November 2014 Highlights

I have gotten so far behind on this blog and I am trying to catch up before my baby is born.  I hope ya'll enjoy these highlights from our last few months!

We had a fun November and enjoyed the nice weather.  

Grayson likes to play General Conference (a semi-annual meeting of our whole church).  He will get up on his T-ball stand and then he starts conducting the meeting.  He usually says he is Pres Monson (our prophet) or Pres Uchtdorff (another church leader), then he talks about something or he says the choir will be singing now.  It is pretty funny.  He will try and get his friends to play with him too and they will take turns speaking or playing.

Grayson absolutely loves going hiking with his daddy!  This is my favorite picture from on of their hikes.  As you can see, Grayson had to wear a hat and a vest just like his daddy.  

Going through the corn maze at the Botanical Gardens.

We went to the Huntsville Botanical Gardens with Trevor's mom when she was visiting.  They had a fun scarecrow exhibit and we had a fun time looking at all the different kinds of scarecrows they had.  Grayson had his favorite vantage point, from his dad's shoulders.  He used to be scared of being up so high, but more and more he can't get enough of riding on Trevor's shoulders.  Sometimes when Trevor puts Grayson to bed at night, he will even want to sit on his shoulders while they read stories together.  

Enjoying the hammocks.

Captain Grayson steering the ship.

Grayson, Trevor's mom and I went for a hike on the nature trail up on Green Mountain.  He found some acorns and was really excited.  We had to take a break on our walk and sit down and play with some cool acorns.

We have loved our membership at the Chattanooga Aquarium.  We took a trip up in November with our good friends, the Willes.  It is such an amazing aquarium and we have a great time whenever we go.

Watching the otters swim.

Fun shots with the penguins.

I was organizing clothes one day because Grayson was getting to big for his current size so I had to find the next size up and see what still fit.  He got very excited with the boxes of clothes and proceeded to try on as many outfits at one time as he could get on.  I think he was wearing three shirts and at least three pants when I took this picture.  We had several 'wardrobe' changes that day.

There was a kick off to the holiday season at a beautiful outdoor mall nearby and we decided to go with our friends the Willes.  They lit a big Christmas tree, there were fireworks and all sorts of fun things.

Grayson was not thrilled about being there.  I think this is a great Scrooge face.  Made me laugh.

Took a walk on a nice Saturday and we decided to go to a park we had never been to before.  We stopped to give Grayson a picnic lunch when he got hungry and had some visitors drop by.   These ducks were not scared of anything!  They came right out of the water as soon as we sat down and were very intent on stealing Grayson's peanut butter and jelly sandwich.  Grayson, at first, was sitting on the bench and when he had has sandwich down by his side while he was chewing, the duck reached out and tried to eat it out of his hand.  Thus we see why Grayson is now sitting on top of the table and he was not happy with those sandwich thieving ducks.

The super hero cape goes with us lots of  places.

There is an awesome nature trail nearby and it gets the best puddles after it rains, so we had to by one day and play in the puddles after a storm.  This kid love playing in puddles.

He found some stickers and so we both got decorated.

November was a good month.  We spent Thanksgiving day with my family and had a big lunch at my parent's house.  We have a lot to be thankful for.

October 2014

Lots of fun things happening in October!  We had fun decorating for Halloween and we got a giant orange spider that was hanging out outside our door.  

                                                    

Grayson helped me decorate our house and he loved finding his old costumes, hence the hobbit cloak.  He had been telling me for weeks that he wanted to be Spider Man for Halloween and then the day of Halloween says he wants to be a knight.  I told him we had two costume options: Spider Man or a hobbit and he chose a hobbit.  Fine with me, it was warmer anyway and Halloween turned out to be quite a cold and rainy day.

Enjoying General Conference at the beginning of the month.  We make a picture board for General Conference with different things that might be discussed during the coarse of Conference.  Then when Grayson hears the topic mentioned he can find the picture on his board.  

This is what happens when I let him paint while I'm trying to get some things done.  Oh well, at least it was washable paint.

A definite highlight of the month was a surprise visit from our dear friend's Jane and Calvin who are in their last year at law school.  They came down to spend their Fall Break with us and we had such an amazingly fun time with them.

We went to Cathedral Caverns which was a lot of fun.  The tour was really fun and we even got a nice small tour group because there were so many people the day we went they had to create a new tour time.

Grayson taking a little yoga break while our tour guide was talking.

Grayson's favorite part was a huge stalagmite named Goliath.  He kept asking to go back and see it after we passed it.  We also got to go see the Unclaimed Luggage Store in Scottsboro and show our friend's the awesomeness there.

Grayson absolutely loves our friend's little baby, Benedict.  He would literally sit and watch him sleep.  

He was so impatient for Benedict to wake up from his nap.

Of course he has to do exactly what Calvin is doing.

We took our friend's on a tour of downtown Huntsville and then met Trevor for lunch.

Walking through historic and beautiful Maple Hill Cemetary

The boys taking a break.

After walking through Maple Hill Cemetery we walked through some of the beautiful neighborhoods in the historic part of town, Twickenham and then went to a beautiful park and fed some ducks.

He was trying to pet the ducks but they were not interested.

We met Trevor for lunch by his work and had a great time.  

I could not get enough of this cute boy!

Grayson loved to take his turn to hold Benedict.

Grayson was being a special helper!

The next day we spent out at my parent's cabin in Tennessee.  Calvin tried his hand at some fishing and was pretty successful too!

   

Calvin's awesome catch!

Jane and Benedict enjoying the relaxing atmosphere.

We took turns taking out the kayak and I got to have a snuggle with Benedict.  We had a fun day and it was so great to have our awesome friends come and visit us.

We got to go on an overnight camping trip one weekend.  It was just our family and we had a great time.  Grayson was beside himself with excitement.  We roasted some hot dogs and marshmellows.  

Grayson was practicing his photography skills.

Our camp site!

Grayson helped Trevor set up the tent and he absolutely loved playing in it. 

In the morning we went for a short hike and Grayson insisted on wearing his pajamas and all his warm clothes from the night before.  He was wearing two pairs of pants and two shirts.  I at least got him to take his hat off.

The weather was beautiful and we had a fun hike.  It's hard to believe that this camp site is about five minutes up the street from our apartment.

Our highlight of the month of October, however, was a trip down to Montgomery to see Trevor get sworn into the Alabama bar.  Trevor's mom came into town and my parents were able to take the trip with us also.  The ceremony was really special and I felt so proud of the amazing accomplishments my husband has made.

Grayson was very excited to walk with his daddy.

The ceremony itself was run just like a session of the Alabama Supreme Court.  Overall it was a very cool experience.

Trevor got to pick up his official certificate after the ceremony and Grayson insisted on carrying around the temporary paper they actually passed out on the stage.

We are so blessed to have Trevor in our life!  He worked so incredibly hard and has had some amazing accomplishments.  We went to a tasty dinner with our family afterwards.  Grayson had our server wrapped around this little fingers as always, she brought him a whole plate of olives when she found out he liked them.  We had such an eventful and really fun month.