St. George mementos

We celebrated the freezing temperatures in Atlanta and MLK holiday by getting out of Atlanta and heading to warm and sunny Florida. St. George Island, although not totally sunny and warm, was beautiful and just what the doctor ordered. We lounged around, played on the beach and generally had a great time with the fam.

Anna trying to start her career in photography by taking the camera from mommy.

Carter pulling Anna around the living room - too bad we couldn't get this on video, as Anna was laughing her hiney off! She LOVES her cousin!
And here we have Thomas and Park taking a house oyster shot. Yes, there was an oyster in the shot.
And here we see Thomas and Park regretting that decision.

Later games included can you eat 10 crackers in a minute? Uh, no is the answer.

Copyright Violations

So, I've been caught.

Twice now (Facebook and YouTube) my video of Anna Behind the Scenes at the mall after visiting Santa has been taken down due to a copyright violation of the song 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown' by Flatt & Scruggs.

Now, on YouTube, you can say 'well I am not making any money off this, it's a video of my daughter at the mall, it's a home video, no harm intended, sorry' and they'll usually let you keep it up. Facebook does not give you that option.

And neither does Flatt & Scruggs.. these guys are serious about protecting their music. Anyways, I re-edited the Anna behind the scenes video to another song, which hasn't hunted me down and informed me I've violated anything a this point.

All I know is, Anna is really cute, and the video could have no music and all would be fine, but it just adds that little something.

Blogspot has not notified me of anything yet, which is cool, but I may get a notice, so in that case, here is the video with new music.

Visitor from Nebraska

Last weekend my friend Grace escaped the bitter Nebraska winter for an Atlanta respite. We didn't see the sun once, but considering the weather was ~40 degrees warmer, I think it was OK. Grace is a friend from Malawi attending school in Nebraska. YIKES. Can you even imagine that transfer?

So we took her for a little tour of indoor Atlanta. Hopefully, we can bring her back in the spring for some actual southern sun...

Grace showing us how it's done in Malawi!

Outside of the aquarium with wee Carter.
Inside the tunnel!

Now this picture would be farther away if my arms were longer!

Anna Behind The Scenes!

As promised, the 'behind the scenes' footage of Anna at Phipps, following her first meeting with Santa, has arrived. She seemed to really like the mall..... uh-oh.

Enjoy!!