We took a few hundred pictures of our day and a half there so I will try and narrow it down to the top 10 or 20 for you :-)
Birds of Prey show:
Butterfly Sanctuary:
Random other nature and cute pictures:
Monday, February 11, 2013
Callaway Gardens
At the beginning of November I had a conference to go to at the Callway Gardens Resort & Spa and I decided that Clay and Gavin should go with me and thankfully Clay agreed! I haven't been to Callaway Gardens since I was in elementary or middle school and I really couldn't remember a thing about it. Oh my goodness, it was so beautiful even in November! I can't imagine what it looks like during the spring and summer!
We took a few hundred pictures of our day and a half there so I will try and narrow it down to the top 10 or 20 for you :-)
Birds of Prey show:
Butterfly Sanctuary:
Random other nature and cute pictures:
We took a few hundred pictures of our day and a half there so I will try and narrow it down to the top 10 or 20 for you :-)
Birds of Prey show:
Butterfly Sanctuary:
Random other nature and cute pictures:
Guess Who is Potty Trained AND Sleeping in a Big Boy Bed!?!
Even though it is tax season and I am MONTHS behind in my blog posting, Clay and I are still keeping up with the parenting but only by the Grace of God, of course!
For those of you who don't know it, from my random posts on Facebook and such, Gavin is expecting a baby brother or sister in 25 weeks and 4 days! Thank you What to Expect countdown tracker :-). This pregnancy not only happened much quicker than expected but it has also had lots more of the horrible symptoms. And for you all that know me even remotely, you know I don't deal with feeling yucky very well or very quietly. So extra prayers for my most wonderful husband and my precious little boy would be MUCH appreciated by them I am sure :-).
So anyway, once we found out I was pregnant we figured out that there were several things that must be accomplished in the next few months. And not knowing how it would go I pressed for doing it sooner rather than later. And boy am I glad we did, not that Gavin didn't do a splendid job but now we get to reap the benefits of no diapers for even longer!!!
We started the potty training in earnest the Monday we got back from our annual trip to the mountains and haven't looked back since. Although I will say, before I figured out that I needed to set the microwave timer to remind us both to go potty that first weekend, I was worried we wouldn't make it.... We even made it through a weekend of the stomach virus with very few incidents. We haven't tried going to underwear at night yet, although I am pretty sure we could, I really wanted to wait until we switched him to a big boy bed so he could go to the potty on his own if he needed to in the middle of the night.
Since Gavin will be moving rooms and getting a whole new bed sometime before August, we knew we were going to have to bite the bullet and turn his crib back around so that it was a toddler bed before the transition to a twin. Last time we attempted this switch to a big boy bed was over a year ago and didn't go well AT ALL. He has been climbing out of his crib pretty much the entire past year but good sleep is WAY to important to all inhabitants of our house so we put off switching him around until it was absolutely necessary, meaning the cost of a new convertible crib set outweighed the possible loss of sleep.
Well I am overjoyed to report that we switched him back around on Saturday and he is actually sleeping longer now and going down easier than he was before! Praise God is all I can say because it wasn't anything we did to obtain this result!!
For those of you who don't know it, from my random posts on Facebook and such, Gavin is expecting a baby brother or sister in 25 weeks and 4 days! Thank you What to Expect countdown tracker :-). This pregnancy not only happened much quicker than expected but it has also had lots more of the horrible symptoms. And for you all that know me even remotely, you know I don't deal with feeling yucky very well or very quietly. So extra prayers for my most wonderful husband and my precious little boy would be MUCH appreciated by them I am sure :-).
So anyway, once we found out I was pregnant we figured out that there were several things that must be accomplished in the next few months. And not knowing how it would go I pressed for doing it sooner rather than later. And boy am I glad we did, not that Gavin didn't do a splendid job but now we get to reap the benefits of no diapers for even longer!!!
We started the potty training in earnest the Monday we got back from our annual trip to the mountains and haven't looked back since. Although I will say, before I figured out that I needed to set the microwave timer to remind us both to go potty that first weekend, I was worried we wouldn't make it.... We even made it through a weekend of the stomach virus with very few incidents. We haven't tried going to underwear at night yet, although I am pretty sure we could, I really wanted to wait until we switched him to a big boy bed so he could go to the potty on his own if he needed to in the middle of the night.
Since Gavin will be moving rooms and getting a whole new bed sometime before August, we knew we were going to have to bite the bullet and turn his crib back around so that it was a toddler bed before the transition to a twin. Last time we attempted this switch to a big boy bed was over a year ago and didn't go well AT ALL. He has been climbing out of his crib pretty much the entire past year but good sleep is WAY to important to all inhabitants of our house so we put off switching him around until it was absolutely necessary, meaning the cost of a new convertible crib set outweighed the possible loss of sleep.
Well I am overjoyed to report that we switched him back around on Saturday and he is actually sleeping longer now and going down easier than he was before! Praise God is all I can say because it wasn't anything we did to obtain this result!!
The Rock Ranch
Last month a friend of mine blogged about a family trip they took to the Rock Ranch about 45 minutes from their home in Macon. And I thought to myself, we should SO do that!! I was dragging Clay and Gavin to Callaway Gardens while I attended a conference so we decided just to head up a day early and spend it at the Rock Ranch.
Gavin attempting the spider web
This super cool slide built into the side of a hill. Mommy just had to give it a shot....
Next we decided to destroy some pumpkins! I highly recommend coming after Halloween for this reason, they have tons of fun ways to destroy all of the pumpkins!
It was an absolutely beautiful day! I wish I had have worn shorts because it ended up being really warm for November.
Gavin attempting the spider web
This super cool slide built into the side of a hill. Mommy just had to give it a shot....
Next we decided to destroy some pumpkins! I highly recommend coming after Halloween for this reason, they have tons of fun ways to destroy all of the pumpkins!
Thursday, December 6, 2012
October part 2
In my last post I actually skipped a day, Gavin's Farmer Brown party, which is his school's version of Halloween and the Homecoming parade.
Gavin all dressed up as a farmer
Everybody sitting quietly having their food. I couldn't believe that they had their party at 9:30 in the morning with all of that sugar!! Craziness!!
This was Gavin while we were waiting for Corky and Ashlyn to get to the Homecoming parade, silly boy!
I sure do love these boys!!!
Gavin had a fantastic time catching candy and asked about it for the next few weeks. Every afternoon when I would pick him up he would say, "No go home Mommy, go catch candies" and then when I would tell him that there wasn't a parade, he would scream.... Fun times :-) Good thing Halloween came up quick so we could end his association of parades and candy.
The weekend before Halloween, we went to Atlanta to see the Richards and McCrarys, we didn't take many pictures but Clay did get a few of the kids playing on the trampoline together while all the Dads watched and the Moms went out to lunch :-).
Those kids have SO much fun together!! It is such a blessing!
That Sunday after our long drive home we went to the Fall Festival at our church. Gavin wasn't really in a great mood and all the different people kind of freaked him out for a little while but he eventually got into it. What a cute little giraffe he was!!
He never hesitated, not even for a second!!
In the Bouncy house with all of his "girl" friends. I think I am going to have to watch him close as he gets older, haha!
The following Tuesday was Halloween and we went to the Altman's to have a little party and let all the kids trick-or-treat together. It was a lot of fun, it is so nice to have friends with kids who are close to Gavin's age that he enjoys playing with.
Gavin thought he had hit the jackpot with all of the toys in the playroom. He could have cared less that they were all "girl" toys. New toys are fantastic toys to him either way!
Playing with his best friend the parrott
First house
Getting game-plan instructions from Jesse
Great friends!! So sweet and cute!
And THAT my friends wraps up our crazy October!!! November is next and it was just as busy if not more so!
Gavin all dressed up as a farmer
Everybody sitting quietly having their food. I couldn't believe that they had their party at 9:30 in the morning with all of that sugar!! Craziness!!
This was Gavin while we were waiting for Corky and Ashlyn to get to the Homecoming parade, silly boy!
I sure do love these boys!!!
The weekend before Halloween, we went to Atlanta to see the Richards and McCrarys, we didn't take many pictures but Clay did get a few of the kids playing on the trampoline together while all the Dads watched and the Moms went out to lunch :-).
That Sunday after our long drive home we went to the Fall Festival at our church. Gavin wasn't really in a great mood and all the different people kind of freaked him out for a little while but he eventually got into it. What a cute little giraffe he was!!
It NEVER ceases to amaze me that Gavin shows no fear of heights!! He is in front of that little girl with the blue jacket on!
He never hesitated, not even for a second!!
In the Bouncy house with all of his "girl" friends. I think I am going to have to watch him close as he gets older, haha!
The following Tuesday was Halloween and we went to the Altman's to have a little party and let all the kids trick-or-treat together. It was a lot of fun, it is so nice to have friends with kids who are close to Gavin's age that he enjoys playing with.
Gavin thought he had hit the jackpot with all of the toys in the playroom. He could have cared less that they were all "girl" toys. New toys are fantastic toys to him either way!
Playing with his best friend the parrott
First house
Getting game-plan instructions from Jesse
Great friends!! So sweet and cute!
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