Haircut for Locks of Love

Tuesday
April 13, 2010

Meara told us she wanted to cut her hair. So we told her she had to wait a month and see if she still wanted to do it. Considering she had barely any hair for the first 15months of her life we have only trimmed it in her six-years. It's been at least a month and she asked again if she could cut her hair and give it to a little girl who doesn't have any hair. How can a mother say no to that? With a tear in my eye we said, yes and that we were so proud of her! We found a Salon in town who offered to cut it for us for free. Thanks to Desiree at Gist Salon for cutting 13 inches off! Now, we are off to place it in an envelope and mail it to Locks of Love.

Easter

Thursday

April 16, 2009

We took Meara to an Easter Egg Hunt at the Nashville Zoo. They always put on a great hunt with plenty of eggs and prizes complete with inflatables, face painting and the Easter bunny.

The azaleas were gorgeous and in full bloom.

Meeting the Easter Bunny and Penelope the Ostrich

Meara in her Easter Sunday dress

Valentine's Day

Saturday
February 14, 2009

We decided to celebrate Valentine's Day as a family which turned out to be WONDERFUL! We thought it would be nice to make it a favorite things we love day. We each picked out something that was our favorite thing to do and eat. For the food we drove around to our favorite places and got take out and took it home.

One of mine and Mike's favorite...bowling

Meara wanted to snuggle up on the couch and watch a movie.

My favorite...Olive Garden Salad

since the take out came with breadsticks we decided

to get one of our other favorites tomorrow

Red Lobster biscuits...YUMO! ;-)

Meara's favorite...Papa Murphy's Pizza

We also watched a program about Abraham Lincoln on National Geographic Channel. (He's my favorite president)

On the same day as the historic inauguration of the United States first African American president, NGC tells the fascinating story of the life of Abraham Lincoln and his struggle to abolish slavery. We'll follow Lincoln's journey from his early years as a rising politician, to his run for presidency and his fight to unite the country in the Civil War.

Planting a Tree

December 27, 2008

We bought an oak tree back in October when they were put on clearance at Lowes. Yes, I know...it's December and we are just getting around to planting it. The weather had been nasty, we were sick and Thanksgiving happened then Christmas. You know how life goes. We decided this was a month that ended in "r". As long as we got it in the ground this month it should be ok. It was unusually warm and very windy for a December day so we took advantage of it.



You may be asking yourself, is Meara wearing Dorothy's ruby red slippers?! Yes, you would be right. She is being beautiful in her shoes while she helps daddy dig a muddy hole. ;-)

Meara decided she needed her own shovel. Later on she decided she needed daddy's big shovel.

The ground around here is full of rocks and very difficult to dig up.

She really enjoys doing "big people" things. Michael is very patient with her and lets her do as much of anything they are doing by herself.

Making a gingerbread house

December 17, 2008

This was our first gingerbread house assembly. It was fun putting it together and decorating it. I bought it on sale for $5 on black friday at a craft store.

Michael was the engineer with Meara's assitance of course.

Mom, I can help daddy better ON the table. ;-)

Now, on to my FAVORITE part, decorating.

Not too shabby for our first time! FUN, FUN!

Snow in the Smokey Mtns. of Tennesse

December 1, 2008

We stopped in Gatlinburg, TN on the way back from my parents from Thanksgiving. We went to the Smokey Mtn. Aquarium and did some shopping. We ate breakfast at this wonderful restaurant called The Old Mill. Meara found these ducks outside the restaurant to be entertaining. She watched them from the window while we waited for our breakfast.



"Look at this big turtle, mom!"

Meara and I petting horseshoe crabs.

I was obsessed with taking pictures of these jellyfish. I must have taken thirty pictures. They were so beautiful!

This was one GIANT crab!

When we came out of the aquarium it started to snow.

Then...it got really heavy. Our hair looked white from the flakes.

Cheekwood Botanical Gardens Art and Museum

October 26, 2008

Cheekwood Botanical Gardens in Nashville, TN. Annually they have a treat or treating event where ladies dressed up in costume give candy to children along the garden path. In addition, they have a craft and hot chocolate. This particular day was EXTREMELY cold for this time of year. The cold almost over shadowed the fun of it all but after we got moving on the path the sun came out brightly and warmed things up a bit.

Yes, I am one of those crazy moms who is a BIG kid at heart. Yes, a lot of people starred at me especially when we went to Wendy's afterwards to eat lunch. HA! Meara loves it and that's all that matters! She had bunny make up on too but she was itchy and it wore off before we had a chance to take pictures.

Me and my girlfriends with our children.

All along the garden path were scarecrows that were dressed up in some sort of theme. One was made out of recycled products another out of dog food bags.

This was my favorite since I LOVE Vangogh's Starry Night.

Noah's Ark

October 26, 2008

Michael and I teach a 4-year-old Sunday school class. The first four weeks of our Sunday school curriculum was about creation and then Noah. We decorated our classroom with Noah's ark, the animals, trees (we had the children write their names on apple cutouts and tape them on the tree), and birds hanging from the ceiling with fishing wire. We had a party with the children where they came dressed as their favorite animal. Michael and I dressed up like Noah and his wife. What a BLESSING for us! I used the overhead projector to make the animals and the ark and then painted them.

Our beautiful Sunday school class.

Me and my sweet husband.

Our daughter, Meara.