John Tanner State Park cont....

Oops, I guess not all the photos got attached, here's the rest!

       

John Tanner State Park

When my parents came to Georgia to help us move, we had a few days to have some fun!! So one afternoon we went to a State park near our house and had a great time! We had no idea Oliver would love it as much as he did. He really loved to play in the sand and I didn't think he would like the water, but I had to practically keep him jumping in it! It was great relaxing and playing and eating with my parents!
       

Our Baby turned ONE!!!

Well it was little Oli's Birthday at the beginning of August! He turned 1! I can't believe he is that old already. Time flies when you're losing sleep. ha/ha. Since we had just arrived in Mass. on his birthday, we really didn't do much of anything by way of celebration, so I thought I should do a little "year in the life" tribute of Oliver. There is a picture for each month so far, plus a few extras! (The 1st bunch is Oliver 0-6 months old and the second group is 6-12 months.)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!!!

That Bad?

Yesterday morning I looked out the window and what did I see? It wasn't popcorn popping on the apricot tree! It was someone in a reflector vest picking up trash for me! Shocking at first, but after I thought, "Alright!" You know how sometimes they have prisoners pick up trash along the highways and around town. We use to see them all the time in Georgia picking up trash and litter making things look better. Well apparently our neighborhood is that GROSS. It's pretty bad when the city has to bring people into residential areas to pick up trash. Luckily it was not actually prisoners, (don't worry Lee) it looked like a bunch of juvy teenagers probably working off community service hours, but still. I have to admit there was a lot of trash on the streets and the road sides by us and it does look a lot better (although sadly they probably only got half of it out there.) I had been thinking I could invest in one of those trash grabbers (stick thing with the claw on the end) so that while I was out letting Oliver walk around outside I could pick up some trash as we went, but hey I guess now I don't have to! It's the little things that count. So I guess I should say a big "Thank You" to those boys. Wow, Worcester is getting better already.

We made it!

Well its been awhile, because my parents came to Georgia to help us move to Massachusetts, and then we have been moving. So in the midst of moving/family fun there hasn't been much time for blogging. But we made it to Massachusetts only to find that we apparently live in the ghetto and we are paying a ridiculous amount of money in rent for a really old apt that has super creepy closets (pictures later.) So needless to say conditions aren't ideal and we are looking for a new place. So we are living out of boxes for the next month while we find somewhere else to live. So we spend everyday wandering around a huge city looking for places to live, that is when we aren't getting lost. I think we have already worn out our first map from all the navigating. I think Oliver may never like the car again after our 3 day trip to MA and then spending every day since basically looking for a new place to live. A baby's dream. And I think we also moved to the ugliest city in the world! Zack and I were joking that Worcester (town we are now in) is our idea of what spirit prison would be like- creepy, dirty, and just plain ugly. But we are here and I'm sure we will find the silver lining soon. But I will get more pictures and updates with about our trip soon.

Stay posted.