We were so excited to have my brother, Joe, and his wife, Cara, come visit us this weekend. They married in September and did their first PCS move to Ft. Benning, GA less then a week later. Joe quickly began his Infantry Officer Course which means LOTS of time in the field. Cara is quickly getting a welcome into the life of a military wife! I'm so thrilled that she's a part of the "wives group" already and is doing so much to support Joe and the guys in his platoon. Those boys don't realize how good they have it - she makes them fresh baked goods and brings hot coffee to greet them with after they come out of the field and have to spend hours cleaning weapons, etc! We were spoiled with some of her cooking on Saturday. They arrived and had a Pumpkin Spice Roll in hand! Jason couldn't wait to get his hands on that. They also brought Stella the cutest little newborn outfit and booties! Thanks so much Joe and Cara! We're thrilled ya'll are settling nicely in your home in Ft. Benning - can't wait to be almost neighbors when we move in February.
Now, onto the weekend... we knew they wouldn't be arriving until late morning, so Jason and I got up and did some much needed projects around the house before they arrived. I can't brag enough on how amazing my husband is. A picture below will explain exactly what I mean! I have the desire to do some specific nesting, but having an ever growing baby inside my body doesn't allow me to do the needed bending, lifting, furniture moving, etc that is required. Jason offered to deep clean our kitchen floor out of the kindness of his heart. I'm sure there were a million other things that he wouldn't have preferred to spend his morning doing, but he spent it on his hands and knees scrubbing our floors. They look amazing! We have learned with our purchase of this house that we never again desire to have an "all white" kitchen - too much dirt shows!!! While he tackled that project I picked up things around the house, vacuumed and cleaned the wood floors. We got showered just in time for their arrival!
We had made reservations at Paula Deen's for 1:45pm so we headed downtown to do that. (Cara is a Paula Deen fanatic!) Cara and Gavin got the buffet, Joe had the crab cakes, I got the chicken pot pie, and Jason had a pulled pork sandwich. We were stuffed! We then walked them through City Market and down River Street to do all the "traditional stops" for people first visiting Savannah. We spent a good amount of time upstairs in Kevin Barry's looking at all the Ranger stuff and also made a stop at Rocks on the Rooftop. Gavin loved looking down at all the big boats while we were up there. We finished up River Street then made our way back to Ellis Square where we hung out for a couple hours. Gavin loved roughing around with the boys and talking to anyone that would stop for a moment to carry on a conversation! That boy has never met a stranger! Jason and I made our way home around 7pm and Joe and Cara stayed to do one of the Haunted Tours that started at 8pm. We ordered a pizza on the drive home and got there just in time for the start of the Ohio State Football game. It was a devistation to Jason when we couldn't find it on tv! We had to pull it up on the computer to watch. Our friends, Andrew and Elizabeth, stopped by to show us their hilarious costumes of the evening! They were "Dog and Beth" from tv - a riot! We put Gavin to bed and crashed early ourselves. I had to snap a picture of Jason asleep with the computer on his chest!
Sunday we made our way out to Tybee for a couple hours to do a little fishing. The fish weren't biting, but we did get to see the shrimp boats, dolphins, and lots of jellyfish. We didn't stay long, and stopped at Fiddlers to eat on the way home. Joe wanted raw oysters, which were actually hard to find! We called several places on Tybee but they all told us they didn't have any so we had to go to River Street to find them. None of us were too impressed with our meals or the service, so that was a real bummer. We should have stuck with our normal River Street favorite - Tubby's!
Joe and Cara stopped by our house to pick up Hogan on the way home. We took Hogan from my parents in July of 2009 because they wanted to get rid of her, but we just couldn't imagine her going to someone outside of the family. Her and LT are from the same litter and have been a part of our families for too long! Joe always wanted Hogan, but never had the means to be able to really take her until recently. So, he was thrilled when we offered her to them! Hogan was a great dog, it was just too hard for me to handle two dogs and Gavin all alone with Jason always being gone. They never got the attention they deserved, rarely ever went on walks, etc. It just wasn't fair to them both. So, we're now down to one dog again and Joe is happy to have Hogan! LT has been excited to have his one on one attention back and to get lots of time playing ball outside.
Here are a ton of pictures from the weekend:
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| Chicken Pot Pie - waaaaayyy too much bread! |
