One Year Pictures

Love all of these pictures!

Thank you to Carrie Friesen for sharing her incredible talent.  

(http://cfriesen.blogspot.com)

ATL

Summer Vacation 4 of 4

Atlanta

Callie has been quite the traveler this summer!  This time we made a short weekend trip to Atlanta and slammed a lot of things into two and a half days.

We visited Aunt Lauren at Atlantic Station for "Food Truck Fridays".

We got to see where Lauren works, meet some of the people she works with, and of course, eat frozen yogurt, which Callie loves!

While Aunt Lauren worked on Friday afternoon, Mama D, Callie, and I went to visit Mama Betty.  Callie had so much fun playing with Mama Betty.  She crawled around her apartment, read books, sat on her lap and played "this little piggy", and had a great time.  I'm so glad Mama got to spend some time with Callie!

Atlanta has such good food and we had a delicious dinner both nights we were there.  Thursday night we got take out from Houstons so Callie could go to bed on time.  On Friday night, went to a great burger place called Kaleidoscope where I had the best pimento cheeseburger ever.

Saturday morning we met Carrie and her mom for brunch at West Egg - again, delicious food!

Callie ate a big breakfast and then had fun playing with her toys while we chatted.

We squeezed in some pool time while waiting to go to the airport.  Callie still loves the water!

Finally it was time to pick up Auntie Em at the airport!  Emi had been at Kanakuk for eight weeks and we were so ready for her to come home!

Callie was very excited to see her Auntie Em.

We were so happy to have all of the sisters together again.

After a fun-filled weekend, it was time to head home.  Callie was so wound up from all of the excitement she did not go to sleep, but instead talked the whole way home and played games with her Nuk with Auntie Em.

A few weeks at home and then football season kicks off.  Clemson here we come... Go Tigers!

Charleston Vacation

Summer Vacation 3 of 4
Isle of Palms

Aunt Lauren here on behalf of Tiff (and Callie.) 

Back in July (apologies for the delayed post) we went on vacation to Charleston, SC.  I, of course, was thrilled to spend 6 days and nights with my precious niece.

Lots of swimming, (sand) eating, napping and sand-castle building took place.

By the end of the week, Callie was so tan she had to wear long sleeves.  She didn't need any more sun - she was tanner than me!

But that didn't stop her from swimming in the ocean.

We went to the Charleston Children's Museum one afternoon and Callie wanted to play with everything! She was so cute (when isn't she so cute??).

SS CALLIE

Callie went to the grocery store...

Played with a few boats...

and even let Mom have some R&R (you will have to ask Tiff why that is an oxymoron).

Bryan had a few days of good wind and got to kiteboard.  Callie knows that is her Daddy and she loves to wave at the kite.

One night we went to dinner at P.F. Changs (delicious, by the way), and Callie read her book (upside-down) while we waited for our food.

We got to spend some quality time with PawPaw and Mama D.  Thanks for everything!

It was an overall great week with the fam!

One Year Old

Happy Birthday Callie!

I cannot believe that it was a year ago that we were in the hospital with Callie Grace.  This year has been absolutely wonderful and I could not have imagined anything better.  Callie has blessed our lives in more ways than I can count.  I am so grateful that God gave us such an amazing little girl.  

We had lunch at the Yacht Club with Mama D and PawPaw.  They were so happy that Callie came for her birthday, and they gave her a hat to celebrate.  She wore it the entire time we were there.

Then we had both of the families over for dinner.  Bryan grilled out and we had a great big family dinner.  It was so nice that Callie ate everything that we were having and I didn't have to fix her any other food.  After dinner, Callie opened presents - so many presents!

Gigi and Big Daddy gave us a special memory book with pictures from her first year.  

Mama D and PawPaw got her a table and two chairs for her bedroom.  She loves to sit at the table and read books and play.  She will be doing school work before I know it!

Callie had so much fun opening all of her other gifts from everyone in the family.  Thank you to everyone who gave her such wonderful gifts!

After opening presents, it was time for cake!  

At first, she did not love the feeling of cake on her hands...

but once she got a taste of the chocolate, there was no stopping!

This one is my favorite...

Even with all of that sugar, she slept great.  It was a fun birthday night!  On Saturday, we had a pool party with all of her (our) friends.  It was a gorgeous day and Callie had so much fun in the pool.  I think she was in the pool for almost 2 hours and she did not want to get out when it was time to go!

Thank you to everyone who made Callie's first birthday so great!  And thank you for all of the amazing presents.  I had to rearrange her closet to make room for all of the new things!  (How many shoes does she have by the way?!  A girl after my own heart.)

Happy Birthday Callie!