The Instant Family

Pictures with Santa!

Jeff — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:29:38 +0000

Grace and Erin with Santa

Oh well, maybe we couldn’t get the girls to smile, but we figured that the fact they didn’t lose it and scream the entire time was a win. I’m not sure they really knew what was going on, but the pciture turned out pretty well. Merry Christmas to you and your family from all of us, Jeff, Adriene, Erin and Grace.

(By the way, did you know that you can get a fast pass to see Santa? Now we know…. under 15 minute wait time for the win!)

Christmas Pictures

Jeff — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:14:49 +0000

It’s Christmas time! We took about 300 pictures today looking for that perfect Christmas card picture of the girls. The girls are becoming such personalities. Last year they could barely lift their heads up at Christmas, but now they are hamming it up for the camera. Here are some of the finalists that almost made the cut:

Merry Christmas from all of us! There are more pictures on our Flickr site for your enjoyment.

Happy Halloween!

Adriene — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:22:09 +0000

Erin and Gracie had a fun Halloween this year! We actually got to dress them up (last year they were more interested in sleeping than wearing costumes), and we had some fun running around the front yard while waiting for trick or treaters.

More Halloween pics on the Flickr page!

Punkins for our Punkins, Part 2

Adriene — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:49:01 +0000

This past Thursday, we ventured up to Dawson County for our annual visit to Burt’s Pumpkin Farm. Last year when we went, the girls weren’t quite two months old, and were more interested in sleeping than looking at the pumpkins. This year, they are walking, babbling, and running, so we thought they’d have a little more fun this time.

Erin seemed to think the pumpkins were alright by her:

Grace, however, was a little more tentative:

They soon decided it was time to explore:

In all, I think they had a good time. Mommy and Daddy did, at least.

The girls’ first football game

Jeff — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:13:58 +0000

It’s no secret that mom and dad are big Georgia Tech football fans, so it was only a matter of time before the girls made it to their first game. We all ventured out to the Tech-Duke game this past weekend for some tailgating and football. The girls were the life of the party. Everyone loved seeing them and playing with them at the tailgate.

On to the game! The girls slept for the first quarter, but didn’t stay asleep for long. Mom and Erin had fun at the game.

Our friends Rob and Elizabeth held Gracie for a little while. We enjoy sitting around friends in our section of the stadium because we can pass the girls around a little bit!

At best, we figured the girls would make it three quarters and sure enough, by the middle of the third quarter, Gracie had seen enough. At least by then Tech had the game in hand, leading Duke 17-0. We made our way out of the stadium and on to the grandparents for the rest of the day. It was a lot of work to take them to the game, but we had a lot of fun. Maybe next game they’ll be old enough to walk themselves around the stadium.

More pictures of the show on our Flickr account!

Almost walking

Jeff — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:10:49 +0000

So much changes in just a year. Just 10 months ago, Erin could barely keep propped up in the Bumbo seat we have for her. Now, she is known to walk over to the seat if we leave it out and sit herself in it, even though she’s too big for it. It never fails to make us laugh.

Gracie is so close to walking, too. She is holding on to things and walking from object to object, but it won’t be long before she is toddling around the room, too. She loves one our rocking horses. She’s still a little too small for the one granddad made for her, but the one dad had as a child is her favorite right now.

For our second year, we’ve created a new set of pictures on Flickr. We’ll be sure to add more as the year goes along.

The First Birthday

Jeff — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:55:06 +0000

It’s hard to believe that a year ago we became new parents, but one year later here we are! We now have two one year-olds. We were very fortunate to have both sets of grandparents and several of our friends join us for the birthday. We set up a tarp and let everyone’s kids run around the playground and grilled up some burgers and hot dogs. Everyone had a great time in the September heat.

The girls had chocolate cake for the very first time. It would appear that they are fans of chocolate. And cake.

More pictures on our Flickr site!

Awake Sleepers!

Jeff — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:02:21 +0000

On fortunate days of serendipity, the girls will both take their naps at the same time in the afternoon, allowing us a little time to get some housework done. But that doesn’t always happen. Sometimes one falls asleep and the other wants to play

Oh well, that’s ok. The other one usually gets her revenge later…

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Adriene — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:48:27 +0000

Way back in early 2007, right after we found out we were having a baby (and when we were still blissfully unaware that it was really TWO babies), Jeff and I took a trip to Disney World. While we were there, we indulged ourselves and bought “the baby” a set of Mickey ears. They’d sat on a shelf in the nursery for the past year and a half, and I’d pretty much forgotten about them until I was cleaning the girls’ room this past weekend and ran across them. So, needless to say, I couldn’t resist the urge to put them on the girls and make Jeff take pictures of them:

We’re fast approaching the end of year one with the girls… time has flown! We’re having their first birthday party at the end of August.

Vacation!

Adriene — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:44:50 +0000

This past week, we took the girls on their very first trip to the beach! They had lots of fun playing in the ocean and visiting with Granny and PaPa. It almost seems like the trip was too short, but we are glad to be back home and in our usual routine again. Here are some pics of the fun we had!

The girls playing on the beach:

Gracie splashing at the pool (her FAVORITE thing to do):

Erin chillin’ in the cabana:

Hanging out with Granny and PaPa at the Myrtle Beach Pelicans game: