More Chicago Baby

One more day of baby lovin (or maybe two) and then I'll show you what the adults were up to as well!

My Aunt Rocks - thats right!

This is the very first time Drew and I met!  Love at first sight!!  (doesn't he look happy with his Aunt Nikki?!)

And he loves his Uncle E

Bath time...(I see you over there Aunt Nikki!)

sweet sweet baby toes

I was one happy camper for these four days spoiling my nephew and enjoying our time together.  I can't wait to get back up there and see him again.  I miss him soo much already!

Chicago

This past weekend we finally got to meet my nephew!!  We flew to Chicago and spent four wonderful days getting to know Drew (and spoiling him - giving him lots of Aunt Nikki love and kisses) and enjoying time with Chad and Kelly.  I've got hundreds of pictures, so I'll just start with a highlight of the star of the show...

Drew

um....isn't he the SWEETEST?!?  I wanted to eat him up!  And he is such a good baby too!!  We had a GREAT time and I have ALOT more to show you, but for now, Drew with his Aunt Nikki (loving him up!)

Family Fun

This past weekend started a couple great weeks of Family Fun!!  This past weekend my little brother, Beck, and his girlfriend, Katie, stopped at our house on their Spring Break.  Augusta is not the most exciting place to entertain guests, so I was glad when I found a horse race for us to attend.  Katie is a horse person (so I had been told) and I was glad to have something fun planned!  It was a so-so day (it did get cloudy and VERY windy - little bit of rain) but we endured and had a lot of fun. 

We had a tailgating spot right near the starting line (which was fun - but made it hard to see the finish line!)

and, they're off!

Eric celebrating the event in true 'redneck' style.  (I love my beau, he makes me smile and laugh!)

Beck and Katie 

(omg - aren't they adorable?!?)

and the four of us...

We went and visited the stables a bit too - so pictureusque

I really enjoyed having my little brother in town and getting to spend time with him (and meeting Katie).

(miss you Beck!)

This weekend we go to see the other brother (and the baby!!  eek!  I'm sooo excited!)

Fickle Weather, Part II

So after the snow storm of the century, about two weeks later we were right back to normal (nice!) temperatures - high sixties and sunny!  What do you do when its finally sunny and nice?!?
You rake the yard of course...

Which takes HOURS if you haven't done it all year ...

Then finally if you get tired of raking, you start wrestling the dog...and right in a pile of pine needles that had already been raked up!!  Oh well - they had fun....

and he kept coming back for more...

Is it Spring where you are?!  What have you been doing?  :)

Fickle Weather

Before we get too far removed from it - my dad wanted to see the snow we had here in the South.  The last one didn't last too long and only amounted in about 1/2 inch of accumulation (and even then only in Edgefield and not five miles down the road).  But over Valentine's weekend we had the Blizzard of the year for SC.  INCHES (I'm talking five or six! of snow!!)

This is a pretty significant event here in the deep south.... so I'll (pretty much) let the pictures speak for themselves.  (Only noting that Eric was at home with the dog - who LOVES snow and went nuts playing in it, and I was in Bowman for my knitting weekend with the girls - so we had different perspectives)

At our house...

In Bowman

(it was so gorgeous b/c we were so far out and the snow was totally untouched!)

Friday night...

Saturday morning

Now its 74 degrees and gorgeous!  Although I did enjoy the novelty of the snow down here, I'm glad that the South I know and love (and adopted as home) has finally decided to make a reappearance.  More on that tomorrow.