Charleston, South Carolina

My brother and his family recently relocated from Everett, Washington to Charleston, South Carolina.  We went took a car trip to visit them and spend General Conference weekend with them.  L enjoyed spending time with his cousins, especially this little girl.  She was so sweet and gave him space when he needed it.

This was the first time L ever played with a baby doll.  He is not interested in it as a baby but he did want to chew on that tag on the leg of the baby.  He is all boy!

L's other cousin was very content to build towers...look at that cute girl!

We went for a walk before conference...we were looking at the beautiful houses in the neighborhood.

We also found an alligator in a pond on the golf course.  This was my first live alligator in my life, but I did eat alligator year ago in Austin, Texas but of course it was dead and I didn't prepare the alligator.

I found a new toy that L really liked...plastic food.  Could it be because he is also teething?  Yes, he loved chewing on all the plastic food he could get his hands on.

We decided to play a game between conference sessions.  My sister-in-law was a good sport during this time because she played even with a migraine headache.

And that was our trip to S.C.  We will be doing it again and I'm so excited to have family near us!

Spending time with extended family

This summer we had a great time visiting with family and letting them play with baby L and get to know his little personality. 

Some of baby L's cousins are...crazy cute!

And of course we had to spend some time with Grandma!

Have you ever heard the story of Rose Red and Snow White?  These two sisters remind me a little bit of that fairy tale.

Back in March, Macon celebrated it's Cherry Blossom Festival.  We all took a trip downtown to see what the festival was all about.  Well, the cherry blossoms hadn't bloomed yet but the pink port-a-potties were out!

I guess you could say that the pink cherry blossoms were found on the streets.  It was so cute!

We did see a lot of "fru-fru" all over Macon.

Have any of you read a children's book by Dr. Seuss called I Saw It All on Mulberry Street?  That  book is one of SM's favorite books.  Macon has a Mulberry Street!

Here is SM in his law professor office!

And here we are in front of the law school where SM works!

Grandpa really enjoyed getting the baby to smile at him.

We loved playing games with SM's parents and my mother-in-law loved holding the baby!  What a great trip.. Thank you for coming to see us!

Trip to Savannah

I'm not exactly sure how to get all my photos in the right order...so they load up and I just deal with them.  While SM's parents were here in March we took a trip to visit Savannah.  We had never been there before so we did a little bit of searching on the internet and decided to take a bus tour of the historic district of the city.

The baby was eight weeks old for this trip!

Look at those huge trees and the Spanish moss.  Savannah was beautiful!  I imagine that in the summer it is even more beautiful when all the leaves are out and green.

We used the stroller as a bed for the baby and he took a few naps while we walked around.

SM and his dad are getting the stroller and baby into a very old cemetery.  The cement pathway in the cemetery was made with sea shells.  We enjoyed the ability to walk around and then hop onto the tour bus whenever we wanted to.

Here we are on one of the trolley tour buses!

SM was our fearless leader who got us where we wanted to be.

For lunch we stopped at vegan restaurant, hoping that my Mother-in-law could eat something gluten  free.  Well, we didn't find anything for her to eat but she had brought some things to eat.  The rest of us ate a vegan lunch and then SM went across the street and bought himself a cupcake or two.  He enjoyed every bite.

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The saying goes that if you touch the fish water spout during a rainstorm you'd have good luck.  It is not raining in this photo but I did want to touch the cool fish water gutter.

We had a wonderful trip to Savannah and will return again to learn more about this beautiful city.

Family Baby Shower

My mother-in-law and sister-in-laws threw me a baby shower over the holidays.  Yep, lots of baby showers.  Lots of people that love my baby.

My mother-in-law served hot chocolate with lots of accessories.  Look how beautiful the set up, ribbons on the glasses and  marshmallows on sticks.

This is the my family and I love them so much!

Here's the big happy bunch of us!

This onsie was handmade by one of my SIL.  Yep, this got the tears a flowing.  Thank you!