Technical Difficulties

Well, I had lots more stuff to post, but it won't let me upload pictures for some reason. Sorry - it seems we are experiencing technical difficulties.

Ryan's Third Birthday!

Ryan turned 3 on Saturday and we hosted about 11 two & three year olds and their parents for a cookout on Sunday night. It was, let's see, a tad stressful and I can't say that either of us particularly enjoyed the actual birthday party. BUT, lots of our friends said that they really enjoyed it and all the kids seemed to be having a blast, the Birthday Girl included. So there you have it -fun was had by almost all! Here are some pictures and the blowing out of the cake video. If you want to see all 40-something of the pictures - just click on "churchill chatter" over to the left and it takes you to our Shutterfly site. Then you crazy stalkers can even purchase pics if you want!

Maine 2009

Tommy and I celebrated our 11th anniversary by flying into Portland, Maine and driving up the coast for a stay in Bar Harbor. It was a nice trip, but unfortuately it started raining shortly after we got there and didn't stop until we were on our way back to the airport. Here are a couple of pics.

Stuff

It has been brought to my attention that I haven't updated the blog in over a month. Crap - exactly what I feared would happen. We haven't had any exciting outings but here are some pictures of Ryan, Chester, and Sunni Cat that I took after we got our new super fancy camera. I am looking for some sort of online tutorial or class to take because I would like to learn how to actually use it on a setting other than automatic. It takes pretty good photos all on its own, though.

Sunni Cat - fierce!

Ryan - sorry she's topless

Chester - hanging in there!

Another fun day at the Zoo!

We are really enjoying our Zoo Atlanta membership this year. Aunt "T" went with us this morning. Check out some pictures! Ryan and Aunt "T."

I thought this dude worked at this exhibit because he was there when it opened and was walking around all official-like. After further reflection, we think he is a creepy guy who hangs out at the bird exhibit, possibly to be close to the children?

A beautiful day in the parking lot at Zoo Atlanta!

Bumblebee Song

I got home late from work tonight, and found Tommy & Ryan having a little performance over dinner. He got the video camera out and everything - strong work! Enjoy - this is a new song about a bumblebee that she learned in music class at school. Apparently the first time she sang it with "mommy" but Tommy had her change the words to "daddy" for this rendition.

School Performance (and more!)

So last week Ryan's school had their silent auction and class performances, and I guess "graduation" for the kids going up to kindergarden. Ryan's class sang three songs. I've posted a video of one of them, but as you can see she is only barely following along.

I was hoping to post a cute video each month on here, so I had her redo a couple of the songs yesterday at home and she did much better. I don't know all the words to these - she must have learned them completely at school. Enjoy! (Watch the bottom video first!)