I only have TWO words to describe my latest FREAK OUT..

O U T I E..... B E L L Y B U T T O N ! ! !

or is that 3 words?


UGH!!!!

Sweet Kayley Lane

While we were up checking out the house on our Saturday, we stopped by Whit and Doug's to see sweet Kayley Lane and somehow we ended up babysitting while we were there... I guess mom and dad needed a few minutes away from the house! :)

I had been up the stairs about 3 times and when I came back down from putting Kayley down for her nap, she just couldn't get comfortable. So - a few minutes later - I began my process of getting my fat butt off the couch to go see about her and my sweet husband came to the rescue. Uncle Chris headed right upstairs and rocked his sweet little Kayley Lane to sleep for about 20 minutes. I could hear him talking to her over the monitor and my heart just melted... he's going to be such a wonderful daddy!

Here are some pix of Kayley Lane with us... she is looking more and more like her dad every day!

KAYLEY GOT HER FIRST PAIR OF CROCS :) UNCLE CHRIS IS HELPING HER SHOW THEM OFF! :)

KAYLEY LANE LOVES HER CROCS! If her fingers weren't in her mouth, you'd here her saying - THANKS MARMIE AND PAPA! :)

OUR HOME!

Our house is FINALLY beginning to feel like home :) Drywall is up and all the rooms actually look like rooms! VERY exciting!

We brought the dogs out on Saturday for them to see everything but there were about 20 "Jose's" there working on the house and about half of them were walking around on stilts. I could ONLY imagine what was going to happen if we brought the dogs in... leash wraps around stilts, Jack jumps up and barks at one, Jose falls to the ground and bumps into a wall that Juan was working on and Juan falls down 2 stories and breaks his head open...

Yes - so Jack and Buddie were left in the explorer to bark like crazy for 20 minutes while Chris and I walked through the house.

Here are some pictures!

Standing upstairs - looking down into kitchen/breakfast room.

Our staircase.

Our family room.

Our kitchen!

Back of the house.

I have a PERSON inside of me!!!!!

Chris and I get these babycenter.com updates every week on what our little Parker is up to. Last night, while reading the 27th week update, Chris said, "Cool", and walked out of the room. I was like "HOLD UP DUDE! Get your butt back in here!" I made him look at the picture of what his son looks like inside me right now and I asked him, "Do you REALLY get what this is? Do you REALLY read these and REALLY understand that that is your SON - a PERSON - that WE made - forming inside of YOUR WIFE'S body!?!?!? Do you even understand how cool and incredible this is?!?!

I get a long stare and a smile and a "Of course I do, honey." And then he returns to playing Tiger Woods Golf....

Ugh - Men.



I can't believe how outrageously outnumbered I am going to be pretty soon. Part of me feels like I will always be a little bit left out because you have to admit - guys and girls are just DIFFERENT. Even our boy DOGS are different than those GIRL dogs I know... they're just.... BOYS!!

Anyway - after reading last night's baby update - it just really hit me in a different way. Some people say I will have these little "Ah ha" moments all throughout my pregnancy but something was different about last night's moment. I have a precious person inside of me who has completely different fingerprints on his tiny little hands that are in no way similar to any one else's fingerprints. He has a bone structure, hair, a face, a body that is completely unique to everyone else's in this world. And the man that I love more than anything else and I made him... I just don't get how ANYONE cannot believe in God after witnessing something like this. Only something so perfect and wonderful can come from the One who created us. Absolutely amazing.



I haven't ever really posted the photos of what I get in my email every week - just cause it can be a little graphic... but I just have to today. THIS is what is inside my tummy!!!






Here is what my update email told us last night:



"This week, your baby weighs almost 2 pounds and is about 14 1/2 inches long with his legs extended. He's sleeping and waking at regular intervals, opening and closing his eyes, and perhaps even sucking his fingers. With more brain tissue developing, your baby's brain is very active now. While his lungs are still immature, they would be capable of functioning — with a lot of medical help — if he were born now. Chalk up any tiny rhythmic movements you may be feeling to a case of baby hiccups, which may be common from now on. Each episode usually lasts only a few moments, and they don't bother him, so just relax and enjoy the tickle."

Until next time - Happy Tickling :)

Unwanted Friends...

So - it has taken me awhile to even blog about this because I am SO totally freaked out by the freakiness that is this subject. UGH! If any of you saw me in person on Sunday or Monday then you know all about this... sorry to make you live through it again!

So - to begin - Buddie (our Jack Russell) has been REALLY obsessed with something in our laundry closet the past few weeks. It's been very strange. He's always back there sniffing around and staring at the wall... blah blah blah. So - on Saturday night - Chris and I got home from running errands (we got a rug runner from Homegoods and bath towels for our new master bathroom! yay! that's for another post...) Buddie didn't even come and greet us at the front door. "OKAY," Chris says. "THIS IS RIDICULOUS!" So Chris goes into the laundry room to find Buddie snooping around the washing machine. Chris decides to take EVERYTHING out (except the washer and dryer of course) and let Buddie get behind it to prove that nothing was there. WELL! Buddie joyfully goes right back to a small corner that we couldn't see very well and sticks his little tiny nose in a nicely chewed through hole in the wall! WHAT! So Chris gets the flashlight and peeks in and finds ALL SORTS of stuff in the hole. Some of my chewed up clothing that they could have ONLY GOTTEN from our laundry basket was in there. Now - what TOTALLY grosses me out is that I have had about 10-15 pieces of clothing come out of our dryer ALL chewed up with holes in them since about the week after Christmas. We blamed the dryer at first, then started blaming the dogs (because it was ONLY my clothes), then when we started keeping the dogs away from our laundry it was still happening. I NEVER thought it could be what it was. So - anyway - Chris goes to get the TRAP that is big enough to kill a small child and sets it up in the laundry closet - next to the chewed up hole. He closes the closet up and stuffs towels and other stuff underneath the closet SO NOTHING could get out of there - UNFORTUNATELY nothing could get back in either! UGH!

So we go to relax on the couch and lo and behold - Buddie begins to go NUTS in the office (same room as the laundry closet). Chris jumps up and tells me to STAY PUT on the couch. He goes in there and shuts the door and then yells at me to come stuff something underneath the office door and hold it closed. Well - Buddie and Chris were in the office for about 20 minutes. All I heard were a LOT of gasps from Chris and a LOT of "UGH"s from Chris and a LOT of scraping of Buddie's nails on the floor and barking from him, too. I also hear our lovely broom being SLAMMED against ALL SORTS of stuff that I'm sure are all broken now. (I haven't spent enough time in the office since then to even notice.)

So - about the time I hear some quietness, the office door opens about 1/2 an inch and OUT comes the RAT in all of its 8 inch tail glory - it runs across my foot - and RUNS into our bathroom. OH. MY. GOSH. If there was ever a time that I thought I may be actually harming Parker because of my condition - that was it. I have NEVER freaked out as much as I was at that moment. Chris and Buddie run into the bathroom and stuff something under the door and after about 5 minutes - Chris swears there is no rat in there. So - out come Chris and Buddie and Buddie RUNS back into the office. They go at it again then Buddie chases the rat OUT of the office and into - YES - our BEDROOM! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chris and Buddie run in the bedroom, close the door, stuff a towel underneath it and a few minutes later, Chris asks me how important our picture frame with our engagement photo in it is to me. I TOLD HIM "TO HELL WITH THE STUPID FRAME - KILL THE STUPID RAT!"........ THAT IS SO OBVIOUSLY ON MY NIGHT STAND WHICH MEANS IT'S SO OBVIOUSLY ABOUT 2 FEET AWAY FROM WHERE I REST MY SWEET LITTLE HEAD EVERY NIGHT - BY THE WAY! So I hear a SLAM BAM then Buddie freaking out then Chris freaking out... this lasted about 3 minutes... just slamming and bamming and barking and yells from Chris. Then.... QUIET.

NOTHING.

NO SOUND.

NO BARKING.

NO YELLING.

I was sure for about 2 seconds that this rat had eaten my dog and my husband. Then - Chris speaks up finally and announces that our intruder has been killed by our sweet little precious dog, Buddie! UGH! Actually - his exact words were "I think Buddie bit the poop out of him!" Literally - Buddie bit the stupid thing so hard that his poop was all squeezed out of him... GROSS!

So - Chris comes out and tries to calm me down - he packs up the intruder - and cleans up the mess he made and deeps cleans everything the rat touched with sanitizer. After he was sure I had totally calmed down, Chris decides it's time for a shower for him and Buddie. They have been working VERY hard and I am convinced that Buddie has invisible rat guts all over him. So - into the bathroom Buddie and Chris go - and I call my mom at midnight to wake her up and tell her everything I have just been through.

Well - about 30 minutes later - Chris comes out of the bathroom with the broom and a bag with a very large grey-ish black-ish creature in it. WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!! Apparently, the rat that WAS in the bathroom was hiding underneath his towel which was hanging on our shower curtain rod. OKAY - did you know that a rat could CLIMB a shower curtain! YUCK! So Chris goes to take his towel off of the shower curtain rod and DOWN COMES THE RAT IN ALL IT'S GLORY AND NEARLY FALLS ON CHRIS. Now - how is this for a husband who has totally admitted that he is scared to death of these huge creatures. He knew I would freak out again if I knew there was another - so while I was on the phone - Chris snuck out of the bathroom, got the broom and a bag and went back in. With Buddie's help they cornered the stupid thing in a corner after about 20 minutes of trying to quietly kill the stupid thing in the shower (THIS RAT COULD CLIMB UP ANYTHING BY THE WAY!) they get it to where Chris could fit his ginormous foot and he kills the rat by kicking it and the broom against the wall. GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, Saturday night, beginning at 12:30 a.m. we begin to deep clean the house and pack up anything and everything to find out where else these guys could be coming from. Well - of course the only other place we find that they could be coming in is in MY CLOTHES CLOSET! Eww! There were all sorts of rat droppings on (YES ON) my clothes and at the bottom of my closet where a little opening in the wall is - are some more pieces of my clothing that the little creatures could have only gotten from our laundry basket and TAKEN through the walls in the house and into the bottom of my closet to chew lots of holes in. EEEEEEK!

So - Sunday - Chris stayed home all afternoon and night and sealed up any part of any wall in the house that is bigger than the size of a quarter (which is apparently all a huge rat needs to fit through a wall) and we felt PRETTY good that they were out . Buddie stays on patrol all day and all night - this poor dog is exhausted. But he hasn't freaked out at any particular spot... but he's been very good about checking every room in the house about every 10 or so minutes to make sure no one is inside.

EXCEPT for this morning. Buddie seems SURE that there was something in or behind my dresser. I left Chris to pull out the dresser and all my drawers out from the dresser and I went to work - PRAYING that it is NOT what I think it is.

So - I very well may be moving in with my sister in Cumming for the next 2 months. I have sworn to Chris that if we actually SEE another one of these creatures or find ANY MORE droppings from them INSIDE, then I am SO out of there. He can stay there by himself until our house in Cumming is done. But there is NO WAY I am peacefully co-existing with rats INSIDE my home.

Anyway - I DO NOT have any pictures to share as I did my best to NOT look at any carcass or anything related to the creatures. However, I will post of picture of our sweet little Buddie who was SO brave and SO good to "do away with" these very much so UNWANTED guests in our home. Just imagine Buddie saying, "DON'T MESS WITH ME!" You can see it right?

95 days! What!?!?!?!?!?!

My baby counter just reminded me today that I only have 95 - NINE-FIVE - days until little Parker joins our family! Holy crap people! (Just a disclaimer -I HATE this expression but they were the FIRST words out of my mouth this morning when I saw the counter!)

I found this random cartoon today and thought it was hilarious! So something I would probably say! ;) Just kidding... or am I?

So - besides feeling TOTALLY overwhelmed with the solid fact that I will have a BABY in less than 100 days - I am feeling pretty well. Parker's big, fat foot has taken a rest out of my rib cage for a few days which has given me some much needed relief in my right side. Parker is now about 14 inches long - OR LONGER if he takes after his daddy! - and he weighs nearly 2 pounds - OR MORE if he takes after my baby weight! YIKES!

Falling asleep hasn't been easy lately due to the fact that as soon as I lay down at night, Parker likes to go CRAZY! Last night, I had been in bed for a few hours before Chris came to bed and I guess hearing his daddy's voice got him ALL excited! I put Chris' hand on my belly and it was SO funny how much he was moving! Chris was freaking out! SO - a few minutes later after he didn't stop, we turned on the light to see if we could actually see him move for the first time and boy did we ever! The only thing is that every time we would see him move, I would start laughing SO HARD and couldn't stop and it would take me another 2-3 minutes to be still enough to where we could see him move again. It is SO strange to see your belly move around without you making it.

So - my baby updater thing says that the baby's ears nerves are all pretty much formed and that he can very easily hear me and Chris throughout the day. The article encouraged us to talk to him - which is kind of weird. Chris talked to him last night about what he learned in class - it was about wood and concrete and something... Park wasn't too interested. I found this cartoon today and thought it was totally funny :) I can TOTALLY see Chris doing this after Parker is here!

Anyway - after we all settled down and Parker went back to sleep - we all had a very nice and peaceful night - which I am VERY much taking advantage of now because I know I only have APPROXIMATELY 94 MORE nights of that!

Last Minute Trip to the Nease's!

Last night, we made sort of last minute plans to go WAY out to the Nease's house! We had such a great time. Chris normally has class ALL the time so it seems like it's always just me that is able to go hang out with our friends - but last night Chris didn't have class - YAY - so we got to hang out together with our fun friends from church!

Jarrett made some amazing burgers and hot dogs and Christy made some incredible fries and tots and I made my FAMOUS Crownies - Mmmmm - best dessert ever!

Buster made an appearance as well and we all had such a great time watching Ralph (Christy and Jarrett's lab) play with Buster.

Me and Chris playing with SWEET BUSTER!

JEN WITH BUSTER! - She's in LOVE!

Jen, Hollie, Buster, me and Christy - and Ralph below!

THE HIXSON FAMILY!!! Pete, Addie, Hope, Buster and Hollie!

Pete and Hollie's sweet daughter - Addie and Ralph!

HEY BUST!

Ralph and Buster playing!

NURSERY NESTING!!!

So - before we knew we were going to have a boy - we had planned to decorate the nursery in black and white toille - well - I don't think it's going to happen. It was just going to look too "girly".

So - we have decided on the ever-so-popular Chocolate Brown and Blue theme! I found some really cute bedding WELL within our budget and now I am just really struggling with what I want to do as far as furniture/wall color, etc and would LOVE some ideas.

Here are some pictures of the bedding we bought. We have all the items that are on the bed, the window valance, the little blue and brown thing hanging on the wall above the crib that is holding the little toys and the diaper stacker that is hanging on the dresser knob. And thanks to the GiveAway I won on Heidi's blog a few months ago, I'll have a super cute little picture holder thing to hang on the wall as well! Now - we only have one window in the nursery, but our bedding set came with 2 valences - so I could possibly do something creative with the other valance - any ideas?

This is the glider/ottoman we LOVE - it's at Babies R Us - but if I find a similar one for cheaper on craigslist I'll get it there.

I have this dresser that I used in college and we are going to plan to use as the changing table. It is white and we are using it for the very important reason: it's ours... and it's sturdy... and it allows us to spend a little more money to make sure we have a quality crib and quality rocker/glider chair. The only cribs and gliders I really like are dark brown though... is it OK to mix white and brown furniture? Some super stylish friends have suggested painting the dresser blue or something else but my husband says "absolutely not". So that's not an option. I'm not totally opposed to having a white crib, but I after seeing them in all the stores - they just look so "girly". HOWEVER - I have found NUMEROUS white cribs on craigslist that are well within our budget and I haven't found ANY nice dark brown cribs on craigslist. So if I get enough support from y'all I may end up going with a white crib... I need help and want to know what y'all think!

Now - here is my dilemma. I am really attracted to the options of having really dark chocolate brown walls in the nursery. I've seen some different photos of some and it just makes the room look so cozy and warm. We have SO much sunlight throughout our entire new house and so I think a darker room would be a really nice touch. And seeing that this is the only room we are really "decorating" for the next few years due to our BUDGET, I'd like something different than khaki walls that our entire house will be when we move in. . Some friends have suggested painting the ceiling blue to bring in some contrast colors to the room - but hubby says "No" to painting our ceilings (we are paying our builder to paint all our ceilings white in the house.)

I need some help - seriously. I know that nearly 100 people check out my blog every few days so no excuses - leave me some comments people!

More on Buster :)

I got the "go ahead" from Jen to post a picture of her "experiences" with Buster Jolly Hixson last night! :) I think she decided they are too funny not to post!!! This dog was seriously all over her! And don't just think we were ALLOWING this behavior from this sweet little innocent puppy dog. He got in trouble many times- but I guess that Jen's sweet scent was just too much for him to deny :)

This is Buster with the right leg....

Then with the left leg...

Then back to the right leg :)

Jen - I think this is just PROOF that you need to get a dog! You don't need Brian's support... he'll understand :)

BUSTER!!!!!

Last night, I got off from work a little late and Chris wasn't home yet from school so I decided to go and see my sweet little Buster (Pete and Hollie's new PUPPY!) I am absolutely in love with this puppy and can't WAIT to watch it grow up to be such a good little dog.

As I'm typing, I'm noticing all the little cuts and scrapes he so sweetly left me with from his teeny razor sharp little teeth... he just wanted to make sure I didn't forget him after I left. I will definitely not :) However, I have to say that I am a little jealous because Buster may REALLY love Jen much more than he loves me... she must have some sort of special doggie lovin' scent that I don't have. ;) I won't post the pictures that prove this little infatuation that Buster had with Jen - at Jen's request ;)

Jen and Buster :)


Hollie and her sweet new little man :) Also - I just say a huge THANK YOU to Hollie for showing me her pregnancy pictures last night. After seeing what she gained - and what she looks like now - it's nice to know I can get my body back! Hopefully! I may need a pep talk, Hollie! :)

MISTER BUSTER JOLLY!

HEY THERE!

ME AND SWEET BUSTER!

Bricks in the Dark - License Plates - CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS!

I went up to Cumming last night to see my sister, brother in law and my sweet little niece, Kayley Lane. Kayley is absolutely, preciously beautiful and so, so sweet. I got to hear her coo a little bit, too! It's crazy how excited we all got every time she'd make a noise :) Babies are great entertainment!

After some YUMMY Jim and Nick's barbecue (mouth watering now just thinking about the fried green tomatoes!) I headed over to our new house - since I was in the neighborhood - to see if our brick had been put up yet! And it had! I was super excited and even got out to take some pictures! After being out there for a few minutes, I realized exactly how incredibly SPOOKY it was out there! There are only 2 houses up on our street now - and about 5 being built - so you can imagine it's pretty quiet. I honestly didn't know that kind of quiet existed within 30 miles of Atlanta. I heard every crackling of the gravel, I heard some sort of coyote howling in the distance and nothing else. Yes - I am moving to the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.... so sorry - in advance - to anyone who comes to visit us from Smyrna! Here is our house - in the dark. The wood hasn't been painted yet - it will be a darker khaki/tan color.

So - apparently - cops ALL AROUND the A.T.L. last night were bored as heck. As I was on my way to our new house, I looked up and saw the wonderfully reassuring red and blue lights behind me.... UGH!

I was on the phone and honestly wasn't really paying attention to how fast I was going... but I was pretty sure I was no where near 50 mph. I was going pretty slow thinking that there may be deer running across the road. So, I pull over and unbutton my jacket so he'll see I'm pregnant and maybe have some pity on a crazy pregnant lady.

Mr. Police Office comes up to my window and shines a SUPER bright light in my eyes and proceeds to tell me that my license plate lights were out. "OH!" was my response! "I didn't even know that those existed!" He laughed brought up some small talk for a few minutes and he asked why I was "up in this here neck of the woods" (his exact words). I looked up and realized I was in the turning lane for our new neighborhood and told him my husband and I just bought a house in this neighborhood! He was like - "Oh, yeah? This first house here in (name of the hood we were sitting outside of)?" Then, the stupidness hit me... "Oh, whoopsie!" I said. "No, we don't live in this neighborhood - it's one a few more miles down the road." Disclaimer: I PROMISE THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME AT NIGHT!

I was sure he was going to ask me to step out of the car to take a sobriety test so I quickly rebounded with telling him we were in the process of building our house and our brick was supposed to come up today so I was just coming to see it - sounding like a total blonde, city girl who had no idea where her house was "up here in this neck of the woods". I also put my hand on my bulging belly so he'd know I was pregnant and no way drunk. It couldn't hurt, right?

UGH. So anyway - he tells me to go buy some new lights for my license plate and I drive off. On my way home from our house, I call Chris who proceeds to tell me that HE ALSO got pulled over last night in Smyrna! And guess what for??????? HIS LICENSE PLATE LIGHTS WERE OUT! I guess Chris and I need to keep better tabs on our license plate lights - since that is obviously very important these days....

OKAY OKAY OKAY on to my NEXT topic of venting - So - it's definitely the middle of January now - a good 3 weeks after Christmas - and I I think it's totally OK if there are a few Christmas lights up around that people just haven't had time to take down yet. That doesn't really bother me. HOWEVER - it does bother me just bit that some people down the road still LIGHT THEIRS UP every single night. And not only do they light up - bright blue, bright green, bright red - but they BLINK non stop! And some of the lights on one side of the house have fallen off the edge of the roof - so they are hanging and drooping down one part of the house. Okay - I know it's a pain to take down lights and it doesn't bother me that much - but why do you insist on turning them on EVERY NIGHT? I am just thankful that they don't live within eye shot of our house - we just pass their house every night when we turn onto our street. I feel for the neighbors around them that have to see their lovely display of blinking colors every evening...

BUT! We do have a great little house across the street from us. The only encounter we have ever had with them is saying hello to them LAST Christmas (yes, in 2007) when we walked out of our house on Christmas morning and one of the guys who lives there was out in the front yard SHAVING his head - and his hair was going all over the road and our yard. We said, "Merry Christmas" and that is the ONLY time we have ever spoken to them. Well - this Christmas - they decided to put up some lovely blow up animals. These things just aren't my favorite thing. I can MAYBE understand if you have little kids and they insist on putting these awfully tacky things up every year - I may even give in to little Parker's precious brown eyes (just like his dad's I'm hoping) if he definitely wants a blow up snow man in our front yard one day - (but his eyes will have to be REALLY preciously sweet to do that!) But the people living in this house are TWO SINGLE GROWN MEN... and if we know for a fact that they each have at least one girlfriend so there is no excuse here. HOWEVER - this is getting a little ridiculous. Taking lights down requires a ladder, maybe a tool of some sort, and someone to help you ball them up... it can be a chore for sure. TAKING DOWN A RIDICULOUS BLOW UP SANTA - RIDING A POLAR BEAR NO LESS - HOLDING HANDS WITH A PENGUIN NO LESS would take about 2 seconds to deflate. About 2 minutes to fold up into a box. And 5 minutes to put somewhere in storage. Chris tried to take a picture of it last night from our front door - but couldn't really get the whole picture in there. So as I was pulling out of our driveway this morning, I quickly rolled down my passenger window and snapped a quick photo. I just had to get some support here. It's ridiculous, right? RIGHT?!!?

Now - anyone in my neighborhood probably does not love the gorgeous DEAD flowers in our flower boxes - but having 5 dead flowers in a flower box is NO MATCH AT ALL for this wonderful display of Christmas spirit. I would not be surprised if Chris goes ahead and buys Parker his first BB Gun and practices using it in the next few weeks if these things are still up... We're moving in a few months anyway! :)

Quickie Weekend...

Chris and I had a fun - but quick - weekend in Waycross. I SO miss the days when Chris and I were in college and we would go home to Waycross and would spend days on days there. Sometimes a week or more! WHAT HAPPENED to those days?!?!?! Ever since I graduated, our Waycross trips have been reduced down to getting there late Friday night and leaving on Sunday. Well - this week was a little better as I was able to have Monday off from work since I am working this coming up Saturday. But all day Monday was spent in the car on the way home... Anyway - it was still short and too fast. We can never have enough time away from Atlanta :)



Anyway - we were all home for the FUN festivities that were Leigh Ann's shower. My sister in law, Lan, is due 6 weeks ahead of me and so it's been really neat to share this experience with her. Lan is also pregnant with another Hull boy. Griffin and Parker will grow up so close in age... I am really looking forward to seeing them together throughout life!

Lan also makes me feel MUCH better because unlike my crazy un-human-like alien sister, Whitney, she has gained more than 12 lbs in her pregnancy... she and I are on the save weight gain route... even though it STINKS it's nice to have someone to complain with! Maybe Lan and I are related and my sister Whitney was adopted... Hmmmm...



Anyway - here are some pictures of our fun weekend!

Amy, Chris' sister - Campbell, her daughter - and Carol, Chris' mom.


Aunt Hillary with Campbell!

Papa, Chris' dad with Camo.

Jeff, Chris' brother and his wife, Lan. Me and Chris.

Jeff's FAVORITE gifts Lan got at her shower. He can't to dress Griffin up in these!

Campbell Anne loved playing with the balls on Carol's table.

Scott, Chris' youngest brother, Camo and his sweet girlfriend Kristen.

Amy, Chris' older sister. Lan and Me. I think I need to start facing the front like Lan in pictures... she looks MUCH better than I do!