Atlanta Botanical Garden

Today we headed to one of the last "atlanta" sites we have not seen yet since moving here. The Atlanta Botanical Garden located in midtown. It was a gorgeous day outside, and really was the perfect way to spend the day. The flowers ( and pollen -haaaachooo) are in full bloom and the gardens were full or gorgeous colors. It was so peaceful and pretty to walk around, and they have a great kids area too for them to play, learn about the plants and vegetables and run around.

And since Hannah knows the basics on point and shoot with the camera now, Todd and I can actually be in a few pictures now that we have a tag-a-long photographer :) Here we are.  Yup, we are the same, nothing to see her but the pretty tulips on the background :)

Hannah, almost 4 ft tall.. I think she is around 46 inches these days. The tallest girl in her class, I am still not sure where she gets this from.

Drew, who is not smiling because we asked him to stand still for 20 seconds, is just right above 3ft tall.. he is in the middle of the pack in height for his class. We still have high hopes of a football or baseball player on our hands, but won't be counting on a basketball scholarship anytime soon.

And after all the fun we had at the Botanical Garden, we headed to the original Chick-fil-a to eat for lunch. It is called the Dwarf house and you can enter through a little door and for whatever reason, on one of the walls, there are the 7 seven dwarfs animated and moving on the wall singing Hii--ho.  All I know is that it was my first experience at a "sit down" chick-fil-a and macaroni and cheese was listed as well as sweet potato soufflé as a vegetable on the menu.  Both of which  ended up at our table and I can tell you there was nothing vegetable about it unless butter is now classified as a new vegetable. It was good, real good though.  I think the best part of the lunch was that it was right next to the airport, and each time Drew saw a plane land he about flipped out with excitement, it was cute.

A really great day, great weather, kids were good, we are tired. Looking forward to a good nights rest for everyone.

Lil Fans

Baseball season hasn't started yet, but spring in atlanta feels like late summer in Mpls, you kinda feel like you should already be at the ball park when days are in the 80's and the sun is shining. We are looking forward to go to some games this year. Drew and Hannah both have their collection of Braves wear and are ready to take on the season.   After work every night this week we have been full of energy and things going on. Trips to the park, playing outside and even on night we went to the Georgia Aquarium for a private event for Homedepot.com associates and their families. It was so nice to have the whole aquarium to ourselves and a full dinner to go with it. The kids loved running around and being able to see everything. We loved that there were not crowds or lines. It felt like you had the whole place to yourself!

Silly Faces of Spring

Look at these two making silly faces??!?  I went for a run one night this week after work, and I came home to a camera full of silliness from Hannah, Drew and Dad. Apparently they were full of silly, and then went for a little walk around the neighborhood.

I am not sure that Drew could get a bigger sillier smile if he tried.

And little Hannah has been working on her photography skills, and getting quite good that Dad and Drew actually made it in the photo. Not cut off heads or anything :)

Sunday Funday!

Tonight we threw together a last minute Sunday BBQ with some friends.  We all had such a great time, and of course, the kids had so much fun playing, running around and eating popsicles!!!   Holly, Carolyn and I looked outside and wouldn't you know it, the kids were all sitting just like this lined up eating their popsicles. I couldn't have done it better myself to be able to snap a quick picture of all the kids. From left to right is Lily, Hannah, Maddie, Ansley, Connor and Drew. They are all so cute together, and we are so happy we found a little boy for Drew to play with too. Hannah and Maddie are about 4 days apart in age, and Lily, Connor and Drew are all within 2 months of each other with Ansley right in the middle of all of them.    And when the kids weren't running around everyone, the parents all had time to catch up for awhile too!!

It was a great end to a busy week. Todd had his fun in Vegas, I tried to sleep ( exciting I know), we had fun with the kids yesterday going to the park, enjoying Shamrock Shakes and going to see the movie Lorax ( which Drew actually sat and watched the whole thing).   BBQ today and now .. the week starts all over again tomorrow. Here we go.....

Spring Time Fun

We have been so busy doing a lot of nothing and always something lately. I have not had the time to update the blog, which is so unlike me. While there isn't a lot going on other than work, playing with the kids and just life... we have have had a little fun outside along the way. Above, Drew has been loving his little bike and of course looking awesome in his shark helmet.

Our little fearful Hannah, scared of everything is no where near taking off those training wheels on her bike. That is going to be my personal goal this summer to get her riding her bike on her own. In the mean time, she sure does have fun riding on very flat ground with her wheels.

Who loves a good tunnel slide other than our little Drew??  Nothing gets better than that. 

And what's a Saturday morning without going to Home Depot with Dad and making a Home Depot race car toy. I think Drew was in heaven, his favorite things came together, a car, and Home Depot.

I am going to do my best to get back to taking some pictures and keeping up with the kids. We are headed to our favorite destination Siesta Key in 1 month, we all know I take plenty of pictures then!

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa!!!!

Thank goodness for Grandma and Grandpa this last week. Todd and I both had to go to Las Vegas for work last week, and what to do, but call Grandma and Grandpa for help.   As far as Todd and I know, it was a success both from Hannah and Drew, and Grandma and Grandpa perspectives. We aren't sure if they are just trying to be nice, or our kids were actually good, but we are just happy that we came home to happy kids and that Grandma and Grandpa were still in one piece.   We here snippets about the weekend here and there from the kids, and mostly, we hear that Grandpa had to sit on the naughty step for eating too many cinnamon apples. Hannah seemed to get a real kick out of that. 

We love that the kids had such a great time, Hannah had been looking forward to last week for a long time. And wouldn't you know it, the minute they pulled out of the drive way, Hannah just looked at me with a quivering lip and said " mom, I am trying so hard to not be sad, but I am going to miss them a lot" I thought that was so sweet, then she went on to say " do you think they will hear my tears in Ohio, I think they will, because that is how sad I am".   Hannah is my little sweet heart, full of love for her grandma  and grandpa. 

Thank you so much Grandma and Grandpa!! We really appreciate your watching the kids and making the drive to Atlanta to do so!! Until next year :)