The Duerre Family: October 2009

Friday, October 30, 2009

CFA Reunion & Atlanta Zoo

Lindsey and his biggest fan Emma.

In high school and part of college I worked at Chick-fil-a. Most of my friends that I have now were my friends from CFA. We decided that we would have a reunion. Carrie, Lindsey and I all met up with Steve in the spring and decided that a good weekend for the reunion would be the same weekend as my high school reunion. We had about 20 or so people show up. It was great catching up with some of my old friends. Steve opened the store on Sunday and cooked us some nuggets, fries and cut us up some fresh fruit.

Addison and Emma

Bobby and Lee enjoying some free CFA on Sunday. Thanks Steve for throwing us a party.

Angie, Steve, Carrie and Susan catching up.

Joshua sleeping through some of the reunion.

Richard & Lindsey-Lindsey is still one of my great friends! The Duerre's love Lindsey(especially Emma)!

I like this pic, look at Joshua's tongue! This is me, Carrie and my friend Steph-still good friends after 20+years.

Steve & Lindsey having a serious conversation. Steve was our old boss.

More serious talking going on.

Jack eating one of the four ice cream cones that he made for himself.

Atlanta Zoo

Emma and her best friend Abigail. Look at Emma's goofy smile. She almost looks scared!

Jay & Abigail, Emma & Jack in the petting zoo. Abigail and Emma are best friends and Jay is Abigail's little brother.

Abigail and Emma petting a pig with their brushes.

Emma and Abigail riding the train.

Emma riding the carousel.

I sat with Joshua on the sleigh while Jack rode on the dolphin in front of us.

The Zoo has this new exhibit called the parakeet exhibit. There are parakeets that fly all around and you can feed them. We bought a stick of food for each of the kids. They mostly scared the birds off with their quick movements and loud voices, but they did con a few of them into eating.

Emma and Jay feeding the parakeets.

Jack, Emma, Jay & Abigail

Emma hugging the giraffe statue. We did not even get to see real giraffe's.

Jack riding on the giraffe.

Emma's hair is almost the same color as the lions on this board.

My sweet pea Jack. He is my little lion.

Abigail and Jack

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Paci's in Bears and RHS Class Reunion

Two weeks ago I took the kids to Build-a-Bear with Emma and Jack. I decided it was finally time to give up the paci's. I kept telling Emma that she was getting a little too old to have it. She only really had it at bedtime, but still she is almost 4. At her dentist office back in August, the dentist said that it was fine for her to still have their paci's and that they have them for a reason. She said that most kids give them up on their own time. Emma and Jack had been cutting down their usage in the past few months and no longer HAD to have it in the car. So I let them know that we were going to go and put their paci's in their bears. They were excited. Jack wanted a green bear and Emma of course wanted pink. So they picked out their bears, filled them with stuffing, placed their paci's in and sewed them up! Emma knew what was going on. Jack, not so much. That night Jack asked for his paci. I told him that it was in his bear. He kind of panicked a little and said, "Emma, our paci's are in our bears! ". The first 3 days were really rough. It has gotten a little better, but they still aren't going to bed like they were before. Hopefully this will get better as time goes on. :)

RHS class reunion

Matt & Bobby in the limo

Kris & I on the way!

Bobby & I

It almost felt like I was going to prom again.

20yrs ago I went to prom with Matt and Krissy and here they are again.

John & Matt

Krissy & Heather

Me & Catherine

Catherine and I used to work together several years back and she ended up marrying a guy that I went to high school with. It has been so nice because we reunited because of Facebook and now I get to see her and few other girls that I used to work with pretty often.

Bobby & Krissy dancing together

Bobby & I

Aimee, me, Rose & Carrie-These are the girls that I used to hang out with most in high school. It is good because we still keep in touch.

Bobby & Catherine

John, me, Matt, Rose, Carrie, Aimee and Kris

Michael & Rose

Catherine and her husband Ian

Ian and Rose

Shannon, Rose, Aimee, Carrie and I. We didn't have enough fun at our reunion, so we went to Old Blind Dog and eventually closed the place down. They actually stayed open later to accommodate all of us! Bobby and I did not get home until 3:30!! Yes, I said 3:30!! Now I know why I do not stay out that late. I had 10 hours of sleep in 2 days and it was really tough functioning. Of course the next day we had a packed schedule. We had a mini Chick-fil-a reunion and a birthday party. So much going on!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Fun at the Beach!

Two of my beauties! Joshua and Emma

My wonderful husband and beautiful daughter Emma

Jack and daddy

This past week we went to Okaloosa Island Florida. We stayed at a condo called Waterscape. The water was beautiful, the weather was great and the company was the best. We went with my parents and brother and his family. The kids had so much fun!! They had 4 pools-2 kiddie pools with a water slide. Here is Emma going down the slide.