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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.
Mark took this picture tonight and emailed it to a local news channel. It was featured on the 10 o’clock and 11 o’clock news! Larger sized image (there is more to this photo than the smaller thumbnail reveals): Click Here Update: Around midnight Mark got an email from the local meteorologist, complimenting him on his [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mark is such a wonderful dad, and I am so glad that he got home from his trip in time to spend Father’s Day with us. This morning he tossed Amelia and a bunch of her toys into a big IKEA bag and dragged her around the house in her “boat”! I am so blessed [...]