Snow Day!

So far so good with my resolution...3 posts in Jan so far! :)

I had to post today because it was a very exciting day around here...Snow! Not quite the amount of snow that they had built it up to be, but there was enough of it and it was cold enough to freeze up the roads around here and shut down all of the schools. So, I had a fun day of working from home while keeping Nate entertained - not an easy task.

It was way too cold to get out this morning (18 degrees - wind chill was closer to zero) to check it out so we ventured out around lunch time (mainly for the photo op) when it had climbed all the way up to 20 degrees. I was pretty much ready to go immediately back inside the warm house but Nate strolled around the house to the backyard and found his trucks he had left in his sandbox back when it was warm and he just started playing. And apparently the cold wasn't effecting him like it was me because I couldn't get him to go back inside!

Oh yeah...guess who else had fun playing in the snow?

I know ya'll will think all we do is sit around and watch kids' movies after I say this (I swear we don't) but "Up" just happened to come in the mail from Netflix today...so, of course we watched it tonight since the cold has us couped up in the house. I thought it was the saddest and sweetest movie I have seen in a really long time. I can admit that I cried for the 1st 20 mins (full on tears) - and I don't cry at movies very often...maybe it is just all of these pregnancy hormones but I thought it was very touching, especially for a Pixar movie. Maybe I will just start doing movie reviews on each posting... :)

Movie Night

Over the holidays, Nena and Fred introduced Nate to his first real movie...Toy Story (which he calls "Play Story"). He loves it...he is already a big fan of Buzz and Woody. (And I have to admit it was a nice break from Thomas.)

So, last Saturday evening we were trying to think of something fun to do with him and we got a crazy idea to take him to dinner and a movie. We decided to go to the "Dollar Movie" (which is now $1.75 but still a heck of a lot cheaper than a regular theater) just in case we ended up needing to leave 10 mins in to it and luckily for us a fun kids movie was playing :

"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs". The movie was really cute and to our surprise he sat completely captivated the entire time...he sat perfectly still in my lap and the only thing he said was, when the lights went down, "it's dark!" We bought the book before we went - thinking we needed to get him excited about the story for some reason - and now he is in love with the book...he has picked it out to read every night since we saw the movie.

It was really fun taking him to his first movie...I hope he loves movies as much as his mom and dad do!

Happy New Year

2009 was an interesting year. We started the year out of our home (our house sold much more quickly than we had anticipated at the end of 2008 and we found temporary living arrangements with Nena), Michael's company downsized, and we really weren't sure what was ahead. But, the year quickly picked up and we moved in to our new home/neighborhood, Michael went back to his old company, Nate started a new school and the biggest news of all this year is our little Baby Boy on the way. It has been a roller coaster of a year but ultimately we ended on a happy note and are looking forward to what 2010 has in store for us!

We had a really quiet New Years...we met the Luskins for an early dinner out with the boys then came home and watched the UT game. We were in bed before midnight...I woke up just in time to see the ball drop! New Years day was spent taking Christmas down and watching the FSU game....I have to admit I was a little teary-eyed watching Bowden win his last game.

I normally don't make resolutions but there are a few things this year that I do want to focus on...one being that I want to blog more frequently...I am really not good at updating Nate's baby book as much as I know I am going to wish I had so this is my journal for my babies. I have all of the pictures but I want to remember the stories and the timing and the funny things they say. I gave Michael a Flip video camera for Christmas so I am determined to figure out how to post some video on here too.

So, since I know I didn't do a great job this year, I thought I would post some of the pics from 2009 that I meant to blog about but didn't have time. :)

First off, this is a pic of Nate from New Years Day last year...he looks like such a baby here...hard to believe how much he has grown up in a year...

Roswell has a great Sprayground that just opened this year...Nate was a little timid at first but he finally got the hang of running through the water. I have a feeling we will be spending more time here this Summer.

We went to the Chattahoochee Nature Conservatory where Nate took an interest in watering the flowers like he helps me with at home.

And he chased a goose aroundThen we went for Ice Cream!

We went to an End of Summer cookout at the Cibulas, where we managed to get all of the kids (except ours) to sit and pose for a picture. Four of these kids will have a sibling added to this picture next year!

Michael and I went with the Pavloff's and Luskin's to see Pete Sampras play an exhibition match with Todd Martin...couldn't resist posting this pic bc it was pretty cool (for us tennis fans at least) to get to see these guys play up close. We also saw Melanie Ouidin and the Bryan Brothers play last month but my battery died and no pics. :(

We had a family photo session this fall...it was one of those days where Nate just wouldn't nap for more than 20 mins and didn't feel like participating so it was a long afternoon and somewhat of a struggle (hence the reason there is a dump truck in the majority of our pictures). But we managed to get a few good shots of the three of us and some of Nate.

I missed posting for Thanksgiving altogether but we had a great time in Knoxville. Nate loves hanging out with his cousins there. Here is Piper reading to him before lunch.

Piper, Gavin, Sydney, Ryn, and Nate

He had so much fun trying to keep up with the big kids...this pic of him trying to climb the fence with Ryn just makes me laugh...

The big event of the weekend was riding the Christmas Express...it was a great train ride along the river with cocoa and cookies and even Santa himself! Nate still talks about his ride on the train.

Nate with the Conductor

And to end the weekend, we went to Festival of Trees...where Nate looked at lots of fun decorated trees...

Made lots of fun Christmas crafts (including decorating this tiny tree that he kept in his room for the holidays)...

And rode on the Carousel.

And we went to my Cousin Bo's wedding this month where he slept through the entire ceremony like a perfect angel.

It was a really fun year with our little guy and we know this year will be even better.