Friday, July 9, 2010

July with Friends

Boy, did we have a busy long 4th of July weekend! It was filled with tons of friends, good food, and lots of fun. We started Friday evening with the arrival of some of our best friends, the Fraziers. They stayed with us through Monday. It was great to see our little ones play together. The Gilliams joined us for dinner that evening and added one more little girl to the pack :) Saturday we headed to the Varsity for lunch and then to the Children's Museum of Atlanta. The kids LOVED it!! It was worth every penny. We will definitely visit again. Saturday evening we had a house FULL of friends for a big barbecue. We had a great time catching up and visiting with those we don't get to see often. Sunday morning Lee was off to the races! He ran the Peachtree Road Race with our friends the Woods. After they finished, we relaxed the rest of the day at the pool and ended the evening with more grilling. We are so blessed to have so many special friends in our lives!

Claire ringing up the groceries....

Daddy showing Claire how to "fish"

The girls enjoying the water play area

Madison and Claire enjoying the bouncing bridge

There's Claire and Daddy peeking out of the tree house!

...and there's Madison and Whitney!

The girls loved the lego tables

My little Picasso...

Admiring each other's work

Tending the garden

Stacking the giant blocks on daddy

Playing music with Mommy

She's stuck inside the table!! She doesn't seem to mind...

Pouncing on Daddy

Denver got in on the action, too!

Some of the crowd Saturday night

Claire loves Kathy!!!

Lee, Claire, Kathy, and Craig

Two buddies holding hands while shopping at Kohl's :)

The sweet Frazier family at the pool

Claire and Daddy playing in the water

She LOVES the pool!!

On the way home in the Woods' car

Madison, Claire and Denver. We expect to see this photo in a slide show at one of their weddings one day!

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Tomahawk Chop!!

Claire sure does love the Braves...and the Chick-fil-A Cow that's on top of the stadium, too :)

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Babyland General Hospital

Today Claire and I went on an adventure! We loaded up the car with our buddies the Parmans and drove to Cleveland, GA. We spent the day at Babyland General Hospital, the birthplace of Cabbage Patch Dolls!! What a wonderful day! Claire was able to tour the "nursery" and hold some of the newborn babies. We watched a live "birth" under the crystal tree. Claire was even able to adopt her very own baby, which we named Rachel Kristen, after her and her mommy :) We had such a great time!! I hope you enjoy the pictures of all our girls having fun!

Babyland General Hospital


The girls entertaining themselves on the way!

Claire loving on one of the newborns in the nursery.


Caitlin and Claire waiting patiently under the crystal tree for the next "birth"

The delivery nurse getting ready to deliver the next baby! This was really neat to watch :)

Claire taking one of the babies for a spin

Alaina and Claire with their new adopted babies, "Marylee Magdelena" and "Rachel Kristen"

All 3 girls enjoying rocking their babies on the font porch

Claire was having so much fun!!

Look at her laughing!

The long ride home...they are SOOO tired!

Claire and Rachel Kristen enjoying some TV before bedtime

Sunday, June 6, 2010

FINALLY! Interior house pictures

I finally have the inside of the house in decent (enough) shape to take pictures of with OUR furnishings! It's certainly not finished, and there are still boxes to be unpacked, but I thought I'd share a few pictures. Enjoy!!

Living Room

Living Room (again!)

Fireplace--one of my favorite features of the house

Office/Bonus room (AKA Lee's temporary man-room)

Another view of the office/bonus/man room

Guest Room

Guest room

Claire's Playroom (we spend lots of time here!)

Playroom bathroom

Claire's room (yes, that is her leg sticking out of the covers!)

The rest of Claire's room and part of her bathroom

Upstairs hallway looking over to the living room/breakfast area

Reading nook

Dining room--still very much in progress!

Laundry room (I know this isn't very exciting, but if you saw my old laundry "area", you'd know why I had to post this! I love it!!)

Master bedroom

Master bedroom again

Breakfast area

Kitchen--you can see that Claire has been doing some grocery shopping :)

Kitchen again

View of the back of the house and part of the backyard

Screened porch--another of my favorite features!

Claire's table and chairs on the porch

Part of the backyard--view from the deck

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