On Valentine’s Day each year Trey gets to celebrate his half-birthday. This year we even got him a present (Legos of course) and a mini-cake with 5 1/2 candles on it.

We had our little party, just the three of us, in a cabin we had for a few days in Gatlinburg on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It was peaceful and secluded at the top of a hill with a beautiful view of the mountains. You wouldn’t even know that you were in Gatlinburg – not a kitchy sign in sight.

And I’ve got to give a shout out to the folks at CabinsUSAGatlinburg.com through which we rented the cabin. Hands down the best cabin rental service in the Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge area in the Smokies. They made they process quick & easy and even gave us coupons to local attractions (which we took advantage of and saved some $$$). The cabin was clean and even better than we expected from the cabin profile online. Oh, and it was stocked with TONS of firewood which made Heidi very, very happy having a roaring fire every night.