THE TABOR TIMES

                        

Ryan and I celebrated seven years of marriage on February 18 of this year. We decided that we really, REALLY needed to get away for a weekend without the little one. We had each been away from her twice for work and guys/girls trips, and she had spent the night at my parents house for one night while we stayed at home and got some cleaning and errands done. But we hadn't both spent two nights away from her at the same time and gone out of town for the weekend. So my parents (Grammy and Pops) kept Kendall for the weekend and we headed down to Savannah for a much-needed time away. Somehow even though I've lived in Georgia my whole life and Ryan has lived here for half of his, neither of us had really spent much time in Savannah. We decided to stay outside of the Historic District so that we could spend more money on food and entertainment, rather than spending it all on a hotel. We had such a great time. We ate at great restaurants, shopped around in fun shops, strolled down...

Ryan pointed out to me that I actually blogged more when I was in school than I do now. Haha. Probably because I was supposed to be studying or writing and instead would procrastinate with blogging. But I realized that I never posted about our Christmas, so hey, better late than never. We had a very different Christmas this year than normal. This was the first year of my sister being married, so since she would be in Indiana for Christmas and we would be in South Carolina, we celebrated Christmas on December 22 with my parents. We treated it just like Christmas morning and woke up early, had breakfast casserole and coffee, and opened our presents. Kendall was a bit overwhelmed with all of the attention, but she enjoyed opening her gifts. Hanging out with Aunt Lauren and Uncle Abraham Checking out her new chair from Mom and Dad We then planned to go to Ryan's parent's house for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. But on Christmas Eve, Kendall started to get a cou...

Ryan and I took a day off of work this week to take Kendall bug to the Georgia Aquarium, or the "fish tank" as Ryan likes to call it. It was something we wanted to do when I was part-time, but we never got around to it. And we knew it was really crowded on the weekends, so we wanted to go when it was less crowded and Kendall could really look at everything. She had a great time and we did too. Although I think she really just enjoyed running around everywhere. We were forcing her a little to look at the fish about halfway through the trip. Ha. But I know as she gets a little older she'll really enjoy it. Here are a few pictures from the trip: Checking out the coral reef section One of my favorite pictures The tank covered the whole wall and part of the ceiling,  so she was reaching up towards the top part of the tank. She started to walk up to the diver,  but got scared and turned around real fast to come back to us. Haha. Being sil...

For those of you not from Atlanta, I feel like I'm going to have to thoroughly explain this blog post. Growing up in Atlanta, the department store, Rich's, was a big part of Atlanta culture. The headquarters was in downtown Atlanta, so back in the day, a lot of Atlantans worked for Rich's. My grandmother (Gran) was one of them. Gran was a pharmacist and worked at the Rich's downtown.  So when I was little, Rich's had a ride around Christmas time called the Pink Pig. The Pink Pig began in 1953, and it was a monorail train that originally went above the toy department at Rich's. The train was  pink and the doors on it opened like those on a Lamborghini. Every year we would go downtown during December with our neighbors and best friends, the Bachelors. The ride eventually moved to the roof of Rich's where it would fly over Christmas scenes that had been placed on the roof. I remember it being so cold, but so much fun.  Eventually Macy's took...

Back in November (yep I'm way behind) we went for a weekend away in Blue Ridge with the whole Tabor family. We stayed in a beautiful cabin together with great views. The little girls had so much fun playing together. It was some fun family time. Kendall and Genevieve playing in the tent Playing on the black bears Gorgeous view from the deck Sweet cousins Reading with Dad and Papa Ryan and Andrea playing pool  (and Ryan being ridiculous for the camera)