Aunt Deanna's Visit and 1 month pictures

The night that Gracyn was born I called my sis (within minutes of her birth) to tell her she had a beautiful new niece. It was such a surprise. It seems as though everyone in my family has boys! The next morning I talked to her again and she told me that even though she was coming to keep Gracyn for a week in April, she couldn't wait that long to see her and hold her. Here we are- not quite a month late, I am finally posting pictures from my sister's visit on Feb. 20-22. This was a quick trip that took almost as much time to travel as she had to spend here! She had to fly from California!

Here is a picture of what our welcome sign looked like. I have always wanted to make one and this was the first time that I ever did.

We drove to Chattanooga that night so we could see dad before he left for Honduras. DeAnna also wanted to get out to see Mamaw while she was in town. That gave us an opportunity to introduce Gracyn to a lot of our family.

Dad loves to wrestle with his grandsons. I think he is going to have to learn some new moves for his little princess!


Gracyn loves her Aunt DeAnna!


Mamaw tells me that I have the loudest kids...wonder where they get that?

I love this picture. Mamaw looks so happy and proud. I wish that I lived closer so that we could visit more often.

My cousin's puppy- Carter loved playing with him! He also thought it was great that he had on Go Vols clothes!


Gracyn at One Month!

She likes to stick her tongue out!

I also took Carter's picture in this chair each month.


Hopefully I will be posting her two month pics soon! It has been hard to blog and keep up with my friends. I had such an easy time with Carter, except for the trouble gaining weight. Gracyn is a good eater, but she needs to be held a lot. She cries most of the time unless she is being held. It has made things very exhausting lately. I am praying that things will get better soon! Carter is still doing a great job as big brother. He loves his little sis and talks to her so sweetly. I am looking forward to doing more fun things with the two of them this summer.

Do you know the way to San Jose?

I do. Unfortunately it requires two flights from Knoxville and took about 8 hours, including layovers. When I flew from Dallas to San Jose, I kept singing the lyrics to this song. I could only remember that one line and the humming that comes after. Very annoying.

When I arrived DeAnna and the family were there to pick me up and take me to eat at the Cheesecake factory. When we finished and headed to their house it was about 9:00. That's 12:00 according to my body's clock! We finished driving to their house and I tried to stay up so that I could sleep later the next morning but found mysef waking up at 4:00 and again at 5:30 (7:00 and 8:30). Later, DeAnna and I went to have lunch in a little tea house in downtown Tracy. We spet the rest of the day shopping. It was so nice to have girl time. We had a lot of fun shopping and I enjoyed helping her find a lot of cute things. I found a few for myself also! I tried staying up again but still woke up very early on Saturday. I went ahead and began getting ready for a day of sightseeing in San Francisco. That brings another song to mind, and no I did not wear flowers in my hair.

We all went into town and spent the WHOLE day traveling around. I'll fill in the details when I can upoad the pictures to go with the commentary. After visiting DeAnna's church and staying for a cookout after church, we headed back to San Fran for more sightseeing on Sunday.

Today I have been getting my email inbox cleaned out, reading, taking a long relaxing bath, and reading. It has been so nice! I feel selfish spending all of this time on myself, but I have to admit- I like it!

I miss Carter and Matt and I know I will be ready to get back to them, but having a fun and restful visit with my sis and her family before returning to school feels like such a blessing.