Our Little Family

Our friend Parker was sweet enough to take some family pictures for us this weekend. There are many great places to have a photo shoot around Memphis. We chose to meet at Rhodes College. It is a stunning campus. Parker took a lot of beautiful pictures. Her goal is always to get 5 good ones. She definitely surpassed her goal! Will loves Ms. Parker so he was pretty comfortable smiling and playing while she worked away! We are so thankful to Parker for capturing such a sweet time in our lives.

Here is a slideshow Parker put together:

Pulling Up...

June 23, 2013

Mindi and Connor

Last week my cousin, Mindi, and her little boy, Connor, came to visit us! I have so many great memories of summers in Ohio with Mindi and my other cousins. Mindi and I have always been very close. I couldn't wait for Will to meet Connor and spend hours playing!

We spent a lot of time in the den playing.

 

Breakfast Buddies

Splish Splash

On the Move

Will started crawling on Father's Day (June 16, 2013). He had been working so hard to crawl and all of the sudden he was on the move! He has been sleeping very well at night...so have we!

A Weekend for Dada

We had such a great weekend! Will and I had so much fun spoiling Matt. We ran around and did so much that by the end of the weekend we felt like we needed a weekend to recover from our weekend!

Saturday we started the day off at Gibson's for some donuts!! They have the best donuts. Then we headed to the zoo so we could get an early start before it got too hot. Will is really starting to interact with the animals which is so much fun! We spent a lot of time with the sea lions. He got a little scared when one came to join him! Thank goodness for that thick glass. :) After the zoo we headed to Lenny's to get some lunch. After lunch we all took a much needed nap. When Will woke up from his nap we headed downtown to get some ice cream followed by a trip to The Peabody to watch the ducks march down the red carpet. Since it was such a nice night we decided to hang out downtown and have dinner at Majestic.

Sorry about the iPhone pics!

Sunday morning we went to church and then played in the baby pool! We celebrated that night with steaks on the grill, mac and cheese, and cheesecakes from GiGi's. What a fun time. I think we wore Matt out!

ATL

The second weekend in June we were off to Atlanta for Whitney and Jeff's wedding! Will has become quite the traveler. He's so good in the car. Mimi drove down to Atlanta to hang out and watch Will while we were at the wedding. We got there late Friday afternoon. Mimi was still on her way so we decided to take a stroll on Georgia Tech's campus which was conveniently right across from our hotel. We took a few pictures on our rival's campus and then went back to the hotel to see Mimi!! We had pizza delivered and it was amazing!

Saturday morning we headed to the Georgia Aquarium. It was beautiful and lots of fun. Will was just going wild when he saw all of the fish. There were even some fish spitting on us! We walked through the aquarium lingering at the beluga whales, penguins, and otters. Before we left we hit up the gift store (which you must walk through to exit...genius). Matt let Will choose between an otter and a beluga whale stuffed animal. Will picked the otter. Matt really wanted him to choose the beluga whale so Matt switched what hand they were in, but Will still picked the otter! It is so neat to see him making choices. After the aquarium we went to Ted's Montana Grill for lunch. It was delicious! Next, we headed back to the hotel for a quick nap and then started getting ready for the wedding. Mimi shooed us out the door so her and Will could hang out.

The wedding was absolutely beautiful. Whitney and Jeff are so in love and perfect for each other. They have the cutest story of how they met: see "A Purr-fect Match". We had a great night with friends!

borrowed from facebook (one day I will remember my camera!)

Seven Month Photo Shoot

I'm a little late...I'll meet my next goal though! That 8 month post will be up by July 5!

I really need time to slow way down. The days, weeks, and months are just flying by too fast. Will is such a happy boy. He loves to laugh and play. He is army crawling and scooting everywhere. He will be crawling ANY day now. The other day he sat up by himself. Luckily, he did it for the first time while I was trying to get him to crawl and just happened to be taking a video! He is still talking up a storm (shocker) and his squeals have become even louder. He even had his first sweet potato fry which was a huge hit!! He still has no teeth, but I'm sure they'll be here soon!

*I wrote this post last week. So...UPDATE: Will started crawling on Father's Day!