Everyone Needs a Best Friend

My freshmen year of college I was randomly assigned to be roomates with Jamie. There was nothing random about it--divine intervention is more like it. It was the start of a wonderful friendship. Despite study abroads, travels, moves across the country, and marriages we have stayed best friends.

Jamie and her husband Robert came to Georgia for a quick weekend visit from St. Louis.

Jamie and Robert in the Olympic Exhibit at the Atlanta History Center.

A walk in the park.
Abigail's first "swinging" experience. It was a perfect in everyway weekend.

Abigail's 1st Tooth

She's pretty happy about it!

A closer look (kind of):

Presenting the Army Crawl and other videos

For your viewing pleasure: the army crawl, a common happening for the past month, has finally been captured on video. And other happenings in the life of Abigail, namely some favorites: peek-a-boo and kicking (and one of our favorites: her chubby legs).

(the slight pause in her "crawl" is Abigail deciding what to head towards--the boring plastic bag I was attempting to entice her with, or, the shoes. Obviously, this girl has her priorities.)

A Cousins Weekend

Jamin brought the kids down from N.C. for a perfect in almost everyway (minus the rain) weekend. Everyone was cute, everyone was happy, we kept to nap schedules:) and even got some projects done, like making cards and painting with water-colors. We missed Ann, but were so happy she got to go home for a visit. We were adventurous and checked out the Children's Museum and we were laid back and watched basketball tournaments. It was indeed a perfect visit. Hooray for family only 4 1/2 hours away and hooray for Jamin for making the drive...and making us delicious enchiladas....homemade, even the sauce!

Kate sat up on the counter each night while dinner was being made.

The kids--I mean, the knights and the princesses, at the children's museum.Benjamin---always up to something.

Smiling away as we played away at the museum.

Jamin and Eliza in the tree house the children's museum.

Eliza LOVED the tree house!

Bedtime!

What a great cousin Ashton is!

Happy at the museum.

Sleep in Heavenly Peace

Abigail has adopted a new sleep position. We think it's pretty cute.

Projects

This past month I have been up to a few projects, which include:

My Sister-in-law Ann was instrumental in helping me to sew this pillow. I love the finished product. 1 down, 3 more to go (to be completed on my next NC visit). Between her 4 kids and my 1 somewhat clingy baby, it is amazing that we were able to complete even just 1 pillow. I'm definitely looking forward to the next "sewing" weekend.
Ann was also the inspiration to make these burp cloths. My friend Noelle and I had fun sewing all sorts of burp cloths in all sorts of patterns. These burp cloths were given as a gift to Lacey and baby Brody (to make his appearance sometime in the next month).

Rolling Here and There

Abigail has long been rolling here, there, and everywhere. It isn't uncommon to have her roll all of the way across the room in a matter of mere seconds. The other day, after leaving her unattended in my room for a minute or two, I came back to find that Abigail has taken our game of "peek-a-boo" to the next level: