As usual, I have a million excuses. Summer has been busy and now we are officially a household with a school-aged child! Elias started Kindergarten at Sandy Ridge and so far, is doing well! We attended his Open House tonight and heard from Mr. Appleton (his teacher) how our little guy is learning words and language concepts. Hard to believe...
He lost his second tooth just before school and was followed shortly by his cousin Taylor Grace. We spent a super-fun Labor Day wknd with them and made them pose for this picture:
Aunt Katie captured another moment with the little cousins...
Could there be anything cuter??!!
I did update our shutterfly site with all the recent photos...there are a ton if you want to see all of them (see link in the right-hand column).
But here a couple of my favorites of the fam...both boys are growing so fast. Ethan will basically repeat anything you ask him to and says a quite a few words (and animal noises) on his own. I even taught him to answer the question (after going through several animal examples): "What does Ethan say?" with "Mama!" It's kindof my favorite thing he says.
Elias with Taylor Grace on their boat from our Labor Day trip...what fun! And Elias is looking at the camera AND smiling...a rare treat these days.
Ethan = mess
No promises to update more...my work is an insane as ever and I continually struggle to balance work/everything else! Christopher finished up the Eno River Association calendar as the editor and we eagerly await the finished product in print. I even helped some on late nights when I was working on my laptop and he on his! He also joined the PTA as VP of Advocacy and has enjoyed becoming more involved in Elias' new school. All the moms love him!
No promises to update more...my work is an insane as ever and I continually struggle to balance work/everything else! Christopher finished up the Eno River Association calendar as the editor and we eagerly await the finished product in print. I even helped some on late nights when I was working on my laptop and he on his! He also joined the PTA as VP of Advocacy and has enjoyed becoming more involved in Elias' new school. All the moms love him!
We are both on the Queens Alumni Board and will be gearing up for Reunion Committee (our ten year is in May 2012). TEN years since college. For really??!!
And speaking of college, this past weekend I spent an amazing, hysterical-laughter-filled weekend with my three besties from college.
Katie, Katie and Melissa joined me WITHOUT kids and husbands for 72 beautiful hours at one of our timeshare places in North Myrtle. It was beyond words! To have friends that knew you "when" but still love your "now"....there's just nothin' like it. Hopefully it will NOT be 18 months before we do that again and husbands beware...we have decided we need to add another day to the trip.
Once a roommate, ALWAYS a roommate! This applies even to girls weekends.
What's a girls weekend without skin care?
