What a day Satrianos! We’re so thankful for you. Thanks for the invitation!
November 29, 2009
November 26, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Just wanted to post the results of our informal “What are you thankful for?” poll.
Katie
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1. large Sally bear
2. God
3. mummies
4. Mom, Dad, & Michael
5. Church class
6. Halloween candy
7. Gramma and Papa
8. house, my bedroom
9. food, fried chicken
10. country, how beautiful it looks
Michael
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1. “Buffalo”, beans inside him
2. popsicles
3. Mommy, Daddy, & Katie
4. Aunt Anna & Aunt Jenny
5. Michael, Anna’s friend
6. Miss Rebecca’s cats
7. running fast
8. Little People toys
9. bread & milk
10. digging with shovels
Sara
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1. marriage (9.5 years)
2. Katie and Michael
3. the internet
4. Heritage Makers opportunities
5. my faith & our Church & RC
6. cooking
7. living in the city
8. vacation
9. friends & entertaining
10. my family
Nate
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1. my wife
2. my kids
3. a good job
4. Atlanta-area family activities
5. our house
6. our friends
7. parents & grandparents alive & healthy
8. Skype
9. homeschooling
10. that Sara doesn’t have to work
November 13, 2009
Halloween…okay a few weeks late!
How do you celebrate your halloween?
What do you do with the surplus of candy?
We use ours to decorate our Gingerbread houses at Christmas. That is whatever is left after we’ve allocated a piece here and there in exchange for dessert. They sit in separate bowls on top of our refrigerator.
However, saw a note in Family Fun…a mother hides their candy and each day gives them a clue to its location. It’s their way of counting down the days until Thanksgiving. Cute idea!
October 30, 2009
October 27, 2009
All in a Monday’s work….
Michael has been so delighted to be able to “practice” with Katie’s soccer team. Her coach has been so gracious and inviting to encourage Michael to play with the team. Tonight, he gave Michael the chance to really play in the game (at least for a few minutes). Michael was so proud and GLOWING. Everyone on the side lines cheered wildly! Michael actually kicked the ball and then the coach whisked him to the sidelines safe and sound before he was leveled by the big 6 & 7 year olds. What a powerful moment for a little man who believes he is a big kid! Thanks Coach Stephen!
Haven’t we all done this as a kid? Katie sucked a plastic cup onto her chin, removed it and found that she had bruised her sweet face in the process!
Check out my great new centerpiece for Halloween. I saw this on a blog post and just had to re-create it! Cool, huh?! The mirror hung in my grandmother’s house. The jars came from Goodwill for $0.55 and the fabric was $4 and the double stick tape a few dollars. I can’t wait to watch this centerpiece evolve with the addition of new seasons/holidays/etc. Check out the post that started the inspiration. (Link has been edited!)
Forgot this picture in the posts from yesterday! These are my crazy sisters.
October 26, 2009
Is it really fall if you don’t go to the pumpkin patch?
We were afraid that the patch had already closed, but much to our delight, they were still allowing guests to enter. What a treat for us and a much appreciated surprise too! Burt’s Pumpkin Patch is our favorite and again a reminder of traditions and photo opps. Look at the personality shining in these pics of Michael. Nate and I might have taken the best picture since our wedding too. HA! Such a treat to have Anna and Jenny joins us also.
Check out the 2008 photos here…Burt’s and Amicalola Falls.
Fall has arrived in Georgia
We took a very beautiful afternoon to drive up to the north Georgia mountains. The weather was sunny and in the upper 60’s. BEAUTIFUL! It’s a tradition that we always drive up sometime before Halloween weekend. It’s the only time we really find ourselves up there, and the pictures reflect so many of the same locations we’ve photographed in subsequent years. I love the marking of time by these tried and true traditions. Golly, the kids are really getting big. 
October 22, 2009
365 is so quickly wrapping up for 2009
Here’s the last few weeks! sorry for the delay and you still can’t read the words, but hopefully some of the pictures are familiar to you and you’ll know the story already.
October 21, 2009
Week at a glance
We’ve been home exactly one week tonight. Wow!!
Saturday was freezing cold here…low 40s for a high. Poor Katie’s 8:30 a.m. soccer game was ridiculously cold! Michael, however, was so delighted to see an old friend.
Sunday, we spent the day downtown enjoying a bit of culture at Target’s Free Family Fun Day. We had such a great day!!!! Katie had a chance to take an acting class, both made homemade paper,a cut paper collage, storytime with Mother Goose, Suess-some Opera and Katie’s big stage debut as the Lovely Loly-Lou (Michael got stage fright before it even began–no surprise there), a drive up to deliver mid-term/Halloween goodies to Aunt Anna, and an evening soccer game tonight! What a week…yep. My laundry is still not put away!
