I want to see the aquarium addition!

I so hope this is true!

 

Planet Shark Blogger Day at the Georgia Aquarium on Friday, November 20, 2009, to experience Planet Shark first hand from 2:00pm-5:00pm (last admission at 4:00). You will receive FREE admission for you and one guest. Please RSVP to leslie@creaxion.com by Wednesday, November 18 and include your blog’s web address for verification. Your ticket will be available for pick up at the Ocean’s Ballroom Entrance the day of the event.

Amy and Jeff- a beautiful day in Michigan

sleeping with grandpa

hiking with Grammy, Grampy, Dad and Rocky ( Mom was taking the photo)

Dancing with Amy

My cousin Amy was married on August 1, 2009 in Michigan. That trip was alot of firsts for Elliot…first trip, first plane ride, fist time to meet his cousins and aunts and uncles, first ranger ride, first tractor ride, first hike…it was even his first dance and guess what it was with the bride!  For a truly beautiful and creative view of Jeff and Amy’s day visit the photographers blog.

E with uncle Wren

patty cake patty cake bakers man

My mom (aka Grammy) is visiting us for a week.  Yesterday she made James homemade buns from my grandmother’s recipie.  She let Elliot help her poke the dough down afer it raised the first time.  Pretty good for an alomst three month old baker.

Elliot baking buns with Grammy.

how fast a little man grows in approximately 60 days

Elliot turned two months old a week ago today.  I have been a little slow on getting photos out to everyone but here he is.

E on June 10, 2009

e on August 10, 2009

e on august 10, 2009

Who Knew 2 months was 6 months?

So this weekend I realized that Carter’s 6 month clothing fits babies 12.5-16.5 lbs and 24-26.5 inches….At E’s 2 month checkup on the 7th of August he was 13 lbs 10 oz and 24.5 inches.  We have so many cute Carter’s outfits that we were given as gifts and they have been just sitting in the closet.  He may have to wear multiple outfits a day to get them all in before he grow out of them.

E in one of his cute Carter's outfits

Ellsworth on NPR

Check it out.  I haven’t made it to the restaurant yet but it would be fun to volunteer.

We made the ohdeedoh.com blog!! and smaller cooler contest

I am super excited about this.  I didn’t even think we would make the blog!

Here’s the link

as seen on yahoo.com – worst wedding traditions

So today I saw a link on yahoo.com for the worst wedding traditions.  Being the wedding lover that I am I had to check it out.

Now I fancy myself kind of good at wedding planning.  Actually after ours I thought if I ever needed a career change I could become a wedding planner.  So I was happy to see that James and I only fell prey to ONE of the worst wedding traditions.  What are these said traditions you ask?

• Matching Bridesmaids
• Big Bridal Parties
• Long Vows
• Throwing Rice
• Assigned Seating
• Expensive Wedding Favors
• Throwing the Bouquet
• Removing the Garter
• Drunken Toasts
• Leaving For the Honeymoon the Morning After

Now you ask which one tradition did we partake in.  Well we had a large wedding party.  James had 7 groomsmen, I had 6 bridesmaids to tell you the truth we really could have had more.  We have so many great friends.

AS for the other  wedding traditions we consciously chose not to partake in them.

• Matching Bridesmaids - each girl picked her own chocolate brown dress
  
• Long Vows- our wonderful minister David Behling took care of this one…he is fabulous
• Throwing Rice- we had sparklers (which reminds me I still have sparklers 2 years later)
  
• Assigned Seating- too stressful although we did have tables reserved for family and the bridal party.
  
• Expensive Wedding Favors- my mom and aunts made fabulous peanut butter blossom cookies from my grandmother’s recipe
  
• Throwing the Bouquet- I hate this one
  
• Removing the Garter- I dislike this one even more
• Drunken Toasts- 2 short toasts – we have great friends.
• Leaving For the Honeymoon the Morning After - we actually didn’t leave until 3 months later…we had a barbecue the night after at our place.
  

Missing the Rockstar :(

It has been 6 weeks since our sweet Rocky moved to Michigan.  I miss him so much but I know he is having a blast being spoiled by the grandparents (as any good granddog should be.)  Yesterday I was looking at photos of him when it snowed here in Atlanta this winter.  He’s too cute and I miss his smiley face, cuddliness and love.  I can’t wait until he and the baby can meet eachother this summer and ultimately until the Rockstar can move back home to the ATL with US!!

getting things in order

So James and I have been working to try to get our condo in order.  Rearranging, discarding, donating, organizing.  James has been really great at this.  Especially for things like scrubbing the baseboards in our room because my giant belly gets in the way.  Th was also SUPER at organizing the top shelf of our closet.

Oh he also surprised me with three black and white large format (18×24) prints of photos of the two of us.  Two are now in the living room and one is in our room over our new dressers.  We are trying to become very efficient in our storage techniques. With two closets in the entire place we need to get creative.

We are still making progress on the nursery too.  Mom’s curtains (and everything else she made) look great!  I made a mobile. Finished my pop art name project and James hung some shelves over the dresser/changing table.  We were able to fit our futon up there AND our new rocker and ottoman.  It is a little bit tighter than I had envisioned but still fairly simple and clean.  We still need to finish up a few things and decide on lighting.

Tomorrow we have a co-ed baby shower hosted by 10…yes 10… fabulous friends here in Atlanta.  We are expectng about 50 people.  Or dear friends Leah, Wooden and baby Christopher are coming in from Augusta for the shower and we are excited about that. it is always so nice to see them!