Saturday - May 23, 2009

The kids were dropped off to my mother last night for a sleepover, since Tim and I needed to be in Foxboro for my cousin Billy's wedding at 11am today. We got dressed and drove down, got stuck in traffic and missed the entire ceremony. We got there in time for the receiving line and joined in for the reception. (The ceremony and reception were both in the same place.)



The wedding was beautiful! We were at a table with my aunt Anne and uncle Bill (the groom's parents), my grandmother (Grandma Frana), Anne's best friend Kimmy and her husband, and Anne's best friend Audra. Marissa (the bride) spelled my grandmother's name wrong on the seating card, but that happens a lot.



First dance:



Being toasted:


Bill, Billy, and Anne:


Uncle Bill with my cousin Danielle:


More dancing (the tall little girl is Camryn, Marissa's daughter):


Cake cutting:




The mother/groom dance:


Grandma and Tim getting in a dance:


Me with Grandma Frana:


After the wedding, Tim and I picked up the kids and headed over to Mike & Josi's house to hang out with them during Josi's son's graduation party. Brought over some scratch tickets for him (he won $30) and we were waaaay overdressed for the occasion. But we all had a good time!

Friday - May 22, 2009

The soccer season is coming to a close, so I bought some red pinnies as an end of the year gift for Coach Larry (he says kids take them home all the time and he rarely has enough of one color to provide to a whole team.)

Noah had his Busy Bee Field Day today, which included a ride on a school bus (he was so excited!) to a local Kindergarten class so he could see how Kindergarten works before he goes. After having that experience and then a picnic lunch, he got to have ice cream with his class at Peaceful Meadows! He had a blast. :)







Wrapped Alana's birthday gifts and that was about all that was exciting today!

Thursday - May 21, 2009

All I can remember from this day is that we prepared for Noah's field trip and I signed paychecks and paperwork at the Library. Tim and I skipped our cycling class and Alana's friend Hank never came over, though he was supposed to...so I think it was just a low-key day.

Wednesday - May 20, 2009

I went to my power lifting class this morning before picking Noah up from Busy Bee.

Alana's birthday cake was ordered today, and the goody bags for her party were put together. Alana was allowed to ride her bike to her friend Tyler's house after school and play there until 4:00, then she, Noah, and I went to her soccer game at 4:30.

Today is Karen's birthday! Happy birthday Karen!

We went to dinner with Stalker Dave too, which is always a good time. :)

Tuesday - May 19, 2009

As I'm writing this (today's date is November 16, 2009), I am realizing that I will have forgotten quite a lot of details of things that happened day to day from May 19th up until this morning. I do still have my planner and some pictures to work with, so I will do my best to accurately reflect as much as I can. Sorry for the long absence from blogging!

Today Alana got to play with the birthday gifts she got from Greg & Rachael. The first thing she wanted to try out was the butterfly bubble wand. She thought it would make bubbles shaped like butterflies. So she went out to the back yard, followed the instructions, and was initially dismayed that it just made regular bubbles.

(video will go here once I can figure out how to have ubuntu recognize my video files in photobucket.)

But then she got into it and had a lot of fun with it. :)







Later on, Cameron came over to play with the kids.



Allie is still calling him her boyfriend!