Funny stuff...

Pretty funny stuff by SNL this past week -

Jeremy Lin

Great story

Great, and sad, story

Great story

Christmas 2011

We had a great Christmas this year, with lots of fun time spent with family and friends. We spent a wonderful weekend in WestPoint with all of the Edwards, then came back to Atlanta for Christmas Eve w/ all the Dooley cousins in Stone Mountain. It was a very busy Christmas but also a very good one! Emilie and Pete really enjoyed Santa's visit this year(and even left out some reindeer food along w/ Santa's cookies- thanks to Aunt Jennifer!) so that was super fun! He brought Emilie a new doll house, a tricycle, and some new "golf shoes" and Pete got a new playground for the backyard. All in all they must have been good all year because they did pretty well!  Last week since we had some time off work we also took a short ride out to Serenbe. (http://www.serenbe.com/ ) to see what it was all about. It was a cute little place- one of the coolest things we saw were "in-ground" trampolines! Takes away the chance of falling off and the kids loooved it. On New Year's Eve we rung in 2012  w/ one of Emilie's friends- Emery King(Jen and Lee's daughter)-coming over for a pajama party-what fun!



Fun time at the WP carousel- everyone pitched in on chasing Pete!



Christmas morning- we may have had to wake her up!



But not Pete- he was bouncing!



Like my new vest?





New playground



Our tree




Trampoline (Here is a link to a good video too http://qik.ly/BDZBzVMdg38rJ2czb3nspAW ) 




Em & Em on NYE



Our little one year old!

Our little man turned one last week and as always it is hard to believe how quickly a year can pass. From the minute we met him on November 29, 2010 I fell head over heels in love with this little guy. He was a little squeaker in the hospital- so much so that the nurses wanted to keep a close eye on his squeaky breathing. A year later, and knowing his little mischievious personality, I think ole Pete just wanted a little extra time charming the pretty nurses.  And they did of course dote over the little guy for hours on end. Over the course of the past year, I’ve begun to realize that I am in trouble. This adorable little guy, with that “trouble maker” twinkle in his eye, and rascally side smile, I fear is going to have his mommy wrapped around his finger- making it easy for him to get away with anything.  Pete has an adventurous curiosity that makes you wonder what he’s up to. And we are learning, once he got to crawling and walking around that if we turn our back for more than a second, he is off looking for his next exploration. Either hightailing it to the closest unlocked cabinet,  dumping out a nearby drawer or basket, or his very favorite, diving into an un-lidded toilet. The boy loves to swirl his hands in that water- yuck!

Pete adores his big sister, giving us that wonderful giggle any time she does anything to make him laugh. Just seeing the look on his face as he watches her every move makes my heart want to burst. He is a very happy little guy, and I hope that his endearing charm and natural curiosity for everything stay with him for life. I couldn’t love him more and I can’t wait to watch him as he grows.

Halloween!

Another fun Halloween! We headed over to the cul-de-sac for the annual parade of costumes and some "light" trick or treating. Lots of fun...!


Night of pumpkin carving



Poor Pete.



Our pumpkins- mine is old school, Matt's "boo" is free hand-not stencil or anything!



Avery and Emilie getting ready to head to the parade!



Such little hams...



Not so sure about this trick or treat thing...



Em's trip to the aquarium

We took Emilie for her birthday to the Aquarium, while Pete went to "school".  She had a blast. 

of course, this purple fish was one of Em's faves

as you might can see, there is a man in the tank feeding the fish



these guys were huge!



the Beluga's always swam toward the window upside-down...not sure why

Quite certain the penguins were Emilie's favorite.  She couldn't stop laughing
at them.

We got Boo'ed!

Yesterday we got home from school to a very fun surprise- we got Boo'ed! Someone left a fun pumpkin full of lots of halloween treats at our back door. I love Halloween and this is just one more fun thing to go along with it. The tradition is that if you get boo'ed, you receive treats, a spooky poem, and instructions on how you must now boo! too neighbors. And you put a sign on your door so that people know who has been boo'ed and who has not. Such fun! Emilie and I talked in the car this morning about who we want to boo! next...be on the look out!