Baby Moon

It's been quite awhile since I was able to post a good update.  Life has been busy of late-in both good and bad ways.  But with my job wrapping up before  the holidays, I finally have some time to document all we've been doing over these last few months.  

Rich and I planned a last hoorah baby moon before we welcome little girl.  My first choice was naturally the Caribbean but unfortunately Zika was a huge threat to pregnancies in 2016.  I was really disappointed we couldn't go on a cruise as we so enjoyed for our honeymoon.  Naturally we turned to another place we've come to love: The North Carolina mountains.  Last year we took a great friends trip to the mountains, and we love celebrating our totally made up holiday of "fall fest", so it was the perfect occasion to escape coastal Virginia life and head to the NC mountains.

We looked into a few options for our trip in terms of lodging. While we loved the B and B's in the mountains, we wanted a way to bring our first daughters with us on our trip, a place that was private, and a way we could do our own cooking.  We got lucky by finding a cabin through VRBO that fit all our needs and was comparable to the hotels and B and B's we had looked into.  It had a ton of space but still was worth the price for what we could get with it.  We are located between Boone and Blowing Rock, and found the drive between those two cities to be perfect.  Located just off the Blue Ridge Parkway it was easy to navigate. 

 Sophie and Ellie both LOVED the mountains.  We were so glad we decided to bring them.  It was very clear they enjoyed the mountain crisp air. 

 The house had an amazing porch.  We spent most nights and some mornings out here taking in the sights and smells.  Sophie and Ellie always joined us of course. 

 We spent time visiting the actual Blowing Rock, as well as Grandmother Mountain Winery (Rich got to drink and I had to watch!)

It was a great trip with only one incident of trouble-we did manage to lock ourselves out of the house (the dogs were with us) and had to call a locksmith.  We got lucky to reach someone before they closed up shop!