Halloween 2010

Grayson as a Cheeky Monkey







Mommy & Daddy as 80's Rockers

Family Dispute...

It all comes down to one BIG question....

WHO IS THE BEST SEC TEAM?

AUBURN or UGA

Such a simple question if you ask Grayson and I :) We know Auburn is the best team of ALL!!! Buuuuttt, his daddy disagrees with us :( He is a bulldogs fan, and as much as I don't like it... we try to play fair in this home...

So Saturdays are full of waredrobe changes for Grayson. If Georgia is playing at 3:30pm and Auburn isn't playing until 7pm...

Grayson starts out the day dressing like this:



But by 7pm his Daddy is sweet enough to dress him like this:




It'll be up to him to decide in a few years what battle cry he wants to scream *cough* WAR EAGLE!!! *cough*

One Month Old

I'm a little late posting this, but I need to do it now before we're already at TWO Months!

Sweet Grayson,

You're already a month old!! And oooohhh how you've grown and changed. Every ay your daddy and I continue to try and decide who you look most like. You have your daddy's chin and full lips, and mommy's nose and ears. You are the sweetest boy I've ever met in my life! I know I'm biased, but I mean it! You are already smiling when we talk to you, and you love looking around at lights. I've noticed lately you've started trying to focus in on the sounds you hear, and are starting to turn your eyes toward daddy's voice and mine.



You've become a healthy eater, and have gone through many phases of sleep cycles! The first few weeks you slept like a champ-- we're working on getting you back there! I think you're just too interested in this new world to sleep very much.

The faces you make are adorable!!! You love having your picture taken. You sit patiently and make sweet faces for mommy to send your Grandma, Granddad, Grandpop, aunties, uncles and cousins. Everyone who meets you says you're such a beautiful boy. They all fall in love with you immediately. I can't blame them baby boy, You are one unique little one.



I love each of your ten fingers and each of your ten toes. Your wavy brown hair and sweet little noses. I love those eyes that seem to be turning brown, and the heart of gold that is growing every day!

We love you sweet Grayson! Happy One Month to You!

Apple Festival- 1st Big Outting

Well, We finally decided to get Grayson out and about to let him see this beautiful world he has been born into! We still didn't want to take him to a busy indoor place, so when Jacob heard about the Apple Festival the first two weeks in October, we decided it was the ideal first outting!

Here are just a few photos from our adventure to the GA mountains:

Our Little Family


My mama, G's Grandma, enjoying the festival


The gyros were HUGE and sooooo good! They were even better washed down with Rootbeer straight from a keg in metal mugs :)


G and I riding the bus back to our car. He was tuckered out, but had hung in there all day!


We were lucky enough to have Skye, Mia, Laura, & Chaz go with us too!


It was a great trip and I'm so glad that we decided to bite the bullet and take a little adventure with G! The weather was a little toasty, and breastfeeding at a fair was interest, but we had a blast! So many more adventures to come!

How did we get graced with Grayson?--

This sweet little bundle couldn't be more precious. I look at him so much and just think, "God, how did you choose us? Are you sure you made the right choice? He's so perfect and I'm... not. Did you know what you were doing when you chose me?"

I know without a shadow of a doubt I would give my life for him! I wondered for nine months if I would feel that love for him right away that you always hear parents try to describe. Parents always say, "I've never loved someone the way I fell in love with my children the moment I saw them," and I completely understand that now!

How is it possible to love someone soooo much I've only held for a week in my arms? It even changes the way I sit and think about how God loves us unconditionally. It's truly an undescribable love.

Every morning I pray for Grayson to God that I'll be shown how to raise him up as a child of God. He is the most precious gift I've ever had in my life, and I want him to know just how wonderful his God is who created him.

We were Graced with Grayson for certain!!

First Bath Time!

Scrub a dub dub! There's a GRAYSON in the tub!

Well... sink to be exact! This little wiggler LOVES his bathtime! He's as happy as a clam as long as there's warm water in the tub.

The second the water is gone though... he wants out!!!

Squeaky clean baby!

72 Hour iPhone4 Luv

In the last 72 hours after Grayson's birth I realized something... This phone is amazing! Quick ability to capture 1day old Grayson, can use flip view camera to check if he's still breathing while laying on my chest, easy to hold both he and the phone, portable lullaby player, can track moment by moment account of actions on facebook and a fantastic time keeper for next "dinner and dessert"!




Friday night, about 24hrs before we met Grayson, Jacob and I stopped at Best Buy on our way home from mexican. We had been putting off for weeks ordering/buying a new camera ( I sorta got his wet on our honeymoon, and the cover to the lens on mine won't open). We knew we would be taking my big fancy camera with us to the hospital, but we needed something compact and more point-and-shoot for the whole labor and delivery process....

Turns out we probably took just as many photos on our iPhones as we did on the new Olympus camera!!! The iPhone 4 was soooo great to have! We were able to take quality, in focus, moment-capturing photos the minute Grayson was born. I see many, many posts in the future incorporating iphone photos of our beautiful little man!

We love you sweet sweet one! <3

Precious Cargo has Arrived!

Introducing....

Grayson James Lewis



8lbs 5oz 21in

Born at 9:52pm on September 18th, 2010


He is the most beautiful little one I've ever set my eyes on! His daddy and I are so smitten!

We're Having......

We found out just a few weeks ago that we're having a BOY!!!! Ohhhh my gracious! A BOY!

Here we come football on friday nights, knots on the head from baseballs, worms on the kitchen floor, saving frogs, fishing on saturdays with Granddad, learning how to change a diaper without being squirted, first girlfriend getting called to the school for who-knows-what, hearing him say his first prayers, lovin' mama n jesus with all his heart, knowing daddy is his hero, camping out without worrying about gettin' dirty, and all the many many things my mind can't even get wrapped around yet!

We are so thrilled that our first born will be a boy! It was a little shock at first, Jacob had been called the baby a girl for weeks and weeks, only to be quite stunned when the ultrasound pictures had a little circle around this faint white spot!

We're just trying to breathe in the newness of the news and enjoy all the dreams we have for him. We can't begin to fathom what God has in store for his life, but we are so proud to be the ones to guide him through all the ups and down til the day we die!

We love you baby boy!!!!

Bbq at the Lewis'

Our house is becoming a home!! We received some amazing wedding gifts ranging from a filled pancake maker, a panini press, our beautful formal china to... A new barbacue grill!!!!

We brought home our Royal Oak grill yesterday and had so much fun grilling some amazing salmon! The marinade was so simple:

3 Tbsp Maple Syrup
3 Tbsp Dijon Mustard
1 Tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
Salt & Pepper

Mmmmmm! So fantastic!






I'm so proud of the company I work for making such a great grill. We just recently started a website where everything a person could need to know about our charcoal and grills can be found. There are even some fun recipes on there too.

The website is www.royal-oak.com

Spring time Love

Here are a few pictures of us from a photo shoot we did a few months ago with our amazing photographer Brandelyn Lee! The pictures turned out beautiful! She says it's because she had such great models, but I think it's because we had such a great photographer!

The pictures were taken out in the country just down the road from where we live. We had to do a little trespassing to get the shot with the old truck, which was quite fun in my heels :)

All it took was a Laugh...

..To grab my attention in the sea of a thousand singles. He didn't even know he'd done it, and truthfully he didn't even know I existed (yet).

But it was that laugh. There was no name and no face attached to it. Just carefree happiness with a hint of..something. I didn't know it then, but I would forever wake up to that laugh and fall asleep next to it to.

It all started when I decided to get outside my bubble a bit. I'd been dating someone for a long while and it was just getting to a point where it wasn't working anymore. The reasons we were together in college, just didn't seem to fit any more. So around that same time I decided to get more involved in singles ministry at my church (which is for anyone who is not married, not just "singles") and mad some great girlfriends. There was a movie on the lawn night held for everyone to attend, and I decided after talking myself out of it several times to go on my own and meet up with the girls.

Everyone had blankets and since I only knew 2 people there I quickly found them blopped down to people watch 'til Sweet Home Alabama started. While we waited people kept coming over to our squares of blankets to chat and introduce themselves. AND THEN... I heard it.

The Laugh.

Somewhere over my right shoulder I heard people taking and joking around, and all assudden I heard this male laugh that just.. stuck out. I turned around a bit to see what was going on and heard my friend say something like, "Gah, Jacccooob! That was so not funny!" Then more laughter.

I thought to myself, "Jacob? The one she's beentalking about? There's no way. Seriously? He's not asian! Wait.. why in the world did I think "Jacob" was asian?! He's pretty cute... seriously. Huh.... So that's Jacob."

My friend plopped back down next to me on the blanket and I leaned over and said, "THAT's jacob?! Seriously? Oh my gosh, he's so cute!" We all started laughing, and I can remember glancing oer waaaaaay across the lawn to see where he was sitting. He was around a bunch of girls, no surprise, but couldn't sit still for the world.

After the movie I hung around for a bit hoping maybe he'd come back by our group and I'd have an excuse to be introduced to the mystery laugh that belonged to this Jacob guy. Lo and behold, the excuse arrived and we were introduced....

Too bad he didn't even remember seeing me that night(and still doesn't!), and it would be weeks before we really got to know one another. But when the second opportunity arose he was hooked for the first moment. We just clicked instantly!!!

But I like to say, It all started with that one laugh!

The Start of Something New

With the start of a new blog there should be so much to write, don't you think? But if I put it all into one post why would anyone want to come back for more?!

No No.. I think it's best to start out by introducing myself to anyone who may have just found me!

My name is Kaylan and I'm a crazy, silly girl (woman just doesn't "fit" for a 23yr old!) who lives in the deep south with her husband in our country castle fit for... well... we aren't sure yet home many it's fit for, But what we do know is that here shortly we will be waking up to coos and cries from down the hall at who knows what time of day!

We were just recently married, and had the most unbelievable wedding a man and woman could have EVER asked for!! We spent a week in St. Lucia recovering, and taking in the sweet moments of being Mr. and Mrs.!! Things feel so natural for us-- it's that really perfect bliss, but we had great reasons to be excited to come home and jump right back into the swing of life.

Full disclosure: We are both strong Christians, which means we are full of flaws and despite good intentions we sin and make daily right and wrong decisions. I say that because before we were married we found out we were expecting the the greatest gift God could give us. Either way you look at it, we couldn't possibly be more excited about what God is blessing us with in our lives, and the fact that even when we felt at our lowest and ashamed, He has never left our side even for an instant.

We're humbled daily by the love of our family and friends, and are sooooo blessed to have such positive, encouraging mentors and role models! We hope through this blog to share with family, friends and whoever happens upon our blog to share the ups and downs of our life and the wonderful in it!!! Let life begin!