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We miss you Joe ...

Looking forward to being reunited with you one day again!

birthday pix

Hailey's 3rd birthday party was Saturday and she had a blast!

The theme for her party was Tinkerbell/Pirates (for the boys). I told everyone in the invite to dress the part. Princesses, pirates and fairies welcome. As you can see many played the part and had fun.

Thank you to all who came and for all the gifts, she was spoiled!

Here she is the the morning after :-)

Happy Birthday Luke!

On Sunday we went to Canobie Lake Park to celebrate Luke's 7th birthday. All the kids had a blast and stayed out way past their bedtimes, but surprisingly enough they were all very well behaved which made it a good day all around!

Happy Birthday Luke, we love you!

Happy Birthday Baby!

Happy Birthday to the most precious little girl in the entire world! Daddy and I love you loads!

Happy 4th of July!

Yesterday we had well made out plans, but I should know better that things never work out that way. We started off at 10a to visit Meme and Papa and stop at a store to buy an extra beach chair. On our way we got a flat tire.


Thankfully it was close to a VIP, but we couldn't get the lug nuts off, they were literally glued on. The tow truck guy even had a hard time with the air compressor. Thankfully Meme was close by and "rescued" us with her AAA benefits and we were towed to VIP. $120, a new tire and 5 hours later we were finally on our way to Wolfeboro where we were headed to the beach and fireworks.

After the beach, my brother, Laura and my parents met us for dinner on the water and then we set up shop to watch the fireworks.

Elijah and his family also went to Wolfeboro and we met up with them to watch the fireworks.

Hailey was a little scared of the fireworks and so she was quite cuddly, but we didn't mind :-)


The story does not stop here ... on the way home traffic was stopped and my parents car overheated. Thankfully, that can be solved with a little time and a jug of water. So there we sat. This one cost us a couple bucks and about an hour. We didn't get home till 12:30a.

Last year we went to Wolfeboro for fireworks as well and we lost our brakes. I am taking it as a sign that after two years in a row with car problems on the 4th that maybe we are not meant to be in Wolfeboro on the 4th - next year Dover here we come :-)

And these pix are just for fun. Do you believe my 3 year old eats steamed clams like candy?! She also eats olives stuffed with garlic. YUCK!