Christmas 2014

I wanted to share with you how much fun we had this Christmas holiday!  Got to go to Callaway Gardens and you loved the butterflies and the light display that you got to see on the trolley ride we took. On Christmas Eve Nana came over and we went to a 3 o'clock Christmas Eve service at momentum. We came home and had lasagna Nana made and bread in the living room that was all set up very pretty. On Christmas morning we had French toast casserole and took our time opening our presents and stockings. You were especially interested in daddys belt and tissue paper. Our company arrived at 2:00. Our guests included Aunt Angela and Uncle Dwayne and Alex, Nana and Grandmere and Bill. You got lots of neat presents and my favorite present was a camera!! Get ready for some cute pictures!  Also this Christmas season we rescued a little doggie and called him lucky. We found him on the way back from dinner one night and rescued him from getting hit by a car. Yesterday he went to his new owner's house.

Calloway Gardens

We got to go to Calloway gardens last weekend.  It was a Christmas gift from Grandmere to us.  I think it was the most perfect gift we could have asked for.  Daddy and I took off from work on Friday and drove to Calloway.  It's about an hour and a half away from our house going Southwest towards Columbus, GA and Alabama.

When we got to Calloway, we had some time before we could check into our rooms, so we looked around the hotel for a little bit.  The lobby had a really pretty tree that you enjoyed looking at and touching the ornaments.  Then we drove to the Butterfly exhibit.  You were really amazed at the butterflies and kept reaching for them and screaming with excitement.  It was adorable!  It's so wonderful seeing you that amazed.  We left there and went back to our hotel room so you could get a nap before the light show that night.  They have different times you can sign up for the lights show.
We were signed up for the 6:45 time slot.   It was hard to get you to take a nap, but we turned out the lights in the room and you slept for a little bit.  I took a bath in the nice garden tub.  Daddy took one too!

We had so much fun seeing the lights.  We took a trolley train that is open to the air.  It goes all through the park and the lights.  They play music and talk over the speakers the entire ride.  They make it seem like you are being pulled by a horse.  The lights were so beautiful and you really were amazed.  Grandmere held you a lot and she was so happy.  The people in front of us were smiling back at you when you would scream out with laughter and excitement.  There is nothing like the wonder and amazement of a child and seeing things through your eyes.  We decided that we have to go back every year!   After the light ride, we went to the tents where they have gifts and Santa is there.  We wanted you to see him, so we were standing along the gate looking at him.  He waved to you and I just fell in love with him.  He was so sweet to do that.  I bought an ornament and then we had to hurry to head to dinner before it closed for the evening.  At dinner, they had really good food.  It was a buffet so we got lots to eat!

After dinner we said goodnight and went back to our room.  The next morning,Grandmere and Bill stopped by and I got in the shower.  We hurried and got dressed so we could join them with you for breakfast.  Grandmere enjoyed watching you eat and didn't worry about eating herself.  We had a really good breakfast (buffet again) and then went back to the room to get packed up.  Grandmere brought over a gift for you (O Little Town of Bethehem book) and ornaments from her house.  You absolutely loved the book this whole Christmas season.  Whenever I would start to sign that song, you would go find that book.  That book played the song when you opened it up and had a star light that lit up when the book was open.  We played in the lobby and looked the logs that were near the big fireplace and took more pictures.

We were all packed up and checked out and then drove over to the greenhouse.  There you go inside and see really pretty plants and a huge poinsettia tree.  There is a little waterfall inside that you liked too.  They had a really big Christmas tree with presents underneath that you stood on.  They even had a little kid's walkway with a cute little bench and table that you liked.  You were having fun walking down the pathway through the "jungle".

For lunch, we stopped at the County restaurant that is a lot like Crackel Barrell.  It has a gift shop with jams and jelly's and gifts.  Everything was decorated for Christmas and the gifts were all Christmas related.  Mommy loves that kind of stuff.  :)
We had a nice lunch and then we headed home.  We got home on Saturday around 3:30 pm.  It was a short little trip packed full of fun!

Putting up Christmas

We have all of our Christmas decorations up.  You were very interested in the large lollypop outside in Winter Wonderland and were carrying that around yesterday for a little bit.  Adorable!  Last night you were looking out the windows and noticed the lights in the trees and bushes.  Tonight at dinner, you noticed the big tree lit up on the deck and seemed excited.  We brought you in the living room tonight to have you "help" us decorate the tree.  It was really so you would see what we were doing.  You were really interested in the lights and were upset when we made you put them down.  When we plugged a strand in that you were holding, it was cute to see you look at the little bulbs more intently and touch them.  And try to put them in your mouth.  We gave you a couple of ornaments to play with but when you got upset that you had to give them back, daddy decided that you would play better in your room.  I am sitting in the living room right now typing this up enjoying the pretty tree and finishing up a cup of cider.  We are excited to celebrate Christmas with you.  This coming up weekend, we are going to Calloway Gardens with Grandmere and Bill.  We can't wait for you to see the lights!

Love you buddy!

Thanksgiving 2014

We celebrated Thanksgiving this year by taking you to Napai (your dad's dad) and Beverly's house.  Nana, Dominique, Grandmere and Bill and your Aunt Lindsay were there.  Your dad smoked a turkey and I made green bean casserole.  I made a mac and cheese for your Aunt Angela and Uncle Dwaye and Alex as they were having their own family time at their house with Uncle Dwayne's mom coming over.  Your dad smoked a turkey for them the day before Thanksgiving which was nice of him.  He was happy to do that for them.  You were very interested in sticking close to me and your dad at the Sadosky house.  Lindsay had her dog Rocky there.  When he would bark, you would jump.  I think you were very interested in him, but wanted to be close to us that day.  Just seemed a little more clingy than most days.  We actually like that you want to be close to us, but you are normally happy to be around Grandmere and Nana.  After we had dinner, we talked for a bit and then headed over to see my Aunt Bernice and Uncle Rudy and my cousin Jeff and their mother, Emma.  They live about 15 minutes away and we haven't seen them in a while.  Uncle Rudy and Jeff finally got to meet you in person.  You did great over there.  You sat in Aunt Bernice's lap and played with a few toys at the table.  It was around 8 pm, so we decided you were probably in need of getting to sleep.  We stayed the night at Nana's house.  She had her pack and play set up, so you went to bed pretty soon after we got there.  You were great that day with only 1 nap that morning.

The day after Thanksgiving, Nana took us to breakfast at J. Christopers.  You were pretty good, but got a little restless towards the end.   We had a great meal and you did great at eating.  It's really cute watching you eat.  They were in the process of putting up a Christmas tree, so you were interested in looking at that.  It was very cute seeing you notice the 1 ornament on the tree and the star on top.

We came home right after that as you fell asleep in the car.  Daddy and Uncle Dwayne went to the gun range nearby and shot skeet.  I started decorating the yard with lights and Winter Wonderland and you had fun picking up sticks.  Jerry next door was cutting his grass, so you were interested in seeing that that looked like and walked over that way. Susan and Jerry Burgess next door are the sweetest people and adore you.  We are very lucky to have them as neighbors.  I think they have 7 grandkids, so they have lots of practice.