Happy 1st birthday Grayson - July 24th

Baby G is 1....Can you believe that he is 1? I can't because it has flown by.....It has been a joy for us to watch Grayson grow in the last year. He has his own personality and can be a spit fire like his big brother.

Grayson is the sweetest baby but I am not sure what lies ahead in the toddler years. I am pretty certain that he might keep me on my toes.

The first birthday party was here at the house where we celebrated Cooper and Grayson's at the same time. Grayson loved his cupcake and made a total mess.

Then on his actual birthday - Brianna, Billy, Blake, Grayson, and I had dinner at Red Robin. I wanted to go somewhere where they would sing Happy Birthday. G wasn't sure what to think of all these people singing very loudly to him but he didn't cry.

For the final get together - we are going to NC this weekend and will be doing a family get together with Billy's side. So we will have 3 smaller events where as with Blake - we had a 1 big bash here at the house.

Here are some pictures from Round 1.

Grayson 1st birthday beer.... I promise it was empty and you know that his father was the one giving him the bottle. Grayson was proud of his 1st beer.

Miss Cooper being sweet as always and Grayson being full of it as always.....

Never a dull moment

So today we found out that Blake is going to have surgery again b/c he needs a 2nd set of tubes in his ears and then they are going to remove his adenoids. Most likely this will all occur at the end of August - I should know more tomorrow so I will keep everyone posted.

Blake had tubes put in right around his 1st birthday and they made a huge difference for him. He had only 1 ear infection in those 2 years but since they stopped being effective a few months ago and since then we have already had 3 ear infections....

White car has boo-boo....

Blake has a story to tell and this is how it goes.....

White car has boo-boo. White car go crash..4 cars go crash and bump. White car is sad. Black car happy. White car go to doctor because it needs a big band-aid. Police car and firetrucks come.

Blake ok, Grayson ok, Mommy ok, Brianna ok....everybody ok. White car sad...

So that pretty much sums up what happened on Saturday July 11th at 9pm. Long story short, we had to meet Billy and Russ in Marylad to take them some stuff while they were training. Most everything went wrong that night so we had to top it off with a 4 car accident that could have been taped for "COPS".

The car that started the 60 mph accident fled the scene. Occupants from the 2nd and 3rd vehicles were arrested (not sure for what yet but we were told to leave the scene). But all things considered - we are very lucky and the Suburban did its job by keeping us safe.

So here are some pictures of WHITE CAR SAD....

Alligator Adventure

I have to say that we were impressed with Alligator Adventure. Blake really wanted to go so we all went one night after dinner. There was a lot to see and Blake got to pet a baby alligator. Although Blake kept trying to convince me that we needed to take a lizard home. Ummm....no animals like that will ever find a home in the Conner household...

Beach Pictures

We had a great week at the beach with Billy's dad and Dianne. They were nice enough to have us down for an entire week and we enjoyed every minute of it. We had the best weather and it truly was a vacation. We managed to take over 300 pictures but I will spare everyone and not post all of them. There is nothing like being at the beach over the 4th of July.