Stone Mountain Christmas

For the last three years, Eric and I have gone to visit Stone Mt during Christmas. I suppose it is becoming one of our own personal family traditions. This year we invited our friends Josh and Amanda to go with us.

The 'Christmas theme' part of the park opened at 6pm each night, so on the Saturday before Christmas we drove down and got to the park around 6:45 or so...and apparently half of the city of Atlanta had the same idea we did...After waiting in traffic off the exit for about 30 minutes we found out that the park was already at capacity and they were not admitting any more cars that night. I was quite disappointed, but in hindsight, glad we did not get in on Saturday night. I have been at the park when it was crowded (4th of July) and it was misery...too many people!

We gave it another try on Sunday afternoon after church and we actually got in. The park wasn't crowded at all actually. It was COLD though...we had to bundle Laura up in her snow suit when we rode the train. :)

Laura and Josh

3-D Polar Express

Josh and Amanda
Eric and Laura watching the 'snowfall' and fireworks at the end of the night

Thankful Thursday....

So thankful for this little girl...


Who can resist this little face every morning??

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

I've enjoyed doing some decorating around the house...Last year I was 7 1/2 months pregnant and it took me 3-4 days just to get the tree up and decorated...Thankfully I was moving a little faster this year! :)

I was worried about the tree, esp since Laura is crawling and into everything she hasn't bothered the tree at all. I think it almost intimidates her. She just likes to look at the lights from a distance...which is a-okay with me!


My little 'helper'...

My mantle and front door wreath


The tree and dining room

Thanksgiving

I didn't really take a lot of pictures over Thanksgiving and so I've been behind in posting an update about our trips. We went down to my parents first and were in Eastman through late Thursday and then we drove up to Augusta and stayed there til Saturday. We had a good time visiting with family...hard to believe we will be making the rounds again in about a week for Christmas...!



Laura and her car we picked up at my parents house...She loves being 'driven' (the only direction she can go by herself is backwards :) ) around the living room and loves to 'honk' the horn.

Laura and her cousin Riley
Trying to climb the steps at Thanksgiving.

Office Space

Yep, this is my life...except I have an office not a cubicle and TPS reports are sent via email.... :)