Lots of Celebrating and Lots of Randomness!

Happy Sunday!!

Alex has his first day at his new job tomorrow and this house is filled with excitement and nervous energy tonight!

I thought I would share some pictures of our last 3 celebrations, we and the guys have had for Lou to give a proper bon voyage from Hughes!

Above was last Friday nights celebration with family, I forgot to take pictures at the restaurant.. woops!

Thursday I got a call from mom and dad, they were on the way home from Mississippi (grams is doing MUCH better,YAY) So I convinced them to stop by to see us and to join us after work for a little get together with Alex’s co-workers..

  We had the best time and daddy was too funny, he was thrilled that he would be, as he called it “The coolest guy there, compared to a bunch of engineers”! haha

The final get together was Saturday when Alex invited a few of his work buddies over (and Nic and Lia who missed our other get togethers)

I think the neighbors thought we were having a UN meeting :)

Nope, only the love of computers, wires and engineering can bring guys together from all (literally) over the world… except Lou, the lone American!

Well, that and food!

I decided to stick with a St.Patricks Day theme since I already had those decorations out and it helped that most of my serve ware it green too!

I decided last minute to make leprechaun “hats” with sugar cookies, kisses and green sprinkles but i believe an upside down Resees miniature cup would look much better…  We had a great time with everyone at the party and I was so happy for Alex to get together with all of them one last time! A few others stopped by later that night and but after the party was over Lia an I were just getting started!

Time to go out!  

So Cute!

This is where the random part comes in!

Over the last few weeks apparently I missed out on sharing some moments around the house on here so get ready for a camera dump:

The dogs can’t get enough of the nice weather and fresh air lately!

The only time you will ever see my big boy up on two feet, when catching a fly (notice how HUGE it is) and he did catch it!

Tucker has not let his guard down with this nice weather though, he is still ready for some rain if that comes our way…

    Kisses for daddy!

My new bookshelf!

Minus the paint job.. it works, painting will have to wait another weekend!  Yes please!

Last but not least… one of the many pictures i’m going to start texting my boss when I’m late to work, see it;s not my fault!

She is so convincing, right!!

Speaking of which, she is being pretty convincing right now, off to bed we go, good night!

Oatland Island

Like I said in the previous entry, on our trip home last weekend we made our way to Oatland Island to make a special “Big sister day" for Julian! 

The goal of the day was really to just give Julian some alone time and to take a load off Ambers hands for the day as she is now a new mommy of TWO.. of yes, and to explore some wildlife!

Alex tries to get all his manliness out when we go home since Atlanta pretty much cramps his style as far as outdoor life,  so anything that involves woods and water is a GO! 

Oatland Island is a wildlife conservatory with all types of animals, alligators, bears, wolves, birds, fox, deer and bison that are for the most part in a “enclosed, natural habitat”.

They have a huge roaming area in the wild but it’s actually enclosed in sections for each animal and at night are held indoors

This was part of the alligators habitat but we didn’t see any at the time… next was the marshland bridge to see the foxes.

The journey itself was obviously the best part… The view was beautiful!

I think Alex and I were born to live near marshland…. it just feels like home to us, the smell, the wind, the beauty it all feels so “right”.

This was absolutely my favorite part of Oatland Island, the walkway over the marsh…

It was breathtaking! 

On to the next…

Once we made our way to the birds and these eggs were sitting outside for kids to stop and play around on….

Julian and another little girl were playing on them and when it was time to move on Julian said she couldn’t because a baby bird didn’t come out yet…

   

I looked at alex and said “Now, if that isn’t a four year old talking whose mommy just had a baby a week ago i don’t know what is!?!?”

There was a lot of  historical sites on the property too including the building at top of the blog which was an old World War II hospital.

This was my view most of the day, it was a lot of walking so Julian was getting pretty tired and then shot off with bursts of energy!

I have  to say though, i had the best view every, so sweet!

I love this one two, there’s never any telling what those two are up to..

I was trying to talk her into wearing her hood and remembered i had one to model for her, the wind was blowing so hard i just knew we would bring her home with an ear infection to be with a newborn!One Happy Girl! 

Just when we thought we were almost done we found the wolves and a viewing room to view them a bit closer up!

This was another beautiful lookout over the water and marshland, Alex could not get enough!

Has anyone seen little Miss sunshine? If so, does Julian not look like the cute little girl olive below?

Ha that’s all I can think of!

Julian was so tired at this point and the wind was really picking up so we said goodbye to the buffalo’s and headed out!

Aside from Julian being the most adorable thing every i think she has such a classic look, many of faces and expressions she makes look old fashion to me … I love it.

Call me an old biased aunt if you must but i think most of you would agree with me!

Oatland island was simply beautiful and I highly recommend if you go to go early, we went around 3 and they close at 5 but by 4 they had already put most of the animals up so we didn’t see as many as we had liked.. all in all though it was an AMAZING, fun and special day!

We couldn’t end the day without an ice cream treat for Alex and I Julian! I have pretty much turned Alex into a cookie dough fanatic (at least when it comes to ice cream), so you can imagine our enjoyment when we saw Amber lives right next to a Dairy Queen!!

Welcome to the club Julian, you are now an official Cookie dough blizzard diver too!

Thank you for spending the day with us Jewels and for sharing your baby sister with us! You are going to make the coolest, sweetest and most loving big sister ever and we love you so much!