Happy Birthday Pop Pop!!

Walker and I wanted to say "Happy Birthday" to the best Dad and Pop Pop in the world. Happy Birthday Pop Pop!! We wish we were with you to celebrate and we can't wait to see you soon!

A Pirate's Life Is NOT For Me!!

It was Pirate Day at the county library this past Saturday. There were pirate hats, pirate swords, and even pirate parrots. We went to the library to celebrate Pirate Day and Walker decided "a pirate's life is Not for me." All Walker wanted to do is read books and play with the toys at the library. So instead of showing you cute pirate pictures with Kate!!, Gabe and Daydee Madeline, below you will find pictures of Walker enjoying the librarie's "Pirate-less" Day.







This is just a goofy picture of Walker with his new Oscar the Grouch hat. It is so cute. It has pom-poms on top. Of course the psycho smile is still a Walker favorite.

Happy Birthday Big Boy, Gabe!

This weekend we celebrated Baby Gabe's 1st Birthday! Now we have to call him Big Boy Gabe. It has been such an honor to watch him grow over the past year and we hope to celebrate many more birthdays with him. I have a feeling that it won't be too much longer before Walker and Gabe are good car buddies as I think they are both budding engineers.

We had a wonderful weekend but sadly, I left my camera at home charging and missed the photos but enjoyed all of the festivities. Deanna, Jon, Kate and Gabe, thanks for including us in your celebrations.

As I don't have any great photos from the weekend, I wanted to include a few photos of Gabe from this year... My, how he's grown.


Baby Gabe at Walker's 2nd birthday. (What a little fellow).


Look at how tall he' s gotten!

What a sweetie face.


Walker at 1. How time flies!

Like Brain Surgery... Kind of

This weekend Nathan began the restoration project on his Mustang. As you probably already know, the roof of Nathan's car was crushed a few weeks ago by a falling limb. This weekend Nathan and his friend, Thomas, took the top off of a junk-yard Mustang and fused it onto the top of his old Mustang. I guess it was kind of like brain surgery, if you are using a welding torch to conduct the surgery. There is still a long rode ahead for Nathan and his car but it was exciting to see the first steps.

The semi-finished product.

The transplant donor car.

The welding site.

Belated Labor Day Doings

We had a wonderful Labor Day weekend! First came a visit from Meemaw and Pop Pop. They drove all the way from Alabama to spend a little time with their favorite person on earth... Little Dude-o.
Friday night, when they arrived, Walker was so excited to show Meemaw and Pop Pop his ducks and his playground. Saturday we took a leisurely trip to Fernandina Beach and ended our night at the waterfront park where Walker and Meemaw danced the evening away on the pier.
Sadly, Meemaw and Pop Pop had to cut their trip short as Hurricane Fay raced towards the Alabama coast but we know that we will see them again soon.
Monday we enjoyed the Catfish Festival with Kate!!, Griffin, Grayson and Daydee Madeline. We had a great time representing Classic Cleaners, Camden's Best Cleaners on the CC float. I love to watch Walker interact with his beloved Kate!!. When they first got onto the float together, I heard him say "Kate, want juice?" I realized that he was offering his little date a refreshment... how darling!!

Meemaw and Pop Pop feed the ducks.

Little-dude-o teaches Meemaw how to hurl bread.

Walker loves to ting on the tings.

Daddy and Dude-o take and evening stroll.

Walker checks out the boats.

Walker and Meemaw enjoy the sea breeze.

and do a little dancing.


Catfish Photos
It was so muggy my camera fogged up but I thought this was a cute picture anyway.

The Three Amigos (I promise the boys are not crying out because of Kate's vulcan death grip.. they were just excited to hit the parade route.)

Daydee Madeline was born to ride on a float! She waved to her adoring fans through the whole parade route.


We had a fabulous Labor Day and can't wait to see Meemaw and Pop Pop again soon!