Surprise!!!!!

So a month or so ago Owen and I were talking about how we needed to go visit GJ and Pops and thought it would be fun to surprise GJ for her birthday/Mother's Day weekend. With some help from Pops, Granbertha and Kelsey it remained a secret and I think GJ was super surprised!! We had a wonderful weekend full of some yummy food (some of our favorite restaurants are in Birmingham), catching up and great memories! We surprised Owen's Mom at a great restaurant that evening where I enjoyed a GIANT piece of cake....YUM! Saturday we ate at one of our favorite little places in Birmingham...Mr. P's and got to visit my favorite baby store...Buy Buy Baby!! That evening we went for a walk at Star Lake and Mayzie loved the ducks!! It was such a fun filled weekend and I was also so glad we got to see Grandbertha...she and Mayzie are big buddies!! :) We were sad to say bye on Sunday but are really looking forward to seeing everyone soon!!

Max and Mayzie

A week or so ago my sweet best bud Megan came in town to visit!! She lives in Oklahoma now and I miss her very much but being so far away makes it so much more fun when I get to see her (I'm trying to be a positive Polly here...) Anyways we were headed out of town that weekend so we didn't get to hang out as much as I would have liked but we got to see each other at church Wednesday and have a quick lunch Friday! I got a sweet picture that I've been wanting to get for a while of our Mom's with their new grandbabies! Mayzie and Max are only a couple of months apart and I've loved sharing this exciting time with Meg!! We can't wait till Sean, Megan and Max are all back and we can hang out longer!! Love you guys!!

Time for Tea!

So my sister, Katie's friend, Mary Morgan, works at this ADORABLE store in Franklin called Lulu's. Mom, Katie, Mayzie and I all had a fun shopping day in downtown Franklin which was also the day of the Royal Wedding. SO in honor of the wedding, Lulu's had a Royal Tea Party and of course we had to drop by!!! There was delicious tea, yummy snacks and of course Mayzie loved the pretty plastic silverware! :) We ended up sitting across from two women from Great Britain (I know...how cool was that?!?) and chatted all about Kate and how great they thought she was! We had such a fabulous afternoon and can't wait till Lulu's has another fun event!! Thanks again for inviting us Mary!!

Here Comes Peter Cottontail!

We had an absolutely fabulous first Easter with our Mayzie. I have ALWAYS loved Easter. I have such happy memories of fun frilly dresses, beautiful Spring weather, church with sweet family, delicious cooking from my amazing Granny and Easter egg hunts on the farm. I cannot begin to describe how exciting it was to start those same memories with our baby girl! We started the weekend meeting the Easter bunny at our church's Easter Eggstravaganza and dying eggs the Saturday before! Mayzie just loved the Easter bunny and was a little confused about the egg dying but I think she had fun!!

We woke up Sunday morning and were so excited to show Mayzie what the Easter bunny brought! Owen and I had so much fun picking out her fun gifts and had a little bet going. I wanted to get her a 'Sophie' teething giraffe and he got her a remote...yup...a remote. We were curious about which she would go for first. I'll let you watch the video at the end of the post to see what she did!

Later that day we met up with my family. My parents had gotten Mayzie her 2nd Easter basket of the day and she loved it all!! We took some sweet pictures and headed off to Greenbriar to spend the afternoon on the farm with more wonderful family!! My grandmother is an AMAZING cook and we let Mayzie try some of it this time and boy was it a HIT! I have SO many happy memories at my Grandparents and am so thankful for them! Granny and Grandaddy got her ANOTHER Easter basket too!! She still plays with the little duck from this basket all the time!! After all our food had settled we had a quick Easter Egg hunt inside because it had started to storm. My sweet Momma had put together some fun Easter eggs full of puffs, small toys and little phrases like "Aunt Kate loves you!" (She had one from everyone at lunch that day). We had such a wonderful wonderful day and I can't wait till next year when she can run around and tell us all about Peter Cottontail!