Quick Trip to Maine

Today, we took a quick trip to Maine for our nephew Bryce's Birthday party. Our weekends have been super busy so it was great that we were able to squeeze in this super quick trip to visit with family. It's crazy how big all the kids are getting!!!

Where does the time go!?!?

Happy Birthday, Pepe!

Today was a crazy day for everyone in our family. Soup Mem passed away in the early afternoon. I stayed in town with the kids, but thankfully my parents and Val were with Soup Mem and the rest of the family in New York when she passed away. They came home that evening and we celebrated Pepe's Birthday, Christopher's Birthday and Christmas Eve. It was a little strange, but it was nice to be together. Then they were off to South Carolina to spend Christmas with Jessica and her family.

The best presents of the year were exchanged betweek Aunt Val and Anneli. Anneli gave Aunt Valerie a super cool silly bird pen. It made us all laugh!

Happy Birthday to YOU!

The kids woke up early this morning to give Shaun his birthday present before he went to work. They were VERY excited, because they bought him a NERF Gun! He was pretty excited too! ;)


After school we went to Bolo and picked up a super yummy fruit covered Cheesecake for him. He LOVES cheesecake, so we thought he'd love it! He did, and so did we! :)

Happy Birthday!!! We love you!!! :)

More May Highlights!

I know it's June, but we still haven't finished posting our many May adventures! We had a lot of them!

On Saturday, May 15th, after Anneli's soccer game at noon, we packed into the car and headed to New Hampshire! We were going to spend some time and have dinner with Grandpa and Nancy! We ended up doing a little geocaching and going out to eat---at Bob's Clam Hut of course!!! :)

On Thursday, May 20th, Anneli had a super fun Birthday Party at Jumpin' Jamin' with her friends. Jumpin' Jammin' is a place with inflatable jump toys for kids and grown ups too! She and her friends had a great time!!! Even though it was during the day, Dad (Shaun) and Aunt Val came! Super fun!!On Friday, May 21st we ended up heading back up to New Hampshire for a funeral for Shaun's Aunt Marion. Her 'celebration of life' was held at Sandy Point Discovery Center in Greenland, New Hampshire. We visited with family we seem to only see at weddings and funerals and then the kids and I explored the Discovery Center. It was pretty cool. Then it was off geocaching along the Great Bay!

After hanging out in the by the shore and in the woods exploring and geocaching, we headed over to Aunt Amanda's Silpada jewelry party. Anneli had fun catalog shopping with Grande Memere. Anneli even bought a beautiful necklace with a dog & cat on it!

We drove home to CT that evening, and then the next morning--bright and early, we were back in the van and driving to upstate NY to visit more family! We had another Birthday party for Anneli with Aunt Donna, Uncle Jim, Soup Mem & Ray. Oh yeah, Rosie and Lola (AKA Paco) were there too! Those are Anneli's special dog friends! :)
Christopher enjoyed playing Wii with Uncle Jim---since we don't have one at home.

We also took Aunt Donna & Uncle Jim Geocaching of course! We had a great time! Thanks for having us, we can't wait to visit again and do more New York GEOCACHING!!

I think that's all, for now...

April / May Birthday Celebration in New Hampshire!

Saturday, May 1st was, as usual, a busy Saturday. It started out with Swimming Lessons at 9am, Anneli's soccer pictures at 10:30am, Anneli's soccer game at 11am, Christopher's soccer pictures at 11:15am and his soccer game across town at 1pm. THEN we piled in the van and headed off to Aunt Amanda & Uncle Mile's home in New Hampshire for a party!! We were celebrating a bunch of April/May Birthdays! My neice Elizabeth and nephew Bryce were turning '3' (they aren't twins, just cousins with birthdays 2 days apart!!) and Anneli was turning '5'! My brother-in-law Jeff and I were also celebrating our 30-something Birthdays on Monday too! What a bunch of birthdays!! It was a fun, but long day!

We ended up spending the night--thanks Aunt Amanda & Uncle Miles!!--and spending Sunday with the cousins! There was a Kids Festival in Portsmouth so we checked out the booths and enjoyed the city. The kids enjoyed the 'touch tanks', where they could check out some sea creatures. Always a fun thing to do while visiting the seacoast area! :)

Do ya know what this is?

It's a whale ear bone!

How about this?

It's baleen!

We took a little boat tour of Portsmouth, NH & Kittery, ME---always a fun time, but this was super fun with Shaun's two sisters, their husbands, and their kids! It's amazing how everyone is growing up SOOOOOOOOOO FAST!! :) It was a bit chilly---but a great time was had by all the kids and parents too!

These characters were waiting on the dock when we were getting off the boat. They are a little freaky, don't ya think?? They made the kids a little nervous!

We finished up our trip by Geocaching at a cool place called Fort Foster. We were looking for two caches there, but only had time for one. We'll definately be back to find that other cache--it's bugging Christopher that he couldn't find it! :)

What a weekend...