What's Been Going On

It's been a long time, because birthday season is upon us: in only two weeks, we've had Mom and Dad K, Jen, Jack, Matthew and Laura, Christopher ("Typifer"), G's friend Allison, and two more parties this weekend. Lots of things have happened since the last time we blogged, so let's get down to it: Our MOMS Club got to tour our post office. We even saw our mail carrier, Mr. Clay, there, and he showed us our little cubby (which we share with one other house).

Granddad paid us a visit, and the boys all had quality bonding time.

We got Pa-Pa a slot machine (well, technically a pachislo machine) for his birthday.

Todd and Jane (and little Alex) got stranded in Atlanta for the night during a layover, so they rented a car and come to visit us. We hadn't seen them since our wedding, and we had a blast.

We celebrated Christopher's birthday twice! Here's the second party, at his house. G is not next to a mirror; that's Joshie.

Mattypie turned a year older, and we had a fun day. G wanted to help open the presents.

We don't have digital photos of Laura's and Mom's celebrations, but I did get a good snap of a different sort this afternoon. As I was working on birthday stuff at the kitchen table, I asked G what he was doing. He replied, "Just cleaning up." He was silent for a while, so I asked again. He said, "Just nothing. Just cleaning up." So I walked in on this: He had found the sunscreen and thought it would clean the floor very well. Incidentally, he also helped apply the second coat, which was Endust. The floor looks beautiful. We may have to use his method again next time.

We will be beginning to develop our own film and print our own photos, so look for those results in the near future.

Wowo

Been Jammin' More

We made a small change in our kitchen that made an enormous difference. Here are the before and after photos. The blue stripe in the first one is painter's tape, but really, do you even see it with that border in the picture? And don't even ask about the valances that were there. Let's just say they went with the border. So after the amount of effort it took to remove the bathroom wallpaper, we decided that the best course of action would be to paint the border into one big stripe. The good folks at Benjamin Moore Lost Mountain Paint helped us invent this color. They were very helpful, keeping the store open late when they knew we were on our way, remixing the color when it didn't work the first time (gratis), and when we left the paint there the owner tried to find our address or phone number to bring it home to us. That's why we love that store.

Group Photos

We took our time finishing our margaritas and made it to the back parking lot just in time to squeeze into the photos...

Drive For The Cure

Click on the album for photos from our big MINI Drive For The Cure yesterday. We started between Marietta and Atlanta (pretty much the border), stopped at the Premium Outlet Malls on Ga400, and ended up in Helen. Helen is Georgia's version of Frankenmuth but much smaller... good luck finding a pretzel there... but with much better tubing and rafting.

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