My Dancing Girl

Saratoga Springs is the summer home for the New York City Ballet and we got the chance to see them during family night. They had free ice cream, a photo booth, dance demonstrations/lessons and much more! My sweet little Cbug participated in the dance demonstration. She was the smallest one out there and she did ALL the moves right along with the dancer and big girls. I know it's a lot of pics, but you gotta see that she really did do all the moves!

Happy Birthday to Me!

It's true to say that I recently turned 30 years old. Crazy! We had big plans to go to Montreal, or Boston, or a beach in Maine or even Disney Land but alas nobody booked those plans so when it got down to the week of my birthday Matt wanted to know what I wanted to do. Well, I wanted a selfish day. I wanted him to take the day off of work so that I could sleep in, and come and go as I pleased. Of course my amazing husband made that happen, thanks to the fact that he had to work on 4th of July the week before he was due a floating holiday. Matt had an early dentist appointment so he took K with him while C & I slept in. They came back with doughnuts, flowers and a cute card. It was very sweet.
I took my time getting ready and then went out for some pampering. I got a pedicure and a haircut and then a quick nap before we headed out for some family fun. Matt had some Marriott points that needed to be used up so we picked out a local hotel with a pool and stayed the night. We ordered pizza and ate in the hotel room to maximize the pool time, spent as much time splashing in the pool as possible then turned in for the night. The kids did great and were ready for more swimming in the morning. Which we did! It was nice to get away for the night, do something fun and not have to cook or clean up after ourselves. The kids are still talking about the next time we go to stay at a hotel.
I don't have a single picture from my birthday activities because we were having such a great time. That also means that there is no proof that I actually turned 30. :-)

4th of July

We had a fun 4th of July. Matt actually had to work, since it was close week, so the kids and I just hung out until he got home. When he did we all went downtown and had a nice dinner where GrandMary found us and joined us for the evening. 

Afterwards we set up our blanket at the local park it was HOT and HUMID, as you can see by my sweaty little girl.

The kids decided to take GrandMary on the carousel, which she has never been on!!

We got some ice cream and played with glow sticks while we were waiting for the fireworks.

We had a PRIMO spot right next to where they were shooting them off. In fact we got hit with a few pieces of fireworks as they were falling down. K thought that was pretty cool.

We got home at about 11pm, with two sleepy kids in the car, to find out that we had no power!! We quickly got the kids in bed with ice packs (since the house was HOT), and we moved all of the food from the inside fridge to the garage fridge and Matt go the generator going. We hooked up that garage fridge and then a fan for whiny pregnant woman in the bedroom, and that was it, off to bed!

It was a fun 4th!

Summer Fun

I'm attempting to do some catch-up on the blog, and am going to try to do one a night for the next few nights. With my afternoon/evening "morning" sickness I don't have any energy or motivation to do things at night ... that's why I'm setting the goal at just one a night. :-)

A few weeks ago we had high 90 degree weather and so we bought a kiddie pool for the backyard to keep us a little cooler. The kids really enjoyed it and I even put my suit on for a little bit and waded around.

My beautiful princess.

My handsome boy.

This picture turned out absolutely adorable ...

... it reminded me of this one from two years ago! SO cute!!

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