Bathing Beauty.

There are no words to express how excited we are about this picture....enjoy.

At the beach...

Miss Prissy Pants

Grandma & Grandpa
The Cousins
My mom and Piper

Here are some pics of us at the beach! We are loving our time with our family.

where has the summer gone?

Piper's house; she prefers the door to hinge off of the table and not the couch; this has caused a lot of minutes of patient communicating and trying to understand her ideas about construction.

Piper's (and Phil's) favorite part of the day.
Piper loves to cook and "taste" except now she'll ever so politely say, "Mommy, i don't like it" or "It's spicy" (even if it's not).


it's been awhile! partially b/c i've been travelling for the past 16 days straight and am so glad to be home. i really feel at home here and love that; especially since, it's been less than a year that we've lived here. i was driving in at 2:30 a.m. on tuesday morning with piper asleep in the back seat and anne beside me and was so happy to be "home." i will try to update you over the next few days on the last couple of weeks. to sum up: i've been at Saranac in New York for 8 days with high school kids. I went home to celebrate the life of my grandpa at his funeral for a few days and then, flew with my sisters and Piper to see my Grandpa Cushing in New Hampshire. so you will begin to see pictures of all of that over the next few entries, as well as some "summer fun" pics. enjoy!

The littlest viking.

So i'm not very good at this blogging thing b/c i do like six in one day. Oh well. I'm catching you up on our lives. Phil had Gladiator Games at camp last night so this morning Piper found a helmet sitting on the floor in the living room. These pictures are all her doing. And I love it.

David Thomas.

This is Piper's best friend right now! As you can see, they love doing eveything together but sleeping in the same bed will have to stop in a couple of years. These are pictures of us playing at his house.

Myrtle Beach- a girls' trip.

When i think of Myrtle Beach, I think of air brushed tees, piers, interesting tourists and bikers, of course. Well, Piper and I drove from Asheville to Gwinnett for high school graduation and to see some of our friends (so fun staying with the Buie's again!). Then, we hit the road for what turned into a 7 hour 45 minute trip to MB with my college roomates. What I didn't realize is that: 1. the DVD player that I swore I would never get would be my saving grace, 2. that I-26 is not the same as I-20 and will not get me to MB but will instead take me to Charleston and 3. that most of the traffic would come from bikers b/c YES, it was black biker weekend. We had a really fun time and Piper loved swimming and playing with Adam, Louise's son, who was born on the same day as Piper! I'll be putting up some sets of pictures as i get them.

Piper's Party!

Here are some pictures of Piper's 2nd birthday at the park! We had cupcakes and pink ice cream!