Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Super Fun Family Visit

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Art & Marian, Linda, Jim and Matt spent the weekend with us. They arrived from Rochester early Saturday afternoon. Christine and Teddy's families were able to join us for the afternoon. The weather was summer like! Sunday was cooler but perfect for outdoor activities. We began by going to Sandy Hook National Park where we first visited the Nature Center and checked to see if the photo of Leo windsurfing about 15 years ago is still part of their exhibit. It is! Then we walked the nature trail through holly forests and then along the beach where we saw quite a few large horseshoe crabs and a lot of pretty shells.

We had a picnic lunch at the park, a tour of both the light house and the history house where officers used to live. We took the scenic ride home through Atlantic Highlands overlooking the bay and ocean stopping at Mitchell Monument Park to see the 911 Memorial and the view of Sandy Hook and NYC from a high eleavation. We also made a stop at Deep Cut Park to see the beautiful spring flowers. End of the day some of us were in the hot tub!

Monday was rainy so we went to the Monmouth Mall where our guests treated Bill and me and Christine to a delicious lunch at Charlie Brown's which is known for its fabulous salad bar. After tea at Christine's house we headed home. Bill started a fire in the wood stove and we just relaxed using the pool table, Bill's train set and Anne's slot machine. We also played Sequence. In the evening we got out my dad's old slides and did a lot of laughing.

This company is welcome any time!

Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter with Tyler

 

 
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This Easter Weekend we were in Hawley, Pa. with Leo, Kristen and Baby Tyler. As you can see Tyler is now begginning to walk. I took some video but unfortunately it was too dark.

On the way home we stopped to see Timmy and Bridget and their mommy, who made a very nice lunch for us. Timmy and Bridget colored some eggs for us!
 

 
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We had a delicious Easter Dinner with Kristen's family in Towanda. The group picture shows Tyler with both sets of grandparents and his great grandfather Lebo.

This year Easter fell on Kristen's birthday. Happy Birthday Kristen. Weather was cold and windy but sunny.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Out to the Movies

Last night we saw Knowing. It's a science fiction film rated PG and starring Nicolas Cage and as one critic wrote it is frightening, suspenceful, intelligent and awesome. I agree. Bill didn't like the ending. On the way out I heard people saying it was different. It was! I sort of felt like I'd been riding a roller coaster!

Sunday, April 5, 2009

March Birthday Celebration

 
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Last weekend we got together to celebrate our Birthdays. Bill, I, Patti, Peter, and Anthony were all born in March. Kristen's birthday is in April. It was actually Peter's birthday so although he wasn't present he was remembered. Teddy was away on a work trip but everyone else was able to come even Tyler who spent his first night at his grandparents home. Tyler has changed so much since we saw him a month earlier. He now vocalises to respond to you and he laughs! Christine did a good job writing about the day on her blog Simple Ordinary.