Additions to the Jemison House: Week at Tate

My great-grandfather, Joseph Winship, built a house at a golf course and lake in 1930. Several other people also built houses around the lake and some time, it became a closed community of people and their families to enjoy the beautiful north Georgia mountains and simple living. The golf course is far from functional (it gets mowed once a year) and the road is rough gravel. It's about a close to heaven as you can get on earth and my family has been sharing the Winship house for over 80 years. Since it's shared with so many cousins, we Carpenters get one week every summer, and last week was it.

We all arrived on Sunday at different times. Patrick and I were latest because dinner that night was our responsibility and we had to go grocery shopping. And Connor decided he needed to eat twice on the two hour trip.

Everyone at the dock

Great-aunt Graham stayed to visit with Connor and the nieces

Lots of boys!

Mermaid Lily Kate

The next day we all went to the dock together, but not before Patrick and I got pictures with our little man.

View from the front porch

This was Patrick almost every time we were at the dock. He didn't want to get too far away from Connor!

Charlotte with the mermaid from Aunt Liz.

Lily Kate and Lillian: cousins and best of friends

Liz and Charlotte

Pose!

Laura and Myers love to hold Connor

Daddy's on diaper duty

Bad brothers: Will, Parks, and Myers

On Tuesday our friends Leslie and Kevin visited, but I will leave that for a separate post. Tuesday night, Sarah and Henry came. Henry stayed longer in Chattanooga to go see a Pink Floyd cover band at Riverbend, and Sarah had to work the whole week. She gets Wednesdays off though, so she came up Tuesday night and left Thursday morning. We love having Aunt Sassy there!

Henry jumping off the tower

Connor's first (and only) time swimming. It was my only time in the water too.

Safe and dry in Daddy's arms

Sweet Uncle Will and Henry

Action shot!

In the middle of the week, Lillian got sick with a temperature. That meant Myers and Laura couldn't really do anything, or hold Connor, and I couldn't be with Lillian. It was really hard on Myers and Laura, and me too! She was feeling better by Saturday though. Thursday was cold, so Patrick and I didn't even go to the dock to go swimming. We had a good time reading and being with Connor at the house.

The family of a sick child

Lily Kate and Charlotte loving on sweet baby Connor. They can't wait for their new sister!

On Friday, my mom, Sani, got a day off of work and came down to visit with her friend Sherry. She loves being with all of her grandchildren, especially Connor, since he is still snuggly.

An attempt at capturing Sani with three of her grandchildren.

Since we are only together a couple times a year, we try to take pictures together. I wanted the children to have cute outfits that coordinated, so I got them some at Old Navy. Unfortunately, we didn't have much opportunity because Lillian was sick. However, I did get some cute pictures of Lily Kate and Charlotte and their parents. Not so much all of them together.