The last month or so, Emilie has really started to grow up. She's just over 17 months, and is saying more and more each day. She'll say sock and shoe when we're putting them on...she says I love you when she's going to bed, and is certainly understand a lot more too. If you ask her if she wants to go outside, she'll run right to the back door.
She's all growns up!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
What's been happenin'
it's been a couple of months since I posted, so there's a lot to catch up on, mainly our Suhweet trip to Hawaii! I'll see if I can make this somewhat quick.
We left on Friday morning, after Atlanta's first ice of the winter, which of course put us back 2 hours, and caused us to miss our connectiong in SLC to Maui. So we had to fly through LAX (ran into Tony Barnhardt and tons of Ala fans celebrating their National title W), and finally got to Maui about 9 p.m. local time, 5 hours later than planned.
By the time we got our bags and car and got out to the Ritz, it was 11:30, and we'd been up essentially for 24 hours. Emilie was awesome on all the plane rides though, aside from one 30 minute spell when we were trying to get her down on the way to Maui from LA.
Saturday was just a nice day at the beach and pool. We rented a Cabana and just lounged. It was nice. We went to Hula Grill in Ka'anapali that night for dinner, and that was it.
Sunday we went to the golf tourney...there were golfers all over our hotel as well. The course was awesome, and Geoff Ogilvy won, with Kuchar finishing 3rd. We had post-game drinks next to two reigning champs Cabrera (Masters) and Glover (US Open). Lucas's wife and mom were loving Emilie's gold sandals! AM and I went out to dinner in Lahaina at David Paul's, while Wein stayed home with Em.
Monday we went on a whale-watching, and it was pretty cool. We also drove down to Wailea, which is very nice, and went to the beach that aft. We just ate at the hotel on Monday night, and I think I had the best steak sandwich I've ever had. It was awesome.
Tuesday we were back at the pool, just hanging out, and ate Sushi that night at Sansei.
We left on Wednesday afternoon, after hanging out at the beach all morning. We took the scenic route back to Kahului, which was quite a hairy road! One way for about 5 miles, as we're hanging off cliffs, and dodging cars. It was dicey in a few places for sure.
We finally got into Kahului that aft., and went up to Paia to watch the surfers and do some shopping. After that, we boarded the plane and took the red-eye back to SLC, then got to Atl about 3 on Thur afternoon!
The trip really was awesome, and my terrible explanation is due to me not having a ton of time right now. I'll have to get some pics and video up shortly.
Since then, we've just been around Atl and C'willa for the most part. AM and I both had our birthdays ('rents to us to Horseradish where Em was scooping cheerios with a fork...pretty impressive!) and we also had V'tines day (we went to see the movie Valentine's Day and went to Valenza). Things have been pretty normal the last two months. We're really trying to finish off the bonus room and the backyard, so we're hoping to have that done before Spring is over!
Emilie is really growing up. She blabbers all the time, is starting to say "stop" as well as a few other things. She of course is running all over the place. Loves going to the stairs and making us pull her off of them, and loves riding in her car outside. She likes to read books to herself, and also likes to dress up animals and dolls (or likes to watch mommy do it). She'll often try and give the paci or her milk to her dolls, and then even burps them every now and again. Pretty funny!
Sports-wise, the Jackets are floundering as usual in hoops. Paul Hewitt's albatross of a contract continues to loom over us. But my boy Duval is coming on a little, with a T2 at the AT&T at Pebble. There's hope yet!
I'm sure there's a ton more, but I need to get back to work.
We left on Friday morning, after Atlanta's first ice of the winter, which of course put us back 2 hours, and caused us to miss our connectiong in SLC to Maui. So we had to fly through LAX (ran into Tony Barnhardt and tons of Ala fans celebrating their National title W), and finally got to Maui about 9 p.m. local time, 5 hours later than planned.
By the time we got our bags and car and got out to the Ritz, it was 11:30, and we'd been up essentially for 24 hours. Emilie was awesome on all the plane rides though, aside from one 30 minute spell when we were trying to get her down on the way to Maui from LA.
Saturday was just a nice day at the beach and pool. We rented a Cabana and just lounged. It was nice. We went to Hula Grill in Ka'anapali that night for dinner, and that was it.
Sunday we went to the golf tourney...there were golfers all over our hotel as well. The course was awesome, and Geoff Ogilvy won, with Kuchar finishing 3rd. We had post-game drinks next to two reigning champs Cabrera (Masters) and Glover (US Open). Lucas's wife and mom were loving Emilie's gold sandals! AM and I went out to dinner in Lahaina at David Paul's, while Wein stayed home with Em.
Monday we went on a whale-watching, and it was pretty cool. We also drove down to Wailea, which is very nice, and went to the beach that aft. We just ate at the hotel on Monday night, and I think I had the best steak sandwich I've ever had. It was awesome.
Tuesday we were back at the pool, just hanging out, and ate Sushi that night at Sansei.
We left on Wednesday afternoon, after hanging out at the beach all morning. We took the scenic route back to Kahului, which was quite a hairy road! One way for about 5 miles, as we're hanging off cliffs, and dodging cars. It was dicey in a few places for sure.
We finally got into Kahului that aft., and went up to Paia to watch the surfers and do some shopping. After that, we boarded the plane and took the red-eye back to SLC, then got to Atl about 3 on Thur afternoon!
The trip really was awesome, and my terrible explanation is due to me not having a ton of time right now. I'll have to get some pics and video up shortly.
Since then, we've just been around Atl and C'willa for the most part. AM and I both had our birthdays ('rents to us to Horseradish where Em was scooping cheerios with a fork...pretty impressive!) and we also had V'tines day (we went to see the movie Valentine's Day and went to Valenza). Things have been pretty normal the last two months. We're really trying to finish off the bonus room and the backyard, so we're hoping to have that done before Spring is over!
Emilie is really growing up. She blabbers all the time, is starting to say "stop" as well as a few other things. She of course is running all over the place. Loves going to the stairs and making us pull her off of them, and loves riding in her car outside. She likes to read books to herself, and also likes to dress up animals and dolls (or likes to watch mommy do it). She'll often try and give the paci or her milk to her dolls, and then even burps them every now and again. Pretty funny!
Sports-wise, the Jackets are floundering as usual in hoops. Paul Hewitt's albatross of a contract continues to loom over us. But my boy Duval is coming on a little, with a T2 at the AT&T at Pebble. There's hope yet!
I'm sure there's a ton more, but I need to get back to work.
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Monday, January 4, 2010
The Burj Dubai
I've always had a fascination with architecture, building things, etc. It's probably what I should've done with my career...but that's another conversation. Regardless, the tallest structure in the world (by over 300m) opens today in Dubai, and I was reading a little bit on it last night. There are many interesting facets of this, but a couple that are quite scary are the fact that at the top of the spire, this bldg can sway up to 5ft...and the very top exterior will have to be cleaned by actual window washers! What! I'm nervous even reading that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_dubai#cite_note-33
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_dubai#cite_note-33
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
2010 here we come...
It's been quite a few weeks, as my waistline can attest to. Christmas has come and gone, and we are just working a bit this week, getting ready to go to Hawaii 10 days from now!
December was great. While I was in Tampa, the Emster and AM were in WP for B'fast with Santa. She just stared at ol' St. Nick wondering who is this fuzzy dude? The following wknd we were here wrapping presents, getting last minute gifts, and AM and I had a night out by ourselves as a little Christmas present to each other (went to Old Vinings Inn for dinner...good, but don't need to go back). The wknd before Christmas we were down in WP, and had a great time with B&S, and the 'rents. Helen, as usual did a great job with the Christmas Cantata, and lil' Emilie survived the nursery for an hour! Supposedly she cried for about 10 minutes, and then was fine, but very quiet afterwards.
For Christmas eve, we were out at the Dooley's, then back home late that night. We had Christmas morning at our house...Christmas breakfast at the Dooley's...Christmas lunch and presents in S'ville with J and B and fam...and Christmas beer's at night at Pete's. Then it was time for Christmas sleep. Next morning, we were off to Callaway Garden's to celebrate the Dooley's 40th wedding anniversary, and take the trolley on the Fantasy in Lights. A little chilly it was, but we had a great time. Toasts were abound late night (I didn't) with Kevin bringing down the house with his short, well-stated toast to "Dave and Una". It was a classic.
We took the kiddo to the butterfly center on Sunday, and I think she got a kick out of it.
We're back here this week, and woke up yesterday to the sound of chainsaws as they are finally starting on our sidewalks. I have a little video of this that I need to upload.
That's all for now, see all 2 of you in 2010!
December was great. While I was in Tampa, the Emster and AM were in WP for B'fast with Santa. She just stared at ol' St. Nick wondering who is this fuzzy dude? The following wknd we were here wrapping presents, getting last minute gifts, and AM and I had a night out by ourselves as a little Christmas present to each other (went to Old Vinings Inn for dinner...good, but don't need to go back). The wknd before Christmas we were down in WP, and had a great time with B&S, and the 'rents. Helen, as usual did a great job with the Christmas Cantata, and lil' Emilie survived the nursery for an hour! Supposedly she cried for about 10 minutes, and then was fine, but very quiet afterwards.
For Christmas eve, we were out at the Dooley's, then back home late that night. We had Christmas morning at our house...Christmas breakfast at the Dooley's...Christmas lunch and presents in S'ville with J and B and fam...and Christmas beer's at night at Pete's. Then it was time for Christmas sleep. Next morning, we were off to Callaway Garden's to celebrate the Dooley's 40th wedding anniversary, and take the trolley on the Fantasy in Lights. A little chilly it was, but we had a great time. Toasts were abound late night (I didn't) with Kevin bringing down the house with his short, well-stated toast to "Dave and Una". It was a classic.
We took the kiddo to the butterfly center on Sunday, and I think she got a kick out of it.
We're back here this week, and woke up yesterday to the sound of chainsaws as they are finally starting on our sidewalks. I have a little video of this that I need to upload.
That's all for now, see all 2 of you in 2010!
Monday, December 7, 2009
Emilie's coming out party
The Edwards ladies were featured in some videos for CHOA. I've attached the link here. Don't go to a lot of trouble to watch these...they're each a few minutes long and AM and Em are in them for only a very little bit.
http://www.choa.org/default.aspx?id=8433
And how 'bout those Jackets! ACC Champs...suhweet.
http://www.choa.org/default.aspx?id=8433
And how 'bout those Jackets! ACC Champs...suhweet.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Where have I been?
Well, it's been over a year since we've posted anything here...pretty terrible. I am going to try and do much better going forward.
I'll keep this kinda short, but there's a lot to get to. First, little Emilie is not so little anymore. She's 14 months now, and has just recently started walking all over the place...she started crawling about 4 months ago, when she was 10 months. It has seemed that she could walk for a couple of months now, but like crawling, just took her time with it.
She's a trip for sure. She can say a few words - up, hi, bye - and can say momma and dadda but I am not sure that she totally knows the meaning of them. We think she's also saying "what's that?". She also is very good recently at answering every question with "uh-uh". Thanks to our nanny May, she also can sing Barney. Needless to say, we're having a blast with her.
This year has been a lot of fun. We've had fun trips to the beach (SSI 2 times, Seagrove for a week, Destin once), a trip to the mountains, a Masters practice round, and a lot of time spent down at the lake. We're also getting excited to be going to Hawaii in early January. The three of us, and Aunt Noe, will be in Kapalua for a week, which we are fired up about.
We also continue to do some work on our house. We had it painted this past spring, and have renovated, finally, a bedroom into an office. Construction work is starting as we speak on sidewalks that are going to run through our front yard. We're excited about these too, so that it'll give us some safer travels on our walks/runs. Next on the list is to redo our "backyard" and possibly tackle the bonus room...2010 goals that is.
Other than that, not a ton of news to report. This fall has been a lot of fun keeping up with GT football, who at 10-2 has had a great year, aside from a loss last wknd to UGA. I'm headed to Tampa this wknd for the ACC Championship game, as the Jackets attempt to make it to a BCS Bowl for the first time ever. Big stuff!
I'll certainly be posting more often, and hope to add some recent pics and video clips. Hope the two people that read this are doing well!
I'll keep this kinda short, but there's a lot to get to. First, little Emilie is not so little anymore. She's 14 months now, and has just recently started walking all over the place...she started crawling about 4 months ago, when she was 10 months. It has seemed that she could walk for a couple of months now, but like crawling, just took her time with it.
She's a trip for sure. She can say a few words - up, hi, bye - and can say momma and dadda but I am not sure that she totally knows the meaning of them. We think she's also saying "what's that?". She also is very good recently at answering every question with "uh-uh". Thanks to our nanny May, she also can sing Barney. Needless to say, we're having a blast with her.
This year has been a lot of fun. We've had fun trips to the beach (SSI 2 times, Seagrove for a week, Destin once), a trip to the mountains, a Masters practice round, and a lot of time spent down at the lake. We're also getting excited to be going to Hawaii in early January. The three of us, and Aunt Noe, will be in Kapalua for a week, which we are fired up about.
We also continue to do some work on our house. We had it painted this past spring, and have renovated, finally, a bedroom into an office. Construction work is starting as we speak on sidewalks that are going to run through our front yard. We're excited about these too, so that it'll give us some safer travels on our walks/runs. Next on the list is to redo our "backyard" and possibly tackle the bonus room...2010 goals that is.
Other than that, not a ton of news to report. This fall has been a lot of fun keeping up with GT football, who at 10-2 has had a great year, aside from a loss last wknd to UGA. I'm headed to Tampa this wknd for the ACC Championship game, as the Jackets attempt to make it to a BCS Bowl for the first time ever. Big stuff!
I'll certainly be posting more often, and hope to add some recent pics and video clips. Hope the two people that read this are doing well!
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