Picking Berries

Notice the sound of the wind...now you know why we had to wear sweaters.  The wind was chilly!  We still had a ton of fun!!

Family Fun Night

After Dane got off of work we got a Papa Johns Pizza ($5. Tuesday...gotta love that!) and went to Memorial Park with a half loaf of stale bread for the ducks.  We had a nice picnic dinner, fed the ducks and geese, and played on the playground.  It was the perfect way to end the day.  I love family fun nights!!  

P.S. Another chuckle for you all in MN...it is 71 degrees out and I am wearing a fleece jacket.  I find that funny myself.  It just goes to show that I would never survive another MN winter!

Strawberry Picking

We took a spontaneous trip to Washington Farms today to pick strawberries which is becoming an annual tradition.  While the strawberries are not necessarily cheaper than the grocery store, they are pesticide free and fun to pick.  Although I did most of the picking and the girls mostly ate the strawberries.  I looked at Alexis' bucket and it was filled with a ton of green leafy stems (the remains of her strawberries).  The biggest sign of fun was the girl's faces were covered in strawberry juice.  On a side note, notice the girls wearing sweaters?  We had unseasonably cool temps for May in Georgia.  The high has been in the low 70s which is kind of chilly for us especially with the wind.  I know more chuckles out of you northerners but I will be happy to see our 80 degree weather back.

Sister Time

The girls love watching movies in Lexie's bed together.  We went to Blockbuster and rented 101 Dalmations.  I think they have watched it at least a half dozen times.

Piano Concert

My Baby Mozart

Isabelle is my "Baby Mozart".  She loves playing on the piano.  She knows to play gently with her little bitty fingers and plays pretty self-composed songs.  Alexis loves to play as well.  She will begin piano lessons soon.  She always remembers where middle C is and loves to compose her own songs too.  They enjoy giving Dane and I concerts.

Sleeping Standing Up

This was hilarious...I had to run get my camera to capture this moment.  The girls were playing in their room.  I went to check on them and Izzie fell asleep standing up while Lexie was playing quietly.  

Marigold Festival

We went to the Winterville Marigold Festival with Katie, Ella and Hank today.  When we first got there we saw what we thought was the parade which was a total of a fire truck and a couple other cars and that was it.  It is a small town but we questioned are you kidding me was that their parade?  We walked into "downtown" Winterville, and snickered as we passed their Police Station and City Hall which consisted of two small houses converted into city buildings.  We were pleased that we saw the tail end of the parade, it was quite long and entertaining.  No marching bands though which was a bummer.  Alexis and Ella got their face painted.  We ate some fair type food including deep fried pickles which are really good!  We saw a kids concert and the kids danced.  They played on the play ground.  We had a picnic lunch and then it was time to go home.  The kids were all tired and crabby.  It took all of 5 minutes in the car and both of my kids were passed out asleep.  It was a fun day!

Reward Time

Alexis decided on her own that she would "take care of it" and go pooh on the toilet after all.  After months of convincing her it is no big deal, she finally said it was easy.  She earned going to Chuck E Cheese for going pooh in the toilet.  What a sigh of relief.  She has been potty trained for a year and a half.  #1 is no big deal.  #2 has been another story.  One trained...only one more to go.  Hopefully, Isabelle will pick it up quickly for my sake and sanity. 

Bunco

I got together with several girl friends tonight to play Bunco.  Kristy made us awesome margarita type drinks.  We had several show up at Laura's...Holly, Kristy, Jessica, Katie, Shannon, Laura, Des, Erika, and myself.  I wasn't the biggest winner or loser so no money for me.  We had so many laughs.  It was a great night!

Superheros

Lexie and Izzie dressed up as Superheros today.  Not sure what their official names are but they are sure cute.  The girls have been playing really well together.  It is fun to watch how Izzie looks up to her sister and wants to be with her all the time.  It reminds me of my little sister, Michelle and I growing up.  

SJS Orientation

We went to St. Joseph's Catholic School for new student orientation.  Alexis met her new teacher, Miss Napoli.  She seems so nice!  Alexis is so excited to begin school and be an official "Big Kid".  

More Zoo Atlanta

A new exhibit was a parakeet aviary that you walk through and hundreds of parakeets are flying freely everywhere.  Alexis fed one of the parakeets.  Isabelle was so exhausted at that point she fell asleep in my arms.  I was carrying her and all of a sudden I feel her head smash into my chest and she was asleep.  Izzie was very cuddly and that just completed my day.

Atlanta Zoo

The girls had so much fun and exerted so much energy, they both fell asleep in the car before we left the parking lot.  We were at the zoo from about 10:30am to about 3pm.  We were home in time for 6pm church mass.  After mass, we got take out from Inoko Express (it was my day and I did not feel like cooking).  Oh I almost forgot...I also got breakfast in bed.  Just what I asked for. 

Mother's Day at the Atlanta Zoo

I spent Mother's Day with my mother in-law and my two daughters at the Atlanta Zoo.  We left the men at home.  Actually Dane was on-call for work and could not be that far away from home.  It was a beautiful, sunny day at the zoo.  This was the first time we had ever gone to this zoo.  It was so much fun.  I liked that it was very clean and the animal exhibits were fairly close together.  It was nice not to have to walk a mile in between each exhibit.  Alexis and MeMaw both agree that the giraffes were their favorite.  I think my favorite were the elephant, zebras and pandas.  I learned an interesting fact about elephants.  The difference between asian elephants and african elephants is their ear size.  African elephants have larger ears than the asian elephants.  We saw a nice bird show and an elephant show.  They showed us how they train the animals using positive reinforcement.  

Movie Night

I went out with my friend, Lindsay to the cheap theater tonight.  We saw Adventureland.  It was a pretty good movie.  A movie you only would like to see once.  We were both starving before the movie so I brought McDonald's into the theater with us.  Gotta love large purses!!

Our Catholic School Girl

Alexis will be attending St. Joseph's Catholic School this fall.  We are so excited for her to have this incredible opportunity.  Even better news, we got our financial aid letter and our award will make tuition affordable.  I got her uniforms and they are so cute.  Thank goodness for the uniform swap.  Even though the size of these uniforms is 4/5, they look big on her because Lexie is so skinny minnie.  I am such a proud mommy.  I am excited to go school supply shopping with her.  Alexis takes about going to school everyday.  She calls it "Athens School".  I can not believe my baby is going to go to school full time- all day, everyday soon.  Donavan (my friend, Rachel's husband) is the school principal.  Alexis explains that she will see Isaac's daddy at school but I don't think she understands that Isaac will not be in her class.  He is a year younger.