Garrett's Two Year Pictures

We recently had Garrett's two year pictures made at Cumberland Mountain State Park. These are some that we got on the CD.

Enjoy!

Halloween, Tricks or Treats and a Party

Hope everyone had a great Halloween. This year Garrett was a bullrider, I was a rodeo clown, Cory was a rodeo clown, Mom was Ugly Betty and Dad was the Geek. We all had a great time and Mom and Dad won the costume contest. Every year Karen and Patrick have a Halloween party and everyone dresses up and we had a contest. We all keep the costumes a secret (well pretty much) till that night. This year we had Troll dolls, Princess Toadstool and the Mario Brothers, Lucy, Old Hippies, a Jamaican and other great costumes.

I took Garrett trick or treating to my grandparents and a few other places. We definitely got lots of candy and was wild at the party. All in all we had a great time. Enjoy the pictures from our night :)

Fall has arrived :)

The horses at Muddy Pond

We are so happy that Fall has finally arrived, even though we have had some cold days and nights, we love it! The leaves are changing colors and we are preparing our costumes for the Halloween party next week (we'll post pictures of the party soon after).

We closed on our house on October 16th and we are so glad to have that whole process over with (it is exhausting and stressful)! We absolutely love the house and have plenty of room. We are about 25 miles from Atlanta and about 7 miles away from Kennesaw. The subdivision seems to be very nice and the lot next to ours is a playground. As soon as we got there the other day, Garrett said "I go play". We are in the process of changing out most of the light fixtures in the house (everything was bright gold) and we are changing everything to rubbed bronze or pewter. Just the small changes will update the house (I will post pictures of the change as soon as it is done).

Mom and I went to Atlanta last week and she watched Garrett while I painted and put together some new furniture. I painted the main floor bathroom a eggshell blue and have to paint Garrett's bathroom and all the painting will be done. Luckily the rest of the house is a very pretty khaki color with white molding and trim. We are having our furniture moved on November 6th, after a year in storage, I can't even remember what all we have! So lots of work ahead for me to get the house ready.

Last weekend Garrett and I went with Mom and Dad to Muddy Pond (a Mennonite community) to watch them make sorgrum and for Garrett to see the horses. We had a good time and bought some very good goodies :)

On Sunday, I carved some pumpkins for Garrett. He told me he like the "pumpkin man". He is going through a phase were he wants to help do everything. So he kinda of helped me carve, but then he said "Mama nasty" because I had pumpkin guts on my hand. Oh the things he says these days :)

We are going to visit David in 2 weeks and are excited to see him and to see Maryland/D.C. in the Fall. It should be an interesting plane ride for me and Garrett (lots of stuff to take with us).

Enjoy the new pictures, with lots more to come :)

The Coffey's

Rodeo Roundup Birthday!

At Mother's Day Out

Garrett is officially 2 years old now! Hard to believe that he came into our life 2 years ago. He is a wonderful little boy and a true blessing to our lives. He keeps us on our toes and constantly amazes us at how smart and wonderful he is. He can carry on a small conversation with us now and constantly tells us what he wants (Mama play, Dada play bulls and as always more juice). We had his birthday party on Sunday so that David could be here and it was a great day for it. Garrett got so many wonderful gifts from people who truly love him. He got tractors, bulls, clothes, an art easel, lawnmover and much, much more. We have had a great time playing with all his new toys. He had a party at Mother's Day Out today and they had caramel cupcakes :)

On another note, we are closing on our house October 16th. We were very lucky to escape all the flooding in Atanta. We love, love the house and have plenty of room, so we are open to visitors now :)

Enjoy the new pictures!

PBR-Jack Daniels Invitational, Nashville, TN

We took Garrett to the PBR bullriding event in Nashville this past Sunday. He loves bulls and horses and he loved the entire thing! I dressed Garrett up as a bullrider for the event and we are going to use it for his Halloween costume too. He was too cute! There were people coming up asking to have their picture made with him (of course he didn't cooperate), but he was the cutest kid there! Here are some of the pictures of him, enjoy!

St. Augustine, Jacksonville, Savannah and Cumberland Island

Garrett looking at the wild horses

Tybee Island Lighthouse

On the Riverwalk in Savannah

Garrett was looking at the horses while we rode

The storm (tornado!) rolling in...

We just got back from our last trip to Brunswick. This time Mom, Dad and Cory went down with us. I was very glad to have them along, so I didn't have the drive the whole way by myself! David will be done in Brunswick the end of the month and will be moving to Maryland till the end of January.

On Sunday, we went to St. Augustine, Florida and had a full day there. While we were there, we saw the Fountain of Youth, one of the oldest Catholic churches in the country, a fort that the Spanish used to defend the coast and the oldest wooden school house. It was very hot, but we enjoyed ourselves. After the day there, we drove back through Jacksonville and went to a minor league baseball game between the Jacksonville Suns and Huntsville.

On Monday, we went to Savannah and took a horse and buggy ride throughout the historic part of the city. We went to lunch at Paula Deen's Lady and Sons restaurant. It was much more enjoyable for me this time around. Garrett behaved much better than the first time I went. I definitely enjoyed the chocolate chip ooey gooey butter cake, yum!

While in Savannah, we went to Tybee Island. We didn't get to see much because it came a monsoon. We did get to go to the Tybee Island Lighthouse. While we were there, the Disney cast and crew was there filming the new Miley Cyrus movie.

On Tuesday, we just hung around Jekyll and St. Simon Island. Mom took some family pictures of David, Garrett and I. Needless to say, Garrett is going through a phase were he didn't want his picture made and it didn't go so great.

On Wednesday, we went to Cumberland Island. It is part of the National Park Service about 30 miles from Brunswick. You have to get to the island by ferry and have to have reservations for the ride over and back. The reason we wanted to go to the island is because it is home to about 150 wild horses. The horses have been running wild for about 100 years. The island was home to the Carnegie family (of the Carnegie steel family from Pittsburgh). They owned about 90% of the island. They had 4 mansions on the island and in the late 1890's the main mansion had 300 workers, a tennis court, private golf course, a indoor heated pool, electricity and running water. The mansion burned by arson later on, but some of the house is still standing. Another fact about the island is that JFK, Jr. and his wife were married on the island in a church that held 18 people.

You have to walk everywhere on the island, so we didn't get too far pushing a stroller in 95 degree weather, but we did get to see a lot. We didn't get to go to the beach because it started storming and did it storm. We decided to walk to the ranger station to cool off and see about the weather. We had been waiting there about 45 mintues for the storm to pass and the ranger came out and told us all the get in the building quick. We were under a tornado warning! Of course, I would imagine the last place you wanted to be in a tornado is on a small island. It was an aweful storm, but no tornado. While we were under the tornado warning, Brunswick was also under a warning (where David was at), but all is well.

Enjoy the new pictures, our next adventure is to Maryland (and back to Atlanta) sometime in the Fall :)

Good Friends and Southern Sun

We just got back from another trip to Georgia to see David, but also to see our friends Tina and Chase. Our other friends we knew in Kansas, Katrina and Cade were able to come up for a few days to see us from Alabama. We had a great time, but we are exhausted. Our days were very full and having three kids in tow is somewhat of a challenge :)

Garrett and I went down on Wednesday and then on Thursday we picked Tina and Chase up from the airport in Jacksonville. Garrett's first time in Florida (his 12th state). Then Katrina and Cade made it to Brunswick. We went over the islands and ate at one of our favorite restaurants Iguanas on St. Simon's. We had been looking forward to going to Savannah for our tour and to eat at Paula Deen's place and made it there on Friday.

We took a two hour walking tour of Savannah! After pushing a stroller on cobblestone and brick streets, you can only imagine. We went to the Savannah riverwalk and found out that the town is actually 10 miles from the ocean (a history lesson for today). We had to be at Paula Deen's at 8:30 to get reservations for the rest of the day! We got lunch reservations and enjoyed a great Southern meal :)

On Saturday, Tina and I carried our kids up 129 stairs to the top of the St. Simon's lighthouse. Never again! We were exhausted! We did finish the day off with a relaxing afternoon on the beach.

On Sunday, we went to Jekyll Island. It was the winter home island for people like the Rockefellers, the Astors, the Vanderbilts and the Goodyears' during the early 1900's. It is still pretty high class to this day. On that island there is the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, were they rehab injured turtles and I think the boys really enjoyed seeing that. We also went the beach on that island to watch the Space Shuttle launch, but it was delayed. We actually thought we saw the launch, but it was just a plane :(

Enjoy the pictures! We are going to rest and clean the 5 pounds of sand out of my car!