Keith Knight

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Carson's Market Day Raffle

Throughout the school year, the students are able to accumulate school dollars.  Then they have a market day where each student has to hand make their own product, determine their marketing strategy and pricing and run their own little business. Carson decided to hold a raffle for a bird house

Georgia State Capitol Building and Atlanta City Hall

For Carson's Cub Scouts, we needed to visit a government office.  So we decided to visit the Capitol Building of Georgia and the City Hall of Atlanta.  It was fun walking around with Grandma and Grandpa Aksland.  The kids haven't seen many homeless people in their

Kennesaw Civil War Battlefield with the Grandparents

While Grandma & Grandpa Aksland were in town, we went to the Kennesaw Civil War Battlefield.  It was really weird to have it closed down due the to government shutdown.  They purposely made it as difficult as possible to look at a field, as though us looking at a field

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Testing Costumes for Halloween

Savannah loves dress-up, so Halloween is her holiday.  Here's one of her dress-ups:

Cagle's Pumpkin Patch, Canton, GA

We wanted to find a good pumpkin patch, but fell short.  We went to Cagle's Pumpkin Patch in Canton, GA.  We has reasonable low expectations, so it wasn't completely disappointing.  They just put pumpkins on the ground and the actual pumpkin fields were somewhere else.  They

Racing Down The Hill

The kids have found a new game: racing down the hills in our yard.  And yes, Savannah is wearing a ballerina outfit with Tu-Tu and all while playing out in the yard.

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Playing in the Rain

The kids love playing in the rain...

School Playground

We went to our elementary school playground with Grandma and Grandpa Aksland while they were here.  It has two short nature trails that we explored, then played on the play equipment.  Nice playground.

Georgia State Fair

Several weeks ago we went to the Georgia State Fair.  We had some home made ice cream and taffy.  We enjoyed the petting farm and liked climbing on the tractors that were for sale.  But the lines were really long for the rides, the tickets we purchased couldn't

Garage Sale Find

We had our neighborhood garage sale a few weeks ago.  So the kids and I visited some of the sales.  We each found something for a great price.  Mine was a very nice remote control car for $0.50.  They said it didn't work, but they had purchased

Halloween

This is at our church 'Trunk or Treat' activity. This is Halloween night in our neighborhood. Very differnt houses here compared to our Sparks neighborhood!

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Quotable Tucker

Tucker was telling me about his day.  He said that he and his friend wanted to play with another boy.  So Tucker suggested that they pray that they could play with him, which they did. This morning, Tucker said, "I'm going to tell _____ (I forgot which boy&

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Quotable Savannah

We were about to go to the Mall of Georgia when I asked Savannah if she wanted to go to the mall.  She said, "No.  I want to go to Home Depot." The next week, I asked her if she wanted to go to the sporting goods store.

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Turning Three -- Happy Birthday Savannah

Savannah is officially three!  We celebrated her birthday this week with cupcakes and presents.  We appreciate the gifts from grandparents and cousins.  She has loved all of them. Carson planned the birthday party (which helped him achieve a Cub Scout badge).  Carson created a ring-toss game and he made up

Playing in the Rain

On thing there hasn't been a shortage of: rain.  For our first couple of months here, it rained everyday.   After the East Cobber Parade, the kids played in the rain.

East Cobber Parade

We live in the heart of East Cobb, so we couldn't miss the East Cobber Parade.  It was a few blocks from our house, starting at the boys' elementary school and ending by my office (which is also very close to where we live).  It started with

Building Bird Houses

The kids and I (yes, even Savannah) built a bird feeder and bird house.  Tucker received a really nice toolset for his birthday, so we used his tools.  It took a few days, but the birds have been eating from the feeder.

Daddy Daughter Day

I took the day off of work about a week ago and spent the day with Savannah. We had breakfast together, then went to the store and looked at toys and dresses.  She loved the flowers, so we bought some flowers and stopped in the make-up area and bought some

Our Pet Spider

Angela found a good sized spider on one of our bushes.  It quickly became our pet and we checked on it a couple of times a day.  It made a pretty impressive web, then a couple of days later it poured rain for hours.  We never saw the spider again.

Master Pipefitter Kids

We bought some 2" PVC pipes from Home Depot and a lot of connectors.  Then cut it to various lengths and let the kids play.  Here are some things they've come up with.

Date Night at Peter Chang's Tasty China 2

We had heard good things about Peter Chang's Tasty China 2 in Atlanta, so we decided to try it out.  The area was beautiful and part of the restaurant was directly on top of a pond.  It appeared to be very authentic Chinese food, although they had an

All Dressed For Church

Savannah is growing up so quickly.  She loves to dress up.  These pictures were taken right before we headed to church. I got a new edger so we could have nice crisp lines of grass along our driveway and sidewalks. Everyday we are amazed by the beauty of our neighborhood

Exploring the Orchards in Ellijay, GA

We drove up to Ellijay, GA and explored a bit.  We ended up at R&A Orchards.  While there we rode on a trailer behind a tractor through the orchards, picked our own apples, and had some goodies.  The area was beautiful and it was nice to get away

Knights at Medieval Times

When we found at that there was a Medieval Times here, we decided that we needed to go.  It didn't hurt that in a few weeks Savannah will require her own ticket and tickets were on sale for the weekend. The green knight rode for us and won

Our Pet Bird

A young bird flew into our house.  So we caught it and after watching it for a little while, we released it outside.