Giving Thanks.

Believe it or not, Matt & I hosted Thanksgiving in our new home this year with the entire Roughen clan.  The weather cooperated nicely and we had a great time eating, relaxing, and keeping Tripp entertained.  Below are some photos from the week's events.

Grammy, Pops & Dad help Tripp eat his dinner.

Dad, Uncle Daniel & Aunt Whitney decorate Tripp with Goldfish

Using a cool Koozie from Dogwood Festival to keep my WaWa cool.

Reading our favorite book with Uncle Daniel

A requisite pre-feast photo of the table - Set & ready to go

"The Smoked Bird"
Compliments of the smoker at Fox Bros BBQ

Turkey Tripp, enjoying a late post-nap lunch

The whole Roughen clan
Bottom Row:  Pops, Tripp, Grammy & John
Back Row:  Matt & Meg, Daniel & Whitney

Turkey Tripp & Mom

Hoping that you and yours enjoyed lots of family fun, Turkey, and good weather wherever you are.  Lots to be thankful for in 2012!  Now onto Christmas!
XOXO
Meg

Gobble Gobble.

Happy Turkey Day to you and yours!
Meg

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Welcome Hamp & Walker Ferguson!

Just a quick blog post to welcome to the world our one-week old twin nephews!

Hampton Rollins Ferguson (Hamp) & Walker Hill Ferguson (Walker) were born on Wednesday, November 14th and I was coincidentally in Birmingham for work and got to meet their sweet selves on Thursday night, November 15th (also my own dad, Papa Ferguson's birthday). 

Below is a photo of the two munchkins, both of whom weighed in at over 6 lbs!   I'm not sure which is which, so I won't try to caption the photo in order from left to right... but, the verdict is in .... and two is, indeed, better than one.  Wait... what?

Happy Turkey-Eve!
Meg

Mismatched Misfit Monday

Have a great week!

Meg

GT Homecoming & the Wreck Parade 2012

This year, for Georgia Tech homecoming, we got together with some of our buds at the 2012 Wreck Parade at 8 am on game day Saturday.  Matt and his college buds have never been.  Surprisingly, none of them were EVER awake at 8 am on ANY day in college, unless they were "playing through."... but I digress.

Below are some photos from a very fun morning with the Clarks and Woolleys!  Go Jackets (they lost to BYU, for the record, but we had fun nonetheless).

The GT Wreck
(The band also marched by playing some song about drinking whiskey
but unfortunately, I did not snap a picture of them)

Hudson & Tripp, who are a mere 2 weeks apart
Fun times ahead for these boys!

... in their matching red Keds.

Lily Brooks & daddy, Charles

Casey & Hudson

Chaos at the Wreck Parade!

From left:
Ryder (2 yrs), Charles & Lily Brooks (4 yrs) Woolley
Harris (4 yrs), Casey, and Hudson (17 mos) Clark
Matt & Tripp (17 mos) Roughen

Hudson challenging Ryder & Tripp to the first
of many games of corn-hole on the KA lawn.

Tripp and the KA homecoming display

Ryder & Tripp, testing the corn-hole equipment

Fun Saturday!  Too bad the Jackets couldn't pull out a W, but there's always next year.

Meg

Democracy

 

We did our part in Atlanta...

 

... now go do yours!

 

Meg

Daycare Update - November 2012

Just wanted to quickly share some recent daycare photos that I found to be fun and funny, at the same time!  Hope everyone had a great weekend & is ready for "Decision 2012."

An Artist...



... who eats paint!

We are OBSESSED with bugs.  Tripp will find a tiny little picture of a bug in a book, on a sign, on a package for a toy or product ---- or anywhere, and point to it convincingly while saying "Bug Bug Bug" until you acknowledge that yes, in fact, it is a bug.
 

His little classroom friendst at lunch time.  How cute!

Dancing with a friend.

A budding scientist.

Who, me?

And one last photo of Tripp and his mom from the "harvest parade" where all the kids dressed up and were led through the lobby of our building.  Coincidentally, Tripp and I matched in stripes, an observation I did not make until I saw our reflection in the glass doors leading into the daycare facility that morning.  Tripp's dad, on the other hand, noticed before we left home, but neglected to say anything.  Gee... thanks. :o)

Onto another week...
Meg

Happy Halloween!

From our little referee.

 

 

A Roughen Abode: Pine Hills Neighborhood

Another great thing about our new house is the neighborhood.  It is called Pine Hills, and is nestled in the southeast corner of Buckhead, among many tall, thin pine trees and rolling hills (hence the name...).

Everyone that we have met is very friendly and welcoming.  Many of our neighbors have school aged children, but some are young couples like us, just starting a family or thinking about it.

A great bonus is this great playground in the neighborhood that will certainly be a great place for Tripp to blow off some steam as he grows older.  There are swings and fun slides, and a separate section for toddlers, which is nice when there are lots of bigger (i.e. rougher) kids around.  Below are some photos from a recent visit to the park, where we checked out all the fun things to do there.

Shady Valley Park

Playing in the cool blue tunnel

Watching the "big kids" play in the "big kid" section

Playing in the jungle gym
(side note:  why do they call it that?)

Fun times in Shady Valley Park!  Looking forward to many more to come.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!  It is Georgia Tech homecoming, so stay tuned for photos from the Ramblin' Reck parade and other fun festivities.

Meg