Fake snow in the cold isn't very fun

Here in Atlanta we have an outdoor live/work/play community called Atlantic Station (for my Ohio contingency that reads this it's very much like Easton, but with more condos on top of the stores). I read that on the weekends at 6 they produce fake snow around their huge Christmas tree. Well, I got the idea that we were going to go so Jake could see snow. This required Adam leaving work at 4:30 so we could beat rush hour, me feeding Jake early and putting him down for his afternoon nap a little earlier. . . you see the planning that went into this. So we get down there at 5:45 and it's pretty dark and it's maybe 42 outside. Pretty cold by my standards and I'm just worried about trying to keep Jake warm. To amuse ourselves for a bit we keep passing Jake back and forth and taking pictures in front of the ginormous tree and showing Jake the lights. Six finally rolls around and nothing. . .then, one snow machine that's attached to a light post comes on for like 30 seconds. I asked the security guard if that was it-he just shrugged his shoulders. So about 10 freezing minutes later 3 other snow machines come on. Mind you, I'm looking around and in the area that we are in there are probably 15+ snow machines, but they decide to turn on 3. There were so many kids that rushed where the fake snow was falling we couldn't even get close to get a picture with Jake. Needless to say we were both disappointed and now we are hoping for snow even more when we're in Ohio for Christmas. We did get a pretty good laugh about how much we talked about it and planned and it was such a bust, one of those things I guess we'll look back on later and laugh even more.

Here are the pictures from tonight--I know everything I've ever posted on here has been on Kodak but they have frustrated me for the last time--I have officially switched to snapfish. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Ma Ma!

I just had to post this:-) Sorry if you get sick of my kid!

He's a travelin' man!

This time instead of a road trip for Mommy and Jake it was a plane ride for the whole family! He was fantastic:-) If I can brag for a moment, he was so good on the plane, when we landed in Dayton I had 3 people that were seated around us stop me and tell me how well behaved he was. It helped that it wasn't a full flight and we had an extra seat for him, but hey, whatever works. He spent the majority of the flight putting the arm rest up and down, and then he had a snack, pictured here with Daddy.


Thanksgiving was awesome. I'm so glad I got to spend more time with Grandma. Jake even had a little turkey and mashed potatoes to celebrate the day (pictures from the trip here). It snowed in Ohio but not enough to take a picture of it. (Maybe we'll get a picture of Jake in the snow this weekend, since there is a chance of snow here in GA!!). We even put up my Grandma's Christmas tree for her which she wanted a big one for Jake's first Christmas. Grandma hasn't had a big tree in forever, I don't EVER remember her having a big tree, so this year she as a 6' for baby Jake. While we had an awesome visit, it is always good to be back home. I don't know what it is about Jake and traveling, every time we do it he hits another milestone. When we traveled in May he rolled over, in August he cut 2 teeth, after Ohio in October we came home and he started crawling, in North Carolina he said Da Da, and this time he said Ma Ma and then when we came home he took off up the steps! Crap! Baby gates all over. . .