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We got family photos taken about a week ago to mark Miles turning one. These are some of our favorites.

Wow. I have been really bad at this whole blog thing. Here's what we've been up to lately.

During the months of June and July we undertook some projects in our house. We painted our kitchen cabinets (thanks to the help from our parents) kitchen walls, and refrigerator (sounds ghetto but it looks fabulous!) See for yourself--the before pictures are first.

The wall color in these pictures isn't very accurate as it actually is a little more gray than this, but it's the best I could do. The color was called Perfect Greige. I think that translates to Bart and I being the most boring people ever. The perfect combination of beige and gray. Ah well. We LOVE it!








Miles turned 1 on July 1st. In honor of my trip to the hospital one year ago, we spent the night before his birthday in the emergency room since he had a serious fever. Turns out he had hand, foot, and mouth disease. Not a very fun way to spend your first birthday, which is why he's not his usual smiley self in some of the pictures. For two days he was pretty miserable and would only sleep if we were holding him (which I secretly quite enjoyed since he isn't really into cuddling).


Once he was feeling a little better we had him open some presents. My parents were here to celebrate with us, so we spread the party out over a few days since Miles wasn't feeling well, so the photos are in no particular order. He got to ride his first train at Stone Mountain park, go out to eat at a Mexican restaurant (he loves beans), build forts with dad, go to the park, play in a giant sandbox, and of course, eat some cake.



















A few days after his birthday, we went to the doctor for his one year appointment. He was feeling his usual self and happy as a lark. You can see below that he had no idea he was about to get four shots. (I hate that part!)



We also celebrated Fourth of July by eating burgers and staying in the air conditioning!



In the middle of July Miles and I traveled to Utah since Bart had to go to Maine for two weeks for work. We got to spend time with family and were completely spoiled.



Miles got to go to the zoo for the first time while we were there. The Hogle Zoo was fabulous and we had so much fun seeing everything with Ashley, Elli, Grandma, and Nana. The two cousins just loved all the animals and actually paid more attention than we thought they would. Miles learned to drink from a straw while we were there. It was so hot and we had bought some Icees to cool us down. Well, turns out he just needed some sugary motivation to learn that skill.




We also got to visit Granny while we were in town, which was such a treat.

I know there are more pictures of when Julie was here in June... Once I find them I will post them!

For those of you wondering what we've been up to during the heat wave that's hit Atlanta, see below.  Miles can climb our desk. And knock things over. Consider this lesson learned.

I had run into the next room to get a napkin. Go figure.

And one of the little climber himself.

We went to a Braves game on Friday night and Miles LOVED it! He was fascinated by the lights and big screen TV and all of the crazy people around him. It was really fun to watch his excitement and see him experience something new (READ: ice cream). It was really cute how serious he was about the "tomahawk chop" but you can tell he enjoyed it by his reaction at the very end of the video.

See for yourself: