It’s been a long time since I have enjoyed a tea party with Gillian. Yesterday Aunt Betty and Justin came to visit. The kids were playing happily downstairs while Aunt Betty and I talked upstairs. We went to check on them and found John and Justin playing video games. Gillian, on the other hand, had… Continue reading Tea Party
Gillian has a stuffed dragon named Spike. Spike had a little cut on his neck. Last week, we asked Aunt Betty to take him home so Grandma could stitch him up. Before Aunt Betty could take him, Gillian had to give him lots of kisses and squeezies. When I tucked her into bed that night she… Continue reading Spike
Saturday morning, we got up very early to get ready for the Color Run. Like last year, Gillian spent Friday night at Aunt Missy and Uncle T’s house. So it was just John, Daddy and I getting ready. Daddy had cut the sleeves off of his Color Run shirt and John had to match! We… Continue reading Color Run
On Friday, Daddy took us to Crystal Springs. Crystal Springs is a family water park run by East Brunswick parks and recreation. Crystal Springs has a kiddie pool, a lazy river, three water slides, a lap pool and a shallow recreation pool. We got there early on Friday morning and found some chairs under a… Continue reading Pool Day
Today was the second day of camp shows at Briar Hill. Since I am so close to camp, I had decided to go to go both days. Today I asked Grandma and Grandpa to join me. Aunt Betty also came, because we didn’t actually get to see John perform yesterday. We arrived at camp today… Continue reading Camp Show – take two
Today was John’s camp show. Aunt Betty met me at work and we drove over together. We arrived at camp just as the group before John’s was finishing. We found a seat up front. They called the Hortons to the stage and we didn’t see John. We looked everywhere and no John. Finally Tom, John’s… Continue reading The bee sting
We spend the entire month of July celebrating the kids’ birthdays. Today was our last birthday celebration. I brought pizza and cupcakes to Gillian’s school. I arrived at school and Gillian came running up to me. “You made it! Look, here’s my crown!” She was so excited. I had one more surprise, I brought a… Continue reading Last birthday celebration
On Saturday, we took the kids to Manasquan to see the fireworks. We set up our chairs and blanket and went to get some ice cream. Gillian and I decided to split a vanilla and chocolate twist. John had mint chocolate chip with rainbow sprinkles. I had like two bites of “our” ice cream and… Continue reading The one with the fireworks
Today we had John’s 7th birthday party. John had been talking about his party for months (and months). But today was the day. We decided to have an old school party. I came up with a few Lego games and prizes and we invited all of his classmates. As the kids arrived today, we sent… Continue reading The party
Daddy signed John up for instructional Tee-Ball. This Saturday was his first session. We got there early. John and Gillian had plenty of time to play on the playground and make a few new friends. Aunt Betty arrived just in time for John’s first session. We went to the field and John met his coaches… Continue reading Tee-Ball
John and Gill went up a hill 