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My husband Mark and I live in the southeast U.S. with our beautiful two year-old, Amelia. We also share our lives with a lab(ish) goofball of a dog named Shelby.
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 [...]
On Friday morning I took Amelia to the pediatrician for her 18 month checkup. She now weighs 20 pounds and she is a startling 32 inches long! The nurse had to measure her three times to be sure she got the measurement right – she grew over 2 inches and gained over 2 pounds in [...]
On Thursday after work, Mark left for a weekend trip to Atlanta (he and a friend went to the Atlanta Internet Exchange). After we said goodbye to him, Amelia and I went to the airport to pick up Grandma G! I am so happy that she came up to spend the weekend with us, even [...]
On Friday evening we went to a surprise birthday party for Grandma B! Grandpa held the party at Good Daylillies and it was a lot of fun – nobody could believe that Grandma’s co-workers kept the party a secret! The weather was VERY warm, so everyone drank a bunch of water to stay cool. Amelia [...]
I went into Amelia’s room on Friday afternoon to wake her up from a really long nap. I thought she had been sleeping for over three and a half hours, but when I went into her room it was evident she hadn’t been sleeping the whole time. Not only had she thrown her blankie and [...]