a look back at May

I am continuing my stroll through the memories of the last few months to fill in blanks of our blog hiatus. Slip-n-slide 5K fun run

Mother's Day

UGA in June

Our Niece Caroline participated in Band Camp at UGA. And, we all went up at the end of her week to watch her performance. We are so proud of Caroline, she is the Drum Major at her High School this year!! Congratulations Caroline!! We look forward to watching you in action this season!

Also, I took the plunge and cut my hair VERY short! I haven't had hair this short since high school.

We have had a hot summer. And, we took every opportunity to go to our neighborhood pool or play in our back yard with the wading pool, water guns & water hose.

At this point in September, the weather is cooling down a bit. We are looking forward to fall and all that it brings us!

Stone Mountain

This Labor Day weekend we visited Stone Mountain and we traveled around the mountain on the Choo-choo train. Zachary had so much fun on his first train ride! But, the train whistle was a little frightening. As bravely as possible he would say "That's weak sauce" any time the train tooted it's whistle. Which is a saying his Daddy says to him often. During the ride Zachary practiced reading his park map to keep up with our location.

"That's weak sauce"

After the ride we met up with the conductor for pictures

We had a great day at Stone Mountain. We look forward to staying for the laser show once Zachary is older & can stay awake long enough to enjoy the show.

July Skate Party

We took a long break from posting messages on our blog (from Late April- Late August). However, our schedules were very full and we took a lot of pictures. And, after every event we thought this was going to be the next post on our blog...though it took us until August to make that happen. Generally it takes over an hour to create one blog on blogger. And, because of this we are researching other options in the blog sphere. Should we decide to move our blog we will let you know. However, if you continue to link us through our web address (www.mrmnjewel.net) you will automatically be directed to our new location. I thought I would fill in the blanks a little and make a few posts catching our blog friends/family up on our life April-July. I'll go backwards starting with July. Late July we went to our local Skate rink to celebrate our Friend Monica's 40th Birthday. It was Zachary's first time on skates and he impressed us all! When I was learning to skate they did not have a "crutch" to lean on. And, I realized very quickly that it was the best invention for new skaters! With out it I would not have been able to be on skates along side Zachary. I certainly would have been on the floor with my tennis shoes. By the end of the night Zachary was able to skate walk around the rink with out falling. And to my surprise, I didn't fall to the ground one time. However, getting in to the rink was the hardest part for me because of a single a step down from the floor to the rink. As you can see I needed a little help from my Brother-in-law.

Zachary skated the entire 3.5 hours!! I had to make him take a few breaks (mostly for Mommy's sake). We all had such a fun evening! We look forward to going back sometime, during the day, and Matt promises to put on a pair of skates with us!! I am going to hold him to it!