Ric spent Friday with the Young Men canoeing and then camping overnight. I’m sure he’ll have stories to tell…but just in case he asks, here’s what we did while he was gone!
Well….we all woke up at 8:30 am (Bonus!)

We decided that we needed pony tails – ALL of us.

We watched Mary Poppins and made funny [...]

Ryan: (wearing some big boy underwear) I call this a “weenie pocket”
a few minutes later…
Ryan: This hurts a little bit.
Mom: What hurts?
Ryan: My weenie.
Mom: Why?
Ryan: Because it’s going up, and it’s supposed to go down.
Mom: Oh…I didn’t know there were rules.
Ryan: Yep, there are rules.
(Don’t get too excited, I’m sure I’ll be changing wet big [...]

While Ric was working last weekend, we joined some friends (GiGi and her daughter Kerri and two grandkids) and took a trip to Newport.
Usually, I avoid Newport in the summer because it’s just so crowded. But that’s in the shopping area – not at Brenton Point Park! Sure there were a lot of people, but [...]

OK…a little late, but here we are! Like our craftiness? :) It’s not the best picture, but at least you can see that we “tried” to be patriotic! :) Mom and Dad made the flags and the kids made the fireworks! It was fun to fingerpaint together!
We celebrated by visiting Ric’s cousin Stephanie and her [...]

Remember the dining room upgrade project? (For a recap, go here, here, here, here, here and here! That was ALMOST 2 years ago!)
Since then, I’ve been staring at my kitchen cabinets, etc. and planning in my head what I’m going to do with them (Ric hates that!)
Well, here’s a refresher on what the kitchen looked [...]

We’ve had some incredible thunder storms pass through here the last 3 days. It’s sunny for a while, then the storm comes through, then it goes back to sunny again. Ryan and Megan took advantage of the sunny parts as much as possible.
What a life, huh?
I took this video around 5:30pm – during one of [...]

Can you guess what it was? Ryan decided to climb up on a coffee table that’s right under the mantle and throw my Willow Tree figurines on the floor. “Look Mommy, his head is off!”
This is the result.
Right now, he’s locked inside his room so that I don’t kill him. Yes, they can be [...]