Happy Holidays!

Hi Everyone! It's hard to believe that it's December already! The girls are growing up so fast! Molly is almost  10 months. She doesn't miss a thing, loves laughing at her sisters, and didn't cry tonight while sitting on Santa's lap (picture below!) Emma is doing so well in 1st grade - her report card was amazing! We are so proud of her! Kate continues to enjoy Pre K and she can't wait to tell us each night what she learned that day. She's so anxious to get to school with Emma next year! We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We spent our time with Gramma and Grampa Bee in Sunset Beach, North Carolina with Uncle Jay Jay too! We all had so much fun! Touring the alligator farm, taking walks on the beach, and soaking in the hot tub! We of coarse watched both Notre Dame and Ohio State win their last game! Both being 12-0! Mike is so excited that the Irish will play for the National Championship...I'm very glad that WE don't have to play them this year (think it may have ruined Christmas!) ....Mike is working hard at AT&T on new projects each month, and I continue to enjoy my roll as Stay At Home Mom AND a reading tutor! We truly feel blessed this month and always, and have so much to be thankful for!

We hope you all enjoy the holidays with your families! Please know our doors are always open and we'd love to have you visit!

Lots of Love,
Mike, Amy, and the girls

November is here! 2012

What a fun October it was! We enjoyed some really nice weather the most of the month where we spent time outside at the pumpkin patch, playing at the park, and trick or treating of coarse last night!

We also enjoyed our annual trip to the North Georgia Mountains (Helen) with the whole family! This marks our sixth year - and our family just keeps getting bigger! It's so much fun to see the cousins running around together, and we LOVE watching college football all day - this year outside by a fire! GO BUCKS!

The girls are enjoying school. Emma had some fun projects that she participated in this month, including decorating a pumpkin like her favorite book character....she chose Skippy Jon Jones...a cat who thinks he's a dog ...a perfect choice for Emma! Kate is loving school, is VERY proud of herself because she gets TWO stickers instead of one on her paper for writing her first AND Last name all by herself :) (it's the little things!) She enjoyed a FALL FEST yesterday at school which included making Witches Brew, A bounce house, and Halloween Bingo! Molly continues to be the happiest baby that just goes with the flow! She rolls all over the room now and says Uh Oh, Waves Bye Bye, and says Mama....Emma is convinced she is saying EMMA! We love our girls!

My tutoring business is going strong - I love the time with my family but also love teaching the kids too! Mike continues to work hard as always too - ATT keeps him busy!

It's hard to believe it's time for the holiday season to start! We look forward to spending it with family and friends here and in North Carolina ....

Please come visit us anytime - our door is ALWAYS open!

Happy Fall and Happy November!

Enjoy our goofy videos below!

October Already?

It's amazing that it's already October! What a fun month we had!!! The girls are in full swing at school! Kate enjoyed Dad's Day with Mike, a baseball themed morning with fun games and crafts all with daddy only! Emma had her school fund raiser - the Fund Run! She ran over 40 laps with her classmates and had a ball! They are making wonderful friends and enjoying their teachers very much too! Molly and I have been enjoying the days together as well! It's really fun for me to be home with her, and I'm enjoying every second! I'm also loving my tutoring sessions I'm doing - it keeps me in the loop with teaching and gives me so much time with my girls and at home! I love it!
Mike is busy at work, and enjoying his job! He has the opportunity to work from home once a week and loves the flexibility to go volunteer at the girl's schools and spend time with Molly and I as well! The two of us have also been working hard on taking care of ourselves! We've joined a pretty intense boot camp that we do twice a week and we both love it! With us doing that and changing the way we eat - we are feeling pretty good!!! We are also loving college football as always! Watching the games with family and friends has been so much fun! GO BUCKS, GO IRISH!

This month we were busy going to Tampa celebrating Owen's 1st birthday with the family! We also enjoyed one of Emma's birthday presents... a trip to SEA WORLD! We all had a blast! A trip full of memories! We also enjoyed a trip to the farm this month! We got apples, went on a hayride, and fed many animals! The girls loved being "cowgirls" for the day!

We are gearing up for fall weather (It was 47 here this morning! BRRRR!) and talking about Halloween costumes! The girls are also getting excited to start their after school activities: Kate wants to do gymnastics and Emma wants to get involved with horses!

Enjoy the videos and pictures I've included! Happy October Everyone!
Love,
The Barratt Family

Bye Bye Summer!

It's hard to believe that it is September! Fall is almost here! We had a great summer doing so many fun things! We finished our summer by enjoying a few more pool days, climbing jungle gyms at the park, and enjoying the Dunwoody Butterfly Festival! Kate started school too - she loves Pre K! It is hard to believe she will be with Emma in Elementary School next year! Emma is enjoying her 1st grade year - she is realizing it's very different than Kindergarten, and that the work is a bit harder but she LOVES school so she is working hard. She enjoys reading and writing the best!

Molly has started enjoying solid foods....thanks to a friend of mine I have a Baby Breeza that makes baby food so Mike and I have been enjoying making her all sorts of creations. Fruits are definitely her favorites - especially bananas! She does NOT like carrots and has a little stubborn side to her and won't open her mouth at all if she knows they are coming!

We are also excited about the start of football season! GO BUCKS, GO IRISH, and this year we have become BRONCOS fans - routin' on Manning!!!!!!

We hope all is well and we hope you enjoy your fall!

Love,
The Barratt Family

July 2012

What a fun month! A busy one for sure! We started our month by heading to Sunset Beach, North Carolina to spend the 4th with Gramma, Grampa, and Uncle Ry! We love their new house and it's so fun to get out to the beach .... 2 minutes away! Think we will be visiting Sunset Beach a lot :) :)

We also enjoyed three fun filled days with cousins Sydney and Sarah who are the exact same ages as Emma and Kate. They loved their time with them at the pool, the zoo, having sleepovers! We hope to see them again very soon!

The rest of the summer was spent at the pool, parks, spraygrounds, playdates, and of coarse EMMA'S sixth  birthday! She enjoyed a pizza party with her buddies, and got her face painted like a cheetah...her favorite thing in the world! It was nice to celebrate on her real birthday with all the grandparents and of coarse...with cookie cake! YUM! She started 1st grade today, and I sit here typing this...anxiously awaiting her bus to arrive! I miss her so much! Kate also misses her big sister! Kate is very excited for Pre K this year, which starts in a few weeks. She's also thinking of taking a try and gymnastics! The USA Gymnastics team has inspired her!

Molly is growing like a weed too. She is almost six months old - LOVES rice and oatmeal cereal and enjoys smiling and playing with her two sisters.....now that she sits up by herself! I'm really excited to get to stay home with her this year and be a MOMMY to the three girls I love so much!

Mike has been traveling a lot this month. An ATT trip to Texas and one to Seattle, Washington. He participated in a huge team building activity and overcame his fear of heights while participating in a HUGE ropes coarse. He was excited to be a part of such a fun event!

Now that school has started, the girls will start some extra curricular activities...Emma is dying to ride horses, and Kate...we'll find in the gym or on stage somewhere I'm sure!

We hope you all are well and have had wonderful summers! Please keep in touch and always know you have a place to stay here in Georgia!

Love,
The Barratt Family

JUNE 2012

Summer is flying by! We've enjoyed a HOT month of June! We had a blast in Hilton Head with the entire family! The girls loved playing with cousins Nicholas and Owen too! The girls have also really enjoyed playing in the pool. They are little fish and LOVE to swim! For that I'm thankful! They also attended their favorite summer camp - Vacation Bible School! Safety Town Camp was also a huge hit! Molly is enjoying her first hot summer with her sisters too! She's practicing rolling over; however, her HUGE thighs get in the way of that sometimes! I've started my tutoring and I'm really enjoying it! I hope to continue it this fall. Mike has been traveling to work and went to Texas this month where it was even HOTTER than it was in Atlanta!
We look forward to a fun July!
We hope you all are doing well!
Lots of Love,
Amy, Mike, and the girls
Enjoy the photos and videos!

Summer is HERE!

We have had a wonderful month of May and we are excited that summer is finally here! Emma will enter 1st grade in the fall, Kate Pre K, and I'll get to stay home with Molly in the fall! I'm "retired" from teaching for now....after 13 years! I'm excited for the opportunity to stay home with her, enjoy the girls and their activities at school, and even do some reading tutoring as well! A new adventure - I can't wait!

We've had a busy month ...it's gone by fast! Molly is almost 4 months old! She sleeps and eats like a champ...she is babbling, and smiles up a storm! We adore her! She loves walks around the neighborhood - where she just coos and stares at the sky :) Emma and Kate finished ballet and tap and had a wonderful recital! They started swim lessons this month and continue to show us that they love the water and they are little FISH! We also had Molly baptized this month - it was a special day spent with family and friends! We finished the month by traveling to Sunset Beach NC to see Gramma and Grampa Bee, Uncle Sean, and Uncle Jason too (even though he lives here in ATL now)! We enjoyed the beach, seeing their new house that's almost ready, and the girls enjoyed a tea party day which was very special and a start of a new tradition!

We are very excited that summer is here!!! We hope you all have a happy  summer as well! Come visit us - our door is ALWAYS open!

xoxo

The Barratt Fam

Mike, Amy, and the girls





April 2012

It's hard to believe that April has come and gone. Our sweet Molly is growing fast and we can't believe she'll be three months soon! She smiles more and more each day and is trying so hard to talk but little squeals come out! She enjoys long walks in her strollers and is sleeping like a champ! 10-7am isn't bad :) Being back at work has been challenging, but the countdown is on - 4 more weeks until summer and then I'm taking a year at least off to be with her next school year. I'm going to tutor and just enjoy being a stay at home mommy!

Also hard to believe that Emma is completing her Kindergarten year! Time flies! We adore her class and her teachers and she really has become a little reader and writer! She still enjoys a lot of math and science...and from the pictures you can tell, LOVES those cat ears and tail! She wears them so much we forget she has them on! Kate also continues to amaze us! She absorbs everything we tell her, and enjoys her school and teacher too! She will venture to a new Pre K next year, and we are excited for her to go! She is always singing and dancing, and we really feel she will be on Broadway someday! We took the girls to see The Fresh Beat Band Concert this April...and that was so much fun! Their first concert!

Mike continues to work hard, and is doing well at his job! He travels to Seattle some for work which he also enjoys! And also got to actually play some golf this month with ATT! He gets to work from home on Thursdays which is nice, and gives him the opportunity to volunteer and help out at Emma's school ....she loves seeing him there!

May will be a busy month! The girls have their ballet/tap recital, Molly gets baptized, and we are venturing to Sunset Beach to hang with the Barratt Clan over Memorial Day! Mike and I are also running our second 5K this next weekend....definitely trying hard to get back in the swing of things after having Molly Bear!

Enjoy the pictures and check out the video of the girls slip and sliding! They are loving the HOT spring weather!

Lots of Love,

Amy, Mike, and the girls

Spring 2012

It has been a wonderful start to spring here in Atlanta! The weather has been surprisingly very warm and of coarse we've enjoyed watching sweet Molly grow! Hard to believe she is six weeks old already! Her sisters adore her and we love being a family of five! We had a GREAT time at the zoo this month, and Molly slept through the whole thing (which is good!). The girls continue to enjoy ballet and tap and are preparing for their recital in May. Mike is working hard on many projects at work and has been traveling to Seattle a lot also. I am sad that my maternity leave is coming to an end, but excited that I only have five weeks of school left! Then I'm staying home next year! Can't wait to spend more time with the girls and watch Molly grow! I will be tutoring during some evenings so that too is a new adventure I'm looking forward to! We are gearing up for a fun spring break next week and going to enjoy a family Easter here at the house!

We wish you a Happy Spring!

Lots of love,

The Barratt Fam

February 2012 - Molly is here!

We had a very exciting month as you all know...our family became complete with Molly Lynn being born on Valentine's Day! She is perfect and we feel so blessed to have our three beautiful girls! The girls adore her and are enjoying helping and being BIG sisters! Molly grows every day! She is a wonderful eater and is sleeping a lot! She is up some at night...but hardly cries!

We also enjoyed Emma's first musical performance this February at school. She also had her first daddy daughter dance … she had a blast and looked beautiful!

We have included some photos of our family and videos of Miss Molly on her first days!

We hope you all are well!

xoxo

The Barratt Family - new family of 5!

January 2012

We enjoyed this month and can't believe Kate is now four! She had a great birthday and enjoyed celebrating with family and her friends at a gymnastics party! As her friends sang Happy Birthday to her, she was shot up into the air on a bungee cord! I really honestly thought this child would be timid, shy, and not so daring but boy was I wrong!

We are happy that we escaped any snow this season (except Emma was a bit bummed - she loves the snow)....and now we anxiously sit and wait for the arrival of our sweet Baby Girl. Her due date is February 23rd, but we (by saying we I mean I) am tired of being pregnant and ready to hold her in this world! Let's hope she comes soon! We hope 2012 is treating you well and we will definitly let everyone know when our little girl arrives!

Love,

Amy, Mike, Emma, and Kate

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all of our family and friends! We hope you enjoyed the holiday season as much as we did! Santa was very good to our girls bringing them everything on their wish list....Emma even asked Santa for her "two front teeth"...and those too started growing in over Christmas! Kate is anxiously awaiting her little sister to arrive....she is ready for her roll as big sis! About 7 weeks to go until our sweet little girl arrives....she is an active one, so we are taking bets to see if she possibly will arrive a little earlier in February than we thought...we will soon see!

The girls enjoyed their ballet and tap recital at the beginning of the month. We also enjoyed making gingerbread and cookies - and LOVED having a lot of family and friends around this month to celebrate the holidays! Our 2nd annual family White Elephant exchange was a hit this year - (see picture) and we invite all of our family and friends to join us next year! The more the merrier!

Happy 2012 to you all! We hope this year brings you much love and happiness!