One COOL weekend!!!

Sometimes in life, a true friend, a take you as you are, can talk about anything, just be your relaxed self with, FRIEND comes along and lets you know that there is always someone there for you, NO MATTER WHAT!. Not too often though, those two friends meet two women who also become THAT kind of FRIEND too! Every time we get the chance to spend time together, I am in awe at how easy it is to fall back into comfort mode, like we haven't been apart and missed gabs of each others lives!!! How truly lucky we are!

MY secret surprise worked! Garret was sooo excited and surpised to see his best bud (of almost 30 years) show up at the Arboretum Chick-fil-a on Friday! We had an awesome weekend! Here's a brief overview:

Friday-Kerry and Jean drive to IKea! I am completely in LOVE with that store!

Friday Night- We headed to Speed street and RiRa's for dinner! (the same restuarant had a Fire early Saturday morning!) PS....note to self....never ever ever go to speed street again. I saw more people with missing teeth and missing clothes, I was thoughtouly GROSSED out!

Saturday- Big boys played golf- big girls hit Gaffney (hard!) All little ones-had an awesome day with a new sitter who was incredible! Will hire her all throughout the summer!

Sunday- Kerry and I played with the kids and went to Costco for Lunch and Flank Steak for dinner....the big boys golf again!

Sunday Night- Barbecue with the Donato's! So glad they could come! We had a great time and the flank steak was the best I ever had!

Monday- Barbeque at my parents! Wadinski's footlong hot dogs and Swebels rolls. (Buffalo grub)!

Only one injury-Ethan has a nice shiner! Got hit by a plastic baseball bat in the eye!

Only one sick kid- Emelia spiked a 103.5 fever yesterday and again today and I cant get it down below 101!!

The kids had a great time playing together and got along great! My favorite thing from the weekend! The big boys playing Wii boxing against each other and thier prospective male child standing next to him saying "My daddy's got him, my daddy get him, get him my daddy.. get him" back and forth. I know it is one of those"you had to be there things" but I see a future strong friendship in the making... just like thier fathers!!

Betty

Garret's "grandma" Betty passed away on Wednesday. His mother and aunts had a small "ceremony" today at a local park in Florida where Grandpa and Betty lived. Betty's family will be having a Memorial at a later date.

Getting closer!

My secret is still going....even better I got a babysitter for Friday and Saturday. A real sitter...I have never called a complete stranger and asked her to sit for my kids before! But did it today! Actually she is the new nanny for a friend of mine, has tons of experience, has been a camp counselor for years and is highly recommended! So that makes me breath a tad bit easier! Really cant wait for Friday!

Down on the Farm

Today Ethan and I went with his class to the Black Swan Farm. He has been waiting all week to go! So armed with our packed lunches and a new bottle of hand sanitizer we drove off into the "country". He loved it! He got to pet every animal, except the peacock and even pulled the hair out of the fluffiest ball of a rabbit I have EVER seen. From there we went for ice cream with Parker and his mom Charlotte! We had a great time! Next year will be Emelia's class, who is SUPER excited to get her "turn".

Shhh.It's a secret!!

I can't wait! I AM SO EXCITED! Our best friends Kerry and Mike and thier children are coming down in two weeks for memorial Day weekend! It is a surpize for Garret. Two days of golfing and just hanging with the guys! meanwhile Kerry and I will do some serious shopping! We are good at it! Then on Sunday a cookout with some family friends! WhaHoooooo! Can't wait. I haven't told the kids or Garret! We'll see if I can keep the secret till then!

Me and Daddy

Daddy and Me!!!

Ahhhh....Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all of my friends who are MOM's and for those of you who are very nearly MOM's....your already a MOM....the worrying starts the instantly!
What a great weekend! My Mother's Day started early. Garret surprized me with a great dinner at Morton's uptown then with a movie(I picked...chick flick!:) Then today we went to an awesome brunch with my parents and Kara.
We then took my mother for her first EVER pedicure and manicure! She loved it! Honestly, the best part of the day was seeing a woman who raised 6 children in awe of a chair that actually massaged your back while your feet were soaking in hot water. Her words "I never knew there was such a thing" then "Oh, this has to be a new thing...easter, mother's day, any holiday" Needless to say I was worried that I didn't by the typical Borders gift card but this was soooo much more!
We finished the day with shopping and ice cream! We had a great time! I could not be more impressed with all of the planning that Garret did for my special day! Awesome job GAR!

Destination DC

Aunt Jana & Joshy

"Bestest" Cousins

Uncle Mark & Abbey

Abigail Mae

I wrote this a few weeks ago! Then the internet failed! We went in April!

Ethan and I took our first Mommy/son roadtrip to DC to meet our new neice/cousin ABBEY! and of course to see Josh and Aunt Jana/uncle Mark too! We spent the night in Oxford, NC with Aunt Lisa/Uncle Brad and Kellyn to help break up the trip! Ethan did wonderfully! He did ask me a few times "are we there yet" but with the help of Scooby Doo we made it there by early Friday morning! Abbey is a sweetheart and Ethan and Josh got started right away on the Legos we brought for Josh's b-day!

On Saturday, Jana and I slipped away to go to WEGMAN's..... IF you are from Buffalo, you know what I am talking about! I was a kid in the candy store! WOW! Bison Dip, Weber's mustard, wegman's turkey sausage patties, kimmelwyck rolls....I spent my weekly food budget! Good thing I brought 2 empty coolers with me!

Then we rode the METRO to the Federal Triad stop and took both boys to the Air and Space muesum. I am a closet history lover so going to the Smithsonian was a dream! The boys loved it! Ethan was in airplane heaven!

Before we knew it the weekend was over! We made it back the whole 7 hours without any problems! The view on the way back between Virginia and NC was beautiful!

Over a Month

I know I know.... It has really been a month since I have blogged! Well I will catch you all up! First! Easter! We had a great relaxing Easter. For the first year we did not go to Florida..which is really sad but we did just make the trek for Disney in February! Ethan really got into finding his Easter basket and loved all of the goodies in it! Of course, mostly LEGO's. He has however, been carrying around a small lunchbox with all his candy in it since Easter. Emelia LOVES candy necklaces! She got 5 in her basket and ate them all. Well what she doesn't know is that Mommy threw them away after she ate about 3pcs of each!