Wedding Bliss!

My dear brother-in-law Eric and his new bride Annmarie got married on Saturday! Now I have another sister through marraige, yay! Since Joe was the best man, we flew up a week early so he could torture Eric with a bachelor party. I think it went well. They had a road trip to "Little Fenway"(www.littlefenway.com). During the week, Joe attended leadership training for work and I hung out with family.

Robin and Uncle Justin in Becky's pool

Robin & Cousin Norah eating breakfast

Trampolining


Hanging out

Robin is quite the photographer lately.

Bodhi, Robin & Nico at the rehearsal dinner.

Silly cousins

A blast with Abuela

The wedding day has arrived...

The boys helping Eric get ready.


"Bad boys, bad boys..."

Sweet as pie.


Joe & Rish
Gorgeous newlyweds. Eric & Annmarie: We are so lucky to have you as family. Love you.

Big sis and little bro

Big sis and littlest bro

The wedding party

Me, Jenn, Laurie & Heather

Me & my hubby...so handsome.

A week of Celebrations!

Photo: July 2000, honeymoon
Photo: July 2010, date night. Happy 10th Anniversary to me & my husband! I think we are both pretty lucky to have one another. Thank you, Grammy, for visiting us so we could go out to eat! Raspberry Collins, Lobster, and Creme Brulee! While looking at our wedding photos, Joe asked Robin who the picture was of. He answered, "Dad, with your hair on."
And R is pretty lucky to have a Dad ready and willing to dress up as Batman and play the role.
Happy 4th of July. Our neighborhood had a parade.

Goodbye, Daewoo...
...hello, SmartCar!
It's a convertible too!
We were lucky to have Grammy visit for a couple days. Missing her already.

It appears that we are busy bees.

Finally not scared of the car wash anymore!

Playing the slide whistle at Tom & Amy's
Baby Olin wearing Joe's ring
Robin & Olin hanging out
"Namaste". This was not prompted.
Icecream / waterslide party at The Dubs.
Been spending tons of time at the pool
Busch Gardens aviator
and adventurer
On the last day of gymnastics, the kids get to bounce.
Helping me grocery shop
Since Robin goes twice a week, here he is again the next day with love of his life, Coach Brandy.
We also finished swimming lessons this week. Can you find the one kid not sitting on the steps with the others?
Swim lessons were a success. Although he was not crazy about them and didn't participate as much as I would have liked, now that they are over, he is doing great. Robin & Coach Matt.
Robin has begun his Jedi training (his introduction into the Star Wars saga). I think 3 is a little early, but Dads are in charge of that sort of thing.

Continued

Weekend Recap: We went to Water Country on one of the busiest days ever. Bad idea, but we had fun. I do think Joe & I got dehydrated because we were dragging with headaches the whole rest of the weekend. Our neighborhood also had a summer kick-off party, so socializing and bounce housing was had. Here is a photo from our walk back from the party. Deer are everywhere here. They seem to be following us around. This is the 3rd place we have lived that has been full of deer (other places being the Keys and West Point). Could this have been the same deer that accompanied me on my jog earlier that day? Hmmm.

On Memorial Day, we met our buds the Dubs at Colonial Williamsburg. It was another scorcher, but all 4 boys held up fairly well during the heat and all the walking.
Real cannons were shot
and a bugle was played
Of course there was a stop at the toy store for hats and "shooters", and lunch. Then we all went to the pool at our house and cooled off.

Happy Memorial Day!

Hope your summer kick-off weekend goes great. We plan on attending some cook-outs, going to the pool, Water Country, dabble a little Colonial Williamsburg and still get our workouts in. Did I tell you I started jogging? I didn't because I'm afraid to write the words, afraid people will expect me to run an actual race. Ugh, not yet. I'll keep you posted though. I have noticed, though, how important my yoga practice is now that I'm jogging. It's even more of a necessity. Well, here are some photo updates...

We were beaching it a while back. The pools in our neighborhood open today. Yipee!! I'll post some pool pics soon.

Squeezing our own oj
Getting another ribbon in gymnastics class
Multi-colored cupcake face
Big Papa & Abuela went to Italy a few weeks ago. We went looking for them at Busch Gardens...not quite the same.

And then Dziadziu was here this week...reading books
and building legos. Thanks, Dad.