Picture Post...

This post contains a lot of pictures. I have been behind on downloading from my camera.

Grady had his BIG Easter Egg Hunt today at Mrs. Carla's.

Last year he was not walking, so he had to crawl to look at the eggs.

He got the hang of it this year pretty quick!

Grady is waiting in line so patiently. He got to be at the front!

Trying to get his Monkey basket on his shoulder for easier carrying.

"I found one!"

I just had to dress him up in his Sunday's best for this special occasion!

At first, he would find an egg and try and open the candy inside. I explained that we would open all candy after all the eggs were found. I didn't want him to miss out on any eggs!

Still trying to open the eggs.

Today was his last day at Mrs. Carla's for 10 days!

Spring Break has officially begun!

Last night, I had a birthday dinner party at the Southern Star in Downtown Chattanooga!

It was so good!

On our way to dinner.

Casey, me, Sara-Kate, Amy, and Kay

Lisa and I

Amy monogrammed a beach towel for me to take to Disney!

Amy and Casey

Me and my boy. He said "Happy to you, Momma!" last night.

Asten got me a new Pandora bracelet! I got my first one a year and a half ago and it is all filled up! He got me the black leather one. I like it because it's different!

Casey got me the "Best Friends" bead so it is the first charm on my new bracelet.

I had a wonderful birthday celebration! I am so lucky to have such wonderful friends!

Just a couple pictures...

Spaghetti Night this week

Playing "Down, Set, Hut" with Dadda

A couple weeks ago, I made these for his actual birthday at Mrs. Carla's

I also made this for us!

Dancing in the kitchen

I'll try to do a better job of uploading to my computer so my posts won't be this long in the future. We leave in the morning for Disney!

Books and Movies...

I just finished this book:

I have read almost all of Nicholas Sparks' books. He is just an amazing author. He has written some amazing books that have been big movie successes. Including Message in a Bottle, The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John, and now this:I love comparing movies to the books I have read. The books are usually so much better, but I always want to see the movie for a better picture of the characters.

I really want to get a bookshelf so that I can display all of the books I have read. I like this one. We could put it in our bedroom with a flat screen tv above it. Isn't it cute?

Birthday and Spring Break...

The girls from work got together for "Italian Night" Friday night.

It was Lisa's turn to host.

Since my birthday is Friday, she surprised me with this:

Out of the ten of us, 8 have read all the books!

So it was kind of a treat for everyone!

Isn't it amazing?

They also got me this:

...an $85.00 giftcard to GAP!

I LOVE Gap and I love my girlfriends from work.

Work would be so different without them.

I went yesterday and bought some shorts and shirts with it!

-----DISNEY WORLD-----

We leave for Disney this Friday! It is supposed to be in the 80's while we're there! We are so excited. Grady is too! At first, I thought he would be too young to realize what was going on. I was wrong, he knows exactly who these characters are: Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck, Goofy, Tigger, and Pooh. I've been trying to familiarize him with all the Disney characters so that when he gets to meet them, he will be so excited! :)

We have reservations to eat breakfast with these guys on Tuesday morning:

Four more days of work before Spring Break! Yay!

TV...

We moved my brother, Josh home this past Saturday. Our weekend was very busy. He is finishing school and has moved home to finish up his last year.

Sunday night, Asten and I went on a date to the movies.

We saw this movie:

Last night kicked off Dancing with the Stars 2010!

I love the show and think it is so funny! This girl did the best! She is already a singer/dancer so she has a little bit of an advantage. Kate Gosselin...not so good. But hey she's a mom and this is all new to her.

Tonight is American Idol.

I still love Didi!

Happy 2nd Birthday...

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY, GRADY!

We celebrated Grady's 2nd birthday at Pump It Up on Saturday.

It has two big rooms with different inflatables for the kids to play on.

The kids had to watch a little safety video before they could go in and play. Myles doesn't look too interested! He sure loves Grady though!

Grady is still a little young to crawl up the steps and go down the slide so we had to go down with him. He had so much fun and it was so good to have all his friends and family there to celebrate!

I found a picture similar to this cake months and months ago. I just knew Grady would love it and he did! My friend, Candy from work made it and I thought it was just perfect!

And it sure was good!

The gift table

Grady and his uncle Josh. He loves Josh!

The kids loved watching/helping him open up his gifts. Bless his heart, he thought they were going to take his gifts away from him because they loved them so much! He didn't understand they just wanted to check them out.

I was very pleased with Pump It Up! They have a person designated to your party and she took care of all the set up, clean up, and everything in between!

Once we got home, I put all the presents out in his "playroom" and we let him open and play with one present at a time. He still has two or three gifts that haven't been opened. This way he has been able to enjoy each gift individually and not feel overwhelmed. ha!

Where should I start???

He loved his Thomas the train set from his Pop and Granny Rose.

He loved all of his other gifts too!

Happy Birthday, Grady!

You are growing up way too fast!

We love you so much and hope you had a wonderful 2nd birthday!

Another Snow Day...

I am so blessed to have a job that offers so many perks! Snow days are one of those perks. While I am so ready for Spring to arrive...I couldn't pass up getting excited yesterday and last night at the possibility of staying home all day with G in our PJ's and watching the snow fall.

Last night was the bachelor. I really liked Jake but wasn't too crazy about either one of his choices. After watching a couple of interviews he seems really happy with his choice of Vienna. :) He will now be on Dancing with the Stars which starts in 3 weeks! I just love nighttime tv with my hubby. While I was in school, I missed so much and I love being lazy and having a show to tune into each week.

American Idol is another favorite of ours! Three nights a week is a little much, but we love it!


Here are four of our favorites:

Casey James

Aaron Kelly

Andrew Garcia

Didi Benami

Grady's birthday party is next Saturday. I hope everyone received their invitation. See you on the 13th at 2:30! Here is a sneak peek of the theme!

Ok, off to do some more laundry before lunch time !

Hilton Head...

We went to Hilton Head and met Asten's parents there last Wednesday. We stayed until Sunday and had a wonderful time.

Here is Grady with his Nana and Papaw by the lighthouse in Harbour Town.

Me and Grady down by the water in Harbour Town.

Harbour Town Marina

One night a racoon came onto the porch of the condo and Grady got to see it.

People ride bicycles all over the island. Here we are on ours.

On Saturday, we took G to a farm that had a petting zoo.

It was called Lawton Stables and it was very nice.

Here we are looking at the Llama.
He loved the baby deer, Callie.
He took his first ride on a pony. His name was Romeo and Grady loved him!

Hilton Head is a really neat island. The landscape is so pretty and there are alligators all over the lagoons. We loved searching for them with Grady.

Can you see the alligator below?

Back to the real world today.

Only a month and a half 'till Spring Break! (just kidding...kind of)

Day two...

We slept in this morning until 9:00! We then went up to see daddy at work! We only get by his office about 2-3 times a year so it's good for them to get a chance to see how much Grady has grown. We went to Ankar's for lunch. That place has been around forever and is SO good! I had the chicken rider and it is unbelievable!


After lunch, I had a doctor's appointment and took Grady with me. That was not too smart. Ha! It was nap time and he wanted to play with EVERYTHING. It was just a well visit for me to get established with this new doctor. But, I still didn't want him to touch anything. :)


When Asten got home tonight, I went to see McCoy Kate. We leave tomorrow and I won't be able to see her for several days. I took a few pictures of her in her sweet little headband I bought her before she arrived.