The One Forgotten

We planted a garden this year for the first time in a long time. We have three different types of tomato plants, peppers, string beans and what we thought were cucumbers.

The cucumber plant turned out to be a zuchini plant which is fine because we love zuchini. We probably got about 20 and then it got infected with some type of disease. From what Kevin says, it's a common disease for zuchini plants. Anyways, a couple weeks later Kevin was taking the zuchini plant from the garden and came across this:

Have you ever seen a zuchini that big?? It probably weighed 8 pounds!!!!!!!!

Wordless Wednesday and Flashback Friday??

Flashback Friday and Guess...

...where we are going Saturday?

First Catch of the Season

We went to The Lake yesterday and enjoyed some fun times with friends and family. Thanks Uncle Chris and Aunt Nae!! Emma also went on her first boat ride and loved it. I didn't take any pictures because I was too busy holding Emma while we sped along the lake. Emma kept telling Uncle Chris she wanted to go faster. She loved it when he went in circles and hit our own wave and the water splashed her. She also did some fishing off the dock with the homemade fishing pole Daddy made her with bamboo. She caught two Sunnies. She has no fear holding them either, even though they are very slippery and a little prickly.

My Silly Girl

Last weekend Emma played in the pool while I sat and relaxed and caught up on her blog a bit. She then came out of the pool and wanted me to take her picture. This is what she came up with for different faces. She is such a silly girl.

Blueberry Picking 2009

You may remember this post a while back Blueberry Picking 2008 . I think it may have been my first post. Well, here are some pictures from this year's Blueberry excursion. We went out pretty early on Sunday, June 28. It was they're first weekend open for the season. Emma loves to pick blueberries. We are only out for about an hour and in that hour, we picked 16 pounds. It would have been 17 if you counted what Kevin and Emma ate as they picked. They both LOVE blueberries and coming straight off the tree with the warmth of the sun, they are delicious. We freeze them to use throughout the year for our blueberry pancakes.

Well there is more to this story. We were all having a craving for fresh blueberries that we went for the second trip this past weekend and picked an additional 15 pounds. 31 pounds total. That's a whole lotta pancakes. I'll have to get the cookbook out to try out some other recipes. Here are some pictures from our second trip. This was a little more exciting for Emma because we were able to take the tractor out to the field. Emma's favorite parts are the tractor, the old fashion pump for the water and eating the blueberries. We also figured out this weekend that Emma will be a fourth generation blueberry picker. This all started when Kevin was a little boy when his grandparents used to take him out. Hopefully we can continue this tradition.

July 4th Weekend

I was one of the lucky ones that was able to be off of work on Friday, July 3rd to have a 3 day weekend. Boy did we pack alot in that weekend. The weekend started Thursday night with our monthly Mother's Night Out aka MNO. If you've read my blog in the past, you know that we have a GREAT group of families that all have something in common, we're adoptive parents. The Moms try to get together every month for dinner. Whoever can make it makes it and it's always a good time. This month we went to On The Border. We had great food, good drinks and adult conversation. Here are a couple of pictures. Gina, Jen, Kathy, me and I don't know what happened but the picture with Deb in it got deleted. I'm sorry Deb.

On Friday, Emma & I went to Sesame right when they opened at 10:00 and stayed until 5:00. This is the 4th year that we've had tickets and the first time that we were there for 7 hours. I couldn't believe it. Emma also said that as soon as we got there, she was going on the Vapor Trail. Super Grover's roller coaster. She has told me this every time we have gone but never did. So, as soon as we waited to get through the gate, we went right to the Vapor Trail waited in line and then she said she changed her mind. No big deal, when she's ready, she'll let me know. I myself didn't care because I'm not crazy about coasters or rides that have a big plunge.

For it being Friday of July 4th weekend, the crowds weren't so bad. She went on the Merry-go-round, the bouncy thingy, the pit where the blocks are and the climbing wall. We then had lunch and for those that have never been, I brought a soft cooler that was probably 15x15 with sandwiches, water, juice boxes grapes, blueberries and ice paks and the Sesame staff didn't have a problem with it. My problem is that Sesame never has enough staff working any of the cafe'. There food isn't half bad but you could honestly stand in line for an hour before getting waited on but anyways. We then went to the water part of the park and went in the wading pools and Ernies water works. Sesame has a new area based on Count Dracula but Emma didn't want to go in. At 4:30 we decided to leave. I had Emma in her stroller at this point, we went through the gate and on our way to the parking lot and Emma says, "I want to go on the Roller coaster". I could tell that she was serious so, we went back into the park (we have season passes so it wasn't a big deal). Got in line and went on. She LOVED it so much that we went on a second time. I was so proud of her. Of course, I have no pictures because it was just the two of us. But, what a great day.

On Saturday, we all went to Ventnor City, NJ and stayed at Hannah's Hotel. Gunner, Kim and Hannah are another adoptive couple that moved from PA to VA to NJ and we are so happy that they have moved closer to us. They invited us down for the night and we had a blast. We went to the beach and the girls played and played and played for about five hours. The water, the sand, the company and the weather was perfect. We couldn't have asked for a better day. We went back to the house and had Kim's famous secret recipe hamburgers and macaroni salad. It was delicious. We were gonna head down to Ocean City to the boardwalk and fireworks but we were all exhausted. We saw the fireworks from their balcony and it was great, no traffic and no crowds. Kim made a delicious pancake and sausage breakfast Sunday morning and then we headed back home to catch up on laundry and rest before we started the work week. Thank you Gunner, Kim and Hannah, we had a great time.