Fall Festival

The cool weather came just in time for the Orange Park Fall Festival this year. Apparently this is an event that has been occurring for 20 something years and this is the first time we graced the grassy area.

There were all kinds of vendor booths and kids performing, but the most important booth was the Funnel Cake and Fresh Squeezed Lemonade. Yes, that is Adelaide trying everything that she could to get to the next piece of funnel cake.

Just a side note, every year I have to explain the difference between funny cake and funnel cake to him. You would think after being with a junk food addict for 10 years he would have gotten it straight by now.

Cool Weather and Cool Relatives

Adelaide had three great surprises this weekend...Not only did the weather get very cool, but Daddy came home and he brought some special visitors...GG, Pap, Granny Franny and TT.

I'm not over exaggerating about the cool weather, it dropped about 40 degrees in one night. She wore a tank dress to school on Friday and by Saturday we were digging through her closet for something that had sleeves and pants. So we discovered that Adelaide officially had one long sleeve cardigan and one pair of jeans in her closet that actually fit her. Needless to say the next day after all of our visitors were gone Adelaide met up with her Grams for an emergency run to Target for a pair of tights and another cardigan.

I jumped ahead to Sunday in a hurry, but we can't forget to mention that Adelaide is going through a Mommy only phase right now. So she wouldn't let anyone hold her except me, Grant and eventually Pap.

There were even cookie bribes in place. Let me tell you the kid can eat more cookies than you can imagine.

Labor Day

10 years ago on Labor Day weekend, Grant I met at a fraternity party after a Vol football game

7 years ago on Labor Day weekend, Grant and I got engaged in a Sears in Atlanta

6 years ago on Labor Day weekend, Grant and I were married on a beautiful summer day on the St Johns River

5 years ago on Labor Day weekend, Grant and I celebrated our first married year on a Caribbean Cruise.

1 year ago on Labor Day weekend, Grant and I were in a foggy daze from no sleep after having a baby 2 weeks earlier.

This year we took a break from our cell phones, Adelaide, work and everything else. Grant and I spent the evening eating a fabulous dinner at Orsay and driving around the beautiful homes on the St Johns River.

lost visitor

I don't know how I didn't get this posted sooner, but better late than never. I seem to be saying that a lot lately.

This summer we had a brief visitor from Grant's cousin Tiffany and her two kids. They were on a grand journey from New York to Florida and a lot of stops in between.

Haircut

It has taken me a month to get this up here, but it finally happened...Adelaide got her first haircut. Poor Adelaide had to crawl around for months with a rat tail just waiting for her first birthday so that the haircut could finally happen. So we took her to this great childrens place called Cookie Cutters and then we made a stop a Beauty and the Beef for lunch.

Walk

We were all in for a fantastic surprise a few weeks ago when you could actually walk outside and not immediately break out into a sweet. Unfortunately that weather didn't last...but in the mean time we did take a walk down and around Black Creek.

Adelaide's 1st Luau

Wow, a year has come and gone and this is how we celebrated! Just to sum it up almost 20 people were in and out of the house that day and I can promise you that everyone who entered the front door left much fuller. Russ went crazy on the food, everything was from his Hawaiian cookbooks including pork wrapped in banana leaves, homemade macadamia nut hummus, fruit with yogurt and the list goes on and on. Of course we had two cakes as well and thank goodness Adelaide's GG came in town early, because I never would have had the cakes completed in time.

The fun stuff...wait, not so much fun. Adelaide didn't want to smash the cake or smear it all around, she wanted to eat it. She is definitely my kid.

Gifts, oh my gosh our friends and family are so incredibly generous. Adelaide is one lucky little girl.

Of course these are just a fraction of the pictures taken with all of her special guests.