Weekend Wrap-up!

It's officially Tuesday which means our fabulous long weekend has finally come to an end.  As busy as we've been, I can't believe I'm actually still awake, but I wanted to get this post out tonight in case I don't have time to tomorrow.  I know the grandparents anxiously check the blog every morning looking for a new post so I want to make sure they've got one!!

As you have probably seen, I posted a couple videos of Austin crawling, a skill which he officially mastered this weekend along with saying da-da and ba-ba for the first time!!  It's been such a fun and crazy weekend and I feel like we've taken another giant leap into the world of parenting.  More on that later however....right now I just want to update on our weekend adventures and share a few great pictures.

On Saturday we traveled to Anderson to visit with friends Aaron and Jeff for a Memorial Day cookout.  We were hoping to do a little swimming too, but the weather didn't quite cooperate and the pool was far too cold!  We did have some great food, drinks and fun with our good friends who are celebrating their 1 year wedding anniversary this coming week!  As you can see here, I was 19 weeks pregnant with baby Austin when they were married!

Sunday was another fun day as we ventured out to Freedom Weekend Aloft in Simpsonville to try and catch a glimpse of the hot air balloons taking flight and to see Sister Hazel/Gavin DeGraw in concert at the outdoor pavilion.  Unfortunately the weather wasn't cooperating for take-off and with rain in the forecast, the balloons were all packed up.  This is the second year in a row we've gone with hopes of seeing the balloons but have been disappointed due to weather conditions...maybe next year it'll work out!  Anyway, we still had fun people watching (and boy were there some sights!) and we enjoyed listening to Sister Hazel but had to get home and get our little nugget in bed before Gavin took the stage.

Today (although technically yesterday now...) we enjoyed a nice lunch at Mimi's (yum!) and then headed out to the pool for the afternoon.  The rain really cooled off the big pool so we played in the kiddie pool the whole time and let Austin float around in his car floaty.  The afternoon turned out to be pretty nice and we were thankful to finally see some sunshine!  Too bad it had to be on the last day of our nice long weekend.  

And speaking of long weekends....we sure are going to miss daddy when he goes back to work tomorrow.  Three whole days at home and we were all spoiled!