We are so excited to become an Aunt and Uncle again! Kelsey and DR welcomed their second son, Jude, on April 24th.
getting a little help from sister to see all the other little babies in the nursery
all of the Granger grandchildren!
the Granger boys
just as sweet as can be
When Levi was just over 3 months old, Kelsey and DR found out that they were going to have another baby! It was finally time to find out what they were having and Kelsey asked if I could watch Levi for them while they went to the Dr. to find out. The day before though we took a poll to see what everyone thought they would have, Callie and I guessed girl, Chloe and Vaughn guessed boy.
So that morning came and Levi went with us to school while they went to the Dr. Callie loved having him ‘take’ her to school!
A little later Kelsey came buy to pick Levi up and told me what they were having…
a BOY!
How fun!! Even though I guessed girl, a boy couldn’t be more perfect!
A little while later they settled on his name, Jude August Granger. He’ll be affectionately called JAG by his Aunt Erin :) Cannot wait to meet sweet JAG in early May!
The girls have really enjoyed sharing a room, however getting them to be sleeping angels take a little longer than it used to
I tried a new recipe from Pinterest, and it was YUMMY- Lasagna Soup
love our morning snuggles!
squeaky clean
Callie got her school pictures back 1. It’s my favorite so far 2. She’s just beautiful 3. She looks so much older that my heart hurts a little every time I look at it, in a good way
I broke down and we listened to our first Christmas song, Mariah Carey Christmas gets me every time!
no nap in bed = late afternoon cat nap on the couch
Hers and Hers rain boots
color blocking at it’s finest
Welcome to Moe’s! Gotta love a kids eat free lunch date with this lady
only to follow up with a “I’m not going to nap so I’m going to throw my self on the floor and cry for two hours” nap time
Right before Thanksgiving we had some of our friends from Nashville come into, love catching up with them!
Thanksgiving laziness at it’s finest with the Granger boys
House Divided! (Go Tigers!)
Before the game started, we were still friends
He made up for my loss, his victory, by treating us girls to OHOP
getting our tree!
my favorite pictures: Me, Callie, and Chloe with my dad when we were all 1 reading Forbes magazine
Christmas decorations exploded in our house
I ordered/bought Callie a pair of pants for the first time in probably a year. She said she liked them, now if she’ll wear them….
Levi got to come with us to school one morning while his mommy and daddy went to find out if he was having a brother or sister!
Chloe’s Birthday fell on a Thursday this year, which ended up being kinda nice.
Last night as a one year old
Callie woke up that morning with a ‘pink’ eye. I knew school wouldn’t take her unless we had a Dr.s note so we headed in to get it looked at. Thankfully it was just a little irritated by something and she was cleared to go to school- yay!
Chloe and I then headed out to the book store. I decided that from now on, on their birthday, we’ll buy a book to remember that day.
This year’s book, and the first book for our new tradition, was ‘Wherever You Are’ and it makes me about cry every time I read it. I love Nancy Tillman books
After some more running around, we went to pick up Callie and then headed back over to the pumpkin patch to celebrate with some friends with a picnic!
We even brought everyone a cupcake to share the fun
It was about to be nap time so we headed home to meet up with Kelsey and Levi. They got Chloe some baby doll accessories, and they were a HUGE hit!
nap time on the other hand was not a huge hit…. No nap for this birthday girl
Chloe wanted to celebrate that night with her friends and family at Mexican, so that’s what we did!
Our little girl is definitely loved!
Sweet girl passed out shortly after we got home. No nap and a PACT day finally caught up to her!
Love having this sweet girl grow in front of our eyes, but why does it go by so quickly? Here’s hoping that her next birthday doesn’t come as quickly as her second :)
Vaughn and I decided to take the girls apple picking today. We kept it a surprise until we pulled into the parking lot of Sky Top Orchards. On the way there we passed by some mountains and it was so neat to see the girls see mountains for the first time! Still not knowing where we were we joked that we drove all that way just to see the mountains, Callie didn’t find that was a very good treat. I had thought that one of them would have figured it out since I dressed them in matching apple shirts, but they had no clue and got SUPER excited when they realized what their treat was.
There was slight confusion because as you walked in they had pumpkins out, so of course we had to sit on most of them to take pictures
Then we got our buckets and headed out to the trees!
I LOVE fuji apples so we picked those first. We also picked some Granny Smith’s for Vaughn
Chloe had the best time helping her daddy! We had to teach her to be gentle with the apples (not throwing them in the bucket) so they wouldn’t bruise and be ‘yucky’
Callie was even able to climb up in the trees with Vaughn. I think that was the highlight of her day! So excited to be like her daddy
After we filled our buckets we headed to the petting zoo. We got to feed Sheep, goats and geese!
Next was the play ground. A perfect stop for us girls while Vaughn went an paid for our pickings.
After a little play time, Vaughn came back with some apple cider doughnuts. Melt in your mouth good.
We walked around a little more to check out all the apple goodies. Bought some apple honey and two little pumpkins to take home. I’m not sure who had the better time, me, Vaughn or the girls. As we pulled out of the parking lot I commented to V that I’m looking forward to this being a little Granger tradition. I love when we make new memories/traditions together and this seems to be one of the best. Now, just need to figure out what to do with the three bags of apples we have!
