Since my hiatus, Savannah's has turned double digits!  She is 10 now and sweet as ever.  Here are some pictures of her family party.  she has an awesome slumber party too, with crazy crafts and fun food, but where was my camera?  i guess i was too busy pretending to be 10. 

it takes lots of effort to blow out 10 whole candles

the trampoline was a big hit

we had Justin's grandparents and parents, my parents, and trav and rebekah.  it was nice to slow down and visit.  Savannah didn't mind the presents either!

i just found this picture from a few weeks ago.  we were getting ready to go to dollywood and grady was ready to go have some fun in the sun!

The hustle and bustle is now over. I am happy to report that i am now Shannon Nichols!!! It is so weird to change your name (and a little therapeutic..) and we are so excited for this new time in our life!  i appreciate so much all the words of encouragement that all of you have given!  i will be posting wedding pictures soon so you can see how adorable the kids were. 

if you can imagine the busiest person in the world since we have been back from the honeymoon, it is me.  savannah and grady went to the beach with brian while we were gone. savannah went to camp, like, the day after she got back from the beach (we love camp bethel) and we had packing to do for her and a TON of laundry to do for us.  i hit the ground running as soon as we got off the plane.  so, this past week we were trying to get back into the groove of work after being in paradise for a week.  it was pitiful.  also, we were missing savannah like crazy.  but, on the other hand, we got to play with grady like crazy.  he missed savannah a lot too.  we would pass by her room in the mornings and he'd say " sissy room?".  he was so excited to go and pick her up on saturday! 

anyway, just to catch you up, i am posting some pictures of Jamaica.  We stayed at Sandals Whitehouse and it was even better than the commercials.  We even took naps in the hammocks there and i felt like we were in movie.  Which, i feel like my whole life is a movie as far as that is concerned!  ha!  we had the best time ever!

This was on our bed one night with rose petals all over the floor. i mean, seriously.

there was so much to do on the beach and it was really all-inclusive just like the commercial says!

we just wanted to take a picture of our sandy feet

we did a tour of the Black River

i almost peed my pants.  too close for me.

it came a really great storm one day and they made us come in from sailing.

I know that you all wanted to see me in my bathing suit, but i will have to post those at a later date.  or maybe not.