Ya'll Ready For This?

It has been a busy and exciting last few weeks. Florida was great! We were able to spend lots of time with family and friends and of course, made a trip for Elliott's first time to the beach! Everyone loved seeing Elliott. Linda (Preston's mom) spoiled Elliott rotten! But what are Grandmas for?! It was sweet to be able to see Preston's side of the family get to meet and interact with our little man.

This is an outfit that was Preston's when he was a baby. 

I was able to spend some good ole' quality gal time while I was there with Lease (lisa) Delayna, and Larissa. Larissa was taking the picture. Of course, we HAD to go to silverspoon! Lease and I use to go there ALL the time for the mozzarella stars...apparently, now they are triangles. Lame, I know. It was so great to be able to have some Lease time. She has been my best friend for almost 20 years! Sounds kinda crazy that I am that old that I have a friend that I have known that long.

And of course, the BEACH!!

I had bought this WAY cute matching bathing suit and beach hat for Elliott, then I lost the hat and had to buy a new one...of course, I found the matching hat that I had originally bought about 1 hour after we got back from the beach. Figures.

I LOVE those trunks and even more so the boy in them! Check out those pecks!

Jack (Lisa's son) fell in love with Elliott. Rather obsessed actually. It was cute.

We were able to meet up with one of Preston's childhood friends as well. She just so happens to have a baby about 1 month older than Elliott. AND he just so happens to look very similar to Elliott. So...

We thought that they should embrace...turns out...

Neither of them enjoyed it.

Besides enjoying what Preston and I still think of as home, 

I have been working quite a bit on this..

That's right! I finally have developed this talent! These are just two of the books I have done so far. I have sold a few on etsy and also at a craft show that Brooke and I did together. It was four days long and it was NOT the kind of craft show we were hoping for...We were hoping it would be more like an "etsyish" fair..but it turned out to be more of a "wow, look at that! ANOTHER painted, wooden beehive!" kind of fair. As you can imagine, our stuff wasn't as appreciated as it might have been at an "etsyish" type of fair, but people still really liked Brooke's pendants. She made a killing! 

This was our booth. Preston described it very well. He said that our booth was more urban/cityish, and the rest of the fair was 100% country. 

The whole experience over all was great. It was really nice to be able to spend so much time with brooke too. We will be doing it again, but at more "etsyish" shows. I'm excited for that. The next one is in less than a month..I gotta get a move on and make more books so people can buy them!