Rainy Weekend

Another rainy weekend in Atlanta. Ellie helped me pick tomatoes off the vine after the abundance of rain helped ripen them. We have spent a lot of time inside, enjoying each other and a chance to relax. That said, I would like to see the sun again!

 

Day at the Zoo!

Chris took us girls for a fun morning at the zoo. The weather was beautiful and the girls enjoyed seeing the animals.

There is a new Parakeet house. You can feed the parakeets with little sticks of seeds. It was really neat to be able to see the birds up close.

The Museum School of Avondale Estates

Chris has been working hard with a group of local parents to get a charter school approved in Avondale. Today was a fund raiser for the school. It was at the local Waffle House Museum (Waffle House originated in Avondale Estates, who knew?) and included a children's musician, Elvis impersonator, hot dogs and lots of drinks. We had a great time. We got a tour of an old fashioned Waffle House lead by local kids.

Ellie in her Waffle House hat on the tour.

Meggie in her hat, she was SUPER cute!

Meggie found a friend to wave at through the glass.

Ellie enjoyed the hot dog and chips, what else does a girl need to be happy?

Ellie Turns 4!!

It is hard to believe that my little baby is 4! It really seems like we just brought her home from the hospital. We celebrated with a family birthday party (and noodles) on Tuesday. Today we had a party with two of her friends from school. We had pizza, painted faces and make necklaces. It was a fun time, Ellie enjoyed her first birthday celebration with friends!

Ellie had a Barbie cake (or cupcakes).

Ellie and her cute friends from school!

I Heart Faces: My Favorite Face Photo

The category this week is "My Favorite Face Photo." I love the photograph below because it is me and my baby girl. I took it in the mirror on Saturday when we were playing together. Her happy, chubby little face is one of my favorites.





I am submitting this photo into the www.iheartfaces.com Blurb Book photo contest. I am granting I ♥ Faces permission to use my photo in a printed version of a book for commercial use and possibly advertising of a photo book on both the Blurb and I ♥ Faces web sites.

A Mama, A Baby and The Camera

I often lament that we do not have many pictures of me and the girls. I am usually behind the camera, not in front of it. Today Meggie and I had some time at home all alone so I went to see if we could get some mirror-assisted images. I thought some of these came out pretty darn cute.

Me showing Meggie how to push the shutter button.

 

My sweet baby checking things out.

Another sweet baby girl moment.

This may be one of my most favorite pictures ever! I LOVE it so so much! 

Meggie and Her Cupcake

We had dinner with some friends, Avi, Allison and Baby Devan on Thursday night. Allison totally spoils the girls and always has cupcakes for them. Here is Meggie, post cupcake! She had it everywhere (ears, eyes, hair, etc.).  But, boy did she like it!

Soccer Saturday!

We started off our weekend with a soccer game for Ellie.

In classic Ellie fashion she was interested for the first 15 minutes then decided a warm blanket was more fun.

Go Stingrays!

Ellie and her cute friend Luke decided that playing on a muddy hill was much more fun than playing in the game!

Ellie is so silly!

And super cute!

Maybe next weekend she will play....maybe not!

Easter 2009!!

We had a great Easter at the Sears House!! We had our friends Avi, Allison and Devan over. We ate lots of yummy food and had a fun Easter Egg hunt!

Meggie Says, "Happy Easter!!"

Meggie thought a day filled with MnM's was probably the best day ever!

This is Baby Devan and his Daddy, Avi!

Meggie found an Easter egg!

Baby Devan loved his Easter eggs!

 

Baby Devan and a couple of his Easter eggs!

 

Ellie loved all of the candy she found!

 

Ellie checking out her loot!

Happy Easter everyone!!