happy father's day

we had a lot going on today - breakfast at sublime donuts, a quick tour of oakland cemetery, fernbank to see the geckos, lunch at the varsity and then to aunt laura and uncle eddie's for a cookout -talk about busy!

our first stop on our fun-filled father's day was at sublime donuts in atlanta. yum, is probably the most fitting word to use to describe the fresh unique donuts made here. i must say that to eat a donut from sublime is liking tasting a piece of heaven. the donuts are made fresh and come in unique flavors such as the orange dream star, red velvet cake and even a reese's peanut butter cup. we each got a little something different - lela, of course the reese's peanut butter cup, lacey a vanilla frosted bowtie, me a yin yang twist and kevin a fresh strawberries and cream donut. personally, i really enjoyed kevin's donut the best. it was like eating a strawberry shortcake on a donut like i said before, yum!

from donuts to death, we headed to oakland cemetery. despite the heat and the very short amount of time we were there, the girls seemed to really enjoy walking around seeing the beautiful architecture and reading about the various lives. (they must take after their mom...lol.) lela made the comment that she had wished she had brought her camera to make pictures. now that's my girl! the next time we go i will definitely encourage her to do that because i would love to see what she sees behind her lens especially being in a cemetery which many people don't really seem to appreciate.

after our quick tour of the cemetery, fernbank and the geckos was our next stop. little did we know that many surprises still lay ahead, well at least for the girls anyways. while at fernbank, disney radio was doing a remote, giving prizes away and just plain 'ole having fun with the kids. the girls absolutely loved it! they both actually won quite a few toy story prizes and even lacey sang justin beiber in the microphone to win a backpack full of stuff. what can i say, that's our lacey. lela even had a hard time leaving to see the imax film because she was so afraid that they might call out her name in the drawing.

i must say that all in all father's day was a huge hit for the entire family. we have been truly blessed with an awesome father and husband. i pray that it will be memories such as these that our girls will remember for years and years to come. happy father's day!

spring break is...over?

talk about a fast week. i honestly can't believe that in nine weeks school with be over with and summer break will start. can someone please tell me where the time goes? this week has been pretty low key which in my opinion is sometimes needed to get the batteries recharged. we spent the night and gigi's, the girls went to the gram's and to finish the week off we headed to fernbank, yesterday.

not much had changed since we had been there last, other than the fact we caught an imax film and saw an exhibit on natural disasters. both of them were quite interesting and the girls seem to really enjoy them. i think it's because it was something they understood and have seen on tv.

today, we will be working in the garden and then later going to lacey's soccer game and taking lela to a spend the night party. kevin is going to build us another raised bed so that will give us two. i can't wait! last year we had a lot of luck with our garden, so this year we are trying for some different things and hopefully some good results. as right now, we are looking at two different varieties of tomatoes, okra, crookneck squash, zucchini, blueberries and cucumbers. i'm hoping we have more than enough room because i really would love to try and plant some lettuce. the girls want to plant green beans, but all i have found is seeds and i don't know if i'm that ambitious. i guess we'll wait and see.

friday fun - fernbank museum of natural history

it seems we are developing a friday trend, where we take some type of field trip and yesterday it seems was no exception. we surprised the girls with lunch at mary mac's and then a trip down the street to the fernbank museum of natural history. my intentions were we would go the museum and then catch an imax movie, but as usual the girls had other ideas of their own. it was then and there i decided to call our trip "nightmare at the museum." lol.

we had prepared the girls that we would be seeing dinosaurs and they were really excited about seeing them, but i still don't think they quite got the idea that these animals lived here on the earth at one time, oh well does it really matter? we looked at dinosaurs, different "stuffed" animals and even looked at different cultures around the world. i found this exhibit to be the most interesting. they had jewelry, clothing, articles of faith, etc. all from different cultures around the world. it was just too cool for words. i have always found that stuff to be so interesting. maybe i should have majored in archeology instead of art?

when we brought up the idea of seeing an imax movie not one but both of the girls said they didn't want to go. are you kidding? they love going to the movies, what's up with this? oh well, needless to say we skipped that idea and headed to the hands on part of the museum where the girls went crabbing, camouflaged themselves and even planted and harvested a garden. they really seemed to have a good time. if the weather is pretty next friday, i already have our next outing planned. stay tuned to see where our next adventure lands us....