Tuesday, March 23, 2010

She's 1

Eating your first ice cream cone on your first b-day
I can't believe you are one today
This year has flown by
Last night I snuck into your room and watched you sleep
I stared at your beauty
I wished for your future
I gave thanks to Heavenly Father for you
I am blessed to be your mom
You are so delightful and
ALL girl
Your sisters adore you and it is so kind of you to let Lilly love/torture you (you never even cry)
Happy Birthday Sophia Jenee Hall
We love you very much!

Sunday, March 21, 2010

"Stay-cation"

We took our first 2010 Hall Family "Stay-cation" this weekend.

We wanted to go somewhere we had never been. Somewhere we could have a real cultural experience. We wanted to get outside of our comfort zone and try new things. SO, we headed down south to get ourselves of some good 'ol fashioned southern comfort food.



Our destination comes highly recommended.

This old country store comes chuck full of:
fun, food, wonderment, bric-a-bracs, curious folks, antique decor, and old time candy.

The girls dined on mac-n-cheese, chicken fingers, steak fries and were excited to see the special dessert: Chocolate Coca~Cola cake

Here's what you get when you ask for a light vinaigrette for your salad-do it yourself oil and vinegar (hmmm is that malt vinegar-why yes, yes it is)

Where else can you find a life size jawbreaker on a stick?

Or a bag of Chick-O-Sticks?

If you do go be sure to order the 1/2 LB hamburger with bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, smothered in ranch dressing without a bun found on their low-carb menu. Jim recommends the trout and the pulled pork sandwich with coleslaw was pretty tasty. Needless to say, we left feeling extremely comforted! We had such a fabulous time that the girls have already asked if we could do it again-
We'll see kids, we'll see. You know what they say about getting too much of a good thing . . .

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Random pic's I forgot to Blog

Another awesome morning bed head


BUBBLES!!!!! AHHHHH

First almost-spring afternoon walk


Kirsten and Lilly just being





Jim scoutin' it

finger paints- what a splendid idea for a 2 year old!

Jim gloved up getting ready to take the cooked turkey out of the
"Ronco -Set it and Forget it" Oven


Bowling for dollars



She was so proud of this outfit. How could I possibly tell her to change?


First Costco run when Sophia could finally sit in the cart-yeah!

All of us trying to fit in the Kia when the burb was being repaired.