We recently went on a week-long road trip to northeast Alabama & northwest Georgia to visit friends & family. It was a great trip and we had so much fun catching up with everyone. Here are a TON of pictures...
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| Our first stop on our way out of Raleigh was in Charlotte, for some fried chicken at Prices Chicken Coop and a brief visit to Latta Park to let the girls play on the sprayground. |
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| Then it was onto Edneyville, NC to visit our friends Stephen, Victoria, and little Samantha. Maggie and Lilly really enjoyed meeting their neighbor's goats. |
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| Samantha and Lilly reading some old cards |
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| their neighbors built this really cool grass maze in their yard that the kids loved...the boy in the red shirt is another one of their neighbors |
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| "I'm king of the world!!" |
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| Lilly and Samantha resting under the peach tree |
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| After leaving Edneyville, we headed down to Mentone, Alabama to visit with a group of friends from Ichauway (research station in south Georgia where we used to work)...a big thanks to Ivy and her family for hosting us!! It was so much fun seeing everyone again and meeting everyone's kids! |
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| Ivy's little boy, Archer, and Maggie get along so well...here they are enjoying a relaxing game of chess on the porch |
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| making homemade silly putty |
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| Lilly, Maggie, and Archer baby rock climbing |
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| we stayed in Ivy's family's lake house...view from the dock |
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| Maggie's first kayaking lesson |
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| paddling all by herself! |
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| Maggie, Lilly, and Emily enjoying ice cream cones |
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| awesome treehouse at Ivy's aunt & uncle's house |
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| inside of treehouse |
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| Maggie on the "baby zip-line" |
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| tire swing! (can you tell the kids stayed busy?!) |
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| a rousing game of Chutes & Ladders |
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| Kathy & Paul's little girl, Maria, celebrated her 1st birthday during our stay |
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| Maria, Kathy, and Archer |
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| Ivy and Drake (9 months old) | |
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| giant, shady sandbox |
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| all of the kids (l-r): Lilly, Maggie, Henry, Emily, Maria, Drake, and Archer |
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| the whole gang (l-r): Paul, Maria, Kathy, Lilly, Will, me, Maggie & Emily, Brandon, Henry, Jessica, Archer, Ivy, Drake...so cool to be able to all get together again!! |
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| after leaving Mentone, we drove down to Rome, GA to visit Will's family...the girls LOVE aunt Katie! |
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| Maggie practicing her "stinky eye" |
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| Lilly being silly |
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| playground trip in Rome |
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| to top off a great trip, we made a trip into Atlanta to meet my parents at the Georgia Aquarium...it was so cool and the girls really loved it! |
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| Maggie at one of the "touch tanks" with Granddad |
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| popping up in the penguin exhibit |
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| These are called "striped garden eels" and they are so cool!! They are like little worms that live in the sand and poke their heads up and sway around. This was one of Maggie's favorite things at the aquarium. |
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| watching the eels |
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| more fish!! |
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| another one of Maggie's favorites...glowing jellyfish! |
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| they had a special frog exhibit on display |
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| does anyone else think this frog looks like Jabba the Hut? |
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| Lilly at one of the "touch tanks" |
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| beautiful starfish and sea stars in the touch tank |
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| my favorite thing about this picture is the look that the fish in the background is giving Maggie...click on the picture to enlarge it |
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