Tea Party Fun

One of the first warm days of spring Grace and I decided to head outside for a Tea Party!


Crewe and Brooke came over and before we knew it there was a bucket of water involved!

Meredith College

The second weekend of May (see how far behind I am in blogging?) was our Meredith College 5 year reunion. I wasn't really interested in going at first but some of us girls that keep in touch decided to get together and make a girls weekend out of it! And I'm SO GLAD I did! Our weekend started off by meeting at Meagan Matt's house. We have to refer to the 'megans' with first and last names b/c there were 3 of us that all lived together at one time. ;) From Meagan Matt's we went to the Presidents house for a cocktail party with the Band of Oz. We had a great time!


I know this picture is really blurry, but I still love it.

The Band of Oz. We hung out on stage with the toward the end of the night. They let us dance and sing with them!

Good ole Vann Residence Hall. This is where our college life began. All of my closets friends from college all lived on 4th floor Vann our freshman year.

Saturday we went to a ceremony where our friend Laura received an award and then we hung out around campus. We visited the Cate center and grabbed some Meredith gear and then we had lunch out in the courtyard with other alumni.


After lunch we went to a cooking class put on by Meredith and learned how to fix an interesting stirfry.

Meagan Matt's fiance' Clint was wonderful to us while we stayed at their house. He fixed us breakfast and carried us around from place to place. He also snapped this picture of us before heading out to dinner with the Class of 05!

Megan Arnold, Meagan Matt, Julia, Me, & Sara

We had dinner at 'Gravy' downtown Raleigh with just our class on Saturday night. There we got to meet up with more of the girls that we have so many memories with!

It was a wonderful weekend and I can't wait to get together with thse girls again!

14 months old

Grace is 14 months old today! I'm sorry for the lack of posting for the past two months, but I promise Grace is as cute as ever! :) Its amazing watching her grow day-to-day. Just a few facts about Grace:

*She's now walking everywhere! No more crawling.

*She has mastered getting off of the couch by herself.

*She's re-entered a squealing stage and loves to squeal as loud as she can.

*She's now saying Mama! :)

*Other words she can say are: fish, juice, da-da, gigi, shoes.

*She's know where her nose and teeth are. When she's asked, she can point to them.

*She seems to like spicy foods.

We hope you all are well. Stay tuned, I hope to get better keeping up with her blog. Love to all!

Long Overdue

Wow! It's been way to long since my last post. I have TONS I want to share but I thought I'd share this one quick picture of Grace that was taken on our vacation last week. She's WALKING! She started really exploring the act of walking around father's day weekend and its now her choice of moving around. There's no stopping her now! :)

Birthday Boy...

Today is Scott's Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Scott. Thanks for all you do for us! We Love you! -Meg & Grace

12 month well visit

On Tuesday, May 11th, I took Grace to her 12 month well check up appointment. Aside from the 4 nasty shots that she was given, she got a great report. A few stats:

17 lbs. 11 oz. (10th percentile)
29 inches long (50th percentile)

Instead of starting her on whole milk were going to put her on toddler formula for a couple of months and then switch to milk.

I noticed on Sunday, May 16th that Grace seemed to have a little bit of a fever. Well Monday afternoon it was confirmed and it had spiked to 103.1. We got it down with Target brand Tylenol (since everything is recalled and off the shelves) and a couple of baths. It spiked up to 103 again in the middle of the night- but nothing that another dose of meds and a 2am shower with Mom wouldn't help. We had gotten it back down and she slept until 8:30am. By Wednesday her fever was completely gone, but we weren't quite out of the woods yet. Thursday afternoon I noticed that her face was spotty so we kept an eye on it and then Friday her stomach and back was covered in a rash, so off to the pediatrician we went again and Grace weighed 18 lbs. 7 oz. The doctors couldn't determine if it was a reaction from her 12 month shots or if she had Roseola, so we went back in yesterday for a follow up and we're all clear and healthy once again. Thank goodness!

I photographed a wedding on Saturday, but we did get some family time in on Sunday and went out in the boat for a quick trip to the mouth of the river and back. Quick because some nasty clouds headed our way. Here's a picture of Grace that Brooke snapped with her camera.

She wasn't too fond of her lifejacket or either she was just ready for a bottle and nap time. Not quite sure yet. Guess we'll find out this weekend as I'm sure another boat ride is in store during the kick-off to summer weekend!

Grace's FIRST Birthday Album

I had so many photos from Grace's First Birthday so I thought I'd post the Snapfish album I created here. You can click on the image above or on the link below to see all of them!

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