On day 2 of our trip, we set out to see the apple orchards and to pick apples for the very first time in my life. Normally, the orchards don’t have you-pick operations on Fridays, but the one we found that did groups of ten or more let us tag along. Justin called two weeks ahead of time and got that arranged 
Look at these giant gourds! I had to stick my foot up there to show the scale.
This past Thursday, we took off to visit the north Georgia mountains for a little three-day/two-night vacation.
As a side note, I have decided to whip myself into shape and run the local 5K at the Fireant Festival in March, so we stopped at the Nike Outlet to pick up some new kicks and a Nike+ iPhone transmitter. I scored the deal of the month when I realized my shoes were only $22! The transmitter was only $19, so I got the whole kit ‘n caboodle for less than $50.
We stayed at a cute little inn in Jasper, Georgia called the Woodbridge Inn. Appropriately enough, it was just over a wood bridge.
Sorry for the crappy pictures. I still haven’t managed the having-a-baby-and-getting-decent-pictures maneuver.
The Inn was nice enough, but the dinner was far from impressive. Perhaps my tastes are just not as refined as they should have been. The chef, born and raised at the Inn, was a third place finalist for The Next Food Network Star. Justin and I would consider staying there again (the price was unbeatable!) but would definitely skip the restaurant.
Growing up, we always referred to the Georgia National Fair as the Perry Fair. I think everyone still does for the most part. Justin and I loaded up Wyatt and met Mama, Suzi and Sami at the fair on Sunday and we had a great time!
Isn’t he so cute with those red sneakers? I call them his baby Chucks.
My favorite part was in the poultry exhibit. Wyatt’s new fun thing is growling at everything. I think it’s pretty much the earliest form of talking he knows how to do. He sounded ominous and when I held the baby chick for him to look at he held it right up to his mouth after growling at it. We joked about them being baby chicken nuggets.
The baby moo cow liked Wyatt too. He spilled some of his bottle on his pants and the calf tried licking it off his pants.
One of the best things I have to say was the baby comfort station provided by a local Baptist association. They provided a tent with four changing stations and a private room for mothers to feed their babies. Let me tell you that as a breastfeeding mother, it is wonderful to have a space like that. Wyatt would have been okay with bottles all day, but it was nice not to have to haul everything back to the car to feed him after a few long hours.
I don’t usually post pictures of myself unless they are edited and I’m smiling just right, etc., but I accidentally snapped this picture this morning when I thought it was facing the other way taking a picture of Wyatt. I think it’s so real and indicative of what he must see everyday. I am going to try really hard to always be that smiling face he sees in the mornings.
I religiously collect Huggies and Pampers points from the ten million packages of diapers we go through with Wyatt and enter them on the respective sites for their rewards programs. Wyatt tends to be a Pampers man because that’s what Justin can get at a super discount through his work, so the only Huggies points I have are from diapers we received as gifts at showers. Thinking I would never collect enough points for anything substantial with the Huggies rewards program, I redeemed the points for instant win sweepstakes for a $100 Amazon gift card.
Wonder of all wonders, the screen popped up that I was an instant winner! I got an email just a few hours later with my gift code for my Amazon credit, went shopping, and have even received confirmation that my items have shipped, all in less than 24 hours.
Of course, I can’t tell you what I bought because I might have picked up a few things for Christmas.
In other good news, the fantabulous Otter Box that Justin uses to protect his iPhone was on super-duper sale yesterday at Amazon. It was only $17 {normally $50} so I couldn’t pass it up. There’s nothing wrong with how his works now, but he did get a little paint splattered on it, so I just went ahead and ordered it.
It was a pretty fun experience. I don’t usually win anything so I don’t enter contests, but like the saying goes, “You can’t win anything if you don’t try.”
Three years and one day ago, I married the love of my life.
He is a great man and now is a fabulous father.
We have spent the last ten and a half years together and I hope we get another seventy or eighty to enjoy.
Justin is such a sweetheart. He brought roses to my office and when I got home, Wyatt was at his grandma’s house and I found a candlelit steak dinner waiting for me complete with a lemon pie and Sirius love songs playing throughout the house. After dinner, he gave me a new Vera Bradley wallet.
While he gives great gifts, more important than any of that is the love and support I get every single day from such a great man. I couldn’t have asked for anyone better than Justin Cook!
Friday, Justin and I made the trek to St. Simons Island, Georgia to celebrate with my college roommate Amanda and Richard get married.
We rehearsed the wedding ceremony and headed out to Richard’s dad’s house for an out-of-this-world low country boil. There was so much food and we had tons left over. I am sure he will be eating leftovers for the next two weeks.
Here is Amanda cutting Richard’s groom cake. They wanted to switch things up a little and not have it at the wedding reception. It was a vanilla/chocolate marble cake with buttercream icing.
Wyatt is such a ladies’ man. I don’t think I held him for more than 15 minutes that night.
More shots tomorrow of us getting ready and the actual wedding!
P.S. Isn’t this the most adorable duo you have ever seen? This was just before we got Wyatt suited up in his PJs and into his bassinet.
Here are the shots I snapped from the wedding this past weekend and a few more from others thrown in. Everything was absolutely perfect and I couldn’t imagine a more beautiful bride. We had a great time and it was wonderful to be included in Amanda and Richard’s special day.
I stole the rest of these pictures from my incredibly talented sister, Sami. You can find her FB site here, and her photography blog here.
{MR. & MRS. ROLAND!!!}
