Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Labor Day Weekend

It started with a bang... 
IMG_5872 --literally.  As you can tell from the picture above, my foot is a little bruised.  Why you ask?  Well, it's probably a combination of a cutting board and gravity.  I was preparing lunch on Saturday when I bumped the cutting board and it landed, corner down, on the top of my foot.  It then bounced off my foot, hit my shin, and hit my foot again!  After about 8 minutes of doing my lamaze breathing exercises in an effort not to teach my 2 year old any new fun words, I was able to speak again. Walking, however, was a different story.  I didn't even attempt to hobble on Saturday, but I did end up hobbling all day Sunday and part of Monday.  By Monday afternoon, I could walk relatively normally again.  Currently, there is only one pair of shoes that can fit this foot, so silver flats it is, at least until I can fit my foot into something else comfortably.

Other than that, we had a really great weekend playing at the local parks.  See below: IMG_5861


And just hanging out after some grocery shopping.
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I do have to thank Daniel for willingly keeping a 2 year old occupied all weekend while I fumbled and stumbled around the house.  Thanks dear!  :-)

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Rachel's Birthday

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Above you will find a picture of my office on my birthday.  When I walked in on Monday morning, the ladies in the office had placed sticky notes all over my office.  Best of all, they were all hand-written notes from the employees in the schools.  It made my day!  Now I have them all on my filing cabinets.  I have to figure out what to do with them all.  I'm going to hold onto them since it was so nice.

I enjoyed that evening just hanging around the house with Daniel and Sophia. 

Feeling good about my 30th year!  Bring it on!

Monday, August 20, 2012

Visit from G.G.


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GG Jane playing "paper" dolls

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GG Doug and Sophia

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Pullen Park and Sophia not wanting to smile

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Looking up at GG Jane

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"Up and Down, Up and Down"

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Playing with stamps

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Out to dinner at The Pit

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The sweater GG Jane knit

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Sophia showing GG how to work the iPad

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Working her magic for GG Doug

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Playing games

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GG Doug and GG Jane came to visit this past week.  We had a great time roaming around Raleigh and showing them all our favorite places.  We were glad they were able to come up and spend some time with us!

Thursday, August 2, 2012

OBX Lighthouses

Lighthouses we visited (we also went to Bodie Lighthouse, but it is under repair, so we just drove by in the parking lot):

Currituck Lighthouse:

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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse (this is the lighthouse that was moved in 1999 - http://www.nps.gov/caha/historyculture/movingthelighthouse.htm):

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Ocracoke Lighthouse:

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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

OBX - The North Carolina Outer Banks

A few pictures from our trip to the Outer Banks (more will follow in the coming days):

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