Family Weekend

This weekend we traveled to Tennessee to visit our family. We always hate that our time is so short with everyone, but we make the most of every minute while we are there. Ella Ann talked about everyone while we were in the car and was so excited that she barely took a nap! Next time we are not telling her where we are going! We arrived on Friday afternoon and Ella Ann and Carter picked up where they left off....running around the house screaming, giggling, and playing! Since Seth is crawling all over the place now, he tries his best to keep up with Carter and Ella Ann, but they end up just running over him or have left the room by the time he gets there! Poor thing!

We just hung out all day Saturday, which was what we all want to do anyway, so that was fun! My friend, Emily, and her husband, Paul, live in Nashville so they came over Saturday afternoon to visit us. I hadn't seen Emily in a year and three months, so we were long over due for a visit! Plus she hadn't seen Ella Ann since she was 9 months old! It was so great to see them, but unfortunately Ella Ann was in a terrible mood because she was so sleepy that she wasn't her jolly old self around them. She did warm up to Emily (no surprise at all there!!), and gave her a big hug before she left! I totally forgot to take a picture of them with us while they were visiting, so I snapped a picture of Ella Ann and Seth looking out the window as Emily and Paul pulled away! I'll have to get one next time!

We ordered in P.F. Chang's for dinner (a crowd favorite!) and some friends of ours came over to watch UK lose to Florida. It was a busy weekend and we are excited that we will get to see everyone again in 2 weeks when we are headed back for Seth's first birthday!

Thanks again, Mandy and Zach, for your hospitality!

I took this picture about 10 minutes after we arrived on Friday! They were in Carter's bed playing already! Look how happy Ella Ann is to be there!

Ella Ann loved being pulled around the house by Carter on the Gator! She has always loved the John Deer Gator!

Helping Nana feed Seth a bottle.

Reading with Papa.

She thought it would be nice to get down and crawl around with Seth and see the world from his angle! :)

Two peas in a pod!