Love Where You Live

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!

Earth Day Clean Up

We walk the boys every morning to school.  Amelia rides in her pink push car which has a little trunk that opens for storage.  Every day, Benjamin finds at least one piece of trash lying in the street along our route, picks it up and puts it in Amelia's trunk.  I love that the boys understand how bad littering is without me having to remind them and that they want to pick up someone else's trash no matter how yucky it is, without me even asking!

So, for Earth Day, we thought it would be cool to clean up an area in town that needed it, somewhere we enjoy going.  We chose the Community Park which has a decent sized wooded trail right behind it.  The trail and its surrounding trees are fun to explore and there is always a ton of trash in there.

Daddy brought home cool grabbers from work and Ben, Dan and their friend Jimmy took turns grabbing trash and stuffing bags.  They each filled a bag then we tossed it properly and then played a bit.

They had a good time doing a good deed.  And of course, Amelia always has fun at a park these days.

March Moments

Attending Amelia's Tiny Tots class at the Rec Center each week.  She loves it!

Mommy had a birthday!  37!!  Daddy threw a nice little get together with some friends.

Amelia's obsessed with the book "You Are My Little Pumpkin Pie".  We have read it hundreds of times.

We made Irish Potatoes (not pictured) and non-pareils for St. Patrick's Day.  We wrapped them up pretty and gave them to teachers, family and friends.

Getting out on some warmer but still windy days to play.

Making sun catchers out of pony beads.

Ben fractured his radius one afternoon on the monkeybars.  It required a trip to the ER, some Xrays, and luckily, a cool brace instead of a cast.  Only one more week with the brace and it comes off for good.  It has already healed and hasn't been painful except for the day that it happened.  He is able to play T-ball on opening day!!

My best girlfriends from high school met up in Philadelphia one rainy weekend for our annual get together.  It was so nice to see them, talk and laugh alot, eat, shop and stay at the fancy Ritz Carlton.  Love those girls!