Summer Vacation

The Family at the Mets game!

Everytime a pitch was thrown, Cade was swinging from the stands with his bat. It was too cute!

My boys enjoying a Nathan's Hot Dog.

This is as close as we got to the Statue of Liberty. The line was so long to ride the ferry out there. The boys were so excited to just get this close!

Where the twin towers were and the rebuilding going on.

Aaron on the double decker tour bus!

We got to go to New York this summer for our family vacation. We have some friends who live there and they let us stay with them. Thanks Sean and Christina!

We went on a tour of the city one day. We took a train from the little town we were staying in to Grand central Station. Cade loved that train. He says the train and bus were some of his favorites! When we got in the city we took a double decker bus tour where they have a guide who tells you where and what everything is. There was 25 stops and you could get out at any of them and then just catch the next bus to the next stop. We got out at the site of the World Trade Center and Statue of Liberty. We tried to explain to the boys what happend on 9/11 but they just couldn't understand why someone would want to run a plane into buildings. Cade said those people must not of liked how tall the buildings were. Isaac was so excited to see the Statue of Liberty. He was telling some random girl next to him that he was looking at it. It was too cute! We also stopped and ate at a TGI Fridays. Everyone says that the food is expensive but until you see a menu with a $7.95 kids macaroni do you really understand how expensive!

We also went to Coney Island, ate at Nathan's Hot Dogs and the New York Aquarium. We weren't very impressed with the Aquarium or Coney's Island but we got a good hot dog and the kids seemed to enjoy the day.

The night before we left we got to go to the Mets vs. Rockies baseball game. It was so much fun! In the past, the boys haven't lasted very long but at this game they really enjoyed it and Cade was wanting to get out there and play with them.

July was such a busy month. I think I was only home for a total of one week the whole month. We enjoyed our traveling but I am glad to be back home. We are getting ready for the next school year to start. Aaron starts Monday and Isaac on the 20th. Aaron is going to be a Senior and only has two semesters left of his undergraduate. Isaac is starting 2nd grade at Portland Christian School where he went last year. He really enjoyed 1st grade and said yesterday that he was ready to go back to school. Definetly what a mom wants to hear!

I am still working at a Mothers Day Out as the Assistant Director, so Cade goes there with me and is learning his letters and numbers and is getting pretty good at writing his name. He will be 5 in October but his late birthday has him starting Kindergarten next year. I am not complaining. It will be sad when my baby goes off to school too.