Fall Festival

Hamilton and I joined Mr. Morgan for lunch at Atlas's fall festival. Hamilton was the cutest bumblebee I've ever seen. Mom's idea and design was to make a costume from this striped fabric she had on hand. She stuffed it with plastic bags, and she fashioned the little hat which Hamilton actually kept on most of the day.

He chatted up a cute cupcake during the costume contest, which ended in a four-way tie with all the kids.

Ordering Prints

For the first few months of Hamilton's life, I was diligent about posting all the pictures I took onto Snapfish. However, after about September 2009 life got busier, and my uploading hundreds of pictures every month did not happen. Hence, we don't have many prints of Hamilton, and both our families are always asking about getting our pictures.

I finally did a little research to discover that Blogger (who hosts this blog) and Picasa (who hosts the pictures from this blog in a web album) make ordering prints of the very pictures you see on the blog so simple. There's a permanent link on our blog's sidebar titled Photo Album which will take readers to our Picasa web album. That Morgan Adventures album hosts all the pictures that are part of the blog.

To order prints of pictures you see on this blog, select an image, which enlarges the image on a new page. Then click the Prints drop-down menu near the top of the page, and select Order Prints. That image is added to your cart; continue adding other images to your cart in this way. To view your cart and order prints, click view in the yellow box near the top of the page.

On the Order Prints page, you'll see all the print providers you can use to buy your prints. Click the name of your preferred print provider to see an order screen. You can even order prints through Walgreens and pick up the prints at your neighborhood store.

Stone Mountain

We did visit the actual mountain after our day spent at the Country Living Fair. Mr. Morgan had never seen it, and it'd been 15 years or more since our family had been there. There were lots of folks sitting on the lawn in preparation for the laser light show; however, we still needed supper, and we didn't think Hamilton would last way past bedtime even for lasers.

We never figured out what all the scaffolding and construction were for, and directly behind that was a big pile of machine-made snow--another mystery. Both obstructed otherwise scenic pictures of us in front of Stone Mountain.

As we sat on the lawn, Hamilton enjoyed pointing to the gondolas traveling up to the top of the mountain each time they passed by.

Hamilton at the Fair

Hamilton mostly pal'd around with Pops while Mom and I walked through the vendors at the Country Living Fair. After his afternoon nap, Hamilton had lots of energy, so we took a break to get a snack and snap some pictures of him with a huge pile of pumpkins serving as a photo spot for many folks. He was obsessed with the little, green-and-yellow-striped pumpkins.

I asked Hamilton to sit beside the pumpkins, but in doing so he dirtied his hands on the grass and straw. Here he's wiping them off as has become his habit when they get any dirt on them.

Hamilton's again excited about a striped pumpkin, though I think it's a different one from before.

 

During our photo shoot, Hamilton was distracted by a bright-yellow biplane that kept circling above the fair. I ended up with twenty pictures of his hand in the air signaling "airplane." Pops was such a trooper entertaining Hamilton most of the day.

How he continues to drum up such enthusiasm and excitement over the striped pumpkins is so cute.

I tried to get my child to sit closer to me for the photo, but his sitting while I was sitting was the best I could do.

Under the covered shelter, Hamilton found more delights like these dogs framed in wire and stuffed with moss.

 

Back in the Swing

Why does it seem to take as many days to recover from a vacation as the duration of the vacation itself? I've been recovering all week from our long weekend spent mostly in Georgia. I'm finally seeing the end of the laundry and putting away now-empty suitcases. This morning I have a little time to myself to blog, sip tea, and eat my delicious asiago cheese bagel while Hamilton is at school.

Since Saturday was Mr. Morgan's 35th birthday, I planned a great trip for us which included two different days of bike riding for him. (And, Mom and I got to visit the Country Living Fair at Stone Mountain State Park.) We did the bulk of our celebrating on Friday night at our hotel suite: Mom had made a delicious cake, and we'd all brought our presents for the birthday boy.

Mom and Dad gave Mr. Morgan a much-needed and much-asked-for music stand for his banjo practicing. Travis gave him an iTunes gift card, so Mr. Morgan could purchse the new Taylor Swift album that was released on Monday. Hamilton has already enjoyed dancing to the new tunes.

With MUCH help from Mom, I gave Mr. Morgan a t-shirt quilt we'd compiled from nearly 30 of his t-shirts. He loved it!

The quilt is made of mostly biking t-shirts and Atlas t-shirts, but a few are even from high school and college.