New Years Eve

Visit from Uncle Rob

We had a great visit from Rob last weekend. He joined us to cheer at Carter's soccer game and for a trip to the zoo. He drank and ate all the unnaturally green things I gave him. He taught Carter to play darts (inventing rules that put them on a level playing field) and lost gracefully at Monopoly.








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Kimbro Visit

It was SO great to have R, R, E & T in town for a New Year's visit. See below for a few photos that were not included in the NYE post. See their blog for more photos of our primary activity.

We continue to be so blessed by how well our children play together! I screwed up on the last night and didn't tell Carter that Eleanor and Thomas would be leaving before he woke up. When he awoke to find them gone, he was devastated! That's a mistake I won't make again.

New Year's Eve

In which no one has to go to the hospital.

After you watch this, I think you'll agree that was a pretty big feat.


If you notice Thomas missing from the festivities, it's because he was in NYC for the Times Square spectacle (for work). He promises to post about that. Perhaps you should nudge him.

Weekend Getaway to Estes Park

The final piece of Thomas' birthday surprise was a weekend trip to Estes Park where we celebrated Thomas, Marc and Rob's 40ths together. Okay, it was early for Marc and Rob, but they didn't seem to mind. We managed to mostly keep the trip a surprise from all of the guys. Details here. 

We chose Colorado because it was vaguely centrally located, when considering couples from Atlanta, Houston and San Diego. We also liked it because of the beautiful views, hiking, breweries, and some of the features of the house we rented, including the hot tub and wood burning fireplace. 

The boys

View from one of our four decks (plus, mimosas!)

On our hike to Cub Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park

Cub Lake (did I mention about the beauty?!)

After our hike, we drove to Lyon, CO to the Oskar Blues Brewpub, where they happened to be having Octoberfest, complete with a polka band

Shannon, Rachel and I might have been a little lost in the polka music, had we not had our husbands to share their (apparently vast) knowledge of polka with us. Case in point, before the polka band even started to play, there was a prediction that this particular song would be 4th on the set list. And they were right.

The guy in the band is playing a washboard tie

After Octoberfest polka fun, the serendipitous fun kept coming!  Just around the corner we found this amazing place.

It was so great to spend the weekend together. Our children were well cared for by a hugely appreciated group of family, friends and babysitters. They seemed to have a really terrific weekend, too!

New Years Eve

We had a house full of Texans on new years eve! In addition to the Kimbro family, Ben, Rebecca and Miranda joined us for the festivities. It was great to be together on NYE again after so many years! It seems that I only took photos of the kids...

Kimbro Visit

We were so happy that the Kimbro's included Atlanta on their 2011 holiday tour of the southeast. We are, as ever, grateful that the kids play so well together. It was great being together, and John seemed happy to meet Rob and the kids (especially Eleanor).

Rachel Visit

Rachel came to visit us last weekend! We cooked, we ate, we walked, we shopped, we relaxed, we held baby, we drank coffee, we wore pajamas, we worked on our laptops, we had mimosas, we played Legos -- it was lovely to have her here.

She noted that it was nice to visit on her own, because she actually got to spend time with Carter and be "Aunt Rachel" for a while. When we all get together, the kids are so involved with each other that we don't get to enjoy each others' kids (not that we're complaining that they get along so well!).

Galveston Trip

We had a great president's day weekend in Galveston -- despite several of us being sick, and the weather providing fog so thick that we couldn't even see the water from our beach house some of the time! The big kids got along really well, and Emily kept us adults entertained.

More fun with Friends

And more pics here!