January 28th

We headed to Memphis today to help celebrate Kandice's wedding. Kandice is my sister's sister-in-law. Or my brother-in-laws sister. Or the sister to the man my sister is married to. Which ever way want to say it, the simple fact is she is someone we love very much and we couldn't be happier for her! Mom, Cael and I headed down to help out with the preparations. I was in charge of games tonight at the rehearsal dinner. One of the games we played was the newly wed game, the couples did great and it was a lot of fun. You would think I would have a picture of Kandice to show you..but I don't. :(

We are staying in a hotel with Tim and Beth. Cael was really excited to get to sleep with them...although it didn't last very long.

Cute story of the day: I was talking to Cael and asked him who we was going to see today. He said "humm bef (beth) and..." Then he looked at me with the funniest look on his face and said "bef". It was like he finally realized there were two different Beth's. He will call them both Beth in pictures and in person but it's like something clicked in his head. So now he has started calling them "my two bef's". We were praying the other night and he said "sank you for Bef...oh, oh, no. Sank you for my two bef's." And he puts the emphasis on TWO.....so incredibly cute! When Cael first came into the picture there were some very serious conversations as to what he would call each of them. They both wanted to be Beth but didn't think it would work to have two Aunt's called Beth. They ended up deciding my sil would be Aunt Beth and my sister would be Aunt Bethy, because that is what our grandmother called her. Now we realize that all that worrying over what he was going to call them was for nothing. He has his "two bef's" and it could be any more perfect.

January 27th

Two pictures for today. Cael helped Pop Pop grill the steaks tonight. Every time he would come in he would jump up and down, raise his arms and yell that he did it. He was so proud of himself for helping cook dinner. And the steaks were so good!

This is what I found tonight when I went to bed. Every night Cael has fought us when it comes to going to bed. He simply is having too much fun. One night he even told me that he couldn't go to sleep because his baby (his bear) wasn't going to sleep. Crazy kid!

January 26th

(playing catch up!)

Today we went to Jonesboro to run some errands. While we were there we stopped at the Nature Conservatory. My mom and dad had been there before and told me it was really cool, I guess I didn't know what to expect because it very much so exceeded my expectations. And it was free. I did a horrible job of taking pictures, we were too busy having fun. It will for sure be a must visit every time we come.

This is a turtle tank where you could take the turtles out and play with them.

This is Pop Pop's favorite thing to do there...shoot things!

Grammy and Cael taking were very serious about checking things out.

January 28th

Vacation has gotten the best of me but I promise you lots of pictures have been taken. We are just busy getting ready for the wedding and Weiner's 50th anniversary this weekend. So stay tunes and I will have bring you up to date soon!

January 25th

Blogger is driving me crazy today and I can get my pictures where I want them and I am way to tired to mess with it. So here are my pictures in no particular order.

We headed to Memphis tonight to celebrate Uncle John's birthday. We had snow and sleet on the way and where nervous we were going to get snowed in, but we did make it home safe. It was another night full of fun but way to short.

We are in town this week for Kandice's wedding, she Marybeth's sister-in-law. People think it is weird that we would come all the way for her wedding. I think it's normal! We love Kandice and wouldn't miss her big day for anything! Tonight Cael was making Aunt Bethy very jealous and wouldn't have anything to do with her. Kandice had all his attention, it was really funny.

I am going to do a entire post on this soon. For now, here is the shot that MB has to have every day. The things we do to grow our families!

And finally the birthday boy and his momma. Happy Birthday John!! Thanks for not making me eat shrimp and grits tonight!

January 23rd & 24th

We made it safe and sound to Weiner but boy are we all tired...still! We stayed up until 2:30am playing with PopPop and Grammy. Cael was just so excited he couldn't handle it. He kept telling me in bed that he could go to sleep. I SO remember being at my grandparents house and feeling the exact same way. Speaking of, today was my grandfather Poppy's birthday, he would have been 87. I him like crazy! Just another reason I am so thankful that number 1, we live close enough now that we can visit my mom and dad often. And number 2, that I have a husband who always lets me leave him so I can spend time with my family!

January 23rd

Sorry...I got a little side tracked. Cael was so excited about riding on "his big, big choo choo train". And let me tell you, everyone he saw knew that the train was "his"!! I know his isn't the greatest picture but I it's what I have for the day! We spend the first fou

r hours in the lounge car. People taking the train are so nice, we met lots of new friends. It also helped that we had a DVD player! It kept Cael happy and then it kept me happy when Cael was sleeping. I could not have asked for a better trip, my little man did wonderful.

January 24

We had a lazy today trying to catch up on our sleep, it even included a 3 hour nap for three of us. I was talking to Tim this morning & he suggested we meet half way for dinner. My mom was suppose to have some ladies over for a Bible study so she was not able to go with us. Ended up that she could have gone because everyone called & canceled, bummer. We had such a good time visiting & Cael was so excited about seeing Uncle Tim & Aunt Beth. We ate dinner at Colton's (it was horrible) & then headed to a CFA for some dessert & to let Cael play in the play area. It was sad that we only had a few hours but there will plenty of time this weekend for some Aunt and Uncle loving!

January 22, 2010

No picture for today. I am way tired and have lots to do before I got to bed. Steve had sound practice tonight but because we are leaving tonight for 10 days we made it a family event. Cael helped me run Easy Worship and had a blast. Then we hung out with Justin for a while. Really wish I had my camera to get some pictures of those two hanging out. Actually, what I wish I had was a picture of Cael leaning his head on Steve and Justin leaning his head against Cael. Can you picture it?? Justin, Cael and Steve all leaning on each other...they looked like quite the couple! :) Life has been really busy for all of us lately so it was great to spend a few hours with one of our favorite people!

Cael and I hop a train tomorrow at 5:15 pm to head to Arkansas, so I am not sure I will have a picture up before we leave. I promise to try!