Sola is One!

We had Sola's 1st Birthday party last weekend. Her Auntie Alicia got to come and help her celebrate. It was a lot of fun. The theme was cupcakes. I spent all this money on "fancy" little cupcakes from this bakery in Atlanta and Alicia whirled in and make mint chocolate cupcakes and cheesecake oreo cupcakes and blew the "fancy' ones away! I still think you should own a restaurant/bakery, Alicia. You are awesome. Hope to talk to you all soon! Love you very much! Dana

Showering the Bride to Be....

We had a great time at Kimberly's shower. She got a lot of wonderful things...thanks in part to Alicia's help with registering! We can't wait for the big day!

Happy Birthday Sola!

Adam and I just watched the video of Sola walking and she is soooo cute!
We love you! Congratulations to your parents on one year of parenthood!
Rena

Sola's 1st Birthday!

Hi Girls,
I thought I would mention this early in hopes that you'll be able to come to Sola's first birthday party! I think it's going to be on May 17th (Saturday). We could have an awesome girls' weekend also. That will be before Rena leaves for Ecuador I think and before Kimberly's wedding. We were thinking about having something like an Oscar party and dress up and Will is going to make a little movie about Sola that will be the "Oscar winner." Wouldn't it be fun to dress up and have a fancy party? That's only one idea that we are kicking around. Let me know if you have any ideas also! Love you and hope you can come!!!!! You are all Sola's very special Aunts!!!

Miss Y'all

Hi Girls,

I miss y'all. It was sooooo much fun to be in Columbus and meet Mark and see the house... and of course to see Sola again at Aunt Diane's house! I can't believe it had been 6 months since I had seen her. She's so big! Y'all have to see her soon! Kim, the husband-to-be and the house are great! I love Mark... and I love the two of you together so much I can't stand it!

So, while I couldn't stand leaving y'all in Georgia, I was looking forward to Jason (the new boy) picking me up at the airport. He's so great, so sweet. He told his brothers about me and they said he shouldn't let me get away! I think they're right. I'm a catch, but I think he is too. I'm taking one day at a time, Dana... but I'm hopeful that y'all will get to meet him in July!

I have some time off next week for Easter, so I'm gonna look for some pictures to throw up here (and hopefully get my life in some semblance of order).

I miss y'all and can't wait to see the y'all girls group together again in July!

My Girls

Hi Girls,
I agree Kimberly, we had the best time. I really wish we all lived in the same town again. How awesome would that be! Things are going pretty well here for me. I am still working as a social worker for the schools here. The good thing is that I can pretty much do what I like. I am doing some individual counseling and I do a lot of crisis work. I'm also working a second job as a social worker at the evening high school. I'm going to start running 2 teen pregnancy groups because there are about 20 girls that we know of that are pregnant! I can't believe that. I'm glad I'll hopefully be able to help though.

Sola is doing great. She got a good Dr. report this month. She is WAY above on the height charts. It's kind of crazy. She is almost 10 months old! That's crazy too. Time really flies. We are hopefully going to be doing better financially because Will is working full time now. Thank goodness!!!

I have a couple of friends here, but I'm pretty isolated. It's really my fault and I need to work on getting out and meeting people. Easier said than done of course. I love you girls and am so so so thankful that God allowed us to meet for that special time in Boston and for every minute that we get to spend together now! Take care girls and let us all know how you're doing!
Love,
Dana

i miss my friends

Hey girls,
Well Dana and Alicia just left today and Columbus is already a gloomier place. It was so much fun having them here. We registered at Bed Bath & Beyond and then had fun picking out cute outfits for Sola at Old Navy (That is becoming a tradition when we get together!) Alicia whipped up a delicious dinner in about 5 minutes before we got to go see Mark and his band play - but we made sure they ate some brownies and strawberries first (thanks Dana!). Mark was sad when they left and said "They can come anytime they want." He already loved Dana since they've met before, but Alicia won him over in 2 seconds when the first thing she brought into the house were some delicious oatmeal raisin cookies!
When it was time for them to go, we were all reliving the scene from Hope Floats where Bernice doesn't want her dad to leave (PLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!! DON'T LEAVE MEEEEEEEE!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA) (it's really sad but hilarious to re-enact). But seriously I didn't want yall to leave and I CAN'T WAIT FOR JULY TO GET HERE SO WE CAN ALL BE TOGETHER!!!
I hope everyone else is doing great...I miss you all so much and it's always good to get together with any combination of Yallgirls ;)
much love!
kimberly