My Knight in Shining Armor!

Ok so I have a really good story to tell you, but first I will have to give a little background.

When I was pregnant in the fall of 06 Rob and I were living in NYC. I had come home from a regular day at work and was feeling good. I had reached our corner at 58th and 1st Avenue when I saw this guy getting out of a cab on the corner. I thought to myself, wow that is one hot guy....well it turns out that it was my handsome husband!

Fast forward to today-Jessica, Cameron, and Isabella came over early this morning as there were people coming to look at their house (it is for sale). Isabella and Reese played for a while and then it was time for them to go home. We walked them out through our garage since they were parked in the driveway. Inadvertantly the door from our house to the garage had been locked and then closed while we were going down the stairs (I don't carry my keys if I am just in the driveway). We talk to our friends in the driveway for a few minutes and then they drive out and Reese and I go up the stairs to go in and have some lunch. Well didn't I just say that the door was locked!!!! Thankfully it had stopped raining and the sun came out (and my daughter happened to be wearing some shoes) and so we got the stroller (thankfully we keep that in the garage) and walked to the leasing office to use their key to open the door. Now our front door has a lock on it as well as an extra deadbolt which we always keep locked since we use the garage door all the time. If you have the deadbolt on the leasing office can't get into the apartment. I borrowed their key-which for some odd reason does not open our garage entry door (mine opens both!). So we get the stroller out again and ask a neighbor if we can use his phone...he obliges and I call my husband so that he can drive 45 mins each way to let us back in the apt (maybe I should've called Jessica and stayed at her house for the day). So we play with the tricycle and ball while we wait and then it starts to get cloudy and windy so we go into the garage to wait for Dad. Then Reese sees the paints and so we decide to paint while we wait. Just as Reese is done being in the garage, I hear a car in the driveway. I open the garage door and there is that handsome man that was standing on the corner in NYC. I don't know if it was b/c he rescued us, but he certainly looked different today! I can't thank him enough for coming home and opening the door, but you can bet that I am going to Home Depot later and making a copy of my key for the leasing office since theirs won't do me much good.

Mistakes in Blogging

Hi everyone,

It appears that I did some errors while saving drafts a while ago and the new posts that I made are actually below a previous post. Apparently if you save the posting has the saved date....so that being said Reese's birthday party posts are actually below the I've been Tagged post.

I am currently getting updated on my posts and will be current very soon! We have had computer problems and so all my pictures had to be put on the external hard drive and then it is too complicated for me to get there to retrieve them and post! Not too computer savvy....actually if anyone has recommendations on how to make my blog have a new background (without picking one of the 6 blogger templates), please, please give me some instructions! Also Kristi, how did you get your feedjit to appear later on your blog...I only seem to have one box that allows HTML codes????

Scarecrows in the Garden

On October 22 we went to visit the Scarecrows in the Garden at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. We went Reese's nana and grampa, her cousin Oliver, and aunt Anne. It was a beautiful day and not too crowded. We went in the Children's Garden first which is a great place (there were plenty of scarecrows in there too!). Every plant in the Children's garden is allowed to be touched by a child-nothing poisonous or fragile in there. They also have cute little play things for them.

We had lunch in the garden and then since the kids were still holding up ended up walking around another part of the garden. That is me with the Delta flight attendant scarecrow too! We also took some cool pictures of downtown from the park.

Reese and Oliver had a fantastic time and it was really cool to have her talking about scarecrows for the next week!

I've Been Tagged

I've been tagged to do the following:

1) Choose the 4th picture folder on my computer

2) Choose the 4th picture

3) Explain the picture

4) Tag 4 other people

This picture was taken in January 2007 and it is the entrance to our building in New York (where we called home at the time!). Our Christmas lights were still up and we had been out at night with Reese in the stroller looking at all the Christmas lights around NYC before our move. It was a beautiful night and boy do I miss those walks!

Saturday Birthday Party

We had originally planned on going to Stone Mountain for Reese's family birthday party, but all the rain on Friday afternoon made the park too much of a mess. We had wanted to stay for the Laser show, but who would want to sit on the soggy cold ground then??? So we had our family come over. Reese's uncle Terry, aunt Anne, cousin Oliver, nana, and grampa were in attendance and of course her mommy and daddy!!! Our friends Mark, Catherine, Jessica, and Ryan came over for the birthday fun as well with their children Caroline, Isabella, and Cameron.

Reese had lots of fun. The kids played outside for a while and then we came in and ate dinner. Reese, Isabella, and Oliver ate on the porch outside. Oliver kept trying to steal Isabella's red chair (he liked it better than his!). We opened her gifts and that is when the real fun began. Nana and Grampa gave Reese the coolest little microwave and play food and the microwave turns on and spins....well that was the hit of the party. All the kids wanted to play with it and of course Reese knew it was hers (mine!!).

As you can see from the pictures Reese was wearing her tutu that we gave her the night before. She just loves to dance. We also gave her ballet slippers and so now she is complete!

I also made the cake and we were glad to say that there was none left over!!! Yeah for me. After all the baking of the past few days the last thing that I needed was to eat more cake.

Birthday Fun!!!

So Reese's 2nd birthday was October 17, (hey I know that I am behind!). On the 16th we went to her class at the daycare with cupcakes and celebrated her birthday with her school friends. She even got to sit on the school bus since the driver happened to be outside when we were leaving...she loved it!

On the 17th we hosted her playgroup friends for her birthday. It was a messy rainy day, but we had a great turnout...her friends Maggie, Liam, Gavin, Giana, Anaka, Isabella, and Allie came over to celebrate. The kids played for a while and then we had some mummy pizzas to eat. They were so cute and you can see how Reese and Isabella couldn't wait for them to come out of the oven. We then sang happy birthday to Reese (quite a few times at the request of her friends) and had some cupcakes. We were lucky that our porch is covered since we planned on eating out there. Reese and her friends had lots of fun!

October

This month started off with the Ga-Tenn game. Rob and I went to the game with my brother Joel and his wife Sharon. Reese stayed with her nana and grampa and her cousins Hudson and Sam. As you can see they were all wearing their Ga gear. Reese totally loved the pom pom.

On Columbus Day my friend Tara came to our house with her daughter Sage and son Nole and we celebrated Reese's birthday early. Tara has her own cake company and made her the beautiful cake in the upper left corner. It says tea for two and she gave her a porcelain tea set (of course Reese can't use it right now, but it is soooo cute). The kids had a lot of fun playing with each other. Even though Tara only lives a little over an hour away we never see each other, but the kids constantly talk about one another. It was a great visit.

The bottom left corner is a picture of Reese at daycare with her friends eating the cupcakes we made for her birthday celebration. I went in for the little party and it was so cute to see all the kids lining up for the cupcakes. Reese's grammy and grandpa in NY were watching the live video cam that the daycare has while we were partying....they said it was like they were there!

Stay tuned for posts about Reese's second birthday party, our visit to see the Scarecrows in the Garden at the Botanical Gardens, friends birthday parties, and our visit to the pumpkin patch!