Rich, Heather and Alana’s Blog

This past Monday, Rich and I got to join our friends Nathan and Amber Holritz on thier “Fun Monday” excursion! We have really enjoyed getting to know them lately, and have such an appreciation for their parenting and their awesome family! Austen and Addison are two of the cutest, most well-behaved, pleasant kids we’ve ever known! Since they work so diligently throughout the week, Nathan and Amber began a tradition that they call “Fun Monday.” It consists of them spending time together as a family every Monday and going various neat places…sometimes in Chattanooga, sometimes they travel elsewhere for the day. The kids love it, and it allows them to spend quality time together on a consistent basis.

I met up with them at the Aquarium after I got off work at 3, and we spent two hours enjoying all the amazing sea creatures. Addison just recently began walking, so it was the family’s first time at the aquarium with Addison walking!!! Here we are looking at one of the exhibits together…

And Austen with a beautiful butterfly in the butterfly garden. Wow…such an amazing place!

Here’s Addison admiring the huge sea turtles…she can even say “turtle,” and it’s the cutest thing ever!

Then Nathan and Amber ran into a client of theirs, Michelle, who gave a behind-the-scenes tour of one of the huge shark tanks. We enjoyed the neat information, and took a picture…but Nathan accidentally cut me out of it!

So here I am pouting that I didn’t get to be in the fun group shot…and Austen was even sad for me!

After the aquarium, we went to El Meson, a fun Mexican restaurant where we met up with Rich once he got off work, and we were serenaded by four little Mexican men Then we went back to Nathan and Amber’s place and got to look at tons of photos from wedding, engagement, and baby sessions that they have shot over the years. I could have sat and looked for HOURS. Their home is beautiful, and they keep their work all over the walls since their business is home-based and they have clients over on a regular basis.

Here we are LATE at night after a few hours of conversation and a hilarious game…

Nathan taught us how to give self-portraits this really cool spinny, blurry feel…

He took a couple while showing Rich how…

Then Rich tried it out and it didn’t really work

Still didn’t work…

So they showed us the kissing spinny self portrait…

And we got it! Yay! I think my husband is a pretty darn good multi-tasker!!!

Thanks for an incredible “Fun Monday,” guys! We had a blast!