A Chance To Grow

With the spring weather comes many glorious things---walks outside morning and night, the neighborhood pool opening, sweaters put away and short sleeves pulled out, the smells of bar-b-que, and planting!!

Pot of flowers on our back patio table (to the back left is our rosemary plant).

We are giving a garden a try this year. Small as it is, we hope for lots of yummy tomatoes, basil, and cucumbers.

Our yard is small, and the part of our yard that gets good sun is even smaller, but here is to hoping for a garden full of good things.

Color is back in the windows!! We planted red Geraniums, yellow Million Belles and some other orange flower in our window boxes.

Last year these window boxes brought humming birds, butterflies, and bees--we're hoping for a repeat of that this year.

And in our hanging baskets we planted purple million belles (a favorite around this house), white Diamond Frost, red Verbena and the mystery orange flower I can't quite remember the name of, but are still enjoying.

1 of 2 hanging baskets, right after we planted it--- now hanging in the front yard.

Check It Out

This dream kitchen, featured on Blissful Home, belongs to my mom and dad.

And if anyone deserves this dream kitchen, it is definitely my mom!

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.