Father's Day Weekend at the Lake

I had my 2nd official Father's Day as a father myself! It was good. We went to the Lake for the weekend to see my Dad. Before we left, Raegan and Hannah gave me some gifts to add to the weekend. One of the gifts is a triathlon in October in Florida. Now that I've gotten into triathlons, I've really been wanting to do an Ocean Tri. So now I get to!


The Lake weekend was a lot of fun. My brother and his family went too. So Raegan got to hangout with her two cousins, Thomas and Ava. We have way too many good pictures to share... so we tried to narrow it down for the blog. It's still too many... but hopefully you'll enjoy!



















This is the whole gang on the boat (after my brother & his family left)... I really just like how all the dogs are hanging around hoping Raegan drops one of her Teddy Grahams!





Raegan really seems to like Papa. She doesn't warm-up to people very quickly and we thought she would be skeptical of her own grandparents since she doesn't see them too often. But she immediately liked Papa. I guess she wanted to make sure he had a good Father's Day weekend. She even said "Papa"!





Nana got some quality time too. They enjoyed playing in the water together.



Raegan also had a lot of fun with her cousins, Thomas & Ava...











Raegan and Ava took a bath together. Ava thought it was a good moment for a kiss.


I was taking this picture of Hannah & Raegan on the pier and Luci darted across. I just thought it was funny how Luci is floating on the bottom of the picture.


OK... if you're not burned out on too many pictures all at once, here are some random happy & cute pictures of Raegan...

New Smyrna Beach Trip

Right after the triathlon, we headed for New Smyrna Beach, FL to stay in the Chick-fil-A condos. We are so lucky that Truett is nice enough to let his employees stay there for free!


Tony and I really felt like new parents - we had no idea how much LESS relaxing a vaction could be with a 1 year old! What happened to laying on the beach with a magazine and listening to music??


Mistake #1: driving to Florida during the day when Raegan would rather be playing


Mistake #2: taking a beach trip in May when the water is too cold for little babies to enjoy (Raegan likes her bath water temp!)


Mistake #3: Setting high expectations for a relaxing week at the beach.


Fortunately, my parents came down half-way through the week and gave us some down time. We enjoyed playing cards with them one night, and Tony and I had a "date" another night.

She liked playing with Granddad and Grammy on the beach!

...and seemed to enjoy playing next to the pool much more than in it.

She even made a little friend at the pool (and they were kind of dressed alike!)

But she had the most fun inside the condo, wearing her sassy little swimsuit from Aunt Jennifer and puttin on her toy lipstick.

Raegan and Tony played the cutest game of peek-a-boo under and over the coffee table. She thought it was so funny.

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Tony finished his first Olypmic distance Triathlon on May 17th: 2008 Peachtree International Triathlon. Distances: .93 mile swim, 25 mile bike and 6.2 mile run.
He did a great job, finishing in under 3 hours, which was his goal. He has become quite the athlete!

Raegan and I were there to cheer him on, along with Laura and Chandler Martin (cheering for Brad). Our camera wasn't taking very good pictures (or maybe it was the photographer?), so we decided to use the Martin's camera. I will add pictures from the day as soon as we get them.

By the way, we finally got a new camera, so hopefully our picture quality will improve!

Ice Cream!!

Somehow... none of the pictures of Raegan & Hannah on Mother's Day turned out that good. (I think it was too windy today for outside pictures). We'll have to try for better pictures tomorrow. By-the-way... today is also the day Raegan turned 13 months. We're not sure we'll continue the Rae Bunny pictures so we don't have that to post either. Maybe we'll do that tomorrow if we decide to continue. Or if we decide to do something different.

We went out to get Gelato (which is Hannah's favorite) and we got Raegan her first ice cream cone. She ate it like a big girl! The whole thing and didn't even get messy! I guess she's like both her parents... loves ice cream!

Standing Ovation

Raegan has been toying with free-standing lately. She gets so proud of herself! For Mother's Day... she told me to get the camera ready because she wanted to give her Mommy a standing ovation - for being the best Mom in the world! (yes... that's still the beads from Brewton she is wearing. She loves putting those around her neck!)



She can also do tricks now - like hold her sippy-cup in her mouth while standing. But she's still not taking that first step. She wants to exhaust all tricks in this realm first.

Raegan's new dress

My Mom made a nice dress for Raegan. Raegan didn't really cooperate with modeling it. But between the 3 pictures below, you can see some of the nice details like her monogram on the front and on the bloomers.

Trip to Nana & Papa's house

Last weekend, we took Raegan down to my parents house where they kept Raegan for a day and a half so Hannah and I could go to Destin and celebrate our 6 year anniversary. So Raegan got to spend a lot of quality time with Nana and Papa.

You can see she was happy to be there.


One thing that Nana taught her was how to accessorize. For some reason my Mom has a lot of MardiGras beaded necklaces. Raegan loved them. It only took Nana showing her once how to put on a necklace and Raegan would find all of them and put them over her head and around her neck.









Raegan had so much fun playing with Nana and Papa that I don't think she even missed her parents!





I think she did grow a little while we were gone. This picture is of her pretending she is an adult with deep thoughts. At least that's what the picture looks like to me.