Showing posts with label Vacation. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Choo Choo, College Tours, and Memphis

Merry Christmas to me: Zach planned a whole little get-away to our favorite city of Chattanooga the night before we left for Memphis and Nashville. We stayed at the gorgeous Choo Choo Hotel downtown (it's an old railway station that has been converted into a hotel. It is so amazing!). And he totally proved that he listens by taking me to the Enchanted Garden of Lights at Rock City- I have been begging to do that!
At this point it was about 30 degrees and dropping by the minute.
(although you can't tell from what Zach is wearing)
This pic was actually taken at the end of the night and Aidan was so OVER it.

The whole thing was a lot of fun to walk through- they did a great job!


Aidan actually looking at the camera = success

Favorite picture of the night.


Whole family in front of the Fairy Land Caverns.
Aidan kept leaning to the left the whole night- my left shoulder started hurting!

On our way to Nashville Aidan started getting cranky = food time! So, we stopped off at the exit that MTSU is off of. So we figured we would make a mini-stop out of it and go see the campus and stadium.
Here it is~

In Nashville we stayed the night with Sherry and John and got to see Kathleen and Mickey. It was so good to see them since it has been TOO long since the last time!
Since Zach has a thing about seeing all of the SEC stadiums we had to drive by Vandy and check it out too. Aidan is starting the college tours early!
The stadium


Pretty cool wall mural on the way out of town.

Off to the FedEx Forum to see the Tigers play Corpus Christi on Monday night.

Before we went to the game, Emily, Ally, Zach and I went to Silky's on Beale Street where we met a nice man who has been sober for 19 months :-)
Also, Dear Morgan Freeman: (since he is an avid reader of the ZSDarling blog) can you please update your website to say that your restaurant on Beale Street has been closed for TWO YEARS??? We had great plans and had already checked out your menu- come to find out your restaurant no longer exists even thought the outside light was still on.

Emily and Ally at the game


Seriously Memphis? This is your performance going into Georgetown on Thursday?

Zach and I at the game.

Funniest thing I have seen in a while at the Tiger bookstore.
A pic of Calipari (the old coach at Memphis who totally jumped ship and went to Kentucky and never got even a slap on the wrist for all the crap he violated yet Memphis got all their wins taken away the year they went to the Finals- boo Calipari!)

Finishing out the college tour.
My mom and dad both went to Rhodes and played basketball there in Memphis.
Papa and Aidan in the Memphis Tiger gear- complete with a basketball rattle.

Memphis Christmas.

Nana and Aidan (his great-grandmother)

4 generations. Dad, Nana, Aidan, and me.

More Christmas

Modeling the new backpack/book. SO cute!


Puppy dog from the Andersons
(he slept with it the whole way home from Memphis)

Papa and Aidan

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Savannah Break

The last weekend I had off we went down to Savannah to see Hannah and Jake! It was so much fun- Aunt Hannah was a better mommy than I was because she was actually prepared with camera in hand to document Aidan's milestones!

On our way to the BEACH!


The boys happily waiting while we take Aidan down to the ocean for some "firsts"

First time in the ocean!
Oh yeah, he pretty much slept through all of the firsts.
There are some eyes!


First time in the sand

Still sleeping through the whole thing

Daddy trying to wake Aidan up- no chance.


I hope he smiles like this in his senior pictures!

Still perplexed....


Reading so soon?
I swear his eye color changes every day (sometimes blue, sometimes green, sometimes gray)

Worn out at the restaurant when we were eating

Daddy messing with Aidan

More messing-but he loves it

On River St. in Savannah

At Tybee

Sweet Melissa's pizza
Right across from Paula Dean's and it is amazingly tastey and amazingly big!

Almost the size of Aidan

Playing with Aunt Hannah

Laughing

Playing with Aunt Hannah some more

Laughing at Aunt Hannah
Can't wait until next year when we can actually all enjoy the beach when we go visit in the summertime! I know Aidan will love it!