Dancing Queen

Alaina loves to dance. She has started really dancing with her arms more recently and I tried to capture it on the way home from the pool today. 

She was exhausted but it was still really cute.

Games

I have loved spending more time with Alaina the past few days (now that I'm on summer vacation... woohoo). Yesterday I got out a game to play with her, Chairs. The object of the game is to stack as many of the chair pieces as you can without knocking the stack over. She is still a little young, but she really enjoyed trying to stack and line up the chairs. 

Another Concert on the Green

Yesterday, Harry, Alaina, and I met Joanne and Gary in Davidson for our second Concert on the Green this season. The was a Big Band playing a lot of different music and we really enjoyed the weather, picnic, and the company.

This is how we roll... literally. We load up the wagon with all of our picnic items, including Alaina, and stroll to The Green.

Alaina enjoying the music.

 Alaina played the diva and had Joanne fanning her to cool off.

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful fathers out there... including these guys!

Harry and Alaina

Father's Day 2012 - Davidson's Concert on the Green

My Dad, Wayne, along with my grandma, me, Martha, and Clay

Niagara Falls -around 1986?

Harry's Dad, Hugh, along with Laura and Harry

"The Beach" - around 1986?

Hiking and Splashing

Today, Harry, Alaina, and I went hiking at Lake Norman State Park. It was a beautiful day and we really enjoyed ourselves.

Harry carried Alaina on the hike and I carried most of our other supplies in our hiking pack. 

Our family picture.

Alaina fell asleep during our hike and ended up in some uncomfortable positions. 

 

After our hike, we had a picnic in the park. 

Finally, to end the day, we went to dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, Eez in Birkdale. After dinner Alaina played in the fountain and had a wonderful time!

Anniversary Weekend

On Friday, Harry and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary. It was also my last day of school... talk about an awesome day!

This is us, 9 years ago, in St. John on Honeymoon Beach.

We celebrated on Friday by taking Alaina to the pool. Then, Saturday night Harry's parents came up to babysit Alaina so we could see a movie and get dinner. It was wonderful. We saw the Avengers (loved it!) and ate dinner at 131 Main.

Harry knows me all too well and got us this delicious cake from La Patisserie in Mooresville for dessert.

On Sunday, we met a lot of our friends in Davidson to see Band of Oz at Concert on the Green. Alaina had a ton of fun dancing to the music and eating picnic style. We will absolutely have to do this again!

We somehow made it though the entire weekend without getting a picture of Harry and me together. Rest assured, we are as beautiful, young, and thin as we were 9 years ago when we were married.

A Family Weekend

This past weekend Harry, Alaina, and I went to Fayetteville to celebrate my niece and nephew's birthday. Alex is now 3 and Madison will be 7 this year. The whole family was together for the first time in over 2 years. We had a wonderful time celebrating birthdays and being together. Hopefully it won't be 2 more years before we are all together again.

 

Bottom Row - Me, Alaina, Luke, Madison, Alex, Karen, and Weston

Middle Row - Harry, Dad, Mom, and Clay

Top Row - Edward and Martha

The Cousins

Madison, Alex, Weston, Alaina, and Luke

The Pool

Alaina is, without question, a water baby. She loved the beach and she loves pools. Yesterday she swam and played in my sister and brother-in-law's pool and today she played at our community pool. This was our first visit to the pool and she really enjoyed herself.