Savannah

What a fantastic weekend! Grant, Adelaide and I enjoyed a fantastic weekend with our best buds Elizabeth, Jason and Elizabeth's baby boy belly at the Westin in Savannah. We played by the pool, ate good food, walked around and just enjoyed a weekend of nothing to do, but whatever we wanted. Now we just have to wait a few more months to meet Baby Boy McCotter.

lemon please

We had a little family outing a few weekends ago and Adelaide had her first taste of lemon and cucumber at Ted's Montana Grill.

Baptism

It's official, Adelaide is a baptized Catholic. Saturday evening we all gathered for a very special event at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church by the Bay. The church was really neat, it was built in the 1800s and has no airconditioning. Thank goodness it had rained for a majority of the day so that we didn't all sweat like crazy.

Adelaide was sporting her beautiful Christening dress that Grams bought her at Day Dream Heirlooms. It was a long white French silk gown and lace made by the same company that made Princess Diana's wedding gown. So needless to say the dress was stunning and heavy.

Our little Adelaide was a true champ. The only time she got really upset was when the priest poured the holy water on her head and for anyone who has been a witness to her bath time, she doesn't exactly love when you pour water on her head. We did however discover a new love of hers, candles.










After the baptism we sat out on the pier over the Bay and took a few pictures of everyone while trying to catch the cool breeze.

The crew left the church just in time to catch some fantastic entertainment at Casa de Gasbarro.

Trip to AL

Over Memorial Day the entire family headed west. One car (Grant, Bean and I) went to Fairhope, AL and the other car (Mom, Russ, Kari and New-New) went to Ocean Springs, MS. We have made this into the traditional Gasbarro rendezvous spot to meet up with Grant's sister, Dina and her two boys. It's amazing how much the boys change from Christmas to Memorial Day and then back at Christmas again.

We got off to a rough start on Friday, I received a call from daycare..."she just won't eat, I think you need to come and get her". Great! So I left work, picked her up, called the doctor, went home and guess what...she started eating. So we continued went ahead and got on the road later in the evening for our 6 hour drive, luckily she slept through most of it.

Saturday we were rained in for a majority of the day, but thankfully it stopped in the early afternoon, just in time for Adelaide's baptism. We'll leave that information for a separate post later on. After the baptism, we all gathered at the Gasbarro house for a fantastic dinner by Stephenie and a little socializing.

The second car headed back to MS while the Gasbarro house crashed with exhaustion.

Sunday the boys went golfing and I don't even remember how the girls spent the day...probably chasing energy filled boys and a cranky little girl. Sunday evening we went to the mall where they have fountains for the kids to play in. After that we went to dinner where Adelaide passed out and everyone else indulged in seafood.





Funny thing...with all of the times that I have been to Alabama, I have never been across the Bay to Mobile. Grant took me for a quick spin across the river and by the beautiful homes on Government Street.

Monday before we had to say our goodbyes we took the time to make GG's Mother's Day present, stepping stones from all the babies.