Fun with the Out-of-Towners

Cristina, my good friend from Pensacola days, and Lindsay came to visit Atlanta this weekend as their husbands work down here, off and on. We took the opportunity to hang out and go to the Imagine It Children's museum right by Centennial Olympic Park.

Let me say that simply being there watching everything you lose weight - I think I lost ten pounds in two hours! It's a crazy place FOR SURE, but goodness do the kids love it. Makes it all worthwhile.

here is lindsay's baby lily, all smiles as per usual

not-so-baby Mia squirming to be released from her chair! 'can i come too? please?!'

'ok, i'll sit here with the balls which i can barely hold with my tiny pudgey fingers...'

'so many! which should i hold first...? how about i juggle! wheeeeee!'

'what's this here contraption? i must get on it!'

team work! go girls!

'alrighty there folks, this here be my tractaw'

'you wanna ride?!'

'i'm in charge here'

portion control by chloe

some tasty green plastic

what has happened to the standard of our drivers these days? isn't the point to be able to see over the dashboard?

the girls were not impressed by his 'women drivers are rubbish' speech

'hello mummy?! see my hand is raised! doing the right thing here! ANSWER ME!'

i got the baby! i got the baby!

evan took a portrait shot of himself, he grabbed the camera from me and just fired away! he's like a month old!

i must go lay down now. children are very busy people.

Castles, Pizza & Silly Faces in North Carolina

The J-man & I just got back from visiting some of the loveliest people you'll ever meet. They reside outside of Charlotte North Carolina in a small town called Concord in case you were wondering where lovely people live. I knew Cristina (pregnant lady in middle of picture below) in Pensacola during my school days. Talk about laughing till your face falls off! Oh my. Did we ever.

Here we all are in Jon & Cristina's living room. Let me introduce you:

We have lovely Aletha & her husband, my Jordie-English mate Simon. Jordie means you're from Newcastle (pronounced Noo-cassell if you're Jordie). Cristina (prego with third child, a little boy) & her husband Jon (brown-sugar-with-butter-on-toast extraordinaire)

Simon & I share the red-head gene. Did you know it's recessive?

Meet Ms. Chloe. She's three.




We decided to pull faces the best way we knew how.





Check out the skillz



Tongue face

Tilted-head with tongue-face and itchy eyebrow action shot

Pixie face

The J-man and I in front of the Enchanted Castle.

Taken by 3-year old Chloe.

By far the best photo taken so far. That's ok, I can take being beat by a three year old. No really, I CAN.

This is Baby Mia

Soooo, you got me.

Wispy baby hair, pinchable cheeks...

Big brown eyes & pizza on the face?

Ohhh, you've got me so good

Great. Now come the cute dimples

The torture

Ok, that's it. Put a fork in me. I'm done.

The cuteness is too much

By the way, baby Mia is the best head banger out there. Especially when riding in the car. Something about sitting down and being strapped in really helps the technique. She's only 15 months old. A natural for sure.

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It was such a fun weekend seeing all these people! It really felt like no time had passed, yet somehow Cristina has two babies and one on the way. I think she's secretly an optical illusionist. Makes sense.

Of course we HAVE to visit again so I can return purple bunny to Ms. Chloe (more to follow on him in the next post).

Thanks to Cristina & Jon for showing us such wonderful hospitality! We love you guys.