Lil Bit's Infant Baptism

Today, we celebrated Lil Bit's infant Baptism. She was so good and happy! It was a very special time celebrated with special people! We were able to use some of the water from Boo's baptism that my bible study teacher had brought back from the River Jordan a few years ago for Lil Bit's baptism, which made it even more special.  After church, we came back to BeBe and PawPaw's house for a nice dinner with family and friends. It was a perfect day!

So sweet!

She did great!!! (Boo was very good too!)

I love my family!

They all three got dressed at different times, but all ended up in orange shirts and blue shorts. :)

PawPaw grilled some quail kabobs! YUMMY!
Don't you love our fancy grill?

Lil Bit and her buddy Cal Girl

My Happy Girl!

Faye Family Photo (we're missing Uncle A, Cousin A, and Cousin E)
It's a very rare occasion in which everyone is in the same place at the same time.

BeBe and Bit!
BeBe is sharing her very own baby teething rattle with Lil Bit.

Boo and MamaLove

Bit and Granny
"I'm not tired!"

"Okay, I'll just rest my eyes for a minute!"

M and Boo enjoying some great southern food.

:)

We're gearing up now for Phase Five...getting to Alaska. We fly out later this week!
I might sneak in another post of all of the funny things Boo has been saying lately.

Check out our post below of our SC fun!

Phase Four: Crazy Busy but Crazy Fun!

Phase four is quickly coming to an end. I'm sorry we didn't get to see everybody, but we spent a lot of quality time with family this go around. That was the main focus of our trip as we are moving sooo far away. Here's what we've been busy doing...

Helping Aunt R and Uncle D on their house!

Picking vegetables out of the garden.

Eating peas for the first time. Don't you love her high chair? :)

Riding tractors with PawPaw.
Boo was very gracious when allowing his lil sis to have a turn.

Swimming!

Jumping!

I had to include this pic. All of the adults in the pool used to be the kids in the pool!
Wow!

Memorial Day Picnic

Beach Day!

This is how much stuff you NEED to take two little ones to the beach.

Tough day at the beach.

Playing with Granny

And Grandpa!

First walk in the country.

Lil Bit's Great Grandmother, MamaLove.

Sleeping beauty.

More play time with cousins!

We went for a boat ride and ate lunch at one of PawPaw's friends' restaurant.
I couldn't resist putting Lil Bit up on the bar for a pic. She played right along.

Lil Bit really did have a great time...she was very tired here and as soon as PawPaw fired up the boat, she went right to sleep.
Boo had an awesome day on the lake!

More sleeping in arms.

6 Months and Phase Three is Complete

It's so hard to believe that our Lil Bit is 6 months old!!! Where does the time go? She is such a little trooper and a ham and is just happy to be with her people. She really wants to get moving, but Mama is not ready for her to do that just yet. She did not enjoy Phase 3Alpha of our move either. She did NOT like the plane ride. Boo did really good on the plane, but did not want to get off the first plane and I literally had to push him down the aisle and off the plane. Ugh. Yuck. No fun. We were late getting to Charlotte and so we missed our flight to SC and of course our bags didn't arrive with us either. But, we were happy to see BeBe and PawPaw at the airport and after piecing together carseats from the airline's loaner closet, we made it home and in bed by 11 pm.

Phase 3Bravo also got off to a rough start. B-man went to drop off his truck to be shipped and the parking brake wouldn't hold. So, he had to go get new brakes. He called me at the hotel to tell me this and I just kept waiting for him to say, "I'm joking!" but he never did. This was definitely not in our plan or timeline. But, we made it to the auto mechanic and back in time for our flight out of Dallas. B-man had to drop us off in the middle of a hail storm (no complaining here about that as it could have been a lot worse...these tornadoes are crazy scary).  After dropping us off, he got his truck squared away at the shipping facility and headed out towards SC. He made great time and arrived in SC Tuesday night. Whew. Phase three complete.

We're settling here and trying to catch up on rest. Boo hasn't had a nap in over a week and has been up late every day. It's finally catching up with him. So, he's napping upstairs as I type (hopefully). We've seen the grands, aunts and cousins and have been enjoying time with them.

Here are lil Bit's pics. Oh yeah, she had her 6 month check up before leaving TX. She weighs 18lbs 15 oz and is 26 3/4 inches tall (95th and 88th percentiles, respectively).

Peas have been purchased and may be consumed later today. Stay tuned!

Phase Two

Saturday morning, we packed up the truck, jeep, and uhaul and picked up Murray and Sandy from my friend Kat's house (thanks, Kat!) and started towards Dallas. Dallas is only about a 4 hour drive from San Antonio, but we didn't quite make it in one day. Thank goodness we will be flying to AK from SC. Bit did NOT enjoy riding in the car for so long. I think she was bored. She likes to interact with her public, ya know.

We stopped just South of Dallas and lucked out on a super nice La Quinta Inn that accepted pets. Whew! It's always tough finding a place to take pets. We always find one, it just takes some time. We ordered pizza and called it a night.

Texas shaped waffles for breakfast.

We made it to our PHase two final destination. We are literally right across the street from where B-man will turn in his truck tomorrow to be shipped to AK. While he was off getting the truck prepped for shipment, Boo, Bit, and myself braved a trip to the hotel pool.

Bit mostly stayed here in her seat. She was happy to sit and watch while Mama used two hands to handle Boo.

She did get out of her car seat to get her feet wet. Isn't she a cute lil strawberry?

Tomorrow begins phase three (we're just trying to keep the humor alive with all of this 'phase' talk).
The kids and I will begin phase 3alpha tomorrow as we fly to SC.

B-man, Murray and Sandy will begin phase 3bravo as they drive towards SC.
B-man jokingly said the other day, "Both phases will occur simultaneously in highly hostile territory!" So, true!

Please pray for travel mercies!

More of Phase One

Boo eating his to-go supper from Hooters. Don't judge...it was basically in the parking lot of the hotel and we were worn out from being sick and this was the easiest thing to get for him. Mini burgers and fried pickles. Supper...check!

Bit has been quite the trooper and has been spending a lot of time in this Ergo carrier. She's asleep here and I was eating lunch while we waited for the carpet cleaners to arrive. I didn't want to spill ketchup on her head, so I put a napking across her. Don't mind me, I haven't dried my hair in days. I have been washing it though BeBe!

Hotel sleep.

More to come...