Patrick's Party

We finally got around to having Patrick's birthday baseball theme party! (of course the Red Sox). The beer tent was the "Dugout", the food tent was the "Clubhouse" and the sitting area was the "Bullpen"! I had little baseballs as favors for the kids and Patrick put his signature on them. The day was muggy, but stayed dried, the kids loved the wading pool, the food we had catered was great, and the 1/2 keg of beer was gone before 8 PM! The stories were plenty and fun was had by all! It took two days to recover! Patrick's next party is when he turns 100!

Patrick got some great gifts, a Red Sox beer glass, a Daddy Hug reading book to read to Sean (that brought a tear to our eyes), a Russian spiderman comic book, a round of golf, a few cases of beer, plenty bottles of wine, a book on Alcatraz, and a couple of gift cards. Of course a box of adult diapers! Just to name a few. The stand out gift of the night a donation made to Wide Horizons for Children! (I will quote what was written in the card) "For children of Russia, so that a future "Sean" can have a Mom & Dad as the great as the both of you!" There are no words to describe how felt when we read that. A big thank you to all our family and wonderful friends!


Goldie taking a rest in the kiddie pool!





The big game!

A day at Paradise!

It was a great day at the pool club with Jill, Nicholas, Melissa and Colby. The boys had a good time in the pool playing. The weather was perfect! The boys made it past their nap time.(oh boy!) I am sure they must of fallen asleep on the way home. Melissa and I enjoyed tossing Colby back and forth in the water...he loved every minute of it! Sean will have two swimming buddies!

Our 1st dip in!

Colby having a snack after fun day in the water!

Summer time road trips!

On August 1st, we went to Fair Haven, MA which is located on Buzzard's Bay for the annual "Fun in the Sun" get together with Patrick's high school/college pals. We had a fun time as the weather was nice, the food was good, and of course our host Nancy was kind enough to open her cottage/home to us all! Patrick has some great friends and all of them have always made me feel welcomed! We had plenty of laughs, and it was great to catch up with everyone! They all enjoyed the pictures of Sean!

I also headed down to the Jersey Shore for a few days, visiting friends and family. I went out to dinner with my JG girls having lobster dinner at the Parker House. We got to catch up on each other's lives and I showed them our pics and video of Sean! My favorite subject (no fooling) is talking about our son! Spent some time with my dad, he thinks Sean will grow up to big boy. I also got go to the beach for the day. I met up with my friend Rosemarie. The water was so nice! We walked the entire beach front checking out houses to possibly rent on beach front for next year! We had a wonderful day chatting together! I can not wait until next summer to bring Sean to the "shore!"

Random thoughts

My garden this year has been a bust… so far! The damp and cloudy weather has left my vegetables very small. I am finally getting some cucumbers to grow. My tomato plants have been stricken with apparently the same disease that has affected a lot of the local farm markets. I also had a few critters hit my vegetables to which they enjoyed a nice salad! Oh well there is always next year on the veggies. On the positive, my flowers were happy with all the rain! I was able bring back some corn and tomatoes from New Jersey when I was down home visiting. Nothing can beat those Jersey tomatoes!

We bought a great little net book computer which we plan on taking to Russia, it weighs only 2 lbs. Cute little thing, works great! We can also skype from it to! I am very slow on it, but getting the hang of it. We have finally gone wireless. Nice be able to use the computer where ever you want.

Patrick put in a new heating system down stairs in our finished basement. So we will be nice and warm this winter down stairs. We cleaned out our basement and started organizing the garage. I hope to get my perennial garden completed this fall.

My sister came up for the weekend; we had a lot of fun going shopping! I think we hit every store possible. She bought a few cute things for Sean! She has been keeping busy knitting a blanket for Sean. That night we had a great time cooking a seafood dinner feast together! I look forward to our next visit together.