Our Town

We are moving next month. We bought a cute house about 40 minutes from where we live now.

I love the town we live in now. One of my friends referred to it as Mayberry. After living and working here for 5 years, I am familiar with most people that walk down the street- if not by name, definately by sight. If we had an extra 700K lying around, and about 13K in taxes, we'd stay.

This is where we brought Madeline home. This is where she screamed for hours on end, our nice neighbors telling(lying to) us they never heard a thing. This is where I stayed up at night, rocking my beautiful tiny daughter in my arms, looking out the window at the snow falling. This is where we celebrated her first Easter, Father's Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, her first smile, word, laugh and steps. This is the place we became a family of three.

I've been trying to capture some of our favorite local spots on film. Every morning I take her for a walk, where she says " Hi. Hi. HI. " to all the birds, roars like a lion at the lion statue in front of someone's house, and excitedly scans the street for a sprinkler to run through. Usually we end up at the grocery store because I forgot to buy something the last time I was at the store( the day before), but on the way back, we'll stop at the park. It has a gazebo in which to run back and forth , benches to sit on, and other people and woofs( dogs). Here are some pictures from this morning.

YAY! We're at the park !

Through the gazebo, Take One

On Bird Alert- 24 hours a day

"I'm just gonna sit a minute, OK, Mom?"

And here's a close up of those choppers I've been hearing so much about. At 4am. Every night. Poor monkey