Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Family Time

We love having family days and that is exactly what we did this past Sunday. We packed up the kids, bikes, and a picnic lunch and headed to Wellsley Island for the day.

Our Annual Mom/Boys Trip

This summer was the 3rd Annual Mother/Son Water Safari Trip for Jen and I with our boys! We absolutely love this day and look forward to it each summer. Bethany spends the day with Leah and Lindsey and we spend the day at the water park. This year the boys were big enough to go on every water ride, and we managed to get on every one of them! We had a couple of random rain showers but for the most part it was sunny and warm! I can't wait to do it again next summer!

Fun in Lewis County

Who knew you could have so much fun in a place called Lowville? That is exactly what we did last week. First with the never-ending Lewis Co Fair Parade with the Charltons and Sweets, then I was lucky enough to spend Thursday afternoon with Jen and the boys at the fair! The boys had a blast, even though, the moms were a bit nervous watching them on the "big" kid rides for the first time! Where has the time gone!? t

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Our Little Heaven

We love that our kids love the beach just as much as we do. I am not a professional photographer by any means, but I love these pictures I took with my phone. We took an early morning walk with my mom to look for shells one day and I captured a bunch of memories!

Yummm....Chocolate and More!

After leaving the beach, sniff sniff, we went to my sister's house in PA. We took the kids (and Lee) to Hershey Chocolate World and on Monday went to Sesame Place! We had another 2 fun days and by Monday night, the kids were exhausted! Lindsey fell asleep in the car after Sesame before we even backed out of the parking space! We spent 2 nights at my mom's before driving back up to NY! Then we spent the next few days recouping and buying a wave runner! We can't wait to use it this weekend! Here are some more random pics!

Where in the World are the Castanas?

We have been offline for a few weeks but all in good fun! After spending a week here with Sam, we loaded up the car and headed to PA then Maryland, Virginia, and finally our beach house for a week in the Outer Banks! This year, my in-laws rented a house about a 1/2 mile down the road from us! We had amazing (a little hot) weather and a wonderful week! We missed my sister Becky but she was having the time of her life in Europe with JB, who could blame her!? We rented wave runners, played mini golf, ate seafood, drove go-karts, spent hours on the sand and hours on the beach, hunted for crabs, rode bikes, ate Duck Donuts 2x, got stuck in traffic about 4x, spent over 30 hours in our car, but it was totally worth it and we can't wait to go back! Here are some random pictures from our vacation!

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