Happy Father's Day and Happy Graduation!!!!

Happy Father's Day to all of the dads out there, especially to my dad! I love you dad and miss you. Happy Father's day to my sweet husband too. Thanks for being such a wonderful dad to Addie. She is one lucky little girl!!! I am so excited that my parents will be visiting soon. My mom will be here on Saturday and she is soooo excited to see Addie!! My mom will fly in on Saturday and then my dad will drive down about a week later. They will be here through the 4th! Yeah!!! We are going to play with the baby, hang out, do some work around the house, and then spend the 4th at Smith Mountain Lake. It should be fun!!

Also, Congratulations to my nephews and niece on their graduations! Drew and Justin, we are proud of you for graduating from pre-K. Now you move on to Kindergarten!! Yeah! You sure are growing up! And to Kylie, good job girl! She graduated from the babysitter and she will go to
pre-K in the fall. We are proud of you Kylie Girl!! We miss you all and of course Allie and Lexie too! Lexie we promise we will come meet you soon! (Lexie is the newest niece and we have not met her yet. :( She is almost 2 months old!)

Happy Birthday to Chuck!!!

So we managed to pull of a surprise party for Chuck's 30th Birthday!! Thanks Lori for all of your hard work and help- she helped me to plan and throw off the whole thing. Thanks to Chuck's parents too. Chuck's dad cooked the pig and his mom helped with the preparations. Thanks Lindsey for your help too. Well the party went well, but with one major problem- it rained!!! AGH! There were about 70 people crammed onto the porches at Chuck's parent's house to get out of the rain! It did eventually stop raining and the party went on, but we had to move all of the food from the patio and the alcohol too of course. All of the pretty tables cloths and decorations were sacrificed in the rain. But none the less it was fun and Chuck was totally shocked about the party. Some of Chuck's college buddies came from Raleigh and he was thrilled to see them. About 8 of them stayed with us and lets just say it was a long night- we went to bed about 3am! And of course Addie was still up bright and early in the morning. Happy Birthday to Chuck and welcome to the thirties babe!!! Check out Addie in the birthday hat. Funny huh!! The other pics are of Chuck and his sisters- Lori and Lindsey, Addie with her grandma (Nanu) and Aunt Lori, Addie and Aunt Lori, and the guys late night. If forgot to mention that some of the guys were fishing in the lake at like 1am with water bottles and pork as the bait, it was quite a site and somehow they did not fall out of the canoe. Oh and they actually caught a fish. This water bottle fishing is called jugging in their terms, who knew!

Addie and Baity

Here is Addie with her friend Baity. These pictures are from a recent party at our friends, Cameron and Bryan's house. Thanks Cameron and Bryan for the fun time. We hate that Ella missed the pictures- she was napping. Baity is 6 weeks older than Addie and she is the adorable daughter of our friends, Megan and Tripp. And Ella who is not pictured as she was napping is the cutie that belongs to Cameron and Bryan- she is 6 months old. It is crazy, but we have tons of friends with little ones all around Addie's age.

More of Addie!

So Addie has two teeth now and she is eating better. We were having alot of gagging when she ate anything other than stage 2 baby food or cereal, but she is expanding her menu lately, including the terrible baby cookies. Whoever thought of those cookies, they make a terrible mess, she had it in her hair today. YUCK!! She is trying to crawl, well kind of. She goes backwards and army crawls really well, but the forward thing she only gets occasionally and I am not sure that when she does get it that it is on purpose. She is getting really close though. And today on Father's Day she said Ma! Yeah! Here are some pics!

Time to Catch Up With Pics!!

Okay so we have been ot of commission with a bum camera and then a new camera and difficulty with that one, so we are good now. Here are some pis of Addie to catch everyone up. These are from Memorial Day weekend at Smith Mountain Lake with Chuck's family. Let's just say the life jacket is not her favorite!!

Latest Updates!

Well we are all moved and settled into our new house. We are loving the extra space and enjoying all of our little projects. We ordered new kitchen countertops yesterday and Chuck has been working on adding crown molding to the familyroom. Addie has adjusted just great to the new house.

Well for all of the friends and family who have been tortured with the lack of pictures of Addie lately, we finallly went and bought a new camera this weekend. We have pictures from the last month or so, but they are on our video camera and Addie's aunts and grandma have taken pictures for us, but I am aware that I have been totally slack with posting the pictures. I took some new pics tonight too of Addie trying to crawl and of her having cookie all over her face. For those friends and family who have had the displeasure of watching her eat anything other than stage two baby food, you will be thrilled to know that she ate a baby cookie tonight and did not gag!!! She has had a terrible gag reflux, but we seem to be getting past this. Also she has two teeth now!!! She looks so cute! As for the crawling, Addie is crawling backwards now! She has almost got going forward down, but not quite yet.

As for growing, Addie is now 8 months old and she weighs 19 lbs! Addie had to go and visit the doctor today as she has pink eye. Poor baby! She has started her drops so she should be good to go by tommorrow. We are keeping her home one more day, but then back to daycare. Thanks to her Nanu for helping watch her some! Well, I promise to post the pictures tomorrow. We hope everyone is doing well!