Some recent pictures of the kiddos.

Anna at her friend Sage's birthday party - they had a girls' spa day.

And Sammy at his friend Henry's birthday party.  It was a magic show-watching, cake-eating good time.

And the kiddos with their Santa hats on awaiting the big man to make an appearance!

Here are some recent pics - can't figure out to rotate them so tilt your head.

Dads & Daughters, Braves Style

Eric and I took the girls to the Braves game a couple of Sundays ago... we had a blast!

Anna and Violet in the Taco Mac kids area being silly.

Violet showing off all that Daddy has taught her.

Cutest.  Picture.  Ever.

Like her Mommy, Anna loves her some popcorn. (Notice her sweet Braves shirt)

The View - was great up there in the shade with a nice breeze.

M'girl.

Dippin' Dots!

Ash and I (believe it or not) get a little time to ourselves every once in a while... taking advantage of Cart-Cart babysitting, LLC, we decided to go to a concert down at the Tabernacle - MuteMath was playing, which is a band both Ash and I can agree on! Here are some iPhone shots. We had a blast.

Tampa

Back in March, we headed down to Florida - ultimate destination was Orlando to see some Braves Spring Training games, but we stopped of in Tampa to stay with Sam and Christine and enjoy some beach time.

The view from their condo's back porch

The beach - Sammy wasn't sure about going in the water with Anna...

...So Mommy decided to help him with a sand castle.

iPhone sunset

Bennett's Birthday Party

Here are some shots of Bennett Buerkle's 4th Birthday party... Anna and Bennett are days apart in age. It was at a bouncy/gymnastics type place in Marietta. Make sure to play the video at the bottom!

It's Been a While....

So we've been pretty slack about posting lately... over the past few months, we've had a lot going on... we moved back into our house (which we put a second story on). There have been birthday parties, concerts, vacations, etc. I will be posting these things over the next couple of days. Here are some cute pictures of the kiddos to get things rolling.

Anna's 4th (1st) Birthday!

We celebrated Anna's 4th birthday (1st if you are technically counting - Leap Year and all) at the Young Chef's Academy where the kids got cooking lessons. They all made pizza (with pink dough) and cupcakes!

Anna's 1st Haircut (self imposed)

While on a conference call yesterday, I get another call on my other line.  No message.  Then they call again.  No message.  Then they call my work blackberry, which no one has the number to except CDC-folk.  So I answer it thinking it must be work related.  The operator asks if I can take a call, and I said I was on a conference call and could she let me know if it's an emergency.  Alas it was not, so I got the message to call the daycare before I came to pick up Anna.  I'm thinking now, oh God, who did she hit, bite, and all the other reasons the daycare may need to talk to me before I pick her up that are non-emergencies.  But I'm still on my conference call, so I go back to focus on that.
After a couple of minutes, here's the instant message chain:


 Park:  hi you still there?

 me:  yes

 Park:  this should be a good kicker to your day... got a call from Ms. Carol...
             Anna has cut her hair 'pretty short on one side and a little on the other'...
             ummmm.... wasn't sure how to react 

             i see you are wondering how to react as well

 me:  HOLY S**T

 Park:  yep
             she wanted to let us know before you got there
             I don't know the extent
             not sure how the scissors got to her hair without anyone noticing, but they did

 me:  WHAT A DAY

I was too focused on not making Anna feel bad that I forgot to take pictures until we got to the salon.  But these pics are still from before the girl had started the repairs.

Anna's handywork - I mean, she REALLY cut it

In mid repair

Back to ridiculously cute and adorable. 

So she seems to really like it.  There were some moments yesterday when she started to get really upset, like when i had to explain that we had to cut off the rest of her hair and that we couldn't just put it back tomorrow.  She said, "Only boys have short hair" and got sniffly, so I reminded her of all the princesses and fairies with short hair.  Broke my heart.  But like I said, I think she's really happy with it.  We'll see how it goes after she's at school - she's quite sensitive, so if the kids make fun of her, we could be in trouble.

Wish us luck!