Sunday, October 25, 2009

Aidan in ONE!!

I know that I'm a month late posting this....we've been busy! My baby turned ONE on September 20th and we had a great party with family at our house. It was a "Little Einsteins" party since that is Aidan's favorite TV show, and his favorite thing to say is, "BLAST OFF!" when the rocket blasts off every episode. It's so cute! He even puts his hands up in the air for the full effect :)

Everyone came (even though it was raining cats & dogs....which ended up flooding many parts of Georgia!) and our house was packed with people and gifts. Aidan had so much fun and was so happy, which isn't anything new....he's the happiest baby ever (we're hoping that his baby brother will be just as happy for our sake!:)

This is Aidan's cake for all the adults. I love that picture....it was on his invitations too :)Food table in the dining room....and yes I'm pretty sure I may have gone way overboard for a one year olds birthday party, but he's my FIRST baby and this was his FIRST birthday ever! So I felt that it deserved a full out party :)
Where the mess begins
I know that there are 3 cakes! I had already ordered Aidan's "Little Einsteins" cake and when I went to order the big cake for everyone to eat I didn't know that Publix gives you a free baby cake!
Aidan's really cute "Little Einstein" cake with the rocket! I got it from Gabriel's Bakery and it was soooo good (we ended up finishing off the parts he didn't eat!)
Singing "Happy Birthday!" He had a pre-run the Friday before at Mike's parents house since they couldn't come (Faye & Robert) and he totally freaked out and cried when we sang....maybe it was our singing! But for the real thing he was great!

Digging into the cake! At first he kinda hovered over the cake as if he was deciding if he should touch it...but once he started destroying and eating it, it came natural :)


Saying "BLAST OFF!"
He was a gooey mess, so we had a quick, emergency bath afterwards!
Opening the thousands of gifts....it definitely pays off to be the first Grandchild on both sides!
Reading a card and opening a gift. Aidan loved opening the presents!

So happy

Eating the card....that was one of his favorite things to do

That ball has now been destroyed by Herschel....the larger red one was destroyed too.
Laughing baby!
He LOVES his red race truck....thank you Grandma Lucy!! He pushes that thing around EVERYWHERE and then he'll sit on it and wait for someone to push him around! We have now taken that thing everywhere we go :)

Pushing his Lion! He's basically walking now....he can take 5 steps by himself and then he'll sit and crawl. He's changing and growing up so fast.
View from our balcony.....lots of presents, toys and family! Great day!
It looks like we just had Christmas! I'm nervous what that will actually look like after his party!

This past year FLEW by and we cannot believe that our little angel baby is already ONE. It has been so much fun watching him grow, learn and develop his precious little personality! He is truly an extremely happy baby and he has been so easy. He laughs at everything and only cries when he's tired or hungry. He really is our little angel and we cannot wait to see him grow in the years to come....but I don't want them to come too fast because I'm trying to take it all in and it's all going by so fast!

This is the cutest video of Aidan cracking up as Josh and Herschel play with a balloon from his party! It makes me laugh every time I watch it! It truly is the best sound on earth :)

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Grandma Lucy came to visit!

This summer Grandma Lucy came to Georgia to visit us. We had a lot of fun playing mexican train dominoes and eating tons of food!Nana, Aidan & Grandma Lucy
At Henry's Louisiana Grill


Aidan kept thinking that if he tipped his cup up enough maybe more juice would magically appearAll of us at Henry's
Mom & Dad (Nana & Pappy)

Grandma with all of us!
Aidan got his first big boo boo. He hit his head on the fireplace and got a goose-egg :(
Nana consoling him
Nana, Grandma Lucy, Aidan & Pappy playing in the pool
Grandma Lucy and Aidan. They're so cute!
Grandma Lucy is so cute! She's such an awesome Grandma....she cooks, sews us stuff and plays cards and Mexican Train Dominoes (for those of you who have not played mexican train dominoes, you are missing out!). I can't wait for her to come back down here!

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

June Surprise....We're PREGNANT!

We had a great BIG SURPRISE at the end of June....we found out that we're PREGNANT! Yep, I am now over the shock, but it took me a few weeks! We weren't trying, so this was a little shocking at first (more for me than Josh, he's been extremely happy from the time he walked out of the bathroom telling me the test was positive), but we're both extremely excited. We wanted our kids to be close in age, so now they're going to be 18 months (a year and a half) apart. I'm hoping they'll be good friends and play with each other a lot. I'm 10 weeks and we're expecting baby #2 to be here the 4th of March, 2010.

We told our parents by having Aidan wear a t-shirt that said, "Guess what I just found out? I'm going to be a BIG BROTHER!" It was so cute and it was a fun way to have them find out. Both of our parents were extremely happy to find out they'll have another Grandchild!






Thursday, July 16, 2009

4th of July + Birthday Weekend

July 4th weekend is always extremely fun and busy for us because Josh's birthday is July 3 and my birthday is July 6th. This year was more fun than usual because it was our first 4th of July with Aidan! We spent Josh's birthday (July 3rd) at the lake with our friends and his parents, we spent 4th of July at the lake with both of our parents, and we spend the 5th at my parents house and pool where we celebrated my birthday a day early. Fun weekend!Aidan is crawling and pulling up on everything. This picture cracks me up because he was SO proud of himself for looking out the window!
Aidan and Josh crawling together :)
Singing Happy 28th Birthday Josh!
Mike explaining the Declaration of Independence to the guys....they were really interested :)
4th of July!
Yes, that is Mike, my father-in-law, running with American flag pants, American flag bandana, and the American flag to make his grand entrance to introduce the 6th Annual Golf Cart Parade.
The winner of the golf cart parade
Mike doing his 4th of July speech
Baby boy!
4th of July golf cart parade. There were about 30 golf carts!

Nana rocking Aidan to sleep after a very busy 4th of July!
Pappy and Aidan!
Happy Birthday to us!
Dad & Tom
Nana and Pappy
Aidan and his best friend :) They're so cute together. Herschel is in trouble now that Aidan can pull himself up on things!
I have the best girlfriends in the world! My birthday dinner at The Old Mill....it was so much fun! I'm now officially a quarter of a century!