grey celebrated his first birthday with a fun party! his cousins came down from chicago, which made it even more exciting. we had the gathering in our backyard, similar to clementine’s first birthday, although it was colder than expected. we had a bonfire to going to stay warm and made the most of it!

– ryan & gub

many years ago i decided that i wanted a piano in my house. i was alway envious of friends who had pianos growing up, so i thought it would be fun to have one for my kids. i looked around on craigslist and found lots of options, including many for free. i decided that i was fine investing a little money though, especially to get one in working order. low and behold i found a perfect match! i went with a 1950s piano that was owned by the same family since its original purchase. it looked and sounded great and fit perfectly in the house.

after many years of talking about it, i finally had the piano tuned this summer! i did a little google searching and found piano tuning atlanta by charity, who was awesome to say the least! charity came out and was able to get the piano tuned within a couple of hours. she also showed me the inner workings of my piano and answered questions i had, which was an added bonus. now the piano sounds beautiful, hopefully i will start playing it more!

if you find yourself looking for a piano tuner, i highly recommend piano tuning atlanta by charity!

– ryan

piano tuning atlanta by charity – 770-876-7340

clementine and grey like to sit on our front doorstep, it’s so cute! don’t they both have the most beautiful blue eyes?

– ryan & gub

we never thought we’d be the family driving around with dvd players on the backs of our headrests, however after going on a long road trip with the kids, we’ve learned they can be a life saver. we’re not promoting using such players for everyday use, but they definitely do a great job at grabbing your child’s attention during travels.

we purchased our sylvania dual-screen dvd player from walmart before a recent road trip to virginia. it was around $70 but totally worth the money in our opinion! one of the screens has the main controls/player which then connects to the other screen. we were concerned the cords would not reach across our car, since one carseat faces the front and one faces the back, but luckily they were long enough.

so yeah, we’ve totally become that family! if you have kids and are headed on a long road trip, we highly recommend investing in one of these players and not feeling bad about it!

– ryan & gub

we recently took the kiddos on another camping adventure with some friends! we headed to lake winfield scott recreation area, which was about two hours north of atlanta. the group camp site was super nice and had plenty of room for our crew. the restrooms were clean and close, which was a huge plus, and we could pull right up to our camp site.

we really liked fort mountain state park, but the hike in to the group site was pretty strenuous for our first family camping trip. not to mention the bear siting and the outhouse!

we pretty much just stuck around the camp site during our outing. others went swimming at the lake, however it was so peaceful around the campfire with the kids napping, we decided to stick around.

i would say we got a lot better at packing and organizing for this camping trip. it’s hard to tell what you will definitely need for kid-friendly camping on your first outing, so we ended up bringing way too much last time.

we cooked group meals on this trip, which made it easy only having to plan for a couple meals versus the entire weekend. it was nice having an evening where you did not have to deal with cooking!

although we will most likely continue trying out other campgrounds, we would definitely head back to lake winfield scott!

– ryan & gub

lake winfield scott recreation area

lake winfield scott road
suches, georgia 30572
706-754-6221

we were able to keep grey and clementine on our glider long enough for some photos. the results were adorable!

– ryan & gub

grey had some fun playing around in the dirty laundry the other day! i couldn’t resist taking photos!

– ryan & gub

sorry for the lack of blog posts recently. we’ve been super swamped but hope to have lots of updates soon. in the meantime, here are some recent photos of clementine’s beautiful blue eyes!

– ryan & gub

i recently came across some photos of grey and his blabla friend hanging in his crib! they are similar to the cute photos of clem and the gang when she was a baby.

here are some other blabla photos with the kids.

– ryan & gub

from our instagram feed!

– ryan & gub