Christmas Morning

The kids had a huge Christmas week, topped off with Santa coming on Christmas morning!

Emilie wanted and got a Barbie Dreamhouse, an Elf doll, a Gumball machine and many other little things.

Pete didn't ask for anything but presents, but Santa brought him some golf clubs, movies, cool clothes, balls, and a bunch of other stuff.

Little Spencer was pretty shy when talking to Santa, but he was nice enough to bring her a few things too!

Em and Pete on Christmas morning

Emilie's Birthday celebration

It's been a fun two weeks of Birthday for Emilie.  She had her school party on Friday before her birthday on Sunday.  We didn't do a great deal on the day of her birthday, but did do presents, she helped decorate her birthday cake, and took her to dinner...which she lost her 2nd tooth at!

Em' stack of birthday presents

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Em blowing out her candles


Last week, Gramu took her to the American Girl store for a little surprise as well, and then this past weekend, she had her cousins and Avery over for her birthday party!  It might've been one of the better 24 hours of Em's life.

Will post more about this when I have time...

Pete runs the bases at Turner Field

Little man got to run the bases this afternoon, on the last day of the Braves regular season.  He was super fired up for it...calling it "MY field" as we went out onto the field.  Here's a pic of him rounding 2nd.

Guys Golf Trip -2013

Saturday morning at Great Waters

Pat Kenny with the spoils

Pete Pitches at the Ted

http://youtu.be/gQYbWMSn610 Every time we go to watch the Braves, Pete insists on taking his 6 pitches against the radar gun. Its great fun to watch. This was his most recent outing on Friday on July 28. All business.

Potty Training!

It's potty training weekend at our household.  Pete's off to a pretty good start, but still a long ways to go...

St. Simons'

We always have a great trip to SSI for the 4th.  Getting to enjoy the fireworks up close for the last couple of years, and staying within walking distance of the beach, made it especially nice this year!

A rare pic of me and AM, who is about 16 weeks preganant!

Brian's 40th birthday party

We had a big time celebrating Brian's 40th Birthday party last night at Matt Samuelson's.  Got to see a bunch of Phi Delt's that we haven't seen in some time and catch up.  Good times...

NCAA Men's Golf Championship

I took Pete to the Semifinal matches today, which was played at Capital City Club, Crabapple.  He and I had a big time.

GT was facing off against Alabama, in search of our 1st National Title in Golf, but it was not to be.  We lost the match play event 3-0-2.  The overwhelming favorite, Cal, also lost to Illinois today.

Pete had a good time though practicing his golf swing with sticks, watching some golf, etc.  He even took off down the fairway a few times, like this time here...

Pete running up 16 fairway.  

Pete, the garbage eater

Emilie is a great little eater.  She enjoys, and actually prefers, vegetables and other healthy things.  Often she asks not to eat sweet stuff b/c it has "too much sugar Daddy".

Pete, on the other hand, is our garbage eater.  Chips, fries, treats, juice, etc.  We are working on him eating better stuff, but me giving him the bowl of whip and chocolate pudding certainly don't help!

A few of my favorite recent pictures...

Mommy's sweet boy...

Pete and Andrew Cox high-fiving over their awesome matching masters shirts!

Emilie on one of our recent "girl's days"...

Pete and his Band

Pete has started a band, in case you didn't know.  Pete is on guitar, with Isabel Troughton on drums and Luke Podraza on vocals.

Their first gig was at Luke's Gigi's house, for Avery Podraza's 4th birthday party today!  Sounds like the 2nd coming of the Beatles!

Pete and his Band

Little Birmingham Trip

I have been wanting to get over to see my good buddy Todd Cox and family, and finally we got to Birmingham for a short overnight stay.  We had a great time hanging out with the Cox's and meeting their 15mo old, Andrew.

Got there just after lunch, and headed to the Birmingham Zoo shortly thereafter.  Their Zoo is really nice!

Pete and Em looking at the lions

Giraffe reaching tall for some leaves!

Cool Monkey

Just hung out at Todd and Haley's after the Zoo...watched a little Masters and ate some good grub.  We ended up staying at the Hotel Highland downtown, which was nice.

Next morning, we went and met them for a great breakfast, and then came back to their house to play some more, as it was pouring outside.

Pete and Andrew playing at breakfast

Em and Pete playing in Andrew's playroom

Pete and Em had a blast playing with Andrew!  It was great to meet him, and we can't wait to see them again soon!

Masters

Had a great day at the Masters today. Noe and Art were kind enough to invite us along with them today.

This is my 4th time going and the course continues to look better each time I go. Just in unbelieveable shape.

Had a great time watching all the players try and skip the ball across #16 pond and got up close to Tiger as he walked to an afternoon round w Freddie.

Always a great day when it can be spent at the Masters!

Great weekend!

I've been promising myself I am going to get back into posting.  We'll see if I am able to do so.

We had a great weekend this weekend.  Literally had nothing on the calendar to do, which was nice.  AM and I got to go to the Braves game on Friday night, our first in our 20-game pack that we bought with Noe and Art.  Friday night fireworks were awesome.

Saturday, we performed the 'divide and conquer'.  AM took EM to Home Depot to get spring flowers, and to pick up her friend Emery King for an afternoon playdate.  Pete and I did some things around the house, and ran a few errands.  We got the backyard in tip-top shape (except for the still to-be-planted garden) and waited on the mail to arrive.

Luckily, the mailman brought us great news as Emilie was accepted into OLACS!  We're so excited and are very thankful that they have chosen her to be part of their Pre-K next year.  It's a perfect fit for her, and can't wait until she starts there in just a few months.

We went to church yesterday evening and went to Mark & Susan's for dinner, which was fun.  Em got to celebrate with her cousin Ben, who also learned yesterday that he got into OLA as well!

Today was just a day of playing with the kids, washing cars, more yard work, grocery store, grilling out, s'mores outside after dinner, bath, and bed.  Fun day.

Perfect s'more by Daddy

One day of work tomorrow, and then we head to the Masters practice round on Tuesday!  Looking forward to seeing my buddy Todd Cox, and meeting his little man Andrew this weekend in Birmingham!

Easter weekend

We had big fun at the lake on Easter weekend.  AM took the kids down on Thur. night, and I came down on Friday after work with Noe+Art.  Got to check out all the work that David Brown is doing, as he renovates the Dooley basement.  Looks great!

Played golf on Saturday morning, which was great, aside from the fact that I didn't score well (93 boo).

We had a fun Easter Egg hunt on Saturday afternoon at the Dooley house.  Em was racking up on the eggs...




Pete then got his golf on.  He's really getting into it!

Ben Dooley, Em, and Collier  Dooley (9 mos)

AM's 35th Birthday!

We had big fun this week, as I turned 36 (wow), AM turned 35, and Uncle John finally turned 30.  I got a little creative with the cakes that I got for the Dooley family party.  Henri's in Buckhead came thru for me!

John's coffin cake!

AM's 'fabulous' cake!

Emilie rolling at her friend Clara's birthday party

We had fun at Clara's 4th party! Em enjoyed all the cool games they played, and did good joining in on all of them.  Here she is rolling in the tube...

Couple of Photos that I meant to post...

Me and AM at Thanksgiving, hanging out by the horses -

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The Edwards kids a J's 40th birthday party this past Oct. -

Emilie and her pals

We had some friends over for NYE.  Avery, Emilie, and Ashley were getting ready for the New Year!