Wednesday, July 8, 2009

georgia aquarium

monday we took nathan, kayla, brenna, and bj to the ga aquarium. it well worth the money. kayla took some great pictures and i took what i could, not being the photographer in the family. we all had a great time. georgia should be proud of this accomplishment. i know it had its detractors who said that it was wrong to capture these creatures but they have done a good job caring for thise magnificent creatures with dignity. if there wasn't someplace like this then the common man, me, would never to get to see them. they have also placed alot of emphasis on conservation and protection of the ocean and waters of our world. i think they have struck a good balance.

yesterday we took brenna to story time at the library. she had a good time there as she loves the library. we came home for lunch and nap and then she played in her pool and we caught bugs in her bug box.

today she played with the sidewalk chalk that oma and pepere got for her with g-daddy. we ate at zaxby's for nathan and then she lay down for a nap but it wasn't peaceful! she is a strong willed young lady and did not want to take a nap. i finally bribed her with making cupcakes when she woke up but in all fairness she had pretty much worn herself out by the time i got to her. she is now asleep : )

it will be sad to see them leave for athens tomorrow and then back to texas next week but i am very happy that they got to come. we are hoping to be able to get out there this october over fall break.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

happy fourth


well, i got up at 7:30 this morning and made "panacakes" for all the family. then i went with keith to ingles, along with all the vacationers, and picked up the rest of our stuff for the annual jones fourth of july celebration. we got home where oma was making her delicious cucumber salad and her out of this world potato salad. i made my 4th of july cake and put out everything that we would need for the afternoon's feast. we ate lunch and brenna took her nap. when she got up matt and tasha had arrived with heather and jim and jayden. they stayed for a little while and then matt, tasha, kayla, nathan, brenna and i went to the lake where we met up with jan and kevin o'quinn. we had a lot of fun swimming in the lake and visiting. i swear, brenna is part fish!

we left at around 5:3o and got home, cleaned up, and started putting everything out. we had hot dogs, hamburgers, potato salad, cucumber salad, all kinds of chips, a cookie 4th of july cake and tasha's chocolate cake, and my cake plus cokes and such. it was so much fun to see everyone sitting around eating and talking and just enjoying being together. after we cleaned up we all went to the comfort inn parking area and waited for the fireworks to start. we were thrilled to see kayla on top of the van so she could get good shots of the fireworks. all told we had about 15 people there (pepere, oma, tasha, matt, nathan, kayla, brenna, bj, me and keith, jan and kevin o'quinn, don, heather, and jayden).

all in all we had a blast! we then came home and played with sparklers. brenna was thrilled!