Pearl E. White Strikes Again

While we were in Atlanta last night, Kinsey lost her second tooth. She called to tell us and made it known that she REALLY hoped the tooth fairy would make a scavenger hunt for her like someone she knew. Pearl came through and took Kinsey on a coin-filled journey through the house which made for a fun morning before church. Also note-worthy was that Kinsey brought both Jack and I breakfast in bed this morning, and occurrence that has never happened before, but that I definitely could get used to! :)

Chicken Dance

Tonight was the annual Night of Knights dinner and concert that the National Poultry Federation puts on. The guest of honor this year was Clint Black, one of my old country music favorites. He still puts on a wonderful show and Jack and I had a big time in the big ATL with our great friends!

FSF #2

So, you can definitely tell that school has started back and that I have NOT quite yet learned to manage my time well enough to get my blog on! In addition to being tired and busy, there hasn't been a ton to blog about the past two weeks. It wouldn't have been too excited to blog about the broken washing machine and the dead dishwasher either! :P

This weekend was exciting and fun, though. Kinsey had another horse show, again at Four Seasons Farm in Madison, where her last one was. With a LITTLE luck and a nice judge, she ended up Reserve Championing her class and also coming out with a blue in the next division up! Just two more shows until the big one at the International Horse Park!!!

Townsends Take Over Keowee

What a beautiful weekend it was to get together with my mom's side of the family with the special chance for many to meet the newest family member, Penson (I can't believe I don't even have one picture of the guest of honor!) We all had fun in the sun swimming, skiing, tubing, hot dogging, boating, floating, eating, laughing and remembering old times!

B2S 2011

There was definitely excitement in the air as the kids headed off for school this morning. Kinsey hopped on the bus at 6:50 while Max decided he was a big boy and wanted to walk himself into his first day at preschool!

(Footnote: His tough guy attitude apparently wore off around lunch time, when he decided he missed his mommy and shed a few tears!)

GWL2011

The kids had a "howling" good time at the Great Wolf Lodge again with cousin Thomas, Nanny and Papadad.

Go Big! Go Six Flags!

The kids left for their annual trip to Great Wolf Lodge and for my last day of summer sans kids, I decided on a whim to go with two co-workers to Six Flags. Heat index of 105 didn't stop us from riding the big thrillers like Goliath, Acrophobia, Batman, Superman and of course the old standard Scream Machine. I have to admit, though, I was totally beat and a bit queezy the rest of the night after we got home! Stinks getting old! ;)

Silly Girls

After we got home from our camping trip, Kinsey had another sleepover, but this time at sweet Maddie's house. Maddie has four brothers and these two girls had a ball dressing up in the boys' football uniforms!

Stone Mountain 2011

One of our fav camp spots of last year was Stone Mountain and since we enjoy going there in the summer, for the Pumpkin Festival, and the Christmas Festival, we decided to get the annual membership again this year and make another go of camping. The campground is nice and quiet/wooded, had a nice pool and best of all has a shuttle that you can catch to all the attractions day or night. We had a busy fun weekend of SkyHike, putt-putt, swimming, grilling out and roasting marshmallows, Laser show #2, riding the Duck Boat, picnicking at the bottom of the mountain and riding the Sky Lift to the top of the mountain.

Today is laundry day and packing the kids up for the annual Nanny and Papadad trip to the Great Wolf Lodge this week and of course mentally preparing myself for BACK TO SCHOOL on Thursday--AGH!