I Heart Atlanta!

For only the third time in my life, I actually had some heart ache when leaving a place. The other two were leaving Utah and leaving Denver (I thought it was all about the mountains). Turns out I love the rolling hills of Atlanta, too! I can't wait to move down there in a month!

I went apartment hunting this week, and picked this beautiful place called Wildwood Ridge. Obviously we don't have beautiful furnishings like this model one does, but I'm still really excited!

One of the two pools Sawyer will grace with his duck-swimming

Since we picked a place rather early, we (my mom and I) were able to go downtown a bit. Here is Centennial Park.

Then on to the famous Georgia Aquarium, the largest aquarium in the world! I got to pet a shark! Very awesome, I'd recommend it whenever you get a chance!

5 Year Anniversary!!!

Yesterday we celebrated our 5 year wedding anniversary! Crazy how time just flies. I guess it makes sense when we have two kids, though...

I love love love my husband so much. Thank you for marrying & creating this life with me!

Engagement Pic, March 2004

Wedding at the Chicago Temple, May 21st, 2004

Last night, 5 year anniversary

Silver Beach

Can you believe the last two days have been in the 80's?! Without a cloud in the sky. It's been gorgeous. Wednesday was our friend Shanda's birthday, and we headed up to Silver Beach on Lake Michigan to BBQ & play in the sunshine. Here we are with the Evans and Yergensens.

Lake Michigan is still icy cold this time of year, but we still did some splashing around; and JOE DID go swimming!!! Crazy!

I think Hunter loved his first trip to the beach!

Obama Visit

President Obama came to speak at Notre Dame's Commencement Sunday afternoon. There was a lot of controversy over it, which I know made a few headlines, but it went fairly well overall. I counted three outbursts from individuals yelling at him, but they were fairly quickly hauled away by police. His speech went over very well, I thought. He mainly focused on the issue of getting along with every one, despite our differences, to find common ground in creating good in the world, instead of letting differences just breed hate.

Here's Air Force One flying in over Notre Dame, as we were on our way walking to the commencement:

These are the best shots I could get with my camera from the upper level of the arena. I thought they were pretty good, but if you want better I'm sure you can find some of him giving the speech on CNN.com. :)

I liked this one, since you could see him at the podium, and his headshot on the projection screen (since we were behind him and all):

Graduation Weekend!

He did it! Congratulations, Joe, on finishing your masters degree (with honors) from Notre Dame!!!

His diploma ceremony was Sunday morning. His parents, Kelsey (sister) and Peter (brother) were all able to come in for a day to be a part of it. Thanks so much for coming down to support Joe for his big day!

Out with the Old, in with the New

Old Computer (it's strikingly similar):

New Computer:

So sweet. We're finally catching up with the rest of the world. Except the Amish. We're still ahead of them, I think... we were scarily close, though...

Old Times...

Ahhh, the budding of his personality... this is so Sawyer!

Hard to believe this is 2 1/2 years ago!

Still the same Giggle:

Take me out to the Ball Game!

On Saturday we went to the Silverhawks baseball game (the city's minor league). The MBAs were invited to have lunch & watch the game from box seats (which worked out great with the COLD day!). We realized we aren't big baseball fans... kinda slow moving... but it's still a fun "All American" type thing to do once in awhile, and we're grateful we could go! :)

Gleeful baby. Sorry there isn't much diversity on ye olde blog.... this is all we do now.

This one is better. Happy boy.

Laughs

After many attempts at video taping Hunter's laughing, we finally got a tiny clip! He laughs every day, but always stops by the time I whip out the camera; and then is so facinated with the camera, that we can't get him to continue (this video is a good example of that):

I'm Three Months Already?

We are so blessed to have our beautiful Hunter!!! He's smiling alot- well, not during this photo shoot- and laughing when tickled (I'm attempting to get a video of it... coming soon!). I spent a big chunk of my day yesterday getting his 3-6 month clothes out of storage & all washed up and put away. I think he may have outgrown some of it already... he's bigger than Sawyer was!

Going for that 'neckless 40 year old business man' look:

We have a picture just like this of Sawyer around this age. I wish the one of Sawyer I had was digital so I could throw it on here to compare! They actually do look like brothers, mainly just the different coloring throws it off.

His famous round cheeks and tiny chin: