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My husband Mark and I live in eastern Tennessee with our beautiful baby girl, Amelia. We also share our lives with a lab(ish) goofball of a dog named Shelby.
We just got back from a lovely visit to Chattanooga. Last September we purchased a 1-year membership to the Chattanooga Aquarium, and we decided that we needed to take advantage of it. Amelia slept most of the drive to Chattanooga, but then had trouble falling asleep once we got to the hotel. We brought her [...]
On Friday morning Amelia woke up with a bit of a fever. I could tell that she wasn’t feeling well, and I was afraid that she was getting the cold Mark had earlier in the week. I decided that we should skip our play group so she could rest and recuperate. Within a few hours [...]
Amelia got all dressed up for a lunch date with Daddy on Friday. He took us to a lovely Chinese restaurant. The family that owned it was so welcoming and friendly, and the food was wonderful. The patriarch of the family (who was also the chef) gave Amelia an ice pop for dessert – she [...]
Amelia definitely has her own sense of style. She loves swimming so much that she wears her sun hat whenever she can and wears her bathing suit on her arm like a purse. I took these pictures on Friday afternoon – too funny! On Saturday Mark and I went on a date while Grandma and [...]
On Friday afternoon Amelia helped me make some chocolate zucchini cake. She had so much fun helping me shred the zucchini! This recipe is so good – you cannot tell that there are any veggies in there at all! On Saturday Mark took us to a little park along the Holston River. There were a [...]
Last Thursday my dad had a heart attack. He had 100% blockage in one artery and had to have two stents put in. He is doing fine now, praise the Lord! During his surgery they checked the other stent he had put in about 10 years ago – it is looking great, so that is [...]
Whew – what a weekend! On Friday evening we met Grandma & Grandpa, Aunt C and cousins A, Big S and Little S at Chuck E. Cheese’s! This was our first time meeting Little S, and Amelia was enthralled with her newest cousin. It was so neat watching her with Little S – she kept [...]