Keith matched.

We found out today that we are moving to Des Moines, Iowa.  Keith will start his residency on June 18th.  We are so excited to explore a new city.

Girl Scout Smores

This past weekend Alex had a fun girl scouts activity put together by the Dunwoody Nature Center.  Alex and her friends had so much fun!  One of her favorite parts was making smores in the sun. 

I have never done this and it is such a cute idea.  The only materials they needed were:
cup, rocks (to keep the cup from flying away in the wind), paper, aluminum foil, graham crackers, marshmallows, chocolate.  The aluminum foil was placed over the paper and then folded like a funnel with the aluminum foil on in the inside of the funnel and taped at the bottom  Then the girls placed a graham cracker, marshmallow, and chocolate on top and waited for the chocolate to melt.  It really only took a few minutes before the chocolate was melted.

Here is Alex enjoying her yummy smore!  I am going to try this again at another girl scout meeting since a few of the girls couldn't make it.  It was a it with the kids!

Michael C Carlos Museum

Since Alex had the day off yesterday we decided to visit the Michael C Carlos Museum on the Emory University campus.  I really enjoyed it and wished we could of stayed longer, but the girls (Sarah and Alex) just didn't seem too interested in anything other than the mummies.  Click below for the couple of pics I took.

Michael C Carlos Museum

Big flower hair clip

Alex has really been into hair accessories lately, especially the big flower kind.  So I decided to make one myself. It is surprisingly very easy and required no sewing.   I just bought one of those flowers from Michael's and took the flower off the stem.  Then glued it to an alligator clip using a glue gun and viola!  She loves this! 

Alex lost her first tooth!

Last week Alex lost her first tooth.  It was wiggly for a few days and then at school her teacher pulled the tooth out.  She was beyond excited for the tooth fairy to come!  Here she is sleeping with her note and tooth under her pillow.  She told the tooth fairy she wanted to keep the tooth for awhile and the tooth fairy wrote back that it was ok to keep your first tooth so it can go in the baby album. :)

Little River Canyon National Preserve

Yesterday, for my birthday, I wanted to go to a national park in Alabama, Little River Canyon because I have never been to Alabama and it's only two hours from where we live.  I had read online that some call it the "Grand Canyon of the East".  It was very beautiful, but not really comparable to the Grand Canyon.  When we first got there we stopped by the Little River Falls and watched a few people kayak down the waterfall.  Below is a video of the second guy going down the falls:



I stopped the video before you see the guy come up.  I was a little worried but he did come up behind the waterfall, we just didn't see it.  It was pretty neat and I wouldn't mind trying this some day.

There were other falls along the river that we saw.   We stopped at all the lookouts that we could see and saw quite a few hawks gliding around the canyon.  It really was a beautiful area and I am glad we went.  I took a few pictures along the way but I feel the pictures really don't capture the beauty of the area.  Check them out below:

Little River Canyon National Nature Preserve

Sweetwater Creek State Park in Georgia

The next day, after hiking Arabia Mountain, we decided to check out Sweetwater Creek State Park in Lithia Springs, GA.  We really liked this park and Keith thought this was the best hiking out of all the places we have been in Georgia.  We hiked the trails in the park for about 6 miles.  Inside the park, right next to the creek, we saw an old mill that used to be used to make clothing for confederate soldiers.  The name of the mill used to be New Manchester Manufacturing Company.  The area was fenced in so we didn't walk around inside of the structure, but we wanted to.  There is so much history here!  The views were really beautiful and we would love to go back.  Click below for more pictures:

Sweetwater Creek State Park- Georgia