Ok, I know I am WAY behind on updates and my main excuse is that I ran out of disk space on my computer because I had saved about 1 million pictures of you know who over the past 2 years. I had to start backing them up onto disk and getting them off my hard drive before I could upload anymore from my camera. Well, problem solved and we're back in business. Now what have you missed over the last few weeks??? As Aiden would say, "Let's see..."We had a bit of a blizzard-- ok, a few inches of snow. Aiden enjoyed getting out in the backyard with Daddy and Boss and building a snowman before the little boys next door started a snowball fight with Andy over the fence. Of course Aiden thought that was hysterical and threw a couple of snowballs too. I thought the snow was pretty, but was very grateful when it was all gone a few days later. I was especially grateful that we were able to go to Athens that weekend to celebrate my sister's birthday and go out to eat with her and her husband (after Andy and I had a pre-Valentines date to see the Dawgs win in basketball.)
The 16th we celebrated Papaw's (Andy's Dad) 70th birthday with a family party at Chrissy and David's house. Aiden and I went early to help set-up which basically meant I tried to keep Aiden, Drew and Gracie out of Memaw and Chrissy's way while they got everything finished and looking good. Most of the family was able to be there which translates into 10 children ages 1-5 (and yes, there were a few missing). A great time was had by all.
Last weekend Dad and Andy went to the Georgia basketball game so Mom and I took Aiden to ride the train at St. Mountain. Note to self, check the website to make sure the train is running next time. On a side note, I grew up about 10-15 minutes from St. Mountain and went there frequently in high school and college, but had not been there since the state sold it. I was very disappointed to see it so commercialized and looking more like Six Flags than like the St. Mountain I remember. But I digress... after a fifteen minute search Mom, Aiden and I finally found where you would normally go to buy the tickets and get on the train. (Yes, we knew where it was supposed to be from all our years going there-- we just couldn't figure out how to get there with all the new crap in the way.) Our first clue that the train would not be running that day was the temporary fence going across the track. There was a train sitting over on the side so we took Aiden over there to see it up close. He enjoyed playing on it, but he also enjoyed standing behind a boulder and throwing rocks. Thankfully at 26 months old he is not hard to please and if our plans get changed he is able to go with the flow. After Aiden threw all the rocks we could gather we took him to the playground. He wasn't very interested in the 2-5 year old area, but once he discovered the 5-12 year old playground we couldn't keep him off the slides and equipment. He even managed to go almost over the edge of a twisty slide. Thank goodness there were 2 of us and we could switch off with one on the ground and one up on the play area with him (and thank goodness we're both short and could fit!) so we could catch before he landed on his head. Enjoy the pictures!
Directing Daddy on snowman construction.
As far as Daddy got on the snowman before he was distracted by the snowball fight.
Aiden's snowball.
Riding Drew's four wheeler.
Aiden took this one of Gracie.
Memaw and Papaw
Aiden loves Tela and likes to be near her at parties.
Sweet little Abigail took to Andy for some reason.
Papaw making a speech.
The little vultures waiting on the cake and ice cream.
Aiden had to clap for the singing.
Getting ready to throw another rock.
Playing on the caboose.
Driving the train.
