Cassidy attends Victoria's Birthday Party

Nothing is more fun than birthdays at the park. Cassidy went to a friend's (Victoria) birthday party at Warrior's State Park and had a great time. The slide picture is fuzzy because it is a "bumpy" slide. It has rollers that you bump down. Warriors Park has turned into one of the kids favorite destination because of the new park they built for the kids. On Saturdays' you can't get parking, so many people are there.

It's Fun Fest time! Everyone is very busy this week. Last night the kids went to the outdoor big screen movie down on Ft Henry Dr. Mattie and Timmy have gone to the Natural Tunnel State Park, Swimming, Fun Expedition, had pizza parties and a lot of other activities with camp and Fun Fest. Timmy especially enjoyed the football camp at DB. They have received T shirts, bags, candy and a lot of other Fun Fest items. The parade was great, Cassidy and Mattie both gathered bags of candy and loved the horses. This weekend is the balloon glow and lift off and fireworks.

Wm Pauls Bakery Business Journal Article

The Business Journal of TN published a two page article on the bakery this week.

Father's Day 2009 was a quiet day. After a few hours at the bakery making muffins and sourdough starters, we loaded everyone up and went out to Boone Lake. Everyone had a good time just swimming and relaxing. Cassidy got to use her "Dora" float, Mattie and Timmy got to show off doing flips off the rope. Paul got his yearly sunburn, and dozed by the water.

Last week when we had the day off on sunday, we decided to ditch the bakery and head down to Gatlinburg. We wandered around for a while, the kids ate chocolate covered crickets, everyone had one of those giant corn dogs from the arcade and of course Kasey got her fudge.

Grand Opening Day

Ribbon Cutting for Wm Paul's Bakery
June 16,2009
Tuesday was the big day. The newest edition to Downtown Kingsport, Wm Paul's Bakery is a family owned business that has been in operation for four weeks.
Paul was so nervous, having forty people in a 600 square foot building was a little tight. He has opened many hotels and such but this was the first business of his own. The Chamber of Commerce, the press and many local patrons were on hand for the ceremonies. Mama Jo and Grandaddy came up from Knoxville (Grandaddy loved the biscuits and gravy) and assited with the cutting.

Dean's List

Guess who made the dean's list two semesters in a row? Great Job TJ!

Long Lost Family

I am slipping, I missed posting a very important event. Two weeks ago we were lucky enough to have a visit from Paul's cousins. They are the children of Mama Jo's sister "Ocky". Robert, Mark and Karen came out from California to see everyone. Robert's daughter Samantha came with them. She and Cassidy hit it right off. They played outside the bakery, painting little ceramics that Kasey bought them. Robert and Mark are retired Navy. They were very interested in the bakery and all the different equipment. They had fun teasing Paul about things in his childhood they remembered. Karen was enchanting, she was very sweet to everyone and is such a kind person. Grandaddy drove them up and got to see the bakery in action for training. It was great to have them here and we hope they can come again. The pictures are of everyone that came.