mouth would hold.

that says BROWN OHANA if you couldn't tell. brown family in hawaiian.

he was SO dirty! and look at that mouth full of sand! i think this is the moment where he decided that he didn't exactly care for it. too bad we didn't get a picture of quinn stripping jayden naked and washing him off in the cold lake water. i think that the people next to us thought we were abusing our child, but i wasn't about to put that dirty boy in our clean car. poor cute kid.

i love jayden's smile in this picture.

i had to put this picture in just to show how big my baby boy is getting. actually, he looks older than he is in this picture because of the way he is sitting, but it still makes me sad.

there was a gorgeous hike down to the waterfalls where it took you to "the wet zone".

we were completely soaked and dripping wet. once again, jayden was a trooper.

this background was so pretty that we....i mean quinn, wanted a family picture, so after this picture quinn set the camera on the little bridge, pushed the timer button, and ran up to meet me. he reached jayden and i, we smiled, but to no camera. yes, i told him this would happen, our camera fell in the water. a few choice words came out (of me, i guess i should say) and i see quinn run as fast as he can down the hill, luckily to find that the camera hadn't been swept away in the river. we let it air out and it works fine now, but we didn't get any pictures of this waterfall, which was way cooler than the first. oh well, maybe next year. and maybe quinn will learn his lesson......who are we kidding.

at the timeshare's pool, livin' the life.

he was so tired and cold, but so dang cute.

i love how miserable jayden looks in this picture.

and that was our fun little trip to tennessee. i promise i won't go so long without posting....karen. joe's graduation pictures are up next. (how impressive is that, i even know what i'm posting next!)