Easter baskets, another wedding, and Amelia Island's Shrimp Festival!

So, yet again, I am grateful for blogs, but not when they won't let you move your pictures around! So, as not to dwell on that...this post tells the story of our weekend backwards, but maybe all for the best!

We actually started the weekend celebrating Easter with Mimi and Papa since they couldn't be here on the actual day and yet again we found a great place to eat, Lulu's! Then, we got up Saturday morning and headed to St. Simon's Island to celebrate with one of my life long friends, Stephanie, get married at the beautiful Ocean Lodge! After much laughing and catching up with friends and my parents, we headed home but not before making one more stop! That is where this story (in pictures) begins...or ends!

Amelia Island Shrimp Festival, our last stop of the weekend!
Just one of the cool art exhibits downtown

Kissing on my little man!

The festival was pretty neat, and we didn't get any pictures with our good friends, Bryan and Dana, who told us about it, maybe next year with baby Foltice too!

I liked this shot Jason took!

Mommy and Grayson

Daddy and Grayson (love those smiles!)

Note, it is hard, if not impossible to get a group shot when the wind is blowing...this is the closest one I got! These are some of my best friends from Carrollton, I grew up with these beautiful (inside and out) girls! Ava and Grayson were born in the same month and I think Grayson was excited at yet another potential girlfriend for the future...

Dana's mother and Ava & my mom and Grayson... grandmother's getting to show off their little ones!

Marcia is like a mother to me and it was awesome to see her with Grayson...

Everyone has to touch Grayson's hair, those soft curls!

My dad and Mrs. Deese, the bride's mom...all of the Carrollton crowd was there!

The happy couple!

I just loved this shot of Stephanie and her dad as they made their way down the isle.

Ahh, a family picture...of course as I have mentioned before the art of catching all three of us looking at the camera may be likended to catching a wild animal! Oh, my mom MADE Grayson's outfit and my aunt did the monogramming...they just spew creativity!!!

So his mouth is full of food, but I had to have this picture with a hat on...read on to find out why!

Grayson NEVER wears a hat for long, and we were all shocked when he wore this hat the entire time as he, Mimi, and Papa opened up the basket!

How do we get into this thing?

Okay Mimi, what can we try now? Cherry flavored puffs, yum!

Well, we ended the blog with the first part of the weekend and I think it might be fitting...Grandparents are such a blessing in so many ways, the Easter baskets filled with goodies are wonderful...the great food, amazing...but what makes my heard melt is seeing my mom and dad with my son, making memories!

What a week!

While I don't have any pictures from this past week to share, I thought I would still update everyone!

Grayson, Abe, Jason, and I all went to South Georgia for a couple of days last week. We stayed with Grayson's Grandma Sha and Thomas...we had a great time!

We got to spend some time with Gigi (Grayson's Great Grandma) and had a delicious meal with her, Grayson was quite the fan of the mashed potatoes. We walked at a beautiful park in Thomasville, went to Grandma Sha's school she taught at, and spent a day with Hannan!

Grayson and his cousin, Hannan, are close in age and they were too cute playing together. Grandma Sha and I even let them take a bath, too cute! Grayson was preoccupied with the faucet, which made me nervous. He tends to find something to investigate and will continually go back to it over and over again...

Hannan cracked me up in the tub, he would throw all the wash cloths out of the tub soaking me and Grandma Sha. The harder I laughed the faster he would throw them out as I put them back in, I couldn't stop laughing! I had a wonderful day with both the boys, but what was really neat was that when one of them starting crawling off somewhere the other one followed! It is going to be fun seeing them grow up together.

One thing we learned...Jason and I can not have a TV that sits on the ground or at a height where Grayson can reach...He was constantly pushing Grandma Sha's TV on and off, he just loves glowing buttons!!!!

When we got back into town, we decided Saturday would be a family day out! We started early and spent the morning at the beach until lunchtime. Grayson loved the water, even though it was cold, he and daddy went out and didn't want to come back! He actually stayed under his sun shade when he wasn't in the water or strolling down the beach, which made me happy because while he had sunscreen on, it was my first time putting it on my squirmy little boy.

After a nap, Grayson seemed ready to go and so off we went to our neighborhood's pool. Once again, Grayson loved the water and the only problem was when we wanted to get him out, he wanted in that pool the whole time!!! It was an awesome day and we all slept great that night!

We can't wait until this weekend, Mimi and Papa are coming to visit and then we are all going to a wedding in St. Simons. More to come, hope everyone is doing great!

Happy 1st Birthday Cousin Hannan!

Mandi, Flossie, and baby Lizzie...ADORABLE!
What are these two up to?

Not sure what is going on with our blog, but it won't let me move pictures to show everyone how the day progressed...sad! That's okay, because we do have pictures and while they are in no particular order you can see just how special the day was for everyone!!! We hope Hannan had a wonderful day, because we sure did!!

Uncle Jim and Becky
Daddy and Uncle Jay
I can say we TRIED to do a family picture...usually one of us is making a funny face...

Daddy and Grayson, my boys, smoochies to you both!

Hannan got some really cool gifts, too many to count!! He was too cute as the man of the hour!

Hannan was so sweet, he shared his new radio flyer wagon with Grayson.

This one I just imagine them talking to each other...

Grayson with his Great Uncle Tim, Grayson just loved this toy and sat forever in Uncle Tim's lap playing with it.

Grayson with his Great Aunt Brenda Sue, Hannan with his Aunt Laurie...bubbles are a hit!

Grayson and Grandma Sha, look at his face...that little lip!

Grayson with Gigi...okay, this face he is making cracks me up! He sure is showing off those top teeth!

One view of the puppy themed birthday party, too cute, they had everything just perfect!

Uncle Jim and the boys

Grayson loved all of Hannan's toys, this is the night before the big day, once again Hannan was so sweet to share!

Hannan's Great Aunt Becky was so sweet to hold Grayson, and she got him to sleep while the party continued on!

I told you Hannan shares! He even gave Grayson a taste of his cake!

I love this one, and we love this family!!!

Abbey was just so sweet and helpful, she and Grayson were buddies!

Hannan just loved his cake!

Left to right: Jay, Jim, Uncle Tim, Papa Jay, and Jason! What a handsome group...

As you can see we had quite a day, there are so many more pictures and I am sure Lela and Jay will post some on their blog too! They were the best host and hostess as usual!

A wonderful start to a great weekend!

Grayson's Uncle Jim came to visit and he brought Becky to the beach, and we loved getting to spend some time with them! While the beach was WINDY, we all laughed, Jason took pictures (that sweetie!), and Grayson played all day long! Of course we had to use their visit to get some great seafood too, it's official that our little family loves to eat...if you've seen Grayson at any meal you know what I mean!

Who knew a bucket and some shovels would be such a hit?!

Now...off to Georgia to celebrate Grayson's cousin's birthday! Let the fun continue...