Charleston Trip

Richard went back to work last week and had to travel so Grady and I drove down to Charleston to stay with my parents. Grady slept the whole way down and back up making it very easy on me! We had a sad goodbye when we left Dad, but did have fun visiting my family and friends. We enjoyed seeing Meme, Ditdough, Uncle Ty, Aunt Neely, Katy and Addie, Mollie, Matt, Aunt Beth, Leah and baby Hannabeth! We were busy but had a blast!

Grady just before we left on our trip to Charleston.

Meme and Grady


Getting the football hold!

Chilling with Ditdough

Don't they know I can't stand up! Geez!

We were trying so hard to wake him up to eat!

Neely, Josh and Grady. Grady loves his Aunt Neely!

Uncle Ty playing with Grady


Mark, Shaun and Rebekah came to visit Grady!



Neely and Hannabeth (Matt and Mollie's little girl).

Grady and I met Katy and Addie at the Children's Museum and had a blast! Addie loved checking in on baby Grady!

Grady just had so much fun . . . sleeping! I'm sure I'll be chasing him around there before I know it!


My favorite thing was that everytime Addie entered a new room she would yell "WOW!" It was so cute and her favorite room was the grocery store. She would even find items in the wrong place and put them back where they belonged. It was so much fun watching her!

Weekend in Spartanburg

We went on our first roaptrip to Spartanburg about two weeks ago. Grady had a funfilled weekend visiting his Gmom and Papa (Richard's parents). Below are posts from the Friday night Clemson Tailgate Kickoff we went to that weekend. This post has pictures of Grady at Gmom and Papa's house and Gmom's friends that visited Grady.

Grady loves the big bean bag!

This may be Grady's first dance move!

Grady loves getting held by Gmom!

Grady loves going outside, especially sitting by Papa's pond.



Mrs. Taylor, a second mom to Richard and great friend! We were happy she and Dr. Taylor met Grady.

Aunt Melanie and Grady

Debbie and Grady

I love my Gmom and Papa!

Grady slept through all his visitors passing him around! Also, all those ladies disliked Grady's outfit so much! They said he should be in lace, something with sailboats, smocked aka something Richard doesn't like!

Clemson Game Tailgate

Richard went to the Clemson game and tailgated with our usual crowd! There was lots of good food and of course cornhole! I missed getting to go, but had fun with Grady in Spartanburg and hung out with my grandparents, aunts, sisters and their kids. I WISH I had pictures from that time with Grady's cousins, but Richard took our camera to the game. Hopefully I'll get some pictures from my sister soon and will post them later.

Matt and Avery New (hosts of the party the night before).

Zack and Addie

Smitty playing cornhole

Serious concentration!

CUTE Addie!

Drew, Mark and Bo

AWE, how cute, two lovebirds sharing a piece of chicken.

The News Tiger Tailgate

Each year the News have a big tailgate gathering at their house the Friday night before the first home game. It's always so much fun to see so many of our college friends and catch up! There are now kids everywhere and the adults may be outnumbered soon!

Katy getting some snuggles with Grady

Richard, Grady, Zack and Addie on the swing

Getting some love from Addie, my sweet God-daughter!

Miranda was so happy to meet Grady

Grady wanted his paci the whole night it seemed!

Nick and Max hamming it up!

Addie reading a song book with Zack and she sang us so many songs like "The Wheels on the Bus" and she knew all the words! TOO CUTE!

Grady's Room

Many people have asked for pictures of Grady's room, here they are.

One Month Old

I must apologize for how long it has take me to post more pictures! I didn't realize how hard it would be to get up here on the computer and actually find time to do this. Hopefully I will get quicker with it and post more often!

So here are some pictures from Grady's first month! He is growing so fast!

Richard and Grady watching football!

Richard's mom gave me this outfit. It is what Richard wore when he came home from the hospital. I had to at least put it on Grady to get a picture!

What we do almost daily . . . nap!

Just before Richard left to go to the Atlanta game. Thanks Beth and Asher for the cute Clemson outfit!

Grady does this thing with his toes where he spreads them really far apart on both feet!

Grady LOVES his baths! He usually falls asleep during them.

My favorite picture of him!

Grady's first night in his crib. I think he was around 2 1/2 weeks old then.

Cuddling with Aunt Irene!

Laughing at Uncle Gene's silly faces!

Grady was jaundiced when he came home from the hospital, so here he is getting his daily vitamin D from the skylights.

Grady was 6 days old here at his first visit to see Dr. Plonk.

Grady getting his first bottle! It is so much faster to pump and feed, so Richard gets feeding duty occasionally.