Well I (Amy) got a new job. The other job was getting old, what with the boss who hated me and always gave me such a hard time. So Monday I start my new job at National Seating and Mobility. It seems like a really great place to work. Plus they will be starting me out only 50 cents less than what I was making at my other job. It's been fun staying home with Alyssa the last couple of weeks and I wish I could do that full time, just not possible right now.

We went to a big inflatable playground called "Buddy Bears Playhouse" with Alyssa's best friend Blake and it was a lot of fun. We're thinking of renting it for Alyssa's next birthday. It's between that and the Chattanooga Zoo.

Grandad Brock came in town for a short weekend visit. We were all very excited to see him, since it has been so long since our last visit with him. Hopefully we can make it out to Houston by the end of the summer. We mostly hung out at his hotel, went for a swim and then had lunch at City Cafe before he had to head to Nashville to catch his plane.

Alyssa blowing out the candle on my late b-day cake from Grandad:


Alyssa and Grandad at City Cafe:


Marlys and Lilly being goofy:




Alyssa and Justin at Grandad's hotel:


Alyssa, Lilly and Grandad:

Yesterday was a beautiful day here in Chattanooga. It wasn't too cold out so we decided to head out to the Chattanooga Zoo. It was VERY fun because most of the animals that aren't usually out in the summer were out yesterday. Alyssa LOVES the zoo, especially the monkeys and snow leopards. Although when the gorilla came right up to the glass it scared her a little and she didn't want to see the monkeys any more after that. After the zoo we met up with Hillary and family to play arcade games at Sir Gooneys and then got a bite to eat at Hooters. What a great day!

We went downtown today and visited the Tennessee Aquarium. It's the first time we've been since September and it was a BLAST! Alyssa loved all of the fish, the butterfly garden and especially the penguins. We took about 100 pictures but here are just a few (okay really about 1/4th of them) for everyone to enjoy. Now we're off to watch the Super Bowl!