Beach Day

Adam has been in Spain, playing around on the beach for over a week. So we decided that we should follow suit and go too. This was the first time to the beach with Jacob. I must say taking all 3 boys by myself was scarey but turned out just great.

Jacob loved the beach. Not so much the sand but he did get used to it.

Jacob is 11 months!

Jacob is already 11 months old. So hard to believe. He has started pulling up on everything and cruising around. He has been soldier crawling for awhile but now he is beginning to get up off his tummy. He has an amazingly sweet personality. Always ready for hugs and giggles. We sure love him.

Happy Birthday Jonathan!

For Jonathan's fourth birthday we celebrated with lots of friends at Putt Around Golf. The boys love this place and it was a quick fix to our picnic party that got rained out.

Jonathan was the first one to start playing and he had a blast.

Of course, Alex also had fun.

Emily and Owen came.

Nathan!

Noah!

This was Jonathan's favorite hole.

Alex concentrating...

Here is baby Christopher, who is only 2 months older then Jacob. His brothers are Nicholas and Jonathan and are only 1 day older then our Jonathan.

All the kids got to watch these little 3-d movies. They were only 5 minutes each so everyone got lots of turns.

The place had lots of games to play. Alex and Noah loved the mini air hockey. Which is right next to the full sized air hockey.

We all had pizza.

I can't believe my baby is already 4.

Jonathan designed the cake. He said he wanted a chocolate cake in the shape of a 4 with rainbows on it.

Here is the whole gang. Thanks everyone for coming. It was great.

Bowling Party

Every time Alex finishes a big part of his schooling we try and celebrate somehow. This year when he finished his first year spelling book he chose bowling. This is hardly a surprise as he loves to bowl. (May09)

Jonathan has finally got the hang of it. One good thing is that here in New England most bowling alleys are candlepin which is a much smaller ball. The boys can throw them down the lane much easier this way.

He actually had a spare for the first time and was very proud.

Alex also did great. They had a fun time.

jacob is excited to get to play. Maybe next year.

Sesame Place!

Our trip was not finished after picking Adam up in VA. We drove 5 more hours up to Sesame Place. This was the greatest place in the whole wide world. I loved it..the boys loved it...we want to go again.

We stayed the whole day and drove home the 5 hours that night. All in all it was 2200 miles driven. All but 180 by me. We are happy to be home.

Onward!

From DC we drove a quick 2 hours...ok it took us 4 hours to Charlottesville, VA. Here I was to drop Adam off for a big math conference. The boys and I stayed over night and left at about 7:45am to make the 5 hour drive to Weaverville, NC where my brothers are living in my parents house. Well...about 3o minutes into the mountains with barely any cell coverage the van decided in no longer liked a hose that attached to the radiator. It was so angry it destroyed the radiator on its way out. The boys rode in a cop car ( I had to flag one down since my road side assistance could not be contacted) Jacob and I road in the tow truck. Four hours and $500 bucks later we were on the way again. I think Adam owes me a bit for this one. Sitting in a tiny mechanics office for 4 hours with the boys just plan sucked.

But we made it to the house and started to party with the Uncles.

Bonfire night!

We found a jumpy thing at the mall. Our mall got rid of the one that we usually take the boys to so they were thrilled to go on this one.

It was still fairly hot on the east coast so on the last day visiting the uncles we got the sprinklers out.

I think my boys worked these guys pretty good.