Aunt Alicia

I feel pretty lucky to be the aunt of this little dolly!  Even though they don't live nearby we sure cherish every moment when they are here!  My brother Adam and his wife Georgia came and visited this past weekend!  They had a beautiful baby girl in November....Jayne Ann!  So, of course I did a photo shoot of the kiddos!  Here are the pics from Saturday night!  We sure had a busy day Saturday!

Big smiles.....look at the wonderment in that face!  (Is that a word?)





Grammy Ann is always in heaven when all of her kiddos are around....

Livy and Jayne just chillin' on the deck

We tried to get Grey in some but it was really hard to get him to sit

It's life's "little" moments that make it all worthwhile!


Kids are just funny....aren't they?!  We tried to "hold" Grey off for as long as we could with Auntie Amy's watch...

I caught him daydreaming;)



Three innocent, beautiful, and oh so pure little children...how lucky am I to call one my son, one my cousin, and one my niece..............life is sweet!

She's just an angel baby!


Liv and Grey are the best buds...


and to end the night we tried Jayne out in the Johnny Jump Up.....she sure likes that thing...

"I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring."

Prom

We spent Saturday helping Auntie Mims get ready for prom!  Yes, the girl is already a senior, ready to graduate and we can't believe it.....She really is my sister....I've known her since she was 3 and now this!!!!



Last minute touch up before she left


The "brother" (the other brother is still in Hawaii)

Mims and davey!

Her date for the night...


The "real" boyfriend but he's in college these days so Mims went with someone from her class....Kevin was cool with it though!

Grey was there too of course but he was having fun playing in the car!  Go figure!

It was a great night for Mimi and a safe one too!  We heard lots of stories on Sunday!!!

18 months

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN???  Grey is 18 months old today and yes I'm gonna say it again time is flying!  It seems like he just turned a year old and now this!  just STOP!!!  STOP right now!!!

My mom said it the other day.... "Grey just has a great personality" and he does.....He really is a good little boy that we enjoy so much every single day!  He's still a babbling machine and has his very own special language....he is adding words here and there.....and he's still "on the go" to say the least....he absolutely LOVES all the things boys should love....he likes cars, trucks, loves the garbage truck, and school buses.  Loves to be in the dirt and outside running around.  Likes to watch daddy cut the grass too! Whenever we are over ernat's house he loves to go for rides on the golf cart with his papa Davey and when he's at the Riva's house he torments Papa Mike to go into the garage and pull out the garbage can-lol!  and if he's in a garage...yes any garage where there's a lawn mower you can usually find him climbing on it :) Grey is a pretty good eater too....no complaining from him...he usually eats whatever you give him!  Really the two times Greyson gets "crabby" is when he's hungry and when he's tired.....we have really noticed how crabby he gets when he's hungry......but I guess that makes me crabby too!  We are currently in transition from two naps a day to one.....however somedays are tricky because Grey could still use two...but we are trying it out and plus with summer right around the corner I really want him taking one long nap in the pm but we shall see!  He still loves to be read to and his favorite books are any kind with trucks in it where we point and tell him what each kind is!  He also still LOVES his binkie!  They are all for "night" "night" time we tell him and every time we lay him in his crib he gets one in his mouth and one for each hand and he loves that!  When nap time is looming or bed time for that matter all we say is -"Grey wanna go get binkie's" and he starts squealing and laughs and does this heavy breathing thing.....it's too funny...

I still can't believe my precious angel is 18 months old today...he's the love of our lives!  Happy 18 months Grey!

For Grey's 18 month photo shoot, Nate and I took him to Matthiessen Park.....I was really playing with the aperture on my camera so some are fuzzier than I wanted but the green in the pictures is gorgeous aside from Grey of course!

These first pictures were just at our house and in Grey's bedroom before we left...

Grey loved running around at Matthiessen (This is where Nate and I had our maternity pictures done...right on this bridge in October about 4 weeks before Grey joined us and then we went to Garzanelli's for dinner-yummmmm)

one of my favorites

Grey was not happy when we had to leave...