Last year for Christmas we celebrated in Chattanooga since I was 9 months pregnant with Sierra. My family came up from Fort Lauderdale and we had some special time with both sides of our family! It was a particularly exciting Christmas Day, because we had a White Christmas! It hadn’t snowed on Christmas Day in...
While in Dauphin Island last week, one of the places that I wanted to go explore was a nearby public beach. Ron and Kathleen had told us that it was not crowded and had huge sandbars stretching far into the sea. So, after a bit of morning relaxation… We headed off to see what we...
Last week we found ourselves on a new adventure! Rich’s Uncle Ron had the great idea to get away together…Rich’s brothers, their wives, and the kids. And that is exactly what we did! Ron and Kathleen had been to Dauphin Island, Alabama, before and it was their idea to introduce all of us to the...
First things first. I realize that my baby eating rice cereal for the first time is not of interest to anyone but my family, so just consider this a for-the-grandmothers blog post Sierra will be five months old on Saturday, so I think I’ve waited a bit longer on the rice cereal than I did...
It’s funny to think that Alana is 3.5 years old and I just now braided her hair for the first time, but alas, it is true. For a VERY long time, her hair wasn’t long enough to braid and now that it is, I thought she might enjoy it that way. So, I braided her...
I don’t think any of us knew it would be so bad. Last Wednesday, we awoke to news that the Chattanooga area was in for some bad weather. Rich told me that we were under a tornado warning, but when a morning storm came and went pretty quickly (albeit strong), we didn’t think too much...
Another activity that is quickly becoming a tradition is a quick evening trip to the beach to document our growing/changing family. We made our trip this time with my mom so that she could grab a few images of all four of us. The weather (all week) was incredibly gorgeous. It was warm and sunny with...
As has become tradition since Alana was 1, we had breakfast one morning at the Jet Runway Cafe at the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. We LOVE this place…great food, great service, and best of all, the private jets take off and land RIGHT outside the windows! Alana loved it just as much as always, and...
So for me, no family vacation ever really feels complete until I blog about it. It’s always therapeutic for me since I hate leaving my family and I always miss them so much. It’s closure for me to write about our times together, and this time is no exception. In some ways, it becomes harder...
A few evenings ago when my sis was over, we decided to set up Strut in our living room because we suddenly realized that at 8 weeks old, Sierra had yet to debut! We started off while Sierra was napping, so for a little while it was just Alana, Aunt Pixie, and myself… Waddles, Safari,...