Alabama

My Mom, Parker & I took a short trip to our family home in Alabama. My Mom had been working really hard at work so she wanted to take a trip. We usually go to every 4th of July, but I had not been to the house in 2 years. The first year I was in Kentucky & the second year I had just had Parker. So I invited myself!

The temperature in the morning when we would wake up. It was so nice to sit on the porch & drink our coffee.

This was the temperaturein the evening. I really didn`t want to leave that to come home to 90 plus....ugh.

The house is actually my great-great-grandparents, the Brannan's. But my great-grandmother (Granny Blackburn), Irene Blackburn, ending up getting it and raising my papaw & his siblings. I didn`t know her, I think she died when I was a couple months old.

The house is over 100 years old. We come up here every summer, the past two years were the first times I have ever missed. It is located in a small town in south-west Alabama.

The potato house, we don`t go in there. It is scary, dark, & pretty sure there are snakes in there!

This is the shed, which has been turned into sleeping quarters. So many of us stay there now when we come that we had to branch out from the house!

The house is sometimes called the "4th of July" house. The reason we go every summer is for the Blackburn Family Reunion (My Mother's Father's Family). It is always the weekend following the 4th of July. My family always goes up a week before and gets the house ready and sets up for the reunion. The theme is always America! haha My mom had us paint these one year when I was in highschool, they are old church pews. I have actually spent more 4th of Julys in Alabama then in my hometown.

The dirt road leading toward the main road.

The dirt road leading to our family graveyard, Brannan Cemetery. Many of my "great" relatives are buried there. My mother's mother, Mamaw, is also buried there. We walked down there & put some flowers on her grave. When I was little it scared me soooo much that there was a graveyard down the road. Some of the headstones are very old. My 2nd oldest sister's name is Brannan. Some of the headstones have Brannan really big across it, kind of creepy!

View of our neighbor's horses in the morning

A HUGE Pecan tree in our yard. Pecan trees are my favorite trees!

Where we sat every morning & evening

I snapped this one as the local school bus drove by. I just liked the photo.

Parker did great the whole trip! I didn`t feel like hauling his baby bath so we just stuck him in the kitchen sink come bath time!