A New Addition!!!

We are so excited to have a new addition to our family!!!  This past weekend Beau's brother, Brent, got married to my now sister in law, Jess.  They decided to get married overlooking a waterfall near Asheville, North Carolina at Chimney Rock Park.  It was absolutely breathtaking!  We hiked up the mountain and at the waterfall, Jess changed into her wedding dress.  Not only was the scenery beautiful, but Jess looked amazing in her dress!  We only had one minor issue at the top of the mountain....ie....the zipper came completely off, but Jess was a trooper and her mom and sister pinned her up and they got married!!!  It was probably unnerving to Jess, but she held it together, had a positive attitude and was just ready to be married.  You go girl!  I would have lost it! 

I mean, she looked beautiful!!!

           All ready to get marrried!                                Right after they said "I do!"

Beau's parents

Us...

Jess and Brent got married on Friday and had the reception on Saturday with all of their friends and family.  It was an outdoor reception and it was beautiful! 

All the groomsmen......

Unfortunately, my pictures of the bridesmaids were all blurry....so if anyone has a picture they can send me, let me know!

I thought this was cute.....

And then, the cutting of the cake....

And some dancing by Beau, his mom, his dad and his grandmother....the band was wonderful!

Lastly, Brent serenaded Jess, and then Jess threw the bouquet to her 14 year old cousin! 

We had a great weekend celebrating and look forward to many years to come!

Fun times!

This summer has been full of excitement, traveling (mostly to the beach) and learning.  We just got home from a large family trip to Galveston, Texas.  It was my mom's family and they are tons of fun!!!  If you recall, we went to Lake Lure last year and decided to go somewhere farther this year....so that meant Henry would ride on an airplane for the first time!  The airplane was definitely an event....we were supposed to leave on July 2nd at 2:45 and fly into Houston....well, the weather in Houston was awful and we were delayed and delayed again and delayed again!  We actually left the airport, came home and let Henry take a nap and went back....and were delayed again.  We did not end up leaving until 7:45 and did not get to Galveston until midnight.  It was a long day!  However, it was all worth it because we had a great time.  Henry loved the airplane.  He had no trouble adjusting, but wanted to run the up and down the isle.  That was the only problem we had.  On the way home he was excellent!  He watched Yo Gabba Gabba with the ipod ear phone in his ear for about 45 minutes, took a 45 minute nap and played for the rest of the time.  He was my angel!  I am sure I would have had a nervous breakdown if he had been horrible!

As of today, Henry has learned more than just the word truck.  We now have: go go, mama, dada, car, rock, bye bye, juice, wa wa, and go go truck.  I think that is it, but I may be missing some???

Here is the family picture we took this year.  Would you like me to name everyone?

From the back top: Nikki and North, Aunt Co and Uncle John, Brigit and Collin, Uncle Jim, Meagan and Bill, Aunt Betty, me and Beau, Lori and John and their kids Justin, Noah (Anna is in the front in the red tee)

Next row: Patty and Grampa, Anna in between them, my dad, mom and Henry

As usual, Henry wanted nothing to do with me because          The younger cousins dug a tremendous

my mom was there and gives him the world,  so                     hole in the sand and Henry LOVED it!!!  

this is what she did her entire vacation.....                               They were so good with Henry and he loved

                                                                                                   them!

Here he is sitting in the hole....ie. his baby pool!

Henry has also found a new love....the hose!  He was soooooo happy playing with the hose and Anna was happy to spray him with it!

Bill and Uncle Jim cheesing it up for the camera!  Just kidding boys!

Henry has also decided he loves the beach, thank goodness.  Here are he and my dad one evening when it was my dads turn to entertain!

My baby is starting to look like a little boy!

.....and then of course I had to have a photo shoot on the beach.  I tried to take some good pictures, but I am still learning how to use my new lens so a lot of them came out blurry.  These are the ones I loved that were clearer.

Henry's Heaven

I can't think of a better title than Henry's Heaven!!!  We went to Beau's hunt club today to have some outdoor time, ride the four wheeler, do a little hiking and play on all of the other "trucks."  I don't think Henry has ever been more excited!  He was in his own heaven and enjoyed every second of this experience.  It looks like we will do this more often!!! 

He could not get to the "trrrrrUcks" fast enough (yes, that is how he says it).

We rode very carefully on Beau's four wheeler.  Henry LOVED it!!!

Then we did a little hiking.  Henry was not sure what we put him in, but ended up liking the ride!

"See the fishies Hen?"

"I am one cool dude!"

Henry and I on the tator (tractor).