Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Charlotte & Valentine's Day!

Charlotte and Alivia (Kevin & Kindra's daughter born the day before Charlotte, even though she was due the first week of March!) at their first (of many to come) playdate!
Our freakish snow last Wednesday night!? Totally crazy, very pretty :)
My gorgeous roses from my gorgeous Valentine :)
At Mom and Dad's after eating at Frankie's..yumm yumm
Poppy and Charlotte snoozin'

Well, the whole gang headed down to Charlotte for a long weekend, and it was a blast! Josh is using his paid paternity days up at a steady pace, and he used 1/2 a day Thursday afternoon and an entire day for Friday...so, we packed up and headed southwest on Valentine's day. We arrived in Charlotte late in the afternoon, visited for a little while with Nana and Poppy (previously spelled "poppie" in this blog, but after reading Charlotte's card from Nana and Poppy to her, we now have a correct spelling :)), then headed out for a night on the town. We were originally going to try and eat at Firebirds (where we had our first date~different location thought), but since they don't take reservations, I made a back up reservation at Frankie's - an Italian place near/in downtown Charlotte.


As usual, Firebirds tried to disguise the amount of time you'd be waiting by giving the wait time to you in minutes (So lame...do they really think people can't figure out the real time?)... However, having in my posession a college degree, I was able to decipher that 130 minutes was not going to be a viable option for us :) So....we headed to Frankie's! It was great! We were able to be seated 1/2 an hour before our reservation time, had a romantic little table overlooking the street (it was really nice, trust me), and a delicious dinner. Josh had started the day off right with some beautiful roses first thing in the morning and the evening had a perfect ending too. Thanks for babysitting Mom & Dad!


On Friday we had such a relaxing day, and were even able to run some errands while Nana and Poppy watched Charlotte. Well, I guess I should say, Nana watched Poppy and Charlotte take a nap (pictured above~love that bib!). Saturday we were able to introduce Charlotte to some of my dad's side of the family...speaking of those lovely folks, this Thanksgiving we'll have a real kid table again! This Christmas dinner featured Sam, my cousin Scott and his wife Jamie's son, ...but next holiday season we'll have Sam, Charlotte, Twins!!(courtesy of Scott and Jamie) and another sweet baby (courtesy of my other cousin Lee and his wife Dana). It was certainly a prolific year for the McGraw-Stewart clan!


We headed home Sunday morning having enjoyed a wonderful relaxing weekend with family! Can't wait to do it again! This week Charlotte, Josh and I are going to be very busy. Today, us girls will go visit friends at Fair Grove, have Charlotte's one-month checkup and possibly try a return to small group at church. Then on Thursday we'll have a visit from Nana and Memaw (my grandmother) and hit up the church league basketball game to cheer Josh on, and then Friday we'll leave Charlotte in Maw Maw and Paw Paw (Josh's parents)'s hands and head to Chapel Hill for the Will Ferrell Funny or Die comedy show!!! Whew, what a week!


Hope y'all are all doing well :)

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