Anthony's First Visit to Great-Granny and Great-Grandad's House

I put it off for as long as possible. I told myself that putting my car-hating child on the road for over 3 hours was insane. I didn't have any free weekends coming up, and going alone would be even more insane. I told myself there was waaaay too much work to do to be making trips to Dallas.

Then I realized that all of that stuff didn't matter. The little man needed to meet ALL of his great-grandparents, even the ones who aren't close to Austin. Tuesday morning the baby and I loaded up the car (with some help from Big Anthony!), and we set out for Dallas (well, Richardson). After I picked up my coffee (thank you drive-thru Starbucks!) he fell asleep, and he didn't wake up until around Waxahachie. He was pretty upset, and I even missed my exit for 75, but we made it! Granny and Grandad were so excited to see him!








Granny will probably kill me for those; her patio is usually a lot neater, but I had to post every every every cute pic!








Granny decided to take some bread down to the pond and throw it in for the fish to come up and nibble. We had a good time watching all the teeny little perch swarm like piranhas around the frozen crumbs of bread. Some turtles joined in on the fun too, big bullies. Then some WHOPPER catfish started coming out of nowhere and stealing the bread. Compared to the tiny perch it was like a whale coming out of the water :) Many know my personal hatred of catfish. Granny suggested we get some poles and catch one! We walked back to the house, got some poles, got laughed at by Grandad for thinking we could catch one, and off we went. This is what happened.


(Those purplish looking things would be the fish.)

















Accidentally got a turtle :/
















Got him!!


















Throwing him back. Maybe next time Isaac comes he can catch it with Granny again :)


Granny holding up the fish that I caught. That's right, I'm gonna have him mounted! Just kidding, it was all catch and release. I'd like to add that I caught this goober with a plain jane old hook. No bait, just a hook. That's natural selection at its best.


Sharing Grandad's chair!







Granny has bathed most of the grandkids in her sink, and I didn't want her to miss out on that with the little Anthony.









Look at that face! Don't worry baby, mama hid all the private bits from the internet.




Once the little man would go to bed, Granny and I would sit up late playing card games she would teach me. I had a blast and would love it if we lived closer so Anthony could spend more time with them. Hopefully they'll make it down for his first birthday!

Faith's Newborn Shoot

I'm so thrilled for my first newborn shoot! Please head on over to the Whitney Lee blog and look!

Teaser...






Thanks y'all!

Shark Week

I planned to actually put up my Shark Week post during Shark Week, but you know how that goes. Anthony didn't understand my excitement. It's not like it's Christmas or a birthday, and I can't even say how many shows I got to watch since I was so busy, but this has so much nostalgia attached to it. My mom and I have been watching Shark Week for TWENTY YEARS, PEOPLE. That's a long time. And we would get all giddy and watch gruesome shark attack victims talk about their stories, and we'd discuss our fears time and time again. We'd freak each other out and constantly say, "whoa, did you see that?! Oh, did you see the woman who got attacked on yesterday's episode?!.." and on and on.

This is exciting because it's one of the traditions that I can hopefully continue with Anthony. There are so many he probably won't want to do that I had shared with my mom because they'll be "girly". But Shark Week has something for everyone! And I can't believe that Big Anthony didn't even know what Shark Week was or that it existed until we met. What planet has he been living on?! I'm glad he could step into the light, hehe!

I got the little man decked out for Shark Week, but he couldn't concentrate on holding the little shark (from his bath toys) while there was a camera around. That's right, he's got a shark onesie on, and that's not the only one he owns :)










Last Thursday, Auntie-Cousin Samantha came over, and we went out to Leander to go swimming. We were pretty pooped when we got back, and I ended up being a total lobster even though I had 50 sunblock on. WHAT?! Yes. And I'd like to note for the record that Samantha is laying on a pile of diapers :)











Son, drinking and driving is not cool. Not cool.