Flashback Friday - July 2011

What I wouldn't give for a cold and refreshing waterfall now...highs here are over 105 degrees today!!

Flashback Friday - June 2008

Jack cooling off at the waterpark!!  Tomorrow we are hoping to get to a different waterpark to cool off and have fun with Daddy.

Summer Eatin'

Last week the boys enjoyed some corn on the cob.  I was actually pleasantly surprised that all three of them liked it!!

Ewan has also been enjoying the tomatoes from the garden.  Jack and Sean do not care for them.  Boy are they missing out!

In other news we also had a fun Father's Day weekend.  The boys enjoyed going to see Penguins of Madagascar 3.  We also had a nice dinner with my parents and Josh's parents at Garibaldi's. YUMMY!!

Emmie M's Palmetto Family

Ever since Emmie M was here for her birthday I have been trying to take pictures of the boys.  I did not get the chance to do it when she was here thanks to Jack's stitches and big lip.  After she left there was always something going on.

Last Sunday while Josh finished putting up the back splash in the kitchen (photos of that coming soon) I was going to take the boys to the zoo and botanical gardens for pictures and fun.  Then it started to sprinkle on the way.  So we decided to go to the State House and then out to Drip for hot chocolate.

I got lots of pictures of the boys.  It is still nearly impossible to get on of all three of them together.  And even individually it is tricky too.  So here are the best.....I actually got some good ones of just Ewan.  He is usually the trickiest, either eyes shut or deer in headlights look on his face!!!

Of course we had to have a picture on the steps for Oma!!

Jack and Ewan racing to the top

Goofing off!  Like I said, impossible to get them all!

Was hoping to get one of all the boys by the Palmetto railing for

Emmie M's Palmetto Family pic, but again, impossible so thus

the butt shot!

I also wanted one of them holding hands...Sean wanted

nothing to do with this!

Taken during the ONE SECOND Sean cooperated!

Gotta love the action shot

Sean would not cooperate at the hydrangeas either!

Flashback Friday - March 2012

Hard to believe this is the beginning of the garden....it is so incredibly overgrown!!!  You cannot help but walk on some plant just to get to pick tomatoes or anything else for that matter.

First Day of Camp

Now is the time I have been waiting for....full day camp for Jack and Ewan!!  They have been quite a hand full lately so I looked forward to having just Sean for a week.  I have many plans, lots to do.  We'll see what really gets done!

The boys were thrilled to have their backpacks all packed up for camp (two swim trunks, two towels, sun screen, water bottles etc.)  And of course their lunch boxes!!!  Sean was thrilled he now has a backpack he can carry too.

Drop off went well.  Jack got nervous at the door so I shoved him through the doorway.  After that it was nothing but smiles and excitement. 

I got a nice workout in.  Sean played hard in the babysitting room.  We went to the new Aldi down the road.  I'm thrilled to have it close to the house and I feel a little closer to Europe again!!

Then we came home, unpacked had lunch.  And then it began...the DOWNPOUR!!  We are now getting some of the rain that Florida had (though not quite that bad).  I had to get  pictures of the "mudslide".  I have been meaning to get pictures of the garage foundation and extended driveway but have not done it yet.  More importantly, a picture of the dirt in my backyard.  We have not been able to play outside for about three weeks now because the cement trucks came after a big rain and tore up the backyard.  It is nothing but dirt/mud.

So on a day like today it became a mudslide.  I got some pictures of the mess.  If the dirt EVER dries out (seems we keep getting rain) the contractor is going to seed the yard.  But even then it  will still take some time before we will be able to play out back.  Puts a real cramp on our outside playtime, AKA DRIVE MOMMY CRAZY because we are cooped up!!

The happy campers before drop off, plus Sean with his backpack.

My boys are growing too fast!!

The mud escaped the backyard and found its way to the front.

Looks like a swamp!

Somehow we got enough rain that the mud from the back flowed

around the side of the yard and all the way to the middle of

the front yard.  UGH!!

Nice river?!

The view from the edge of the new garage foundation.

This is why we can't play out back.  Somehow I did not

anticipate this with new garage project.  HELP ME!!

Flashback Friday - August 2011

Jack's camp graduation last year.  He graduated to the kindergarten class.  They start camp next week, though it is still up in the air which classes Jack and Ewan will be in; they do not want to be separated.  Sometimes they are just like twins!!