Piedmont Park

On one of the first warm days of the year we decided to go explore Piedmont Park in Atlanta. You could think of Piedmont Park like New York's Central Park. It's a really great area, right in the middle of Atlanta; and it's just a couple blocks from my work!

My building is the one with the two thin points, I heard someone describe it as “the building with Batman ears”, I guess that works.

Kickball leagues were happening. It looked fun.

These awesome stairs lead up into the Botanical Gardens. I bet the park and gardens were totally awesome when they were all opened to each other.

They had this great area for dogs to be off the leash, they had a big and small dog section even. It was totally fun to watch all the dogs interact.

Here are some great views of what the park offers. Plenty of open lawn space, lots of paved walking paths, a couple lakes, and views of the city.

There was even this fun modern park for the little kids play in. I really liked the slide.
We were going to also go to the Botanical Gardens, but they closed early and we spent a lot more time wandering Piedmont Park than we thought. So it’s still on our list.

Snow Day!

On February 12th, it started snowing in Georgia. The next morning we decided to wake up and see what it looked like, because we knew it would be melted by the afternoon.
It was quite pretty, and very icy still.

We loved all of the snowmen that the families built in our neighborhood. In Georgia you make due with what you get.

Deer in our back yard!

Early in January 2010 we had a few visitors. We were getting ready to get in the shower when we looked out the big picture window in the bathroom and saw 5 deer hanging out.

They started to figure out someone was watching them, and started stomping their hooves, I guess as some sort of intimidation tactic.

It was totally awesome to watch them for awhile. They eventually got bored and took off.

New Year’s Eve 2009

New Year’s Eve is always a tough holiday for me. Mostly because I never know of a good way to celebrate it, or maybe it’s just that nothing I do to celebrate it ever feel monumental enough. But I know I do enjoy hanging out with friends, so that’s a good way to start the year! This year we had the Nicolich clan, MacPherson bunch, and both boy and girl Chad Poole. We of course played Rock Band and did fireworks. Chad Poole is a maniac with the bottle rockets and the MacPherson’s like to do silly string.


Joe is such a rock star and Emily is super background dancer!


This picture is awesome because Emily is always this excited about everything, I love it!


Time to prepare for fireworks!

This is the moon behind smoke from the fireworks!


Emily is such a good sport!

Joe lights the fountains for me, I like those the best.


The silly string aftermath!

And then of course another round of Rock Band!