My Birthday!

I celebrated my 31st birthday while we were in NY. I got to go shopping and if I remember correctly only took 1 child with me!  We had a great steak dinner, opened gifts and had a peanut butter brownie trifle for dessert. It was a great day!

 

Oh and Graham took most of the pictures!

The day was topped off with a family picture that turned out pretty nice!

August 2012

We spent 2 weeks in August visiting my family in NY

Hiking

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We enjoyed a gorgeous weekend outside with my aunts, cousin, and Grandfather! It had been a couple of years since we saw Aunt Lisa and Grandpa and Aunt Gail and Megan had never met Reed or Paige. Always thankful when we get to spend time together!

We went to the beach a couple of times to play and swim

We got to meet Luke and spend several days with his mom and big brother. He and Paige got along really well!

The bears that came with the pack an play mobile were boring so Anthony decided to hang some cat toys for P (and apparently R too) to play with

GG’s toys are always fun to paly with

Doesn’t everyone sit on the cat scratching post to play toys?

Love these pictures!

We explored a couple of playgrounds in town

We loved spending time with our family!

We got home from NY around 6pm and the boys had their first day of preschool the next morning at 7:45! They go twice a week from 7:45-2:00. P and I enjoy Tue mornings at home (although she misses them) and we got to Community Bible Study about 30 min away on Thurs. I thought I’d get a nice break while they were gone but baby’s are a lot of work

G sang with the kids choir one Sunday morning which was a big deal for him (he’s been known to go to rehearsals and then refuse to go on stage for the performance).

Henry's Woods

Graham and I went on a hike one morning. Henry's Woods is across the street from my parent's house. (Here are some pictures from last summer's trip. The pics of G was wearing a white t-shirt and athletic shorts and holding a rock was from last summer's hike). I really wish it had been there when I was growing up because it is a neat place. There are several trails to choose from as well as lots of mosquitoes. The bugs encouraged us to keep moving so we didn't get bit too much!


G did a great job, hiking over a mile and never really asking me to carry him. He loved picking up rocks to throw in water or mud holes. He also informed me that G-Bob told him on their boys hike the night before that he needed to watch out for big cats!

I pushed Reed in the jog stroller the day before and found this bridge so it was my goal to get G to walk far enough to see it. He had fun walking across it to the rock ledge where he threw some rocks into the river that flowed behind it.