Family trip to Gatlinburg

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We had a great family trip to Gatlinburg recently.  This was our first time traveling with Bristol.  The kids all did wonderful in the car.  We stayed at a chalet with all of our family.  The boys enjoyed the pool table (a little too much, including Bennett throwing a pool ball), hockey table and hot tub.  We had a great view.  It was rainy and cold most of the time which was a bummer but we still had a great time.  It takes a while to do anything with 13 adults, 2 toddlers and 2 babies.  We played Apples to Apples at night.  We went to the Dixie Stampede.  The kids loved it.  Bennett was too focused to eat though.  He was a little scared of the animals but he enjoyed it anyways, he fell asleep at the end of the show though.  Brayden loved the food and danced the whole time.  He liked the pigs in the show! We had Old Time Photos made, which made me so happy to have of our kids since I have some as me as a baby and growing up.  We looked for bears as usual and saw 3 the first time. The next day I saw 2 with my Aunt and Uncle.  Then the other people saw a few the time we didnt go.  On the last morning a bear actually got in our trash bin and pooped behind our cars.  Our family loves to go looking for bears while in TN.  The last night Brian gave Brayden a bite of his "Brown Bear" candy and made a comment that it looked like bear poop, well Brayden heard him say that and said " Bear Poop Bear Poop" while spitting it all out and then he gagged and threw up a few times all while saying "poo poo".  LOL! I guess he didnt like that idea.  Fun memories were made.