PDK Good Neighbor Day

A few weekends ago, Carl and I took Alex to the PDK Good Neighbor Day.

PDK is a small airport near where Hilary and I used to live. They do a full air show and have jumpys and the DeKalb Fire and Police and Military all come and let the kids climb in and on the equipment. Alex was in heaven!

He got to climb all over fire trucks, police motorcycles, military helicopters and watch the bomb robots... a little boy's heaven.

He even enjoyed the airshow, we watched from inside a hanger to keep cool and every time the airplanes would go in and out of view, he would shout "There they go!"

Here is a shot that shows how close we were to the planes as they taxied down the runway

Alex driving and climbing the fire trucks

Watching the robots

On the motorcycle

In the helicopter

Update

Well a lot has been going on with us recently... though based on my lack of updates you may not have thought so...
Carl has a new job with The Erosion Company. He is doing well and liking it very much.
I resigned my position at AutoTrader.com and this is my last week.
I am going to take some time to be home with Alex for now and see what develops from there. I am very excited about having more time with him as he is really at a great age and learning so much each day. So for my SAHM friends, please remember to include me and Alex in play groups now :)
I have also agreed to be the co-coordinator for my MOPS group for next year, which I am sure will keep me very busy.

Easter Weekend

We had a great Easter weekend.

On Saturday we went to Turner's 2nd birthday party and egg hunt.

Afterwards, we met up with Aunt Hilary for a late lunch and then saw Uncle Glenn a little later on. Sunday the Easter Bunny came to visit and left crayons, bubbles and eggs. We went to church and then had family lunch at my parents house.

The kids had a great afternoon of hunting eggs and playing catch and hide and seek in the backyard.

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After all the fun, we were all exhausted and relaxed the remainder of the day and watched the Masters on TV.

April

Our household has been fighting colds and allergies on and off for about a month now, I think we are all coming out of it finally.

The end of March and first week of April, we were excited to have Nonno come and visit. Alex had a blast with him for the entire week. It rained a good bit so there was not too much outside time, but they still had fun.
We took Alex to the GA Aquarium for the first time and he really enjoyed it.
Here are some photo's of Alex and Nonno and Alex with Deepo that day.



Late in the week, Carl's grandparents came into down so we had Gigi and Pop here too.
We enjoyed some good food and great time visiting with everyone. Here is a photo of the boys... Alex, Carl, Nonno and Pop.




Alex has discovered shovels or "shovee" as he calls them, and has been having fun digging holes in the yard, I am trying to keep him out of the grass, we don't need to look like we have gophers or something...



Hope everyone is doing well and had a wonderful Easter.

Reunion

Our house is still recovering from the various croup, cold, allergies we have been fighting, but we are slowly healing each day.
This weekend, we had a really great treat. A friend from high school who now lives in Wisconsin came into town and a group of us all got together for dinner Saturday night.
Here are 2 pictures from the event. The first is of the kids playing together - Hannah, Turner, Alex and Cate. The second is all the North Springs people with the kids. We had a great time visiting and watching the kids play together.


After that, Alex went to grandma and grandpa's house for a sleepover and Carl and I headed down to Front Page News for a suprise party for one of our neighbors, we had a blast.

SNOW!

Yes, it is March in Atlanta, you would expect the beginnings of tulips coming up and early signs of spring... which we had until Sunday and then the SNOW hit! Yes I said SNOW. We got a few inches which actually stuck. Alex had a blast playing in it and mostly eating it. Here are some pictures of our snow day, and yes he did eat the carrots off the snowman... poor snowman.

What a week!

OK, so we had a great weekend last weekend... Friday we had dinner with our friends Melissa and William. Then on Saturday we headed up to Cumming for Cate's 1st birthday party. After the party we headed to the flower show for Daddy's work and had a relaxing evening at home. On Sunday morning, Daddy went golfing with the guys in the neighborhood and Alex and Mommy had a brunch play date with the remaining moms and kids. Then we went to a Super Bowl party at our neighbors house. Alex had a blast playing with the boys all day.
Monday started out good, but about 6pm, Alex started to get sick, after getting sick 9X in less than 3 hours, we ended up at Children's Healthcare to get some medicine to help him stop being sick... unfortunately it looks like he inherited the inability to stop without medicine from Mommy :(
I stayed home with him on Tuesday as the Rotovirus ran its course. Apparently it has run through the entire neighborhood!
He is all better now and so on Friday I took the day off and we headed to Chelsea's house for a Valentines play date. We made place mats and decorated cupcakes and played with trucks and had a great time. We met Daddy for lunch and came home and played at the house outside since it was such a great day out.
Saturday, Daddy worked in the yard in the morning and I met my friends Wendy and Michele and her son Max for lunch and we took the boys to the park for a while [pictures to come].
Sunday we took it easy, slept in, went to Church, played outside, and we went to visit our friends Joe and Christine in their new home - it is looking great!
This weekend we are looking forward to a visit by Aunt Hilary and Uncle Glenn and going to Cousin Sarah's 3rd birthday party at a jumpy place!
Here is hoping to a happy, healthy week for everyone!