Visiting Friends

Road trip time!  We took the kids to visit Tony & Sara and their little ones Ella and Owen.  Everyone played really well and had a great time.  Juliet's favorite part of the visit was the bowl of goldfish that she devoured over the course of the afternoon.  :-)

Matty and Ella playing

Juliet and Matty snacking

Juliet still snacking with Ella and the coveted goldfish

The Final Straw (berry)

Some last shots of Matty and Juliet strawberry picking...

Strawberry Fields Forever

Phew..that was tough work.  Time for some group pics!

Cousins in the Strawberry fields

Pop with his four grandchildren--everyone is tired from all the hard work (that Pop, Aunt Susie, and Mommy just did :-)  )

Strawberry Comraderie

Strawberry Buds-- Matty and Brendan

Strawberries

The picking continues...

Juliet checking her height against cousin Brendan

Matty picked a strawberry!

Juliet pointing out a good strawberry to cousin Ryan

Strawberry Picking

Strawberries are in season!  We went Strawberry picking--Matty's 3rd visit to the strawberry patch and Juliet's 2nd!  It was quite a hike out to the field, but the strawberries smelled amazing and were ripe for the picking, as the saying goes. 

Distractions

Why haven't I updated the blog in a week?  Reading the Fifty Shades of Grey and Hunger Games trilogies back to back was probably a really bad idea in terms of my free time.  I also forgot our camera over Memorial Day weekend and didn't get any pictures of the kiddos and fam at the shore.  (I'll have to make up for it by taking twice as many shore pictures for the rest of the summer.)  Our Memorial Day weekend was certainly not dull.  We had the traditional sand and surf fun, but it also included Matty running full speed into a sliding glass door, stepping on a shard of glass, and some major GI issues.  On the bright side, Matty shook everything off and didn't let anything slow him or his eating down.  Juliet continued her Charm tour and is currently gathering research for her first book "How to win toys and influence family".  Her biggest coup so far is getting Uncle Tom to let her play with his new iPhone.