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!