Celebrations - Part 1

Time sure has been flying by lately. I can't believe that June will be here in a little over a week from now. So much has happened in the last month that I feel bad about falling behind on the blog. The beginning of May was full of celebrations. I graduated from law school on May 1st. Hadley was blessed in Church. Stefanie ran in her first 5K in a long time. And Dad came to visit us in Georgia for the first time since we first moved here. Needless to say, we had a great time visiting with family and eating good food.

We were lucky enough to have my parents and Stef's mom come into town for graduation. They all flew into Atlanta on April 28th and stayed till May 4th. Caleb and Sawyer were SOOO excited to see their grandparents. And let me say, they had good reason to be excited because the first thing Grandma Dixon did when she walked in the house was open a suitcase that was filled with toys! And when I say filled, I mean there was no room for anything else in that thing. There were cars, trucks, beach clothes, etc., etc. The kids went nuts! My dad had these wooden car-puzzels specially made for the boys. It was a set of three wooden cars that fit together on a truck. They are kind of hard to describe, but you can see the cars on the floor in this picture. If I find time, I'll take a few pics of them close up.

After the "mini-Christmas" was over, we had dinner, took a little walk around the neighborhood, and put the kids down for bed.

The next morning we got up and went to the Ocmulgee Indian Mounds. It is one of those free things to do in Macon, and the weather was beautiful for a nice walk through the trails. Here are a few pics:

This next picture is one of those times I wished that I clicked a few seconds earlier. Sawyer was trying to blow the seeds off of a dandelion, but when he inhaled, he sucked a few seeds in his mouth. I wish I would have caught his face when he realized what had happened. This picture is shortly after that moment when he was trying to spit it all out. HAHA.



On the walk, Sawyer followed his grandpa everywhere he went and always wanted to hold his hand. Sawyer definitely loves his grandpa. He still asks where grandpa (or as he says it - "papa") is about 3-4 times a day.









After spending the morning at the Indian mounds we headed home for lunch and put the kids down for naps. After naps, we went to pick fresh strawberries at the Lane Farms. See Part Two for that.