Weekend in Atlanta

Friday morning, our little family of three headed east to Atlanta to visit our friends for the weekend. I was super nervous about the (supposed to be) four hour car ride there because the last time we travelled to the beach (also a four hour car ride) with Noah was disastrous. I planned out plenty of stops along the way to stretch legs, change diapers, etc. Our first pit stop was at my happy place.

Did you just hear the angels singing the Hallelujah Chorus? Because I’m pretty sure I did. I haven’t been to the Hob Lob since before the tornado took ours away back in April! It was a fabulous first stop.

We also stopped at McDonald’s and had lunch, praying secretly that with a full belly Noah would for sure take his nap in the car. Ha. Ha. HA!!

He cried and he cried and he cried and he CRIED. Seriously about 75% of the trip over he cried and whined. Then he fell asleep for 15 minutes, woke up and continued crying. He hated being confined in his car seat and I’m wondering if he is getting a little motion sickness too. And we ended up getting in bumper-to-bumper traffic which made our 4 hour car trip turn into a 6 hour car trip! EEEEKKK!!! It was loads of fun for everyone.

Moving on. Saturday we went to the Atlanta Zoo and Noah loved it!

The ‘buds’

You can’t see the elephant (‘effy’) in the picture, but he was definitely Noah’s favorite animal!

The stinky warthogs. Doesn’t he look thrilled?

He really did have fun. I promise!

The zoo also had a petting area with goats and pigs that Noah LOVED!

Funny story. This goat was intently chewing on a piece of wood, so Noah decided it must taste pretty good. So he decided to try it.

  

We had a super fun time with our friends and the car ride back was much less eventful! However, we decided that Noah will no longer be traveling with us until he is 18. ;)

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At arm’s length

Noah ‘painting’ at school! :)

A morning at the park

Saturday, we got up bright and early and headed to the park to play! The weather was perfect, just enough chill in the air to fee like fall.

The playground that we went to had four different slides, all of various heights.

See the tallest one on the right? Yeah, that’s the one Noah decided would be the most fun. So he climbed up.

And up.

And seriously attempted to go head first down the slide by himself.

Luckily, Daddy was there to make sure he didn’t slide by himself, but I almost had a heart attack right there. My child is fearless and it makes me a nervous wreck!

And yes, we had a quick wardrobe change while we were there because it started warming up!

Eventually, after Noah kept sliding down and then saying “Again! Again!” Daddy got tired so Mommy had to slide. I’m not even going to lie, I was a little scared looking down at how far we had to slide!

But we made it just fine!

Then we stopped for a snack.

And picked up some stray trash to throw away.

And finally posed for a few family photos…

…and then we went home and took a nap! It was a good morning!    

Life lately

We have been pretty busy lately, at work and at home. At work, we are building a brand new gym!

That’s what it looked like earlier this week. I have been swamped with everything from pricing a sound system to trying to find someone to clean the thing! Right now, it looks like we will be opening the gym in January!

At home, we are busy busy with church and life in general. Noah LOVES playing outside but we don’t have any toys for him to play with out there. So he plays with the watering can…

…and the hose reeler-upper thing.

We are hoping to go to the pumpkin patch this weekend. The rest of our weekends in October are filling up fast with birthday parties, baby showers and a little vacation for us!

I am currently reading…

and I LOVE it! I’m not a big reader, but I’m actually enjoying this book…about half way finished!

I think that about catches things up!    

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Sepia tone

That just makes me laugh. I suck at editing photos, in case you weren’t aware already. That picture is of me and my sweet, sweet grandmother, Big Mama. And it’s also my best attempt at ‘sepia tone-ing’ a photo. Don’t laugh. And yes I had to look up ‘sepia tone’ on the internet. Don’t judge me. :)

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I TOTALLY forgot to post this yesterday! Oops! And I forgot to actually take a picture this week so this one is from the archives!

Bedhead

Sweet little baby!

I’m not going to lie, I’ve got the fever a little bit. We have always said we wanted 4-5 years between kids (mainly because daycare is so expensive and we didn’t want two kids in daycare at the same time) but lately it seems like all the people I was pregnant with the first go-round are pregnant again!

But realistically, it’s probably not going to happen any time soon! Sad!

Have a good weekend and ROOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL TIDE!

I quit

So I religiously did Weight Watchers for 4 days and am officially over it. That was fast, I know! :) I think I lost around 2 pounds in those four days though. I just can’t deny my food! Oh well, maybe next time!