Family Pictures

Some friends of ours recently did a little photo shoot of our family. We love all 300 of the photos!! These are just a few of our favorites!!

Somebody was a getting a little tired.

Thank you Kevin and Amy!!!

Visit with Mimi and Papa

Last week, Grayson and I got to go to Clinton to spend some time with Mimi and Papa while Chad went to Texas for work. We had a great visit and everyone was so excited to see Grayson.
Grayson with Daddymac and Grandmama

Grayson and Mimi

Papa and Grayson
We even went to Columbia to visit with Lara and Leslie and their new babies. It was so great to catch up!

Look what he can do!!

This is Grayson's newest trick. Chad and I awoke one morning to find Grayson sitting straight up in his bed. He was totally content just sitting there and playing with his little crib toys.
Since that day, he has not stopped! I lay him down for naps and he just pops right up--as if he's ready to play. I have had to remove all the toys from his crib because he will sit in his bed for 2 hours and play rather than napping. He is a mess!! Of course we had to lower the crib mattress and now he has access to the rails. So his next mission is to pull up and stand with the help of the rails. He's getting really close!
Here he is snacking on a cracker before supper. My baby is eating crackers!! I just think that makes him look so big!!

We ended up having a very rainy Halloween night. However, we made the most of it and went to have dinner with some friends from church. After dinner, we walked around the neighborhood for about 2 hours for the kids to trick or treat. Grayson slept the whole time in his stroller. He was dressed in his giraffe outfit but I didn't get any pictures because my camera died and it was pretty much raining the whole time--so they wouldn't have been that great anyway. Despite the rain it was a much needed night out and we really enjoyed the fellowship.

The past week

Our church had a little festival last Sunday and Grayson won the costume contest for the cutest!! I have to admit, he made a precious giraffe--and he stayed in his costume the whole night!


Cheering on the tigers!! In the middle of the game, we had to rush Chad to the Urgent Care to get stitches in his hand. But don't worry, when we got home, there were still 15 minutes left in the game--so we got to see the end to an amazing game!! Go tigers!!
The weather has been crazy!! We had a cold spell and pulled out all the hats and mittens (which were too little!!)-- and now we're having beautiful, warm, fall weather. I wish it would stay like this for a while!!
Grayson now loves to stand (with help) and he's getting really good at crawling backwards!! He also loves to talk now. He's saying "dadadadada" alot and it is sooo cute!!

7 months

Grayson has finally figured out to smile at the camera. As soon as I pulled it out, he gave me this precious smile!

Don't those pajamas look so comfy?

Playing on mommy and daddy's bed (this gave me a chance to clean out closets!)

Enjoying the Fall decorations

Grayson was telling Dakota a very interesting story--Dakota seemed to understand every word. They are enjoying the heated floors--When we installed these 2 years ago, I was so excited to one day have a little baby crawling all over those warm floors.


cute new pajamas from Uncle William and Aunt Bonnie

Mountain Weekend

This weekend we took a trip to Pigeon Forge, TN with the family. We had a great time catching up with everyone--it's not often that we can all be together.

Grayson enjoyed himself and got lots of attention!


Check out the trashcans behind us. The night before, a huge bear (probably over 300 lbs.) came onto the porch and drug one of the trashcans down to the ground behind the house. We watched in amazement as the bear tore into our trash! We had never seen a bear that large (and so close!) --it topped off the whole mountain experience!