Sweet Caroline

Also known as my Thanksgiving Holiday Recap. We truly had a wonderful holiday weekend. We started by celebrating Thanksgiving with my family on Wednesday night...it was just the six of us plus Belle and my Grandparents. Even though it was a small group, we still had a large time. I didn't take any pictures really...except for when Granddaddy thought it would be funny to get our little Gamecock drawing pictures of Sammy Watkins (Clemson's supposedly BEST player, unfortunately for the Tigers that wasn't the case at the game on Saturday, haha!!) *Side note: my family is a split family when it comes to the biggest rivalry in our state....Carolina vs. Clemson. Mom and I are Carolina Gamecocks (her dad was a dean at the business school there and is a huge fan and she grew up a Carolina fan as did I) and fortunately for my mom and ,I my Clemson loving brother married a HUGE Gamecock fan! So, of course...little Belle is following in her mommy, Aunt, and Lolly's footsteps ...

If you read my previous post , you know what we went thru to come up with a name for our sweet baby girl. I really never thought it would be so hard. Anyways, that post really summed up everything…our little wee one is going to be : Collins Richardson Glenn Collins…how this came about. I have heard the name here and there, it’s not too common but I always liked it. Well…this might sound silly, but for honesty’s sake, I’m going to lay it all out there. I remember watching The Blind Side and thinking that Collins Tuohy was so pretty (when they showed the pictures at the end) and I just loved her name. Well…that was quite some time before I was pregnant. But, then when pregnant I was reading a Southern Living magazine article on the Tuohy’s and it just spoke to me…I fell in love with the name Collins once I saw it written out. Mikey liked it from day one…so we just decided to start using it a bunch and seeing if it really felt right. Well, the mor...