Baptism Weekend

My friend Jen, who I have known since we were in the seventh grade, sent us the most precious white, smocked outfit after Jackson was born. Actually her mom sent it, and Jen tried to talk her out of it by telling her you can't send someone a baptism outfit but I'm glad Jen didn't listen. Another friend's mom hand made us the most beautiful bonnet as a baby gift. As if it wasn't special already, the idea is that one day the bonnet be given to a future bride, which makes it a double keepsake. I tried the outfit on Jackson several times and finally decided that it would fit him best in March, so we invited both of our families up for the big event.



Jackson was the perfect baby during the service. He gave the pastor a pretty funny look when they put the water on him, but never made a peep and was happily beaming during the parade around the sanctuary. Grandma crocheted a little white cloth which we passed to the pastor, but thankfully Jackson managed not to spit up until they passed him back to me. We had a bet going on when it would happen. I lost.

Afterwards we had a very nice lunch at our house. It was great to have a chance for both of our families to spend a little more time together. We are so thankful to everyone for coming up.














It just so happened that my niece Meredith had her 2nd birthday while she was here so I wanted to do something special for her too. Being a total Pinterest addict, Pam found the cutest cake and offered to make it. So cute!! Meredith insisted on blowing out her candles three times :)

Fun Times as a Four Month Old

The little man is already four months old and learning something new every day. In the last few weeks he has started propping himself up to sit, tried cereal for the first time, started drinking from a cup, and started really learning how to jump in his saucer and jumper. He weighed in at 15.5 lbs at his 4 month visit and was 25" tall. Quite the little chunker.





This month it warmed up enough to take him hiking close to our house at Ruffner Mt. He is big enough to ride in his carrier on your back now and once we turned him around so he could see out he spent the entire walk just laughing and smiling at every person who passed by.



Still needs a some work but he's getting there!

Callaway Gardens with Great Grandad

Every year at Christmas there is a HUGE light display at Callaway Gardens, which is about an hour from my Grandad's house. I've always wanted to go see it but never have. This year someone told us that the gardens are actually free Jan-Feb so we picked a weekend to take Great Grandad and go look around. I had no idea how much there is to see and do at Callaway! Turns out that we needed an entire weekend to really see it all and that was in the middle of winter.

Hands down the best part was the Birds of Prey show. Honestly, we all thought if you've seen one you've seen them all, but this show was great. The birds skimmed right over the heads of the audience, it was all done outdoors, and the host was a pretty funny guy. Most definitely worth the trip in itself.

Callaway also has a pretty large butterfly conservatory. It wasn't too full this time of year, but it was very pretty and well kept with a nice waterfall flowing through the middle.

This was Jackson's first trip to Grandad's. We're pretty sure they both enjoyed it :)