New York City!!!

We just got back from our long awaited trip to NYC! Our friends Michael and Carrie got married on Sat. the 22nd and it was a wonderful reason for us to take a trip back to the Big Apple to show Aubrey around!!

We had such a wonderful time........I'm not sure we could have possibly done any additional sightseeing than the many places we managed to squeeze into 4 short days!

A special thanks to Aunt Jan for providing our amazing accomodations.........

Here are a few of our favorite pics from the trip. If you want to see the entire trip feel free to watch the slideshow of all the photos! (although I"m sure that feature is mostly for the grandparents!!!)

The highlights of our trip were skating at Rockefeller Center, The Museum of Natural History (aka the dinosaur bones place by Aubrey), Carmines and then seeing The Little Mermaid on Broadway and getting to go backstage to meet Ariel and the rest of the cast and standing on the stage!! (thank you Emily!), Central Park with John, Jen and Matthew, The beautiful wedding where Aubrey danced with the best of them and partied til almost midnight!, Toys R Us, FAO Schwarz, Brunch at Sarabeth's with Liz and Pierre............and of course the numerous NYC taxi rides which Aubrey loved.

What more can I say? It was a perfect vacation.

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday to Cousin Leila!

Aubrey's cousin Leila specially requested a birthday song from Aubrey so here it is!
Happy 2nd birthday to our beautiful niece!
(Oh, and a little dance to go along with that.........)
:)

Who's that girl???

So Aubrey tried out a different hairstyle today!

She was sooooo proud of her "long" hair! It actually is at least a few inches longer when it's straight, she was really lovin' it.

Mommy and Daddy prefer her beautiful curls, but she had fun showing off her straight hair today.

Happy 93rd Birthday to Grandmomma!!

Her Children!

Some of the great grandchildren!

Some of the grandchildren........

I just wanted to post a few pictures of my beautiful Grandmother! We went to Dothan last weekend to celebrate her 93rd birthday! She is absolutely amazing and doing so good. She is a mother, grandmother, great grandmother and even a great-great grandmother! I believe her total children and grandchildren is well over 30!!

We had a wonderful time and Aubrey especially loved spending the night with her Grandmomma! We all love her so much and feel so blessed to have had her in our lives for so long!!

Happy Birthday Grandmomma!!

We love you!

The Princess loves her bicycle!!

Aubrey loves to ride her bicycle and play with her friends outside............I guess you just don't normally see "Cinderella" riding a bicycle around the neighborhood!!!

Fortunately another "Cinderella" lives right across the street so she's not alone.............

:)

The Princess

So I went to draw Aubrey's bath this evening and while I was doing that she said she was getting her nightgown ready for bedtime. I walked back into her bedroom and this is what I found laid out on her bed.................

She has turned into such a princess!! For those of you who knew her back in the day, this year has been quite a change from my tomboy, animal lovin' little girl to a full blown girlie girl. She is all about pink, princesses, makeup, dress up, you name it. It is so cute. We are havin a blast!

Just a Sunday afternoon in the backyard...........

Just taking some pictures of our baby girl in her "leopard dress".........she is obsessed with this dress! Beautiful afternoon here in Hot-lanta!

Love to all.......... enjoy the pics!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

From our sweetheart to all of you............Hope you have a day full of love and blessings!

Snow in Atlanta!

Daddy and Aubrey



Aubrey,Ellery and "Frosty"

Little Snow Angel


Neighborhood kids in the snow! Mommy and Aubrey

So our first winter here in Atlanta we got some snow!! It was beautiful......all the neighborhood kids got out and played and made a snowman! They loved it......

They say we may get some more tomorrow! Very exciting to have snow here in the South!

(and we did get snow a 2nd time! almost 3 inches! So much fun.....)

First Show at the Fox Theatre!

We went to see "Annie" at the Fox Theatre here in Atlanta last night. It was Aubrey's first theatre experience and she absolutely loved it! She hung in there all the way to the end (almost 3 hours!) The only hard part was trying to convince her not to sing along during all of her favorite songs..........luckily they sang one more verse of "Tomorrow" for the curtain call so I let her belt it out while everyone else was busy clapping.
So much fun! Just a few pics........