Week 25

Sunday June 17th
After lunch at Eric's parent house, we headed up to RI to see his grandparents.  The dog enjoyed swimming in the lake and the boys enjoyed playing with a turtle they caught.

                         
Monday June 18th
Kaleigh got re-hired for a pet sitting job.  This time they had a new member of the family, coconut the kitty.

Tuesday June 19th
Working in the yard Daddy caught a garden snake. 

Wednesday June 20th
Took the kids to a library event.  They learned all about nocturnal animals and even got to touch a few.
                                    Largest snake native to Connecticut: The Black Rat Snake

                                                       Spotted Salamander

                                                          Gray tree frog

Thursday June 21st
There were a few people who were recovering from surgeries in our congregation, so I made up some pot pies and delivered them.

Friday June 22nd
Happy 10th birthday to you Parker!!!!  We celebrated with family and a few friends.  I took Parker and his friends to see Brave at the movie theatre.

Saturday June 23rd
A crazy storm whipped through the town our rental unit is in leaving lots of destruction in its path.  Here are a few pics of the damage it left and the mess we now need to take care of.

 A tree from the neighbors yard cam down on our power lines and ripped the meter right off the house.

Week 24

Sunday June 10th- Tuesday June 12th
Our family came down with the puke bug.  It went from Kaleigh to Parker to Blake to Eric.  Everyone was found doing this in some part of the house.  Blake crashed on the living room rug for two hours.

Thursday June 14th

Our BFF's from down south were in town so I took the girls to the horse farm to ride, while the boys did some fishing.

 I drove in the driveway to these left in my driveway by my Connecticut BFF, Donna!  What a sweetheart!

Friday June 15th

I watched my cousin's daughter for the day.  Six kids that are not getting along are EXHAUSTING!  Needless to say, the five of ours got a talkin' to.  Here was the only part of the day when they were getting along....in the pool.

 Saturday June 16th
Took the five kids to the beach for some crabbing and wave jumping.


                                                   Where are all the crabs?

                                                                   So pretty!

                                                    Here crabby crabby

                                                  The five kids wave jumping

                                                                 BFF's

                                           Parker and his seaweed scarf

 Some guy on the beach spent hours on this sand castle.  It was cute to see people stop to stare at it.

Week 23- The tag sale

Sunday June 3rd
Kaleigh had her very first acting debut with lines at the teen service.  She did great!  This is a picture of her during the choir song.  I will see if I can steal the video of the skit from someone because mine was terribly blurry.

Monday June 4th
My mom's dog got ahold of a baby bunny that needed rescuing.  We kept him for a day just to make sure it was ok and could eat solid foods. 

The rest of the week was just a blur.  The tag sale took up every waking moment.

Week 22

Sunday May 27th
For a couple of days we had heard something scratching around in the chimney, but every time Eric opened the flu, it would stop and he couldn't see anything.  Well, he decided to leave the flu open and see if whatever it was would come out on its own.  We thought, a bat, a squirrel, a small bird, but not a DUCK!
Parker deleted my photo that I tool with his ipod , but here's what it looked like.

Monday May 28th
Fuse Festival at McCoy Stadium.  We got to meet the Sidewalk Prophets.

Tuesday May 29th
We actually started marking things out where the fencing and barn will go for the horses and Eric and his dad have been working on it most Tuesdays and Fridays.  I cannot believe that owning horses might actually become a reality.

Wednesday May 30th
Isn't she just the cutest two year old?

Thursday May 31st
Last day of youth group. We had a dunking booth to support missionaries to Honduras.




Friday June 1st
Got a few of my signs put out, but ran out of time.  I still have about 6 that need to go out.

Saturday June 2nd
Eric and I went on a date.  Dinner and then to watch Thane's third professional fight at the casino.  He didn't win this time.  :(