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4-16-11

Dear Neighborhood Squirrels,

My children and I had a fabulous morning on Monday planting yellow Celosia and red Joseph's coat in the planters around the house. We didn't bury any nuts. Get the hell out of the planters. .

Sincerely,
Me


So, we took a little family trip to Auburn for A Day over the weekend, and, despite Ben being a little cranky over the change of schedule and me being a little cranky over the "disgusting" hotel, we had a blast!

The children seemed to think the hotel was great. My position is this: I will never stay at another Hometowne Suites again as long as I live, and I will disown you, my family and friends, if you patronize them. I love that they bill themselves on their website as a Christian organization. If you want the spill on what happened, just ask. They are not worthy of any more of my blog space. It was sleepable. Period.




(Remember, backwards pictures.....laziness)

We, of course, dined in style ;) at Niffers. You just can't go wrong. It was definitely a silly supper.








I have to comment separately on this picture of Alya. She completely grew up this weekend. We got in the van Saturday morning, and she was still a tiny little girl....and when we arrived in Auburn, she'd changed....during the drive. I swear. She just seems kind of.....mature....as mature as a 4 year old can be. She was soooo sweet and had such a fun time. She was skipping along all day and laughing and just happy to be in Auburn. I think she knows....I think she sees the future and she knows how much fun vet school at AU is going to be :) This picture just caught it...



The two had a BLAST in the new arena. It is phenomenal! Can't wait to take them to their first AU basketball game!





More AU fun:







On another note, I am convinced that my children are the greatest children in the world. However, I am also logical....and I am aware that there are smarter children, children who are more talented at this or that, etc. Okay, fine, such is the world. It doesn't matter, because my two will always be the greatest in the world to me. However, I am convinced that Ben (and potentially Alya) are genius photographers.....Now, we've struggled with a super blurry lens because we just let them loose with the little Sony Cybershot. We get finger marks. It makes for blurry photos....but Ben has an eye for composition...and we think Alya may as well, it is just hard to judge b.c he takes a majority of the photos.

Here are just a few of what came off the Sony when I downloaded the Auburn shots.







I can't believe all of you weren't losing your minds over all of the cute kid pictures in the last post.

Comments, people, comments....if you think it, type it. Just saying ;)