New Friends, Favorite Photo and The Blog Hop

Welcome to my blog! I missed the first week,so want to introduce myself.
If you are a new visitor, I live in Shreveport, Louisiana.

My blog documents my family and especially my adventures as a Grandmother. You will find lots of Disney posts, as we make lots of grandparent trips. We have a son and a daughter and 4 awesome grandsons. We are Disney addicts...well maybe I am. We love traveling with the grandkids...

I own a gift basket business, but the major part of my business is Holiday Tree Decorating..I (along with my elves) decorate 60-70 houses in 2 months. This is only my fifth month to blog, so this will be my first holiday season. I hope to share lots of tree tips and pictures with you.

Other addictions besides grandkids and Disney are FOOTBALL, FOOTBALL, and more FOOTBALL, coffee, diet coke (really trying to drop this one),Beth Moore Bible Studies, Dancing With The Stars, and reading blogs.I am looking forward to meeting lots of new friends. Now for my Favorite PHOTO in the last months.... read my most recent posts to understand why this is so special!

MY BOY MEETS HIS BOY FOR THE FIRST TIME

Our Family Feels so Blessed this 4th of July.

I am so proud to be an American....Oh Beautiful for Spacious Skies, God Bless America....all songs that have played in my head all day. Each of those songs touches my heart. I just love patriotic songs. I can never remember a time our nation was more in need of prayer.
Since we have had quite an emotional and tiring two weeks, our celebration was low key. We have much to celebrate! We spent the afternoon visiting our new little one and then watched the fireworks show at Harrah's Louisiana Downs with the other three grandsons. It is so hot here, that none of us were for up for any long period of time outside. Here are a few snapshots from our day.
SAFE AND SOUND

Aunt Manda's first time to hold me.

Jack is not sure he wants his Mom to hold me!

POP holding his new little BUDDY!

I finally just kissed her. She is smitten!

Micah, Amanda, Parker and Jack....

HOME WHERE HE BELONGS

These pictures will speak for themselves....Grayson was released from the hospital about 3 today and on his way to his home...He had a rough start in life, but he is totally well now. His Independence Day came a few days early and we are so thankful.

Little Angel

This last picture cracks me up. I don't think he knows what is going on.

Tonight I have Jack and Parker spending the night. I think Jack was ready for his Grammys attention again...He was a little clown tonight.

Wishing all of my new friends a Happy Fourth of July. We have so much to celebrate!

Grayson and One Tired But Happy Grammy

This will be short tonight but only GREAT news. Grayson had a perfect day and if tomorrow is the same, he will be discharged late tomorrow afternoon or Friday.
The Echo came back perfect, the spot on his lung has closed up, he has learned to eat and now we have to learn to not panic about his breathing. We have watched the monitor so closely this past week that we are a tad nervous that we will not have it at home.
It has been a long nine days...and none of us really knows what day of the week it is.
In the NICU, day and night are the same and one day runs into another.
So hopefully the next time I post, Grayson will be in his own bed at home.
Your prayers have meant the world to us. I am going to print out all the comments for his baby book. Most of all we are so grateful to God for healing our little one.

Just hanging out waiting to get out of this joint!

A little man looking up at me with some bright eyes
I am telling him that I will take him to meet "The Mouse"!...I am in very bad need of a new spray tan....

Just so HAPPY he is well!

Too sweet for words!!

Grayson and Giveaway Winners

What a WEEK!!!!
I said I would NEVER be an every day poster. But I cannot go to bed tonight without giving an update. We had a very good day...and if Grayson has just a few more good days, he will be taking a trip to his home. What a day that will be.
He is a week old today and except for a little (male surgery) today...I would say he was a happy camper. I am pretty sure as I rocked him to sleep tonight, he said an ugly word, but I am sure if someone had gotten in my private business at 5PM,(especially since it was time for him to eat when the urologist arrived).... I would be a little ticked too.
I got a few cute pictures tonight....and then I will announce the winners of the giveaways for June....

Is he not just the sweetest?

I will be so glad to hold him with "no strings attached"

This is how he felt tonight...JUST MAD!!
OK...on to the winners...I had so many comments in June that this took awhile to figure out....I used some combinations of Gray's birthday.
The winner of the Grand Prize...The Card Box is
Courtney at Chaos Is Us http://chaosisus.blogspot.com
For the other 3 winners that will get a goodie package......
Gracie at Gracie http://mygraciern.blogspot.com/
Beth at Our Family http://beth-thebernards.blogspot.com/
Trasie at From Our Front Porch You can See http://thebresslerbunch.blogspot.com/...
and because it was just a GOOD DAY...we drew one more and it is.........
The Retirement Chronicles http://myretirementchronicles.blogspot.com/

So I need each one of you to send me your name and address and one day in the next week or so (probably after we get the baby home) I will be shipping your prizes... Tomorrow begins a new month and a new giveaway... Hope you will go by and visit the blogs above...you just might find a new friend.