Together at Last!

Recently we met up with all of our college friends at Blackwell's farm in Newberry. The highlight of the trip was that Peachy and Porter would be here from Texas with their new son, Rhett. We were all so excited to see them and meet Rhett! We didn't want our time to end and had a blast catching up with everyone. I especially loved getting to have more time with our God-daughter, Addie. Conversations with 2 1/2 year olds are always hilarious!

Peachy, Rhett, Grady and I staying warm by the fire!

Porter, Rhett, Richard and Grady (we had to go with camo for the farm)

Trying to get a few pictures of Grady on the tractor

Hayride anyone?

Grady and Rhett checking each other out

Peachy and Rhett

Katy (baby Harper), Grady and Lindsey

Grady thought Morgan was hilarious

Those silly boys with their flapping cheeks!

Morgan, Lindsey, me and Peachy

Mark, Lee and Blackwell

Grady and Rhett playing

Lindsey feeling Baby Harper moving. We can't wait to meet her!

All the girls plus Addie, Grady and Rhett

Will and Grady

Sweet Anna!

Addie reading stories to babydoll Morgan. She was putting Morgan down for a nap on the airmattress. This was too cute!

All the boys!

Grady and Ashley

Richard and me (and Zack)!

Fun times at the farm!

Our adorable God-daughter, Addie!

Cousin Troy

Aunt Bonnie and cousin Troy came over recently to visit. We took the boys for a ride in the wagon to the playground. Of course I left my camera at home, so I only have pictures of them playing in the den. Grady just loves Troy and lately he smiles and laughs at every little kid or baby he sees! He's definetly a social baby! Hmmmm, wonder who he could get that from! haha!

Grady's hair is a little greasy here from the suntan lotion!

Troy looking adorable!

Troy is always so sweet and gives Grady toys to play with when he can't reach anything.

7 Months Old

Grady turned 7 months old recently and I was able to get some really cute pictures of him. He continues to grow so fast and is doing new things every day! He is now making sounds other than dadadada! He says bababa, ppppp, fffff and etc. He is rolling everywhere and can army crawl in a circle and backwards, but not forward. We're working on that. He is loving his baby food, we just have to hold his right hand while he eats so that he doesn't suck him thumb between every bite!

So I switched to this cute outfit from my Mama and he wouldn't even look at the camera. He just wanted to eat his toes! So I called Richard over to help me get him to smile.

Oh hey Dad! Is that you up on there!

Yeah! I'll look at you, but not Mama!

This is the reaction he gave me when Richard stood behind me! So cute!

Dad is SO funny! Too bad I didn't have someone else here to take pictures of what Richard was doing to make him laugh!

My Buddy

Grady has a buddy that he loves to play with! His name is Jake and you've probably seen a few pictures of them together. They are both becoming more interested in each other and it's so much fun to watch them interact. Jake is already crawling! He's so strong and Grady is hopefully taking some notes from him during our playtimes. Kristen (Jake's mom) and I enjoy our time together as well and are becoming closer friends.

Grady and Jake in the wagon from Nana and Papa! We love it! We went on a walk to the swings! Jake smiling in this one . . . maybe I should photoshop these two pics together so I can have them both looking and smiling in the same picture!

Grady swinging away! He loved it!

On the ride back home Grady was pretty exhausted from the fun and he fell asleep! This was too cute to not take a picture! He is just like me . . . can sleep ANYWHERE, ANYTIME!

He did the sleepy nodding off thing you see really tired people do and ended up like this. He kept falling forward and then sitting back up. Of course the thumb never left his mouth the entire time!

Kristen, Don and Jake came over for dinner one night and the boys had fun playing together. You can see Jake up on all fours here . . . he had crawled over to see what was in the toy basket.

Happy (Late) Valentine's Day!

Grady wanted to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day! We hope you all had a great one! We took these pictures on Valentine's Day, but of course I am just now getting around to posting them. We had a great night! Richard cooked me a fried shrimp dinner at home and it was delicious!!!

Our handsome boy!

He's excited! Mama said she got a really good picture, so we should be done with the photo shoot! right???

No, your not? Well I'll just hang out and enjoy my thumb as usual!

Do I really have to take more pictures? Okay, here's my first fake smile! Get used to it Mama because I'm a BOY!

Visit from Aunt Irene, Nana and Papa

Nana and Papa came and spent the night with us this past Saturday. We went out to eat dinner at Firebirds and all Grady wanted to do was give Nana kisses (slobber on her) all night! He would grunt/complain if he couldn't reach her face. This is just one of the pictures we got. This is a new thing that his Dad taught him. So cute, but here he looks like he is about to attack! A picture Richard's mom got of Grady back in November, but it's too funny not to post!

Aunt Irene came recently to visit Grady and he just loved getting rocked to sleep by her.

Uncle Jamie's Birthday

Uncle Jamie turned 29 at the beginning of the month and Richard's parents came in town to celebrate! Aunt Sarah begged Nancy/Nana to please make Jamie a train cake. It was his favorite as a kid growing up. Nana came to our house and set it up so that when Sarah and Jamie got here it would be a surprise for Jamie. Below are pictures from the night. Jamie surprised and excited about his train cake!

Aunt Sarah and Uncle Jamie (baby James too)!

Dad, Papa, Uncle Jamie and Grady

Nana and Grady