favorite quotes...

" I want to see my Mone (aka Simone)," from Benjamin Mendonca, 2 years old, on his way for his first visit with his new cousin...08.29.2010

"I want to go back to Dawn's wedding," from Michael Mendonca, 3 years old, at breakfast the morning after... 07.05.2008

view from the back porch...

view from the back porch...
and the reason we love home.

9.30.2008

Another weekend of adventures....

On Friday, we celebrated Dorsey's birthday,


on Saturday we cleaned-up our road (sorry, no pictures) and then
went to the DANN benefit that Marcus & Sue helped organize...
Za displays his cool headgear from the event,



Boo did some knitting and Tyrone tried to catch some zzzzzs ;).

We also celebrated Grandma Goodwin's 93rd birthday...pictures soon!!!

9.23.2008

More updates....busy weekend!

We had a busy weekend with the last Downtown After 5 (yippeeee), the WNC Autism 5K, family in town and birthday celebrations:

The moms doing the walk ;)

Who loves who more?

& Benjamin couldn't be cuter!




hanging out with the family on the Meskil porch in Mars Hill

and birthday wishes for Mom (Terri) and Beth...with help from Michael of course!

9.16.2008

some recent adventures...

Just a few updates on what we've been up to since the wedding. We would have liked to think that life would slow down a bit, but things have only sped up. Here's some of what we've been up to:

In early August, we went to "Club Ped" to celebrate Emma's and Lexi's birthdays...Montana was celebrating her return to the pool!







In early September, we went to Knoxville for the Boom's Day celebration...lot of fireworks! Michael lucked out and got a flashing light saber to show off...guess who was jealous :).






The fellas at Booms Day...looking like a bunch of cheerleaders if you ask me :).







Last weekend we went to the Mountain Song Festival in Brevard, NC. Had a blast, great venue, great weather and ran in to Nan (Pheeb's mom :)). The picture is blurry, but that is Steve Martin (yes, the actor) playing banjo with the Steep Canyon Rangers...who would have thunk it?




We've also had fun teaching Michael to "swim" at Douglas Lake...we had a blast floating around all day!







We took Sue and Al to Clemson for the first time...looks like the men enjoyed lounging!