HOT Summer Wedding

We attended a VERY HOT summer outdoor Wedding last Friday night.   It was lovely minus the heat :)

I actually got a quick shot of Me and Adam dressed up.  Thankfully Mom kept Ava because I knew she would be miserable.   And YES I am in black.   People get up to date on whats appropriate in 2012.   I told several people I was wearing black and they looked at me weird.   Its formal, classy, and thinning :)   NOT morbid.   If the Wedding would have been in the daytime and not night I would have chose something different.

Grandma

Check out this awesome drawing of my Grandma.   My cousin, Adrianna, actually drew this from an old picture of Grandma.  I love it.  I knew I had to save it.   I just love to look at it.  I am not sure how old she was here.

Ava's new Hair

Things have been very busy lately. 

Ava got a new haircut a couple weeks ago.  Thought I would share.  I wanted to do something cute, but not too growny. :)

A great Loss!

We got back from our trip Wednesday and I returned to work on Thursday.  I was so busy.  I got a call that morning that my grandpa (moms dad) passed away.  I was in shock.  Just in January we lost  grandmother.  So we had a sad weekend saying goodbye to a wonderful man. 

I could fill this post with good things about my grandpa.  If you didn't know him you lost out in life.  He was amazing!!  Seriously up until he had his stroke a year or 2 years ago he was in such good health.  He probably exercised more than me.  He was SO positive and full of such a sweet spirit.  If you ever asked him how he was he would say "Super", or "Super, Duper".   He could make me laugh more than anyone I know.  He was hilarous!!!!   He loved his shiny black cadillac.  He also loved rings and jewelry.  I guess I got it from him :)  Everytime he saw a new ring on me he asked where I got it.  I think he would ask how much I spent on it too. LOL  
I have soo many good memories of him and growing up.  I am sad and disheartened that he isn't here anymore.  That being my selfish side.  But I am so glad his race is run and he is at rest!!!!

Atlanta Aquarium and Zoo

Petting Zoo area.

Some weird bird

Elephants

Lazy Lion

Monkey

Giraff

Flamingo

Playing school on the Playground

Giving him some love

She is kind of scared :)

Whale

All sorts of fish

Shark!!!!!

Petting the sharks and Stingrays

My sweet girl.

My family!!!

Love watching these!!!!

Cool fish tank.

View from room.

We left Sunday and drove down to Atlanta.  We stayed at the Sheraton (which I highly recommend).  They put us in a nice top floor corner room.  We had a private balcony that surrounded both sides!!!   We also had access to a lounge where we could get snacks and drinks 24 hours a day.  Ava learned real quick where the cookies were :).   Monday we woke up and ate our breakfast.  We headed to the Aquarium.   We spent almost 4 hours in there.  Ava enjoyed it to some extent but I am sure older kids get your moneys worth.  Its not cheap!!!  We had a good time though.  There was so much to see and do.  Monday afternoon Ava took a much needed nap.  That night we walked a few blocks up to Durangos for a great supper.  After dinner we took a carriage ride around downtown Atlanta.  Cheesy I know but Ava LOVED it!!!  Tuesday we hit up the Zoo.  Ava liked the Zoo even more than the aquarium.  The weather was perfect because it had been stormy and rainy then cleared out.  It wasn't hot at all.  We saw all sorts of animals.  They had a really good play area too so Ava enjoyed that.  We went down to Adam's mom and dads that night.  We had dinner with them and stayed there.  We drove back Wednesday.

Congrats to my friend!

Ava outside playing at the reception

Me and Tammy

Snapshot on our way home from the reception.

One of my best freinds, Tammy, got married this past weekend.  I just want to wish her and her finace the best!!! 

Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend!!!

Destin 2012

Searching for Sand Crabs

Riding the Train....with Paw Paw

Playing in the Sand

My little Diva

Awww... the beach!!!!!   Last week me, my mom, my dad, and Ava went to Destin.  Yes we had to leave Adam behind.  Long story short.....he is in an outage that was suppose to end in time for him to go.  It didn't. :(   I wasn't happy about that.  I tried to change the dates but this close to Summer its hard to do.

We had a nice get away.  I got some good sun, read a book finally, and ate some good Seafood.  I prefer not to go in May again though.  It was crowded more so than September when we went last year.  I figured all kids were still in school.  I guess everyone else thought that too.

The weird thing this year is Ava didn't really like the sand and ocean.  Yeah, not my child at all!!!!!!!!   Just in September she loved it. It shows me how much she is changing in such short periods.   She played a little in the sand but overall she would rather play in the condo.  Go figure.

I read the first Hunger Games book.  Ok, I just had to know what all the hype was about.  I know now.  I couldn't put the book down.  I downloaded the final 2 when I got home.

And I want everyone to notice my pictures are all straight and nice. :)  I downloaded Google+ to my Iphone.  I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!