A TRIP TO THE SMOKIES

For our Spring Break vacation, we headed to Gatlinburg, TN.  Honestly, what drew us to this location was the indoor water park in one of the city’s resorts.  Long story short, the water park was regrettable, but the experience of Gatlinburg was awesome.

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It’s hard to believe that our Manu is 8 years-old. They grow too fast!

Normally, we like to take a family vacation to celebrate Manu’s birthday and mine.  This break came at an opportune time — our family needed to get away and spend some quality time together.  We  drove down to TN for the week to get away from the business and stress of our lives in Michigan.  One of the best parts of this trip was that we were able to bring along our faithful friend Bentley.

The trip consisted of lots of swimming, great family game nights and video nights, hiking on Sabbath, and trips to local spots — including WonderWorks.  We were also able to visit the nation’s best pancake spot.  It’s so jamming that it only accepts cash money!  It does live up to its hype, though.

Judy and I also spent some time running inventory of our family and talking about plans for the future.  We read together and discussed strategies to ensure that our boys are growing spiritually, mentally, physically, and emotionally while they played in the pool.

To our surprise, we discovered partway through our vacation that Familee was in town.  The parents enjoyed a good conversation over a meal while the kids watched nature videos.

We were sad when our vacation time ended, but refreshed heading back home with renewed strength and vigor to tackle life in ministry.

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Manu and Judy do a rope course together while Israel gets conned into ride a G-Force thingy that almost made him throw up! The other two boys are watching daddy get owned by 3Gs

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Bentley — our loyal friend — enjoying the water
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A Ramos Family tradition — swimming with the boys
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Talking about our kids and praying that they are faithful to God no matter what
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Family game night
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Pancakes!
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Manu’s favorite meal — spaghetti!
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A proud mother and lucky son
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Can you guess the animals?
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Daddy playing against Mama
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Ty wanted to take a picture by the fox
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A mom and her boys by an upside down building
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Taking a picture with the waterfall in the background during our Sabbath hike
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There’s a one-in-a-million chance of finding the blue ball among the rest.
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Playing around during our family hike
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Ty Armstrong

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