Summer Catch up....

I haven't posted lately, but as usual, we have been running here and there and EVERYWHERE!

Let's see, since we've been back from our two week vacation in Pennsylvania, the kids have been busy, busy, busy. Our days start out with Swim Team Practice bright and early. We come home have a little breakfast, since it's much too early to eat before Swim Team. Then it's off to swimming lessons! Next is lunch and then we drop Anneli off at Day Camp! The afternoon is spent with Christopher working on Cub Scout activities, reading, writing in his journal, swimming or something else. What a fun, but crazy three weeks it's been!

Last Wednesday evening, (July 14th) we went and saw a puppet show at our public Library. Nappy's Puppets presented 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. It was a great shadow puppet show. The kids enjoyed it, and it had Shaun and I laughing too!

One rainy day we went to Pottery Piazza with Memere. Pottery Piazza is a paint your own pottery place. We each picked out a piece to create and had a blast painting and chatting! Christopher painted a dolphin (of course) and a fish. Anneli painted a happy cat. Memere and I both painted Gnomes. Super fun!!! We were very excited when we were able to pick them up yesterday. They came out great!
On Thursday, July 15th, Anneli had a birthday party for a friend at Jump Zone so Memere came along and watched Christopher bounce. For those of you who don't know, Jump Zone is a super fun indoor play center with large inflatables to climb and jump in. The kids both had a great time! Thanks Memere for keeping an eye on Christopher!! :)

((I know I took pictures, but I can't seem to find them....I'll keep looking...))

Last Saturday, we had a busy day! We headed out early with Aunt Valerie to Kuras Berry Farm and went blueberry picking, since Shaun had just used our last bag of blueberries from last year! It was a hot day, but we picked a bunch of super yummy blueberries! YUMMMMY. We enjoyed some fresh blueberries and we froze a bunch. Shaun thinks I should pick more... :) Then we went shopping! Always a great way to end the day!!! :)

((I know I took pictures, but I can't seem to find them....I'll keep looking...))

Last Sunday, was the 3rd annual GE 5K Road Race benefiting the Petit Family Foundation. You can find more information HERE. The coolest thing about this road race is that it goes right by our house--it sure wasn't the temperature!! It was SUPER stinkin' HOT!!!! Shaun and Valerie have both participated in running the 5K for the past 3 years. This year Christopher ran with Shaun and Aunt Val. Anneli ran the kids fun-run and walked the 5K with Memere and Pepere. I had the tough job of running home to turn on the sprinklers for the runners and take pictures of them running by! I was proud of Christopher for finishing the race. It was super hot and he was still smiling when he got to our house---which is about 1 mile or so from the finish line! Way to go 'Topher!!!

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...

Another Month has Come and Gone...

So, as it says above, another month has come and gone! Where does the time go!!?! We've been super busy here. At the end of March, we had Christopher's Cub Scout Blue & Gold Banquet, which I got totally sucked into! Dad (Pepe) helped cater the event and I pretty much set up everything except the ceremony itself. I made 200 Chocolate Lollypops for the centerpieces. I also made 200 cupcakes for dessert. Thanks to my friend Joellen and my sister Valerie, I didn't have to frost them! Thank goodness!!! I sure was busy that week! It wasn't that bad, after all was said and done. I think it went smoothly and everyone had a good time.

After the Blue & Gold Banquet, my focus was split on Christopher's Elementary School Yearbook Deadline and my sister, her husband and kids visiting from South Carolina! Never a dull moment around here I tell ya!

While my sister was visiting, we went to the CT Science Center. Definately one of my kids favorite places to go!

On Good Friday, we had a few Fox Family members over to Mom & Dads for a little party, so they could all visit with Jess and her family. It was a nice sunny spring day--thank goodness, since it pretty much rained ALL week before that! The kids had a blast playing outside together, and as usual lunch was super yummmmmmyy! Thanks Dad!

On Saturday, Shaun, the kids and I went Geocaching in the morning. I'm not sure if I posted about geocaching yet. We've been having a blast geocaching....I'll post more on that later.

Anyways, after that we caught up with my parents, Valerie, Jess, Nick, the kids, and Grandpa Mansfield to have lunch at Lenny & Joe's. Then we headed over to the beach. We walked along the shore and then did some geocaching while Aunt Val picked up Johann at the train station! It was fun, fun, fun--except if you didn't have shoes on... ;)

On Sunday, the Easter Bunny came to our house in the Morning.

Then we were off to Meme and Pepes. Grandma & Grandpa Mansfield joined us too! We had a great dinner--thanks Pepe! (Check out Anneli's outfit below...she has Christmas socks on! I love that she dresses herself. She has such style!)

We then had a HUGE Easter Egg Hunt outside. There were 53 Eggs for each kid! Aunt Val, Johann, Nick, Shaun and I hid them all in the front, side and back yard! That's a lot of Easter Eggs!!!

After we rested a bit from the egg hunt, we decided to go on a Hike/Geocaching adventure. It was fun watching the kids find the caches! Fun, fun, fun!

Then it was back to normal on Monday...