Savannah

Well, I am finally back to blogging after a very busy few months. We were gone so many weekends this fall and two weeks over Christmas! Thankfully we are home for a few weekends in a row and my goal is to catch up on the blog! So, I begin with our trip to Savannah! It was back in October! WOW! It's January, so I am way behind! Jamie, Sarah, James, Richard, Grady and I loaded up in Sarah's minivan and we all went to Savannah to visit Gene and Rosanne for the weekend. We had a blast!

Grady opening his gift from Gene and Rosanne.

Gene and James

Grady loved playing fetch with Molly.

Daddy and Grady walking around. We went to a shrimp festival, but it was ending when we got there.

Family pic
Grady loved to stand up in the back seat of the minivan and play peek-a-boo with Aunt RoRo!

Uncle Gene played too!

James is such a cutie!

He didn't know what to think of this animal.

We ate dinner at this cool restaurant with a gorgeous view! The bad thing we found out the next day was that there were a million "no-see-ums" and many of us were covered in bug bites!

Rosanne and Sarah

Mama and Grady

Me and Richard

Richard and Gene

Sarah and James

Grady was laughing at Uncle Gene a lot at dinner.

There was a guy playing music and Grady loved to run around and dance.

Dancing with Daddy

Downing their drinks!

He wanted to play with all the cords.

Coloring with Uncle Gene

Uncle Gene spiked Grady's hair with water.

The ride back home...he was exhausted! He got bit in the face by Molly (you can see it between his ear and eye). Molly wanted Grady to play fetch and when Grady crawled away she bit him. Poor guy.

James loves to cuddle with his Clemson blanket.

We stopped by Grandmama Nettles' house on our way back home.

Wrestling with Daddy, my Chair and Balloons

Grady loves many things lately, but three of his favorite are wrestling with Daddy, sitting in his chair and balloons. The videos of Richard and Grady wrestling won't upload, but I'll keep trying. Here are a few pictures of him playing in his chair. He also loves balloons and says "baa-oon" whenever he sees them. Our church gave him a big smiley face balloon. We thought Grady would love it, but he was terrified of it. I guess the face on it was scary?? Just pause the music on the right when you watch the video below. The mark on his face is from when he dove down the slide. The boy is fearless!

Grady visited me at school!

Grady and Richard visited me at school back on Columbus Day since Richard had the day off work. My students were really excited to meet them. Grady was definetly being silly for them! This is his "fake laugh" face that Richard taught him to do. He thinks he's so funny when he does this.

Bebop's 89th Birthday Party

We were in Spartanburg for Bebop's 89th Birthday party! We also made a visit to Grandmother and Poppy's house. Grady had SO much fun with his cousins!

A wonderful man...my Bebop

A fraction of our family!

Grady pulling Anna's hair and Asher

Asher, Kate, Grady and Anna

Uncle Ty and Grady

Hannabeth

BJ and Grady giving each other the stiff arm!

Got your nose!

Clemson vs. TCU

Yet another wet and cold Clemson game. We just bundled up and put on a smile! Grady and I are waiting for the players to come down the Tiger walk! We hope to see Mason! Here they come!

There's Mason!

Yeah! Grady was high-fiving all the players!

Back at the Nettles' tailgate with Aunt Irene, Amanda and Sally.

Richard, Papa, Grady, Aunt Irene and Uncle Gene

Grady and Nana

Grady and Aunt Rosanne. He wanted Nana SOOOO bad!

Reeeaaaalllllyyyy bad....

Did I say really, I mean seriously he wants his Nana!

He did love Melanie's pin or it could be that she's pregnant with identical twin girls! He's already flirting!

Grady loves to play with Daddy!

So excited that Daddy is going to "get him!"

A video of Daddy getting Grady! Pause the music to the right.

As we were walking to the game Aunt Rosanne and Uncle Gene called and were able to get us box seats! YEAH! It was much easier on me since Grady could run around and be out of the bad weather.

Snuggling with Aunt Rosanne and being much nicer to her! He does love you!

Grady wanted to climb the steps over and over again. Who was I kidding by thinking I would actually get to watch the game from the box.

Me chasing Grady!

YEAH, he finally decided to take a nap! I was pushing him in the hallway for about 20 minutes. I passed about 15 other moms doing the same thing when suddenly one of the moms starts pointing at him and whispering "he's asleep, he's asleep," as if I had won a million dollars! I felt like I did because then I could go and sit down to rest for about thirty minutes before he woke up again.

Playgroup Reunion!

Grady and I miss our weekly playdates with Kristen, Jake, Lisa and Lauren, but we have been trying to get together at least twice a month at night. We had everyone (including husbands) over to our house about a month ago. It was a lot of fun watching the kids play and the ladies made a batch of carmel petit fours. I made the cake way too thick, so our cute petit fours looked more like leaning tower of Pizas! It was fun and at least the cake tasted good.

Jake taking Lauren for a spin on the race truck!

Big baby in a little basket!

The weather has been so nice and so we met Jamie, Sarah and James at our neighborhood park to hang out a few weeks ago. Grady was running all around and having a blast. Sarah and I were talking and not paying much attention to Grady (I should have been). I knew he was playing with James' stroller, but then when I looked to check on him this is what I saw! We were all laughing so hard! When got him out we saw a sign on the basket that said, "max of 5 lbs!" Haha! Grady beat that by nearly 20 lbs! Kids are so fast and get into everything...literally!

Trying to get out!

Happy we took the carrier off.

Playing with James.

Grady kept interrupting Jamie and Richard's games.