Gymnastics

We attended Kate and Addison's 3rd birthday party at Bull City Gymnastics. The kiddos both loved it! In between all our other activities, I imagine we will work gym time into our schedule! Madeline especially was a big fan!

Durham Bulls

We've had such a great summer attending Durham Bulls games. We've enjoyed watching great baseball with good friends and enjoying some awesome scenery at a beautiful ballpark. A few of our favorite games have included special events with Sponge Bob Square Pants, Wool E. Bull's birthday party with his mascot friends and meeting Lucky the Wonderdog. Aidan has added to his official ball collection as several bulls have thrown him balls while returning to the dug out. We love our seats because we are so close to the dugout and all the "action". We've even had meetings with special Durham Bulls who used to play baseball for Texas Tech....Jon Weber #11 and Joe Dillon #15. They went to school when Ryan and I were at Tech. What a small world!

Butterfly Tea Party

Madeline and I attended a Butterfly Tea Party. Our first tea party together! It was quite fun and so neat to do as a mother-daughter duo. Our neighbors recently ordered caterpillars to grow into Butterflies. They had the party to "release" them after the entire process was complete. A few pics are attached to highlight the experience. Madeline loved having one land on her finger, too!

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.