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hey, we're the ballards! kevin, annie, rhet, and i are loving the southern life here in atlanta, georgia. kevin has a great job as a busy orthopedic physician assistant and i have put my speech-language pathology career on hold for now so i can be at home with my little miss and little man. enjoy our blog, ya'll!

July 29, 2011

nothing says bernhisel reunion like...

sleep deprivation and a round robin of vomiting.
fortunately for us, however, the sleep deprivation part came as a result of small-town parades, birthday bashes, hikes, alpine slides, late night funny videos, a zoo trip, failed fireworks, sprints down the driveway, and much much more.


thanks for coming to see us uncle benj!




grandma and grandpa great with all the kiddos





pizza always tastes better shirtless.



unfortunately for us...nothing good came out of the vomiting part.

July 12, 2011

here's that optimism you've been waiting for

top 10:
10) this girl eats about anything...
including olives previously dipped in her ears

9) grandma and grandpa ballard came to visit!
8) grandma and grandpa ballard came to visit!


7) grandma and grandpa ballard came to visit!

6) grandma and grandpa ballard came to visit!


5) grandpa ballard bought little miss a turtle from the aquarium and she has not stopped saying "turtle" since. you just have to hear this girl say "turtle" and it would be on your top ten as well.
4) kevin graduated!

3) kevin graduated!

2) annie survived the ceremonies! and got a little crazy...


1) kevin got a job and we're going to.....
ATLANTA, GA!!!!!!!
that's right ya'll.

June 15, 2011

not top 10

10. little miss can now unscrew lids. i guess no more clorox and toilet cleaners for toys.
9. kevin has wanted a pair of "chill" athletic shoes for quite sometime now, so
with a pocketful of graduation money, we hit the mall. we went to dick's and immediately he fell in love with this one pair of nike shoes. he was ooing and ahhing and asked one employee if he could get him a size 10. the guy looks at kevin and says
"dude, those are lady shoes". i laughed. a lot.
8. the only pictures i seem to capture of little miss these days are extreme close ups seconds before she mauls the camera or of her running away so i can't take one of her. and her thinking she is so funny.

7. at church last week, kevin got up to take annie out (who was being quite loud)
and his whole bum was wet. and he didn't know it. i was laughing too hard
to say anything to him before he was out of whispering reach and then he was gone.
i'm sure fellow congregants were wondering about his incontinence status.
annie had been playing with wipes and left them on the bench,
only to be sat upon by kevin unknowingly.
6. linus, i mean, annie refuses to separate from her blanket, or her "nee-nee" as she calls it. this picture doesn't do the filth and blackness justice. i either have to secretly wash her blanket while she is distracted or have her watch her blanket in the washer until she gets bored.

5. i wanted to make little miss a dress for kev's graduation this saturday, so i did. the only problem was the pattern only went to a 12 mo. size so i improvised and did my own measurements for an 18 mo. size. it is gigantic on her and won't work. it took a lot of time and now she'll just have to wear something already in her closet. terrible, i know.

4. annie prefers dog and cat food to human food. at least it's filled with fiber.


3. speaking of incontinence...annie did a little naked escape after her bath and came and plopped her little cheeks right in my lap. not 2 seconds later i felt wet and warm. thanks, girl.


2. annie just discovered walter the farting dog. enough said.

1. kevin ran over lucy with the car and she's still alive. i'll let you determine which part of that statement qualifies this for a "NOT top 10".


stay tuned for a little optimism. next week: "top 10"

May 29, 2011

we're number one!



or maybe that's just how old one of us is...




RoboCop anyone?

only a grandma would use up her pretty packaging tape
to appease the naggings of a 16 month old.



go ahead. try not to smile at that cute face...
and smile at annie's while you're at it. just kidding.

i made this dress for little miss a while ago and
finally got somewhat of a decent picture of it.

April 25, 2011

happy easter!



April 24, 2011

silence is....

lonely.
for 2 months now annie has had live-in, or visiting entertainment just down the hall and a knock away. now its just me. we'll see if i can compete with the playful, doting, at-her-beck-and-call cousins.



we miss you, bubs!

having fun at busch gardens!




while it is nice that she now has a room and bed to call her own, we would much prefer a bathing-swimming-eating-riding-playing friend to be around.

April 6, 2011

a little tylenol, motrin, amoxicillin...

...and grandma