Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

I haven't blogged in a month and I was going to post some pictures with this but I have lost my cord that connects my camera to my computer. So I am blogging but you won't get to see any of the fun pictures to go along with it.

We have had such a busy summer. I never thought we were going to be this busy. At the end of May, Cade went to stay with my parents and had to come back home early so we could have all of his tests run. My mom came back with me to Louisville and when she went home she took Isaac with her. The plan was for both boys to stay with my parents while I went to Mfuge with Aaron and the youth. My grandfather was living with my mom and wasn't doing well, so I decided I wouldn't go to camp and me and Cade would just go Mississippi to see my family in Mississippi. My grandfather passed away a week after I got there. He had cancer and had just gotten really weak and wasn't eating. He was 87 years old and was tired. Aaron left camp on Saturday and headed to Mississippi. He did my grandpas funeral service so we just stayed another week in Mississippi. So Isaac was in Mississippi for a whole month and we were all gone half of the month of June. It wasn't our orginal plan for the summer but I am glad I got to be with my family.

We had some friends come visit us last week and stayed all week. They helped me take up the carpet in our living room and dining room. We sanded and stained the hardwood floors and I really like it. We also went to Indiana and went shopping at the outlet mall. It was a fun week. (had some good pics of the fun we had and the cookout but of course I can't get from my camera to my computer)

Aaron has been out of town since Thursday and will come home tomorrow night real late. Then we will be leaving Friday morning for our family vacation. We are going to New York this year and will be staying with some of our friends. Cade doesn't really know where we are going but Isaac has a little idea. He is really excited about seeing the Statue of Liberty. I have heard it is booked up until September, so we won't get to go inside but he will get to see it up close. None of us has ever been to New York so we are real excited about going.

Cade is doing well and our appointment with the Neurosurgeon is getting closer. It is on September 2nd and we are anxious to hear what he has to say and where we will go from here.

Hopefully I can get another cord to the camera and will be able to at least post some pics from our trip to New York.