Put us on eBay!

Ellie and Annie came over yesterday afternoon as they do most afternoons. They had been to gymnastics and were looking quite cute in their gymnastics outfits. I decided to take some pictures and they decided that their best pose was on the floor with their legs over their heads-K had to join in the fun. They loved the pictures and Ellie (or maybe it was Annie!) screamed "Put us on eBay!" I am hoping that she meant that I should put the pictures on the blog.

Scarecrows at the Botanical Gardens

Today after church K and I went to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. I had an assignment for my photography class that I wanted to work on. It was a composition assignment-I find that so difficult. I was just hoping that I could take enough photos to get through the assignment. I did not realize that the Botanical Gardens was having "Scarecrows in the Garden". There were 90 cute and creative scarecrows. K wanted her picture taken with every scarecrow-so I obliged her. She certainly wasn't dressed to be photographed and I didn't even have a brush with me. I shot everything on auto so I didn't get any great photographs but we had such a great time it didn't matter. The weather was perfect and the funny scarecrows made us laugh and laugh! And, oh, I think I got some good shots for my photography assignment.

K thinks that this could be Mr. Boo's wife

More Watercolor Photos

People often comment that K is such a lucky girl. My response is always that, no, actually I am the the lucky one!

Walk to School Day.....

.....in the rain. Today was Walk to School Day. This is always such a fun day-everybody out walking to school. This morning when we started out it was drizzling and still dark. At first I thought that maybe they had cancelled Walk to School Day because we were the only ones out. Nobody on our street goes to public school but once we crossed Northside (yikes!) there were more people out. We caught up with Lizzie and her mom and walked with them. It was so nice to chat with Elizabeth and get caught up on things. Usually on Walk to Day there are all kinds of fun activities going on a lot going but this morning everyone just ran in and headed for their classrooms. I walked part of the way back with Annabelle's dad. Nice to get caught up with him-this year is going by so quickly we have not seen Annabelle since school started. As I crossed Northside it really started to pour but guess who was waiting for me with a big hot latte? Winston! He drove me the rest of the way home.

Weekend in Watercolor

K had fall break this week so we decided to take a little trip to Watercolor with our good friends sweet Malissa and Baby Anna. Malissa and I became friends when we were both having major adoption paperwork problems. Malissa finally gave up on Kazakhstan (for good reason) and adopted baby Anna from Russia. As luck would have it, I was in Paris during Malissa's final trip to bring baby Anna home so I flew to Moscow to be with her during that part of the trip. I was so honored that she included me in this very special time. Baby Anna captured my heart the first moment that I saw her in Moscow. She is such a cutie-she calls K, Katie Bear. I think the name may stick. We had a wonderful weekend of sandcastles, walks on the beach and bike riding. One morning, baby Anna and I were up extra early so I took her to Starbucks in her cute Little White Company jammies. She was quite a hit! I think this may have to be an annual trip.

I love this sweet child!

Happy Birthday Trevor!

Last Sunday we celebrated Trevor's 8th birthday. His mother, Selena, is much braver than I am, she invited the entire second grade class plus some neighborhood friends. She had the party at a park so the kids had a great time, climbing trees, playing in the waterfalls and creeks and getting very muddy. Well, except for my girlie girl who does not like to get muddy. Everyone had hot dogs and birthday cake and it was a wonderful end of September Sunday.

Trevor-the birthday boy

Brooks-second grade heart throb





Frannie-she is such a cutie and so sweet
Lachlin-Trevor's little brother

Road Trip

K and I love a road trip but I think driving from Aspen to FLA is just a bit much. One of our favorite people in Aspen has been helping an elderly relative in FLA this year and on his last trip to FLA Carlson decided to drive. He stopped in Atlanta for the night on his way back to Aspen. Too bad his sweet girlfriend Anamee has more sense than to want to go on this road trip-we would have loved to see her too. K wore her Halloween costume for Carlson's visit. K wants to know when Carlson is coming back for another sleepover. I want to know when Carlson is going to get GM leased. Carlson works for Sotheby's and does all of our leasing for us. We are lucky he is on our team!