Where have I been?

It's been pretty busy at the Tainow house so sorry for the lack of blogging. I have been doing photoshoots which I love! And spending my evenings editing which I hate. But I have really been focused on exercising after work and getting my body back in check.

On Monday's I am working out with my half-marathon buddy, Jackie.


Side note: You want a funny read? Follow Jackie's weight loss blog. She is the bomb diggity friend, mom, coworker, and writer. All those things you think to yourself, about yourself, and your weight loss journey, Jackie tells it to you straight. And in a very humorous way. Add it to your google reader.

On Tuesday & Saturday's I am taking a crazy running class which leaves me in quite a bit of good pain. I am sure if you were "walking up a hill" at a 30% incline on a treadmill, you might burn 900 calories in one hour as well!

Wednesday I have been squeezing in a swim.

On Thursday, my friend Chris and I have been heading to the Silver Comet Trail for a pretty vigerious 20+ mile bike ride. Last night we headed to Stone Mountain for a very VERY hilly bike ride. My thighs hate me this morning.

On Friday and Sunday, I usually take off. Check back with me in a couple months to see if any of this is paying off. Or if I am laying on the floor in exhaustion. Right after I did my half in March, I signed up for it again next year. Maybe this time around, I will be in a little bit better shape!

So onto the kids...isn't that what this blog is about anyway?

We have been doing a little of this.


And this...


And getting some QT in with daddy like this...


And found a perfect In-town Atlanta "field" for me to take pictures in that looks like this...


And looking cool like this...


And this...


And teething like this...


and getting a picture SOOC like this of my beauty...


And having no words for my baby's lashes...


And playing with this doll quite a bit cause her daddy was outta town! We had a great time with Meags!

Happy Annivesrary!

To mama and papa D! 40 wonderful years!

Pool playdate

On Saturday we met up with some special friends. I have a great group of former coworker girlfriends who all worked with me at one time. Many have gone on to do amazing things at home, in mommyhood, in school, in other departments at CNN. We love to occaionally get together with our kiddies. Jen had us all over for a pool playdate which was a great time.

A wide section of her community pool is 3 feet so Millie was loving walking all around the pool without floaties on. She couldn't get over the fact that she could touch and walk around in the pool! Her swim classes are certainly helping her with confience. I have recently seen some kids her age, actually doing some stroke swimming which is pretty darn amazing. We will get there.

I grabbed my camera late and missed taking a pic of Carolina (Caro-leena), Cecilia's little girl. But here are Jonathan and Lillian (Margie's kids).




And Rachel (Jen's little girl).





And my two.

New Classrooms

bushel and peck

Rewind 2

Maybe this time I will SPELL CHECK before sending out my posts. Sorry about that. Somehow both Mat and I have a horrible spelling problem. Hopefully M&M will not have the same!

Okay, so back to vacation.


Shrimp burgers from....


We did this...several times


Everyone got one of these


We ate at home most nights, and it looked like this


And since I couldn't fit him and I in the above photo, here he is...


Beachy clouds


Beachy boy in Papa's hat


The adults spent a loooooong time trying to "get" this shot...but with the moon. Mat got this shot with the car streak in it (very cool!). I am not sure if any of us “got” the photo but it was fun trying. You have to believe us that it was beautiful.


Mat got us all up early to hopefully watch the tiny turtle make their voyage to the sea. And then we found out we were 12 hours too early.






A different kind of footprints

Turtle Talk

Mat found that the island has a Turtle Talk once a week so we got there in the nick of time. It was a sold out crowd. We learned all about the nesting of the turtles on the island.




Milo wasn't too interested so we took him outside for some Papa D time.








Then Millie got bored so she joined us






Then Papa D got bored and he got art-y










Then we left


And I saw this amazing sight


And finally we went to get ice cream








And finally the kids were done with me taking pictures of them


So I put away my camera.