All Dogs Go To Heaven

Our sweet, wild, HAPPY, crazy Buster went on to Doggy heaven last night and this family is so sad. He got out of our garage and was hit by a car very near our house. We found out this morning. Ho do you explain to Lucy that her little brother isn't coming home? How do you tell a two year old that his best friend isn't coming home?
My heart just aches.

Wild Dunes with the Hanna's

Troy, Cecilia, Lillian, and company invited us to come out to Wild Dunes for the day and evening to spend time on the beach and for some good old Low Country Boil. Brad had to work, so Marge, Henry and I got out there about 2:30. We had so much fun catching up if only for a couple hours! Henry and Lillian really took to each other and Henry had to be reminded more than once to be gentle with girls...we're working on it!

Cecile' is preg with #2 and looks amazing and is keeping up with her little toddler just great!

Thanks so much for such a nice night! We had a great time!

Sweet Little Baby Girl!

Last Thursday I woke up super early and drove to Laurens for the day to hang out with Courtney, TT, Ryan, and especially Baby Durham. She is nothing short of a little angel on earth and I LOVED soaking up her smell all day!

She is such a good and content little babe and Courtney and Ryan are already such good parents!

She has a wardrobe that rivals any Hollywood movie star and I won't even get into the bows this child has. Unreal! I love it!!!

Thanks so much for letting me visit with ya'll for the day! I enjoyed it soooo much!

Seein' RED!!!

I have driven myself and most everyone around me NUTS with my indecisiveness about painting my kitchen red. I have painted two large 'chunks' of my walls with one red for a month or two trying to get my husband to paint. And trying to decide if that's really what I wanted. You see, my skillz are very poor in that department, so he has the "privilege" of that fun job!

So after MUCH deliberation over thet exact shade of red, I FINALLY decided on Sherwin Williams Snapdragon. It's part of the Historic Charleston Line and I love it! My sweet husband painted 3 coats yesterday while I was getting my baby fix in Laurens with baby Durham and I was so very pleasantly suprised when I got home.

I think it's perfect. Not too pink, not to orange. Just right! And please notice my new apothecary jars above my pot rack. Yep, copied that right off my cuz Courtney! Kinda love 'em!

If nothing else, it made me give my kitchen a major cleaning and I've cleared out and organized. Something I've needed to do for a while.

There's nothing like a new, fresh coat of paint!

Water Bugs!!!

Christine and I took Henry and Olivia to the James Island County Park Splash Zone today for a little bit of fun in the water. We got there at around 10:30 and had a blast! I strapped a life jacket on Henry as soon as we arrived and it came in handy several times. He is FEARLESS and it scares me to death. He has no depth perception and LOVES jumping in the water. At one point he climbed up the stairs to the big slide, passed the height test, and slid down all by himself. Christine was waiting at the bottom for him and said he was FLYING! I wish I would have had my camera at that moment!

Here he is in his jump stance

Lovin' all the splish splash!

Sweet girl

Wild boy

BF's

What a fun day with great friends!

Welcome to the World....

DURHAM

My cousin Courtney had her little bitty after a long and hard labor on Thursday at 3:35 and Henry and I just happened to be passing through Columbia on our way back to Charleston. So we spent a surprisingly FUN day at the hospital with TONS of people to help me entertain the big man. We didn't get to see Courtney and Durham until 4:30ish, so Cameron's husband Jonathan let Henry take a little nap on his shoulder. How cute is that!?!? Henry had THE MOST fun looking at all of the brand new babies coming into the nursery. He was very concerned that the babies were crying. It was so cute!

I am so excited to have a little baby girl in the family to spoil! Congrats Court Court, Ry Ry, and Little D!!! We love you!

Relaxin' in G-vegas!

Since i'm unemployed for a few weeks, Henry and I decided to head to Greenville to spend a few days with Nana and Papa. We had tons of fun and packed in lots of activities in 2 short days. We got to see the new Lucas house and had a superfun playdate with Cuz Bradley. Sarah took us to this awesome new park with great toddler playground equipment and some really "enticing" waterfalls/ponds. We had a hard time keeping the boys of of them :)

These two were so cute together and I think Henry has finally gotten the idea of being GENTLE with younger people. He loves Bradley!

Next, we were off to meet Nana for lunch at Panera Bread and as you can see from the picture, these two were lovin' crawling all over their Nana.

Henry got to play with the neighbors granddaughter, Katherine and Papa thought it would be funny to put her big red bow in Henry's hair. So I snapped a pic of him pushing her baby stroller with a bow on his head. BLACKMAIL!!!!

He loved Nana's wellies!

But the main event was the Greenville Drive Baseball Game on Wednesday night. We had so much fun eating hotdogs and ice cream out of baseball helmets!

Henry got to play on the cool playground, play with his cuz, and see the BIG baseball pwayers!

He also learned to take off his hat and place his hand over his heart when the National Anthem is sung.

Sarah, Brad, and I were busy chasing these two around the park.

The end of a fun night with their new Drive T-Shirts from Papa and ice cream from Uncle Brad.





Thank you so much Nana and Papa for such a fun and relaxing couple of days! We miss you already!

Harborfest

Last Saturday Pops took Henry, Mimi, and me to the Charleston Harborfest at the Maritime Center. There were Tall Ships from countries all over the world, real live Pirates, cool airplane shows, and really neat wooden boats. It was H.O.T. and Mimi got a bit overheated after walking about 5 miles :), but all in all it was a fun time! Henry was mezmerized/petrified by the Pirates, who in my opinion, were VERY real looking. We tried to get him to have his picture taken with one, but as his eyes were popping out of his head, he just hid behind Pops. It was hilarious!