Monday, November 29, 2010

A Bunch of Random . . .

We've been busy the last couple of weeks! Instead of posting on the blog, my time at the computer has been spent searching for Christmas presents and ordering photo cards. My other "free time" has been spent on embroidery and decorating for Christmas. With all these extra projects going on . . . you do NOT want to see our house. Every room looks like a tornado has gone thru it. I don't even know where to start on the clean up so I'm not . . . I'd rather be in denial and post some pics on the blog : )

We spent time over the last couple of weeks with friends at the park and at the indoor play area at the mall. We met our friends Kyle and Sydnee at the park:
And met our friends Julia and Liliana at the mall. Abigail thought she was such a big girl sitting in one of the play cars. She sat there the whole time the girls played. The couple of times I got her out she fussed at me:
As I have said before, Emily's imagination amazes me. She is constantly busy "pretending" something. Last week I gave her some old thread and fabric and she spent the afternoon making balls by rolling up the fabric and wrapping the thread around it. Then it turned into dog food to give all the dogs that lived in her princess house:
She also discovered the value of the magic eraser last week when she decided to write on her wall with her colored pencils:
On Thanksgiving Day we spent the day together just the 4 of us. We had such a great day! We enjoyed eating fun food and then went to a park for the afternoon. That evening we put the kids to bed and then grilled out steaks! Yum!

On Friday, Emily and I decorated our tree. Emily had the BEST time decorating. So far she has enjoyed moving the ornaments around each day:
On Saturday we visited Joe's mom in Auburn and took Emily to Toomer's Corner to see the trees covered in toilet paper. Emily had a blast running around:
Abigail took a marathon nap that afternoon. . . this is the cutest picture ever!
Now that's some good sleep right there!

Monday, November 15, 2010

Camping

This past weekend we went camping with my family at a park near the Georgia/Alabama state line:

My parents have an RV and Nathan and Michelle have a pop up camper:

We aren't camping people so we stayed in this cabin:
There were several areas for the kids to play so they had a great time! The weather was beautiful . . .
Emily played putt-putt for the first time:
Joe and I discovered we could still ride bikes : )
They had a pig that the kids fed all weekend:
There were several rabbits that roamed the park and would come right up to you and hang out just in case you had some food to share. The kids enjoyed feeding them as well:
Sarah even managed to get one close enough to pick up and hold for a while:
Saturday night the camp managers showed all their reptiles to the kids and Y@gi Bear came to visit. Robert and I took the kids to check them out while everyone else finished watching the AU/GA game:
We had our Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday night:
we ate wherever we found a spot . . .
Eating breakfast and lunch was a lot easier:



Enjoying hanging out:


Saturday night after dinner we enjoyed making smores and sitting by the fire:
My sister also prepared a campfire treat that she made for Mandy's birthday:
We did good hanging out with all these camping folks!