Happy Easter!

Christ Our Lord is Risen Today! Alleluia!

John 11:25-26

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die."

Thank you Jesus for life everlasting!

We had a wonderful Easter in Spartanburg. We were sad to not be able to go to the church service with Richard's family, but we were afraid Grady would get sick all over the sanctuary and didn't think he was well enough to be in the nursery. We did listen to the service and dressed up for pictures. It was great to have the whole Nettles family together for the weekend! What a beautiful day it was to celebrate Jesus' resurrection! Grady checking out what the Easter Bunny brought him.

Lots of goodies. The Easter Bunny always brought me a toothbrush so I could clean my teeth after all the candy, so I wasn't surprised when the Easter Bunny left Grady some teething gel!

Laughing at Uncle Jamie!

He did not want to look at the camera. Those flowers were way too interesting. I can't wait until he's old enough to understand and pay attention to me telling him the Jesus story behind the dogwood flower that my Mama taught me.

Dad and Grady

Loving the swing

The family group picture did not turn out well because everyone was looking in different directions, so here are the couple pictures.

Gene, Rosanne and Molly

Jamie, Sarah (and James)

Irene and Mason

Richard, Daddy Gene, Gene, and Jamie

Irene, Sarah, Alise and Rosanne

Nana, Grady and Papa

Grady and Uncle Jamie's Clemson helmet from when he was a kid.

You know a baby can't touch something without licking it!

Future Tiger!

Changed into comfy clothes and playing with Mason.

Orange and White Game

We went to Spartanburg for Easter weekend. We had already had an eventful week. Grady got a stomach bug on Wednesday and we thought he was recovered when we left Friday night for Spartanburg. We got there and Grady was fine, but I got the stomach bug that night. Saturday morning everyone went to the Orange and White Clemson game to see Mason play and I stayed at home to sleep and recover. They had a great time and I wish I could have been there! The second they pulled into the driveway that afternoon Grady got sick again and has been fighting reflux ever since. He's better with that, but is now fighting an ear infection. Hopefully he will be completely better by this weekend for my birthday!

Dad and Grady in Clemson

Grady up in the tree

Nana, Grady and Papa
Touching the rock! They said Grady was very chilled out at the game.

Taking a nap with Nana

Aunt Sarah (and cousin James) and Uncle Jamie

Great-Grandaddy Sharpe was on this Cotton Bowl team!

A long day, but very enjoyable!

Mollie and Hannabeth

When Grady and I went to visit my sister Beth we made a stop on the way there to see my cousin Mollie. She was at her mom's house on spring break and I had not seen her daughter Hannabeth since she was about a week old! She is adorable! I also enjoyed getting to see my Aunt Beth and cousin Leah again!

Trying to get a picture of them, but Grady kept crawling away.

Leah held his legs so he couldn't get away!

Leah with Hannabeth and Grady.

A visit to see the Roe cousins!

This week Richard had to travel for work so I packed Grady up and we went to visit my sister, Beth, for a few days. Grady had a blast playing with his cousins, Kate, Asher and Anna. Beth and I had a great time catching up and enjoyed a couple of lazy days just sitting around in pj's and relaxing (especially during nap and bed time). I got some really cute videos of the kids playing together! I have to say I don't know how Beth does it with three kids, but she does! I learned a lot while I was there and have definetly written down some of the discipline tips I observed! Thanks Beth and I'm sure in a few months I'll be calling to get more! Make sure you pause the music so you can hear the videos at the end!

Anna crawled into the pack-n-lay with Grady! She was very excited when she made it in!

Kate invited us all to her bedroom for a party! Here she is with her snacks and we watched the movie, The Little Rascals (at least part of it).
Grady and Anna at the party and Grady loves Belle and all dogs!
Aunt Beth with Anna and Grady at the party!

Kate feeding Grady his bottle before he went to bed.

Kate and Asher pulled out their tailgate chairs and decided to watch an imaginary basketball game. They are so funny and imaginative!

Kate on her motorcycle!

Asher driving Anna around on his Gator!

Some really cute pictures of Kate up in the treehouse.

Asher on Daddy's tractor.

Anna playing a little basketball.

Grady has constant rugburn on his elbows the last month from all his army crawling!

Playing with his feet.

Grady and Asher dancing to that famous basketball/football song you hear at games. They did this for nearly 20 minutes and we had to keep replaying the song for Asher. It's his favorite.

Grady and Asher playing together again. So cute!

Grady playing with Anna. He gives her a big kiss!

Grady and Asher playing together again. They had so much fun! Grady loved it when Asher would baby talk back and forth with him!

Day Trip to Spartanburg

A few days ago Grady and I took a day trip to Spartanburg. There was a Neely Family wedding shower for my cousin Kent and his fiance, Kait. I love going to anything with my extended family since we don't get together as often as we used to. I have 42 first cousins and then there are the aunts, uncles, grandparents, married-in cousins and then all the new babies that keep coming! It is always a good time. I also wanted to take Grady to see my Dad's parents while I was in town and we made a stop by Nana and Papa's house too! Grady didn't nap much, but somehow was happy the whole day! YEAH!

Grabbing Poppy's mustache!He played with Grandmother almost the whole time. If she left the room he kept looking for her and was smiling at her all day.

My cousin Casey and Grady meeting for the first time.

Meme and Grady . . . he loved her red flowers!

BJ and Grady. Such cute boys!

Kent and Kait - the happy couple!

Bebop and Nana

The new toys Nana (Richard's mom, yes he has two Nana's) got him. He loved them.

We took Grady outside and Nana put his toes in the water. He didn't like how cold it was. This is such a sweet picture of the two of them.

Flowers for Mama!

This past Friday some flowers arrived at the house for me! I was very excited and thought how sweet it was for Richard to do that so unexpectedly and no big occassion. Well, I opened the card and they weren't from Richard, they were from Grady! They are beautiful! Richard said they were called Easter lilies. Here is a picture of the flowers, the card and Grady and me. From my sweet boy! Richard said he had to translate the "dadadadaaa, babababaaa."

Way too up close of me, but hard to get good pics when Grady is constantly moving! At least this one wasn't blurry.