two little flower girls

our precious girls were in my cousin spencer's wedding this weekend. talk about tired! it has been so long since we've had any weddings i forgot how much it wears you out. the girls had a really good time being part of the wedding party and i think they really like all the attention they were receiving. i had fun taking pictures, it definitely gave me an opportunity to practice and have some fun with my camera as well. here is just a sampling from our day:

childhood memories at granny's & grandaddy's

one of my fondest memories growing up was going to spend the night at my granny's house. i would wake the up the next morning to the smell and sounds of a true homemade breakfast. i was telling the girls about how granny use to make the best breakfast in the world - home made biscuits, fresh orange juice, crisp bacon, scrambled eggs and grits with a pat of butter! yum! i can close my eyes and see and smell those wonderful aromas floating through the air. gosh how i miss those days! as i was telling the girls about breakfast at granny's, lacey made the comment, "well, gigi doesn't do that for us!" lela as if on cue replied, "no all we get is waffles!" (frozen ones at that) i couldn't help but laugh.

so, being the mom that i am decided that i would try my hand at biscuits that next day. i have a rolling pin that belonged to my great-grandmother (named Lela). i like to think it has magic powers that would make my biscuits just as good as the ones i remembered growing up. after slaving over a hot oven that morning for about an hour, my biscuits emerged from the oven. they looked pretty good and tasted good, but they just weren't granny's. i've decided there is an art to biscuit making and i'm now on a quest to discover the the lost art of making homemade biscuits.

it's that time of year again

mounds and mounds of clothes are surrounding me at the moment. it's that time of year again, when i gear myself up to wash, iron, hang and tag clothes for the preschool's fall consignment sale. this time around i'm a little behind. why? good question other than i just can't seem to get myself motivated to do it. it's such a time consuming project and with lela being sick this week, i have so many other things i need to be doing. right now my bedroom looks as if a bomb went off in it - clothes everywhere, hangers laying in the floor and the iron plugged in ready to go. i'm being extremely ambitious because i so would love to knock it all out...tonight. i guess i'm probably gonna have to if i want to find the bed, uh?

oink, oink

yes, the h1n1 flu better known as the swine flu has seemed to have found itself into our house. lela has not been formally diagnosed with it, but after talking on the phone to the doctor's office that is the diagnoses we've been given. trust me when i say its not as scary as the media makes it out to be. now granted this is coming from a mom with two healthy children. (honestly i can probably can count one hand the number of times our girls have gotten sick.) her symptoms have been a fever which has been running from anywhere between 101-102 degrees, stomach pains and a headache that she describes as her "brain is about to explode." what's so ironic is that just a few weeks ago i told kevin that if the swine flu came into the house you could just about guarantee i would get it especially because lacey loves cuddling with mommy...oh well i guess time with tell.

look it's a bird, it's a plane...nope it's the

international spacestation and space shuttle.

at around 8:50 pm last night, we headed outside in the crisp darkness to see if we could possibly see the spacestation and the space shuttle. kevin had read in the paper earlier that we would be able to see them at about 8:50 pm coming from a southwest direction. the four of us gathered in the cul-de-sac and began looking up in the sky not really knowing what to expect. the only thing we knew was it would look like a bright star moving northward. all of a sudden out of nowhere we saw a bright looking star moving across the sky in a northwest direction just as the paper described. we all got excited as we watched it travel across the sky. it was just so neat thinking here we were standing on earth watching something that was in outer space with people on it! i guess kind of like looking at an airplane and wondering where are those people going, but only this time they're a little further away.

"this town is just crazy!"

were the exact words lela uttered as we came off the marta train and up onto the street covered with dragon-con participants. this is something i've always wanted to do is see the dragon-con parade and this morning it finally happened! talk about fun! it was a blast! i honestly felt like i lived in a different world. despite the fact we had a slight little drizzle of rain right before the start of the parade the weather ended up being very nice and cool. in fact at one point i thought to myself i needed a light jacket. we saw everything - harry potter, darth vader, stormtroopers, jedi knights, faeries, superman, batman, batgirl, creatures from the nether world, pirates and the list goes on and on.

if i ever participated in anything like that, i decided that the two things i would love to dress up as 1. stormtrooper from the orginial star wars (hum, i wonder where i could find one) and 2. batgirl. i can remember as a little girl watching batman with adam west and dreaming of being batgirl riding around on her purple motorcycle fighting alongside the cape crusader and the boy wonder. ah, those were the days!

it was just so funny seeing all those people dressed up. one group in the parade which just cracked me up was a group that had signs hanging around their necks with different initals such as Na - sodium, H - helium, and O - oxygen. they were representing the periodic table of elements. i had to laugh because who in the world would come up with an idea like that? a few thoughts came to mind, but i won't say because yes, at one point in my life i did consider majoring in chemistry...briefly.

i will say that if you want some free entertainment, definitely checkout the dragon-con parade. it is definitely worth it!!!! you'll see it all.

lacey's first day of school

yes, finally lacey started school yesterday. yeah!!! i'm so excited. she has been bored for weeks now with lela being in school. every morning around 10:00 she asks if we can go get lela. now around 10:00, she will be her friends playing and having a good time instead of whining that she wants her sister. i have so much stuff i want/need to do now that everyone is gone. i honestly just wonder how much i will get done.

as you can tell there are no pictures from lacey's first day of school. why? i did try. these days everytime i pull my camera out she hides her face refusing to a have her picture made....oh well. when we got home i asked her about her day only to be told that her and Madeline were the only kids at school, everyone else was sick and they would be back next week. do you think that's her way of saying, "hey mom! don't ask me about my friends or who i played with until next week?" i just have to laugh. i will say that is one thing about our girls they don't ever divulge too much information...well not the stuff you want to know anyways.