Lake Getaway

This is a long one but we had a very eventful weekend.  We finally made it up to my mom's for the weekend.  It seems like forever since we got to go up and hang out.  We all had fun, especially Miss Hannah Claire.  She had many firsts on this trip.  On Friday morning we got up and headed out to see Pappy's horses.  Hannah Claire loves dogs so I was excited to see how she did with the horses.  I think maybe curious is the best way to describe it.  She didn't really want to touch them but she didn't cry either.  She just looked them over.  Nana took her up close so she could see them up close.  Notice how she is pulling her arm as close to her body as she can. 

Then Pappy got ahold of HC and took her over to the other pasture to see some more.  If you will notice the arm in this picture.  Same as above!  She finally reached out for one of these but she never really petted him.  She was very unsure about mommy petting them.

We also got to see all of Pappy's hunting dogs while we were out there.  Of course she loved that!  We also made a quick trip across the road to see Granny Sue and Pawpaw John.  Not only did we get to see them but we got to meet their new puppy, Peanut.  Boy did they appropriately name this dog.  He and HC had so much fun together.  He wanted some of her snacks.

Peanut followed Hannah Claire around the entire house.  He would jump up on her and she would get wobbly, like he was just so heavy he was knocking her over.  She is such a drama queen.  I was a little worried though because HC doesn't really pet, she pats.  That really doesn't matter with our big dogs but with Peanut I was concerned.  It didn't matter, he loved the attention.

Friday afternoon we finally got out on the boat.  I cannot believe HC is 15 months old and just now getting on the boat.  She was a little skeptical at first but she LOVED it!  

She really did love it but this face was priceless.  Who knows what this was directed at?  Probably Nelson, my mom's dog.  He felt the need to be protector dog for HC the entire time she was on the boat.  He stuck right by her side.  You can see his tail in the corner of the picture.  He was so sweet.

On Saturday we had a huge family fish fry.  It was delicious!  I'm so thankful that my family is highly skilled at the deep frying of catfish, hushpuppies and french fries.  We are true southerners and I love it!  There were tons of people roaming around so keeping up with HC was very tedious.  She got extremely quite.  This of course set my mommy radar off.  I quickly found her in her ducky float.  She was so content!

We finally got to see our new cousin Laney.  She is so precious and I loved getting to hold her.  HC thought she was sweet at first then she got annoyed that her mommy was holding another kid.  After that she was done.  We tried to get a picture of HC with Laney but we waited too long.  Laney was snoozing in Pawpaw John's arms and HC had other things on her mind. 

I did get one of Laney with her granddaddy.  Can you tell he is a proud granddaddy?

As I said there were a lot of firsts.  HC reached for Pappy and even said Pappy for the first time.  Pappy was shocked, can you tell?

We also got a good picture of HC hanging with her Aunt Lorie.