Friday, October 2, 2009

North Georgia State Fair

On Sunday, when we could finally get out, we headed to the fair. The weather was perfect and we had a fun family day. Isaiah is still talking about the different things we saw!

We started out at the elephant show. We woke Isaiah up when we arrived at the fair so he wasn't too perky to begin with :)






Then off to the petting zoo. Isaiah loved seeing all the animals but was pretty shy about touching them.

Though a camel was sure fond of Adam!


Isaiah excited about the cow!



A robot stopped to talk to Isaiah and me for a few minutes.


And what's a fair without candy!



Then there was the tiger show. They are amazing and beautiful creatures.




More fair food...yummy!


This is Adam and Isaiah watching the bicycle stunt guys. FYI the balloon disappeared shortly after this picture :(


What a cute little lamb!


It was so cute. Isaiah looked at the brochure for most of the trip home.
Thanks for a wonderful day!

Playing Inside

The week after the flood, our car was in the shop and outside was soggy, so we stayed inside most of the time. By the end of the week Isaiah and Mommy were getting stir crazy!




"oops! did I do that?!?"






He climbs on everything.

What a ham!!!

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Rainy Day Stuck Inside

This man is my hero. He was creative and found fun things for Isaiah to do last Monday as we were stuck inside all day.
They started out by making a fort out of all the empty boxes.

Doesn't it look like he is walking all "macho"

The boys crawled around inside for a while until they had a cave in...

... then they had to fix it.

After the fort came the tunnel, which until Sunday was still up and being played in.

What a man!!!






This little guy loves and adores his daddy!!!

THE BIG FLOOD 9-21-09

2:00am Monday September 21st we are awoken by the loudest cracks of thunder we have ever heard!!!! It was raining so hard and the thunder kept coming - though interesting note, not a lot of lightning and no wind. Adam and I watched the water rush down our street at amazing speed. Though in all of this I didn't think to go get the camera :) And Isaiah slept through it all. After the storm passed, we finished what was left of our night and Adam got up for work as normal. But he didn't get far!! He tried for 2 hours to find a way to work that wasn't flooded but everything was closed. So, lucky him, an extra day off. We played most of the day and took it easy- not much else to do. Then around 2pm another storm broke loose. Not quite as huge as the first but still a ton of rain. And this time I took some pictures. You can't see a whole lot due to the rain and the fact I am on our front porch, but the videos are pretty good.
This is out our basement door, which opens to the side of our house. The wated came down the hill in our backyard, in between our house and the neighbors and out to the road.


You can see the dirt trail flowing.


This is our neighbors mailbox. You can kind of see the water coming up on his lawn and hitting around it.

Adam ventured out in the rain to see what the road was like.

After the rain slowed some, he even took Isaiah out for a bit.


Let me say it was quite an adventure. Luck for us, we had no structural damage nor any water leaks, though many in our neighborhood were not so lucky. Adam was able to return to work on Tuesday and even mowed that night when he got home! The west side of Atlanta got hit worse than us and they are still cleaning up the mess the rain caused.

Carousel Ride

The Saturday before the BIG FLOOD we ran some errands and ended up at one of the many malls in this area.

Isaiah was super all day so we treated him to ride on the carousel. I believe this was his first time ever. He had fun though you couldn't tell by looking at him :)




Thursday, September 17, 2009

Mountain Park Park

Ok...seriously...that's the name of the Park! I did not mistype :) And it is huge and very busy on a Saturday!
In addition to the playground:

They have football fieldS:

Baseball diamondS and a large concession stand:


And softball diamondS:

We let Isaiah play for a few minutes, but he kept getting bowled over by big kids and Mommy was getting quite upset, so we went and explored other areas of the park.


We watched some little league baseball:



And ended our walk by looking at the ducks.


It was good to get outside for a bit, but note to self, go on a day other than Saturday :)