14MAR10

On Monday after the Zoo we went to an awesome mall! Seriously they had a minature golf course AND a bouncy place IN the mall! Then Tuesday we went to lunch at Johnny Rockets (I have never eaten there before it was great food and fun for the kids!) then we just let the kids play at a close by park and exhaust themselves so they would nap in the car. Then we drove to Ikea and did some MORE shopping and then I headed home. Britteny and Cindy went to the Aquarium the next day but we decided to not go since we had JUST been there not too long ago. We had such a good time! I can't wait till our next visitor (HINTHINT! :) ) These are the rest of our pics from Atlanta...

Hanging out with Noel.

HUGS!

Action shot. She went down this slide about 100 times!

They did THIS about 100 times but we never could get them all looking at the camera!

At Johnny Rockets they gave them hats to color and then the girls had fun showing them off. Here is Alexis in her poses.

After I took Lexi's picture Ryan kept saying ME ME CHEESE!! And then copied Lex! TOO CUTE!

13MAR10

The other place we went while we were in Atlanta was Imagine It. It's a Children's Museum and it was fabulous! I love places like this and plan on going back even if it is an hour and a half away! It was perfect for ALL the kids ages and Alexis and Ryan LOVED it!

First thing she ran to!

Riding the tractor. As soon as Ry got on here she started yelling yee haw b/c that's Brittney told her to say the day before on the horse at the zoo. Too cute!

Shopping

Checking out!

Help mama help! :)

They had moon sand! I love that stuff and so did the girls. It's basically sand that sticks together like clay. I WISH we could fill the girls new sandbox with it but it's just so expensive!

Watching the show!

They had these guys putting on a little skit talking about numbers. There were a TON of kids there but Lex got picked to help. She basically just stood there but she was SOOOO excited!

Painting! I would love this in my house! They just painted and then watered it down and wiped it off to start over again.

Fishing. It was magnetic and real water with rain coats. They played in this for quite a while.

Having fun.

Dress up!

12MAR10

I was SOOOO excited when my friend from Germany, Britteny, told me she was coming to Atlanta for a few days!! She asked if we would be able to come for a few days and I didn't even have to think about it! We got there on Sunday evening and got home late Tuesday night and I swear I barely sat for the entire time we were there!

Our first stop was the Atlanta Zoo. It was a great time. The weather was beautiful and the kids were great! Britteny's friend Cindy came also with her 2 girls so we had quite a bit of estrogen going on! You wouldn't believe how many people stopped to talk or watch us with our parade of girls! I, of course, didn't get enough pics of Britteny and I but we took a TON of the kids!! We enjoyed being with our friends!

Watching the flamingos. (Ryan, Alexis, Noel, Alexia, sweet baby Taylor not pictured! :) )

Our little kangaroos

I love my girls!

RAARRR!!!

Ryan's turn!

Baby birds!

Baby birds ready to eat!

All the 2 year olds had a blast getting into trouble! :)

Talking to the goat.

NEIGH

She loves being like her big sister!

Playing with Britteny.

Her favorite the panda (you have tolook hard behind the glass!)

Brushing the goats.

02MAR10

HAD to shout out to Cristine!! I love this girl. For lots and lots of reasons BUT today it's b/c I wrote her an e-mail saying I can't for the life of me figure out how to change my blog layout (I'm not usually so technologically challenge but this for some reason has gotten the best of me!) So I send her my password and not even an hour later she calls me saying I think you'll like it. Purple and green?? Simple but cute?? Yep I think this girls knows me huh? So THANK YOU CRISTINE!!!!!! You rock! And finally after almost 3 years of having this blog it's not boring and the same as everyone else's anymore!!!

01MAR10

Alexis had her first soccer practice last week and she did so GREAT! Her age group is 3 and 4 years olds so it's different seeing her as one of the bigger kids. I was so proud at how well she listened to the coach and how well she picked everything up. She loved it and I think she's really going to enjoy playing soccer!

Before we left making funny faces. Yeah her outfit isn't traditional Monica but there are just some things that have to be sacrificed for warmth! :)

Waiting to do "big kicks."

Dribbling. I know I'm biased but she did really well keeping control of the ball. I'm sure practicing with daddy ahead of time helped!

Huddle up!

GOAL! :)