David Goes Corporate

Our family has suddenly become a fan of Coke products, not because we like them, but because David is a new intern at Coke's HQ. He began on Monday. So far, it's been meetings every day. He works in the department called "Information Security and Regulatory Compliance". Really. He will be getting class credit for two semesters as well as a paycheck.

He reports that all drink vending machines in the building are filled only with Coke products and all drinks are free. There is even an online map showing which drinks are stocked in which vending machines, just in case your fave drink is one of the more obscure ones and only one machine has it. It's a nice perk, but he sticks with Dasani bottled water.

Happy Wedding Day

The new Mr. and Mrs.

All the attendants with the newlyweds.

First dance.

Father-Daughter dance.

The wedding cake: Greta made the ceramic figurine as a cake topper, but it turned out to be too heavy for the cake. At the last moment we added hydrangeas as a topper and the ceramic piece became a table decoration.

A close-up view of the cake topper.

The groom's cake was a surprise for Daniel. We asked a friend to make it to fit the keyboard cover of a real piano. It was so realistic that most people thought it really was the keyboard.

Cutting the cake


The bride's bouquet.

The guests are ready and waiting for the newlyweds to run through the rice.

Daniel is carrying a handful of chocolate coins to toss back at the guests as they reach the car. Greta got this idea from watching Jane Austen movies.

To see more pictures of the wedding, go here.

Spring Explosion of Color

I wish I could keep all our blossoming shrubs just as they are for the next month, until the wedding. So much is in bloom right now and after such a cold winter, it is a real treat to see the beautiful colors.

Azaleas in white and many shades of pink...

Monet's iris, Chinese Fringe, dianthus,

redbuds, dogwoods, and cherry, all in pink.

Easter

After church on Easter Sunday we enjoyed a houseful of guests and dinner on the patio in the beautiful sunshine. Later, Luke really got into the business of hunting for eggs and it didn't take him long to discover TREATS inside the eggs.We also were treated to a mini concert of a capella hymns sung in three-part harmony by the Street family. Beautiful!

Our Human Vacuum

We find it hard to keep the floor clean enough for Patrick. Anything he finds on the floor, he eats. Ick!

It's very odd that he enjoys floor dirt so much because he won't touch jar baby food. Cheerios? Sort of ok, but he gags on them. Tiny dices of banana? Sometimes acceptable, if he's in the right mood. Miniature chunks of strawberries? Maybe, if it's Thursday. But lint, dead bugs, paper scraps, or dead leaves? Bring 'em on with a shovel!

New York

Yep, I'm still alive, although you wouldn't know it by seeing how little I post on here.

A few weeks ago a group of 15 people from Student Government went to New York for a Student Government conference. We were ready to brave the apparently record snowfalls for the weekend as we left early Friday morning.

15 minutes after taking off, we checked our emails to find out that the conference was canceled because of snow. Now, we live in Atlanta, and are used to 1" of snow shutting down the city for a day or two. One would imagine that New York could survive 24" of snow just fine - but apparently not.

As we approached New York, we found out that the airport was closed and ended up landing in Baltimore to sit on the plane for a while. They let people off but warned us not to go far because they would leave the moment they were able to. Unfortunately for the only passenger that did get off, he did not make it back in time to get on the plane. Oops!

We spent Friday and Saturday splitting up into groups to go see all the sights. I was able to check off most of the "big" ones, except for the Statue of Liberty which we only saw from a distance.

A few guys and I decided it was too expensive to sleep in New York, so we spent all night Saturday night walking across the city, going from Central Park to Lower Manhattan, to the U.N., back to Central Park, Times Square, and eventually the hotel to get an hour of sleep. 16 miles of walking from about 4pm to 6am!

Despite the conference being canceled, we all had a good time and hope to actually go to a conference next year!

Look at Me!

This little guy can really chatter now. We think we hear some real words but we're not certain. He also plays happily by himself and pulls up to stand.