The one with the SURPRISE!!!

This weekend was cuz Jason's surprise party. He thought he was having a nice romantic weekend with his girlfriend Laura in the North Georgia Mountains cabin... however she was planning for 20 of his closest friends to be there to surprise him Saturday. She did a fantastic job organizing it and getting everyone there, and we all did a fantastic job keeping our big mouths shut for a month!! No one spilled the beans and everyone was there on time. They went horseback riding that morning so we all had to be at the cabin pretty early to be there when they returned. Laura blind folded Jason when they left that morning to each of their destinations. Surprises are the funnest, especially when the surprisee isn't expecting it!! Needless to say Jason had NO IDEA!! We got him good!!! That day we hung out in the river, ate lots of food and doin what mid 20 year olds do best... corn hole and brewskis. It was such a blast and a great change of scenery. Josh and I are thinking of renting this cabin out again when family comes in town. It was gorgeous, 2 stories, 4 bedrooms, hot tub, kitchen, huge porch.... I mean this place had it all, right on the river.

Hubsters got him good! Happy Birthday Cuzo

Grandma Kay and Captain were here Thursday thru Saturday morning. We had a great time with them.... eating lots of great food and drinking lots white wine! Their stay was short but sweet. We had some quality family time with GK learning the secrets to marriage! Thank you for sharing your wisdom :) They also took us to babies-r-us and got us all the goods to baby proof. Cooper is all over the place, so we gotta lock up those kitchen cabinets now before anything happens!!

Story time with GGK!!

Josh leaves this weekend for Germany so we are trying to get in some quality family time.... as usual tonight was Mexican Mondays!! I'm starting to rethink this though.... I always eat wayyyyyyyy to much. I can't stop eating those beef tacos. Maybe more than one prego craving still resides in me!

Have a great week y'all! LOVE

The one with the little visitor....

So I walked outside the other morning to water the flowers and plants (shocker) and I noticed we had a little visitor, a turtle!!! He was so darn cute. I wanted to keep him as a pet for Cooper. He brought back memories of my childhood when I found Mrytle. Mrytle was my turtle I found in our front yard when we lived of Lamarshaw Rd. I kept him and took him in, well my parents took him in. I fed him on occassion but you know how cleaned the cage :)  Anyway, we let him go some time after in my grandparents lake. I begged Joshua to keep him, but he said, well you have to take care of him and clean the cage.... I said forget it, so who knows where our little visitor is now... Maybe he's the one eating my flowers.

The one where we play catch up....

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I've been a bad bad blogger again!! Shame on me! We've had so much company in a out lately it has taken me forever to sit down and write. Cooper is already walking it has been that long!! Ha, got ya, but he is actively crawling gaining speed and just this week has learned to pull up on things. Josh says he will be taking a few steps by the end of the month. He is probably right, Cooper is 8 months old today. OMG where has the time gone? I swear I was just preggers! Maybe I wish I was preggers so my weird mayo craving would make total sense. For some reason that is the only craving that stuck with me!

So, let's see, a lot has happened over these past few weeks... My mom and dad and grandparents came to visit while I was off a week (unpaid, blah!!), we had Curt and Diane's just married partayyy, Aunt K and Uriah came to visit, Erin and Ben came for the 4th and Grandma Kay and Dick are coming tomorrow. We've had lots of company to keep us busy. If yall weren't here, we would be there, so it's a nice change to have family and friends here.... We love entertaining, so who is next??? Just bring your own sheets, so I don't have to do any more laundry!!! JUST KIDDING. I just hope I can get a little caught up before the weekend so you folks still tune into my blog.

We are always working on small renovations to the house. Currently our "new" thing is to restore furniture by recovering and painting. My grandparents gave us a piece similar to a buffet table that we have been working on. We kept the original stained top of the table, but sanded and painted a kind of a vintage look to it on the legs and will be adding new knobs. I think it really pops on the green wall and adds a different dimension to the downstairs.

What do you think of the table?? The rest of the photos are from the weeks past. I was selective with the photos... we've taken around 300 pictures, so I tried to get a few of my favorite ones! Please enjoy.

Now this is what you call some family bonding time!!! 


LOVE

The one with Fathers Day

Happy Fathers Day to my husband, dads, granddads and great granddads! Josh had a great fathers day!!! I wanted to make this day memorable for Josh. I think Cooper knew what day is was because he was excellent and so happy all day long. Of course I woke up and made breakfast! Thats only my favorite meal to make and eat :)

That day we ventured down to the city for the day starting at the Redstripe Midsummer music festival. It was fairly overcast all day so it was pretty comfortable for all of us to sit out side. We sat in the lawn and listened to a few bands, had a few brewskis and bbq and let Coop man crawl around the grass. It was so relaxing and enjoyable. We discovered we needed cup holders on the stroller for our beers . It would make multitasking a lot easier. We also had tickest to the Braves game. It was our first Braves game together as a fam! Coop loved the game. He was a total people watcher. When he is able to see the players, I am sure he'll be a huge fan!! Whenever the crowd cheered it would startle him, his eyes would get real big and he'd make a sad face for about 2 seconds then go back to the happy baby that you all know! We sat in the Chop house during the first part of the game. The sun was out when we got in the game, and was too hot to sit in, so we were in the shade. The storms came rolling in about the 4th innning and there was a game delay. When the rain stopped we left because rain truly had not stopped. The sky looked so ominious we ran for the car and headed home for a fathers day steak dinner!!

This is why we ran to the car!!

Happy First Day of Summer, longest day of the year! LOVE

The one with the storm...

I never knew why my parents always wanted it to rain so badly every afternoon until I owned my own home.... FREE WATER!!! Every day we get home Josh sets up the sprinklers and I water the plants. When I walk out of work, I scan the sky for rain clouds. These past few weeks have been dry as a bone. I know you Floridians have been battling a similar situation. Well, finally last night, prayers were answered and it rained, and what I really mean is it STORMED. It poured for hours, just what our Georgia grass and flowers needed. The rain didn't stop Josh. He is a man that loves to grill!!! DELISH!!!!

The one with the weekend projects....

ELOOO!!! Happy Sunday everyone :) Another weekend come and gone.... Don't they just fly by? After 2 consecutive trips to Home Depot in one day, Josh started and finished the walls for the bars in the basement! The project was a lot easier than he thought and didn't take that long to complete. I think he can take on anything down there. The next project is frame a few closets and hang some doors, before the dry wall. The dry wall we will NOT be doing ourselves.

While Josh did his manly building in the basement, I had my own girly fun. I painted the front family room and sewed some pillows. Just call me Martha Stewart. We are slowly adding color to different rooms in the house, so it doesn't look like you are walking into the same room. I also had to order the fabric for the window treatments. I will be making the curtains for this room too. Curtians plus a few more pillows and that'll do it for this room... except for the wall decor, but it's always so hard to find things we like.

I know you are dying to know about Coop. He had his own fun crawling around the house bumping his head on the table, chairs and walls and drooling all over the hardwood floors. I am not going to be able to keep the floors clean enough, EVER. He is so mobile now its awesome though. He wanted to be held so badly before and now that he can explore new things himself he loves it. He also loves the pool! We took him over to our friends Saturday afternoon. He is definitely an outdoors kinda kid, thank goodness. He isn't cranky whatso ever when he is out there, probably because he gets so much attention from all the ladies :)