Nashville Visit

We arrived home last night from a 10 day visit to Nashville, and we had a great time! The fun started last Monday when we hitched a ride to Tennessee with Emily and Ryan. They came down for the Memorial Day weekend and since Wesley was going to be busy with Mission: Atlanta all week, we headed north with them.

The week was filled with so much! Here’s all that we did:

Monday: Celebrated Memorial Day at Mom and Dad’s with the entire gang.

Tuesday: Went to Lipscomb to visit Emily at work and then went to get new shoes for Jackson.

Wednesday: Erin and Elizabeth Jones came over to play. Jackson was a little rowdy with sweet Elizabeth but she held her own.

Elizabeth, Jackson, and Philip. Jackson really wanted Elizabeth to smile for this picture. I wonder why she didn't? Maybe because Jackson was about to strangle her!

Jackson and Elizabeth playing

Sweet Philip!

Wednesday night: Ashley, Erin K, and I went to dinner at Yoho’s and then went to see Sex and the City 2 – perfect Girl’s Night!

Thursday: Philip had his 4 month pictures taken. He did a great job – here’s a sampling from Facebook of one of his pictures.

Seriously..could you get much cuter than this?

After the photo shoot, we went over to Laura, Ford and Cody’s house for some fun. The older boys played so well together. The little ones are too small to enjoy each other now, but soon, they will be big buds as well! It was so nice to be with Laura and see her precious boys.

I have to laugh at this picture! It appears we have a Bender/Rozell posse on our hands. Hate to break it to you boys, but you aren't so scary in your diapers and Elmo shirt...oh, and the car seat puts a damper on your look as well!

Cody has the right idea - the way to scare them is with the fake bugs!

Thursday night: Jackson and I went to the annual Civitan Picnic with my dad. Susan and her crew were there as well.

Jackson loves his cousins! Here he is trying to get Joshua to go play baseball with him.

It was a hot, humid night!

Friday: We chilled out Friday morning and then went over to Aunt Alice’s to visit with her and Great Pop-Pop

Aunt Alice has a electric chair to help get Great Pop-Pop up and down the stairs. Jackson thought it was great. He loved riding it, but loved pushing the buttons for Baby Philip and Aunt Alice to ride even more.

Saturday: The Original plans for the week were for Mom and Dad to travel back to Atlanta Saturday morning with the boys and me. Because of this that and the other, we had to change plans in the middle of the week. The new plan was for us to stay in Nashville and Wesley would come up Monday to pick us up.

Since we were now in town, we were able to watch Joshua and Caleb in their All Star baseball game Saturday morning.

Jackson loved watching Joshua and Caleb but wished he was out there with them!

Joshua and Caleb had a huge cheering section - Aunt Alice and Great Pop Pop came, Drubby, Pop Pop, Jackson (Mimi, Philip, and Susan were in the shade when I snapped this picture)

Little Drubby settled down next to Big Drubby

PRICELESS!

Saturday evening: My mom and I went to a wedding of a dear friend, Jenny. When I first received the wedding invitation, I was sad because I wasn't going to be in town. When the plans changed midweek, I was so excited that I would be able to celebrate this exciting time with Jenny and friends from Nashville. The wedding was beautiful and Jenny made a gorgeous bride.

Sunday: We went to church with Mimi and PopPop.

Monday: Jackson and I went over to my cousin, Lynn’s, pool. Susan, Joshua, Caleb, and Rebekah joined us and it was a blast. Wesley arrived while we were there and it made Jackson’s day. He didn’t leave his Dada’s side the entire time in the pool.

Tuesday: Tuesday morning, the four of us went over to West End Church of Christ to visit with Louise. It was so good to be with her and catch up.

Jackson helped me make muffins for the staff at West End

Tuesday evening: Wesley and I went out with Emily and Ryan. They treated us to dinner at their favorite restaurant, Bonefish Grill – yummy!!

Wednesday: We packed up and headed home. It was hard to leave after such a wonderful week! Mom and Dad spoiled us all rotten and we thank you for a great visit!

Here are some more random pictures from the week:

Early walker?

So proud that he could sit up - for the 2 seconds it took to take the picture!

We had several great visits with Drubby and Net.

Philip loved being held by his Net. She has the magic touch that worked for Jackson, Joshua, Caleb and Rebekah too!

Too cool for words

Uncle Melvin came by for a visit on Tuesday afternoon and snapped this family picture.