Love

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business.
What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can.

Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Busy Day!

We started off the morning with a pit stop at a big camera store.  There might have been angels singing as we walked in.  ;)  

Momma needed a new flash and in the process tried out a new lens (she sadly handed it back after taking the below photo of Owensk).

Once the new flash was in the trunk, we headed down to Senoia to visit Papa Ford.  He borrowed his old golf cart from Grandma Stella so we could ride around Peachtree City.

Chloe sat up front with Papa.

The kids weren't really hungry, but Club Penguin cards held the boy child's attention.

Love how the sun lights up the ridges of the tunnel.

We drove by the house Kelley grew up in and thought it looked funny with the red trim.  That's new.  The shelves her parents built in the garage are long gone, as was the over-sized mailbox that Kelley would climb up and sit on as a child.

We went to Huddleston Pond to feed the ducks fish.

Owen was determined he would feed the fish by hand.

He was very persistent.

We had some turtles come up for bread.

The kids wanted to play on the exercise equipment.

We drove over to Lake Peachtree in the hopes that there would be more ducks to feed.  But there were no ducks in sight.

Back on the golf cart in my favorite pair of shoes.

This square tunnel was neat with the lights inside.

We had to cross back over the tracks to get back to Grandma Stella's house to return the cart.  It was slow going after this as the golf cart was running low on battery juice.  One of us might have had to get out and walk at the end.

Once back at Papa Ford's, I got out my new flash and played around.  Marissa's dog Maggie wanted to eat it.  She is like a cat and will chase lights around a room, so I had to be quick in jerking my camera and flash away from her!

Hi smiley boy!

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Hike to the Creek

Aunt Judy and Uncle Chris came over with Emily and Brian after the kids got home from school so we could show them the creek.  I think Maggie wanted to go because she was stretching good while we were getting ready to leave.

We made sure to bring towels with us since we all planned on wading in.

The kids always love leading the way and showing off their trail when we have company.  :)  And of course they had to skip the steps and opted to slide down the pine straw.

Along the way, we saw some cool lichen.


They always like to skip the bridge and walk farther through the brush so they can walk through the creek.

Check out Chloe's reflection...the water was so still!

This is a fun tree that the kids like to climb up and sit on.

But today it became a launching board.


Seems like we always spot new and cool plants every time we walk on our nature trail.

Monday, August 8, 2011

Dinner at Provino's

Aunt Judy and Uncle Chris came into town to hang out.  One of the MUSTS on their To Do list was dinner at Provino's.  They have wonderful garlic rolls!

And apparently Grandma Suzanney has extremely funny pics on her iPhone.  :)

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Lunch with Friends

Preston was hanging out with us for the day and his Nintendo DS was the main focus.  The kids couldn't eat their lunch at Dagwood's (our favorite pizza place) fast enough to get it turned back on.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Work Travel

Kelley had a business trip up to Secaucus, New Jersey to meet with Ernst & Young today.  She was on an early morning flight up to Newark after heavy storms passed through the area.

The meetings went well and she flew back the next day on a little prop plane.

And a running-to-the-gate kind of layover in Charlotte.  A kneeling bus got her from one terminal to another.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Second Day of School

And the kids were up early enough to ride the bus.  The bus comes at 7am on our street, so we have to be up and out of the house in record time.  So early that they even tracked footprints of dew across the street with them.

They couldn't get down to the end of the street fast enough to wait for the bus with all the other kids from our street.

See?  Fast.

Those are the Kindergarten moms hovering close to the bus.  Even on the second day of school, they were shedding tears over their babies growing up.  Our kids barely looked back.  

Monday, August 1, 2011

First Day of School

The alarm clocks sounded early, but the kids woke up and got ready quickly.

They were more than willing to make plenty of silly faces for me.




Have a great first day of school Owen and Chloe!


It's really difficult to hold up a heavy camera and take pictures sometimes.  When I'm driving.  :)

Kelley was supposed to be in Colorado Springs today for a three day photography workshop, but it got canceled yesterday.  She was glad she didn't miss the kids' first day of school.  And the whole family also got to meet her boss Marie who was in town for customer meetings.  We went out to dinner together and then had frozen yogurt at a place called Yogli Mogli.

The kids liked staying out a little late and getting to celebrate their first day of school with a sweet treat.



Chloe is really perfecting this face.

She must be getting some really great reactions to it as this is non-stop and not just for the camera.  It's awesome.

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