Back to School!

Well it has been an eventful couple of weeks! I started my last week before work going on a fishing trip with my dad. I had never really been fishing, especially out in the bay. We went on a 3 hour trip on a charter boat. Had fun, despite threatening weather and even caught two fish.







My first fish I caught!










The next day I took the kids to the Plumpton park zoo. Such a great
place for the kids to get up close to the animals.





On Thursday, I went on an adventure by myself to Lancaster to the Kettle Kitchen Village. It was such a relaxing day. Enjoyed the scenic ride on the back roads and walking around leisurely shopping. I brought back some delicious home-made goodies from the amish like variety of cheese, chocolate covered oreo, and different kinds of jellys and jams. Even got to taste Shoo fly pie for the first time!

Thursday, we took the kids to our annual trip to Dutch Wonderland. We had a blast. It was great to see the kids have fun and we enjoyed spending the day with them!








The giant slide was a favorite for both of them!











Tyler was very serious about trying to figure out how this ride worked...











Here is his smile before the ride started...needless to say the smile didn't last long...didn't like the way the frogs jumped at all!

Last Saturday, Gabby and I participated in the Middletown Peach Festival with our jazzercise group. We did the parade and two performance demonstrations. We had a blast!

I went back to work last week. Even though I miss my freedom and hate the stress, it was nice to get back on my routine and our schedules.

Half way through the week, we ended up having a small earth quake! Very scary. I felt it, but was glad that it didn't effect Julio up high at work and the kids didn't really feel it.

Couple days later, we are now dealing with Hurricane Irene. Haven't had a hurricane since 1999 and this one was scary with the tornado warnings. At the moment, we are now dealing with the after effects and a lot of wind. We made out well with no flooding or power outage, but I know a lot of the state was not so lucky.

As a result of being stuck in the house for couple of days, we got to spend some quality time with the kids. We had bought a new lego set, which both kids had a blast with.




Gabby showing off her car she built!






Tyler looking checking out the hurricane.

This week has been very eventful and a lot of firsts for us. I am thankful for the downtime, and chance to get ready for the school year ahead for us.

August!

I really can't believe the summer is almost over! It has been nice to have time to myself this summer and also have some days for just the kids and I. We have been able to do some special things this past month or so.

One of our favorite things to do every summer is to go to the Delaware State Fair. The kids love to look at and interact with the animals. It's interesting each year to see how the kids respond differently as they grow. One of our favorites is to see the baby chicks. Tyler loves to pet them, but still does not want them touching his hands!




This was the first year that Gabby was brave enough to hold one all by herself! I was very proud and knew pop-pop would be too and Grand-dad was smiling down from Heaven!






They also enjoyed going on the rides of course.



Throughout the summer we have been able to go to some of the playgrounds around the area. They kids love to go out on the dock and look at the fish and water.









One of our favorites was a new playground called the Can-Do playground. It was nice to spend one of the cooler days of summer there as well as have a picnic lunch!











I can always catch one of them being them silly selves.










This past Friday Gabby and I had a mother/daughter day. I took her to the White Water Mountain in Rehobeth. We had a blast and it was a very relaxing day!

This was my favorite picture of the day!





I have one more week left before I go back to work. We have planned a trip to the zoo, our traditional trip to Dutch Wonderland and a trip to the beach for just Julio and I. It will be nice to end summer with a bang!