For Uncle John and Uncle Paul

Let me just say that Sadie was the cutest tomato I have ever seen!! Thank you so much for the costume Nancy! I have a wonderful crafty Grandma who always made stuff for me when I was growing up. I'm so glad that Sadie will have Nonnie to make her costumes, dresses, and coats!

Here are a couple of pictures from the various festivities!

Sadie obviously can't eat candy yet - so Nonnie and Grandpa gave her a book to chew on - they gave me candy!

The farmers and their crop - this was taken and Derek and Tara's Halloween party.

I love this one!

It's been Awhile...

It's been awhile, and it will have to be a little longer. Things are busy at work this week, but everything will settle down by the weekend. Today is James' birthday! Unfortunately, we're not going to have dinner together tonight, but James and Sadie came to Atlanta to have lunch with me! We ate at The Flying Biscuit and then I gave the office tour. Everybody loved Sadie and she was so good - no fussin' at all!

Happy Birthday James - I love you so much! I hope you enjoy your day!

Here's a semi recent picture for you - courtesy of Melissa Pepin Photography! She's amazing!

Life is So Good

We actually stayed home tonight and it was so wonderful and relaxing. James and I love to go and do, but sometimes its nice to have a quiet night at home. We had a pretty busy weekend and didn't get to spend much time in Madison. I feel like we're constantly on 441 traveling from Athens to Madison.

When I got home I fed Sadie while James ran to the store to get salad and bread - I love living 3 minutes from the grocery store! It was great to have my little girl in my arms after working a full day.



Sadie is just getting to the point where she can hold up her head good enough to sit in her Bumbo. She sat in it and played with her keys while we ate dinner (we did have her next to us - not on the counter during dinner). She is also putting everything in her mouth now!

After dinner I fed Sadie again and we went to the nursery for some stories. Sadie and I layed in the floor and read a couple of Bible stories. She liked looking at the pictures and would respond to the changes in my tone of voice. It was such a sweet time.

We also took a bath tonight. She loves to get in the big tub and float around in the bubbles. Overall, tonight was perfect. I love being a mom and I am so in love with my little girl. I love getting to spend time with her and watch her learn. Time to go - she's calling me!

Pony

"Yes, baby, I will buy you a real one one day." (Just for the record, your Great-granddaddy bought your Nonni one!) - James

Quick Catch Up Blog

I can't believe two more weeks have passed by already! Here are a couple of pictures from the last couple of weeks.



This one is from our dcf Advance. We had a great time with our church family and Sadie did great! We all stayed together in a house on what used to be Lake Lanier. We had a great time of discussion, prayer, teaching, and worship. The house had a huge deck, so we had all of our sessions outside. It was great to worship God outdoors! The weather was perfect!

We helped the Brockmanns moved - I guess technically James helped the Brockmanns move. Sadie and I weren't much help. Violet and Sadie are going to be such great friends! Violet was pretty intrigued by Sadie.

Uncle James had his first football game of the season and we enjoyed watching him play. It was sort of bright so we pulled out Sadie's glasses so she could see. It cracks me up that she likes them! James didn't win, but it was close - hopefully they'll win this week!

Sadie and James working away. He's finally learning to multi-task!

Georgia v. Georgia Southern

We watched the game at Mama's house on Saturday. She kept Sadie, while Lyn and I worked at the dcf Charity Cookout. Lyn and I had a lot of fun cooking and serving burgers, but we came home smelling like smoke, sweat and grilled meat (okay maybe the sweat and meat thing was just me). Either way, we both remembered enough from last year to bring a change of clothes. I had so much fun watching the game with Sadie. Mom kept us fed with plenty of snacks and drinks.

Everybody knows that Georgia girls are the prettiest!

I told Lyndie that one of the first things that I thought about once we became pregnant was how fun it was going to be to be able to sit in my chair with Sadie and watch the Dawgs play. As expected, UGA took care of GA Southern in what Lyndie would call a "boring" game. At the end of the day, I told her that any day that GA wins, Michigan loses and an SEC team embarasses Clemson is a good day (Robbie...buddy...that is just for you.) - James