Go Big Orange!

Saturday was Tennessee's first home game!  Since Gray is still a little young to go, I decided to put him in a cute UT outfit and take some pictures!!

 Down. Set. Hike!

It's Football Time In Tennessee!!!! 

Go Vols!!!

Gray's Special Birthday

On Grayson's actual birthday (his party was the Saturday after) he had some special friends come up for a visit.  We met them for lunch at Chili's and then headed over to Wallabie's (our local bounce play place).  It was so much fun!  Once we left Wallabie's, we went to a cupcake bakery for a snack.  Poor Gray fell asleep and missed his birthday cupcake haha! A good time was had by all.

These are the sweet girls that came to visit!  

 He would get to the bottom of the slide and clap haha!

 Crawling all around! 

He always keeps his mouth open when we are there haha! 

 Aww!

Trying to make him smile

 Gray LOVES to push these red chairs around!

I would like to introduce you to someone special.

This is Kamile, Grayson's birth mother.  

Isn't she adorable...

I was so excited that she was able to come and spend Grayson's birthday with us.  It was a special day for all of us.  I am so thankful of our relationship with her and her wonderful family! We love you guys! 

Father's Day Weekend

I will be playing catch up for a few fun things that happened over the summer that I never blogged about!!

Father's Day weekend was a blast this year! Artie, Gray and I headed up to Nashville to see Audra.  She came in from Germany and I was not going to miss my chance to see her!!!  We stayed in the Opryland Hotel and had such a wonderful time together.  This was the first time I met Maggie and the first time she met Gray!!!  We met at the hotel and went right out for dinner at The Cheesecake Factory.

2nd most adorable baby in the world! ;)

The First

During dinner the babies were just munching away on bread when Audra and I started to smell something.  You know the smell...the smell of trouble.  Audra picked Maggie up and found that she had pooped all over her clothes!  Luckily we were at a mall and so Maggie got to ride around Green Hills Mall in the buff.  Let me just paint this picture for you.  Green Hills Mall has a Louis Vuitton, Tiffany's and every other high end boutique you can think of.  It is a VERY nice mall to say the least.  We kept getting the funniest looks with our naked baby!  Ha! We drove her right down to the Gymboree to pick out a cute new outfit!

Sweet Maggie at the hotel

Gray was just a bit jealous...

We walked around Opryland all night long and just talked and talked.  I miss her so much!  The next morning we headed down for breakfast.  It was so good! Once we got done with breakfast it was time to go :(  I bawled when I had to leave her but I was so excited for the next part of the trip.  

Artie picked us up at the hotel and we headed to Chattanooga for the night.  Artie wanted to take Gray to the aquarium for Father's Day!  We got to the hotel and then headed out to dinner.  Here is Gray with his "My Dad Rocks" shirt! 

Little monkey LOVED climbing all over the bed!  

He was so cute!!

The next day we got up and headed to the aquarium!  We were so excited for G to see it and to spend some time together as a family. 

Ready to go to the aquarium in his octopus jon jon!

Happy boy!! 

Gray made it about 15 minutes in the aquarium and then he fell asleep.  It is was so quiet, dark and peaceful he slept the entire time!

I loved the butterfly area!  It was so beautiful. 

 I loved these sweet little guys!  

Blogger is being weird and is not uploading it but- I have a picture of the super cute penguins as well!  

We had such a great trip.  I am so glad we were able to go and spend some time together.  

Happy Father's Day Arthur! 

13 Months Old!

*Better late than never!*

This has been a busy month for you little guy!  On your 1st birthday you learned to walk and now you are practically running all over the house.  It really is the cutest little run too-you are on your tippy toes the whole time!

This was taken at the beach where you practiced your new skill! 

You took your first trip to the beach and LOVED it!  You were so adorable crawling all over the sand.

You now have more teeth!!!  The problem is that they all wanted to come in at the same time.  Not fun.  You are now the proud owner of 4 shiny top teeth! I wish I could say I have a picture of them but that would take some kind of crazy voodoo to get you to sit still long enough for that!

You still take a bottle 3 times a day.  You turned into a ferocious grizzly bear when I cut back to 2. Momma can only handle so much at one time sweet boy.  Also- I really really really love feeding you in the rocking chair and will miss it so much when there are no more bottles to be given.  So no hurry on my part.

You love to eat and let us know real quick that it is meal time.  Daddy says that your Momma is the same way but I disagree!  This month we gave you goldfish crackers for the first time and now you scream when you see the box.  I found you one day trying to dump out the box!  

You love the dogs.  You squeal with delight when you see them in the morning.  You run and chase after them.  You even try to climb on the big one.  You say "gog" all day long!  To be honest...we are not encouraging you to say "dog" because "gog" is so darn cute.

You are a ham!  We will ask you a question and instead of saying "No" you will say "Nah"!  Haha   

You love to play peek a boo and love when we jump out and scare you.  You will just cackle!

You are a bit more of a little boy and a little less of a baby. Each day gets better and better sweet boy.