Aidan's 5th birthday

Aidan announced to us a few days before his birthday that his new favorite color is red. Yippee, Mommy's favorite too! We celebrated Aidan's 5th with Moe's and ice cream cake on his birthday. I surprised him by joining him for lunch and throwing him a spider man party atthe preschool. The following weekend we celebrated in Atlanta with a Braves game, trip to Georgia Aquarium (the world's largest aquarium!), World of Coca-Cola and "hotel sleepover." Madeline called the hotel "fancy" which Ryan and I found a hoot! We also laughed very hard when the tour guide at the Coca-Cola museum referred to our kiddos as "Hansel and Gretal". For birthdays, we are trying to enjoy "experiences" rather than gifts galore because the kids have so much and can learn from adventures like the one we had to Atlanta. Buckhead is a lovely area with some wonderful shops and restaurants. We found a couple of our favorite Mexican places (Papasitos and Uncle Julios) are stuffed ourselves! It was also tax-free weekend which made it fun for Mommy! What a great way to celebrate Aidan's five years!!!

July 4th

We had a wonderful July 4th vacation to cooler temps in Door County. Some highlights included golfing, trip to the Dairy to have ice cream, the independence day parade at egg harbor, fire works on the boat. The kiddos did not like the loudness of the fireworks and covered their ears. The sunsets and cooler temps were just beautiful. It was a great break from the heat of NC summers!

Duke Chapel

We attended a friend's choir concert at Duke Chapel recently. Beautiful scenery, but we're still big TARHEEL fans!!!!

Aidan's graduation

Well, it's official.... Our first graduation (of many, we hope!) for one of the children. Aidan is a member of the graduating class of 2009 at the Children's Center on Carol Woods campus. Headed to STM for Kindergarten in the fall. Way to go SON! The spring celebration featured performances from each class. Madeline's class sang "Peanut Butter and Jelly" and did the cute motions to go with the song. Aidan's class did YMCA....not Ryan's favorite song after it was overplayed at too many Frat parties in college.

Princess Madeline is THREE!

Wow, where has the time gone? Madeline is now three years old and the days of learning to crawl, walk and speak are long gone. She runs from one activity to the next and has a great love for princesses (especially Princess Arora...aka. Sleeping Beauty) and Hello Kitty. We celebrated her special day for at least a week, which she loved! The grand finale was her party at KIDZU children's museum in Chapel Hill.

Mothers Day

We had a great Mother's Day at home in Chapel Hill. The kids really enjoyed seeing the graduates in their carolina blue caps and gown walking to graduation as we headed to breakfast after 7:30 mass.

Graduation for Aunt Katie!

Congratulations to Aunt Katie...what a nice outdoor graduation at Guilford and a lovely luncheon! Bravo!! Bravo!!