Summer Days 2014

Park days, day trips, lazy days at home, visits from friends and cousins, beach days, firework nights.  These summer days are coming to an end.  This summer brought the best weather ever, better than any summer I can ever remember.

We made the most of our summer but had some major distractions aka quickly throwing our house on the market, selling our house in one week, putting offers on three homes with no luck then suddenly having a reversal of luck and buying the last (and best!) house we tried for after someone else's offer fell through.

It's been chaotic and stressful to say the least on Mom and Dad's part.  Although it is always hard to say goodbye to summer, we are looking forward to school starting this week, autumn and all of the changes that it will bring.  Here's to smooth sailing with the purchase of our new home and then relaxing and making new memories with Grandmom under our roof as well!

Organ & Donor Dash 2014

On April 13, we walked in Philadelphia at the Donor Dash for Organ & Tissue Donation.  We walked in honor of Pop under the team name Pop's Pride and Joy.
It was a lovely sunny day.  We all wore buttons with Pop's smiling face on them.
The kids had fun running the Art Museum steps and seeing Boathouse Row as we walked by.
We will definitely do it again next year!

A Chilly Morning with My Girl

One Sunday morning when Andrew and the boys were enjoying a sleepover at Mimi's, Amelia and I headed out to the Manasquan Reservoir for a change of scenery.  It was a cold morning, but we enjoyed the snowy view from the cozy visitor center where the fire crackled as we ate our (second) breakfast.

After that, we headed to the Nature Center to play with puzzles and check out turtles and fish.

She's pretty good company, my girl.