The Budding Photographer

Hello there! I wanted to share with you one of my new passions - photography. I think the photo bug has caught me. I love watching Mommy take photos of me so I thought I would give it a try. Here are some of my best ones. I think I have a real knack for it, don't you?!?






Much Love,
Carlisle Drew

Fairy Tale Gardens

Hey you!
One of the fun things that I did this summer was have a "girly day" with Memie and Mommy. Memie came to visit and took us to a local garden that had a Fairy Tale Garden exhibit. Local artists created little scenes based on children's stories. I got to see Jack and the Beanstalk, Peter Rabbit, Alice in Wonderland, and the Secret Garden just to name a few. We had so much fun wandering around the gardens and smelling the flowers.





After we looked at everything, we had a "girly" lunch at a place with white table cloths! Thankfully there was a grilled cheese on the menu and I left a ketchup fingerprint on the tablecloth. We had fun!

Much Love,
Carlisle Drew

More Summer Fun!

Hi!
The month of August brought more fun and lots of celebrating! I first celebrated with Travis and Taylor as they turned 2 and got to enjoy all their construction vehicles and new playset. I love the swing and the slide.


Then I spent some time at Memie and Papa Nick's getting ready for my great-grandmother "Memo"'s 90th birthday! Memie has lots of dolls at her house which I discovered while I was there. The babies I chose to play with were Mommy's first doll and her last doll and I got to bring home with a baby cradle. I even tried to get in it with all of the dolls. Now I love to put the babies to "Night, Night".


Memo's birthday was great! So many people sent her gifts and cards. All of Mommy's family was there to celebrate. We got to help her blow out her candles and eat her chocolate cake. Memo and I ended up with cake all over our faces. Isn't that the only way to eat cake?!?







At the end of the month, we celebrated with Nana, my other great-grandmother on Mommy's side, for her birthday in Mississippi. I to play with all of my girl cousins. They loved picking me up. It was fun!

I hope you had lots to celebrate this summer too!

Much Love,
Carlisle Drew

More Vacation Pictures

Enjoy More fun times from Lake Junaluska!








Much Love,
Carlisle Drew

Vacation

I have missed you all! I have been going, going, going try to stay cool in this LONG summer season. As most of you know the North Carolina mountains are very special to Mommy and Daddy's hearts so they took me to experience them this year. I had a great vacation with Daddy, Mommy, Granny, and Grandpa. We traveled to Lake Junaluska which you can tell, I did not enjoy the car ride. I don't understand why Mommy and Daddy didn't want to entertain me for 5 hours through the mountains, do you?!?


The weather was beautiful and believe it or not we didn't use our air conditioning in the house which was such a change from the hot TN weather. I slept really well with the open windows and mountain air! We did so many fun things while we were there. I got to meet family members on Daddy's said of the family.


My favorite thing to do was to feed the ducks every night after dinner. There is a big walking path that we would stroll around and I would wave and say "Hi" to everyone walking including their dogs and then go find the ducks. Daddy would shoo away the hissing geese. I couldn't quite get that I was supposed to throw the bread to them so I would try to take the bread to them and they would waddle back to the water.


Part of the walking path had roses along it and we would stop and smell the roses and see how pretty they were. I made sure that my Babies or toy duck smelled the roses too. I was very careful around the thorns, but the first rose I tried to smell, I grabbed the flower and all the petals fell off in my hand. Uh-oh!


We also hiked in the mountains, drove the Blue Ridge Parkway, rock hopped, went swimming, and of course played! I had such a good time!


Much Love,
Carlisle Drew