It's Monday (after a long weekend!)

We started off our LONG weekend by making our rounds at Mimi Janet's work and Auntie Lindsay's work.  It was a gloomy rainy day so it gave us something to do besides sit in the house. 

Both my mom and sister in law Lindsay work in Greensboro (30 min away) so we grabbed lunch while we were out too!

Here is Grayson helping Mimi with some last minuet work before lunchtime

 I don't know what it is but Grayson now has this obsession with water fountains and I just hate it. I mean think about all the people that use them and all the germs. YUCK, but he looks so cute drinking from them!

Here he is working at Auntie Lindsay's work.  I hope he didn't think he was going there just to visit!

 Look at him typing away!

Saturday evening we went over to Eric's moms house to color Easter egss and grill out steaks.  Typically Grayson goes to bed pretty early because he is one grouchy kid when he is tired but he stayed up until 9:30 or so (which is late to him).  When we started coloring egg around his bed time he started to have a little fit because he wanted to drink the water from the measuring cup?!

Strange, yes! But, we let him do it.

He was pretty happy after we let him.  You would think we never give him anything to drink.

This is Eric's mom and Grayson coloring their plastic Easter egg.  Grayson kept spilling the real egg coloring so we gave him clear water to color his plastic eggs in. HA! I don't think is cared too much!

HAPPY EASTER!

I looked at this picture and his basket looks so pitiful compared to last year.  I promise he got more in his basket then what this picture shows. The easter bunny also left bunny cookies for breakfast!

Sunday we went to my moms for the Easter dinner. It was so yummy I think I could have sat their and ate for hours! After we ate we went outside because it was a beautiful day!

Isn't he just the cutest thing!

He went for a ride on his gator and chased all the birds out of the yard!

Overall we had a great LONG weekend and as always it wasn't LONG enough!

I thought I would post one more picture to tie up the weekend....

I just love this little guy to pieces!! It's a rare occassion when I get a "good" picture with this little man becuase typically I am the one with the camera but this time Daddy snapped one of Grayson and I!



Safaris, Bugs, and Growing Babies!

This past weekend we traveled to Ohio to celebrate my youngest nephews 1st birthday!

How was our eight and a half hour road trip?  Well we decided to leave Thursday night after I got off work about 5:00 and drive through the night and Grayson's bedtime!  Let me start off by saying whoever invented DVD players for the car was simply brilliant!!  Grayson was up for the first 4 hours of the trip snacking and watching movies with me and then about 9:00 p.m. we put on some comfy clothes, drank some milk, and he we both went to bed and slept the next 4 hours!!  My intentions were to stop at least one more time to change him and stretch our legs but I fell asleep with him and never woke up until we were about 20 minuets from my dads house! HA!  He woke up while we were unpacking the car for about 1-2 hours but then went back to bed and slept until 8:30!!  I shouldn't brag too much because normally when we go on vacation he does not sleep good!!  I don't have any pictures of us while we were in the car and honestly I don't even know if you would be able to see us in the pictures our car was packed full!!

Friday, while Eric and Grayson spent the day with Papa Rick, I ran party errands with my sister and I must  say we had a pretty good time even though she was stressed about getting everything done.  She actually took a break from party mode and ate dinner.  I took her to Moe's for the first time! I was shocked she had never been there!! 

Saturday I got to babysit this sweet boy while everyone decorated for his birthday safari

I just loved babysitting him! I don't get to see him very often so I volunteered myself to keep him the morning of the party months ago!

I am not going to share too many details about the party until my sister shares her pictures with her family and friends but I will give you a couple sneak peeks because the party was absolutely amazing!

The cake was so cute!

This is my mom (Mimi) and my older middle sister Chrissy

My dad (Papa Rick) was showing Grayson how to use his binoculars and it was the cutest thing!

Grayson is ready for his Safari!

I can't wait to watch them grow up together!

If if they never have siblings one day, they will ALWAYS have each other and can always relate to each other because they are so close in age! I just love that!

They sure do grow up quick!

(They don't even look like the same babies!)

So we've covered the Safari part, and the Growing Babies part, now onto the bug part! Not only was Quinten in the hospital a week before his big birthday party (No worries, all is well now!! He had some breathing problems and was diagnosed with a form of bronchitis and is doing much better!!) but he must have also came down with this terrible stomach bug!!  It started on Sunday, not going into too much detail but, Quinn tossed his cookies and then 10 min later Grayson did!  You could tell Quinn didn't feel good but Grayson acted fine after it happened, no fever, no nothing.  Monday morning we woke up and finished packing things up and Deanna (my sister) started getting sick!! Chris (my brother-in-law) was feeding Quinn breakfast and then he started getting sick! Eric and I looked at each other and said,

"GRAB YOUR BAGS AND GET OUT OF HERE!"

 We made it all the way home and we all felt fine (except for this nasty cold I have had).  That was until Monday night after getting the car unpacked and Grayson into bed, then he started getting sick!!  We were up all night and he has had this terrible bug all week.  I think he is finally on the mend and getting over it but I couldn't believe how quickly it was spreading!!

I hope no one else gets this nasty bug going around because it is terrible!

Overall we had a wonderful trip and I can't wait to see everyone again, after all the sickness has left!!!