Living the life God intended...

Living the life God intended...

Monday, September 3, 2012

West Virginia, mountain mama…and grandmamas!

In the middle of the week, we got to go visit all of the St. Albans grandmamas:  MawMaw Patterson and Grandma Ireland…as always, it had been too long and we enjoyed being with them soooo much!

Lily and MawMaw

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Grandma Ireland and her boys…

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Grandma Ireland

We went to Grandma Ireland’s first and did some playing…the boys loved looking at old pictures of Daddy!  It was wonderful but bittersweet as someone VERY loved and missed was not there!  We wish the babies could’ve seen Grandpa Bill, he always wanted to have a little girl!

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Grandma’s original “Grandbaby”

smitten as always…I thought she might steal him from me!!

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Andrew and Gma really have something special…maybe its because he looks so much like Matt!

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We went out for a quick lunch, and Andrew and Gma were in their own little world!

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Then it was on to…

PawPaw and MawMaw Patterson’s

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The kids got to meet their cousins (uncle Randall’s kids) and they were playing immediately!

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It looks as if Ryan were sitting on Eli, no actually, Eli pulled Ryan on top of him…he is the strongest little boy I have ever seen!

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Maylee and Eli’s garden…right Pawpaw?

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Maylee teaching Lily girl things…

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MawMaw has really good books…and toys!

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MawMaw and her boys…love this picture!

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MawMaw and Lily seem to have “something special”!

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I don’t think Eli was quite so sure of their little bond…that’s HIS MawMaw, but there was plenty of MawMaw love to go around!

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Its unreal to think that Matt used to be the size of Eli at one time!

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It was really nice to see more family and as always, way too short!  Thank goodness we would get to see MawMaw and PawPaw soon in Atlanta!  Stay tuned for that visit!

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