SWEET SOUTHERN COMFORT

We just got back Saturday evening from our visit to Louisiana! We were supposed to come home Thursday but we weren't finished redecorating the rooms I'd set out to help mom redecorate so we extended our stay! We were busy, busy running around shopping, painting, and visiting family and friends! I LOVE staying busy and always on the go because it makes the days go by and it makes me just feel like I'm accomplishing things! Anyway, here's a brief summary of our vacation down south!

Boston cruising around Mimi & Papa's house. Since my parents have hardwood floors Boston had to learn how to fall gracefully while walking around instead of flat on his hands like he normally does at home! After a day or so, he had it down AND I think it made him learn to walk better because the wood floors are rough on the little man's knees!

We also got to visit with Grandma and Aunt Hillary and Melia! It was SOO cute to see Boston and Melia interact! She's gotten SOO big since Christmas and LOVES babies so she was so sweet to Boston! She got on the floor when he would crawl and decided she wanted to be a baby like Boston! So they cruised around together! It was TOO cute! Can't wait to see ya'll when you come to visit next week!

We got to meet Papa for lunch and dinner a few times since he was very busy with work and church while we were there! Papa is trying to make sure Boston has Bluth blood in him and got him to try his first taste of salsa which of course HE LOVED!

Boston's face POST salsa tasting!

Snapshot Dad took of Boston that I loved and had to post...

Boston also learned how to climb stairs while there. He's never been around stairs since he's been mobile but he knew exactly what to do when he saw them...no fear there!

You can't leave Louisiana during crawfish season without eating crawfish (sidenote: for all you non-southern's out there it IS CRAWFISH not crayfish, crawdaddies, mud bugs or whatever you call it...it's CRAWFISH!!)!!! YUM! It was DELICIOUS and I'm SOO happy I made it down during this time of year! OH, and I was also SOO happy to eat a crawfish poboy when I went to lunch at Sammy's (GREAT southern food) with my best friends from high school Tina and Bethany! You can't beat the food in the south!

Boston was SOO mesmerized by the crawfish! He had NO fear and just picked them up, played with them and tried to figure out what in the world it was! I couldn't even get him to look up and smile for the camera! As my dad says, he had his "Winston Churchill" face on!

The MAIN reason for my trip down to LA was to help mom redecorate one of the guest rooms and the game room! We didn't get everything that I WANTED to get done but I'm proud my mom was able to make the choices she did as quick as she did! I LOVE how the bedroom turned out! The green is VERY bright but it looks SOO good with all the stuff in there and everything back in place! If you look in Pottery Barn, its very in right now. We matched the bedding from PB with the paint that they have in the magazine now and this is how it turned out! Sorry I didn't get a completed picture but it looks GREAT! We also repainted the bathroom, or I should say painted over the wallpaper (did you know that you could do that?!?). It turned out GREAT and I didn't get a finished picture of it either! But with the red towels and the striped towels that match the bedding it looks SOOO good! I'll have to take a completed picture of it when we go back for the 4th! Lastly we bought some new furniture for the game room and that's about all we got done in there! Hopefully we get it finished in July or maybe MOM will complete it and surprise me when I come! HA!

We also ran into George when we there too (PRESIDENT George Bush that is....). I'm going to do a separate post on that one though because I have videos that I don't feel like doing right now but I'll post more about that soon!!

Our trip was FABULOUS and FUN! I was sooo glad to see everyone I did and help spend Daddy's money like the olden days! =) See ya'll again soon!