Cody's birthday party was intense...ly successful! We had what seemed like a billion children in our backyard playing with playdough, running around and enjoying a live animal show. We now joke that it was a party to remember for years to come...seriously he'll have to remember this one for years because we'll never plan such a big event again :) That morning he got his big boy bike and is cruising on it super well.
The next weekend we took the redeye back east and arrived in Utica. It was fun to play outside and we always enjoy about 3000 more calories per day of great Utica food. We also got to see the Gaetanos at Kate's house. One of my favorite moments of that night was Tim and I catching Ben and Cody reading a story together on his trampoline. Priceless!
Then my rents drove us to Greg's rents in Pottstown. We had a great Turkish dinner made by John that night. Then we visited with Oma on Tuesday and went to Strasburg Railroad on Wednesday. Wednesday night Greg and I went out for a great anniversary dinner at Birchrunville Store Cafe- so yummy! Throughout this whole time it rained and like Pep used to say-Cody got to hear "the angels bowling" during cool summer thunderstorms. Then on the 4th of July no rain! And the Nottes threw a big family BBQ. It was great to catch up and watch all the kids play T-ball and slip n slide.
Friday we had a great time- so great I didn't take even a moment away to take a pic unfortunately! We drove to Jersey and our friends Mike and Cindy and their cute baby Landon hosted us and the now east coast Goldfarbs at their neighborhood lake. We had a blast swimming, BBQing and catching up. Saturday we went to Cody's favorite-Please Touch Museum then Greg flew home. Sunday we met up with Jon and Trish back in the city again and had fun pretending we lived amongst dinosaurs at the Natural Sciences Museum. Again, I'm bummed I didn't take many pictures! Monday, me and the kids flew to Nashville.
It actually was an okay flight even though Sienna had pooped on me before take off. But my friend Michael Moy told me to always pack extra clothes for both kids and adults so once airborne we both got changed and it was all good...well that is until the Ipad crashed on Cody-but he napped and all was well. Noah and Asa picked us up. And that evening we hit the town square's water fountains to cool off. This whole trip it was around 95 with 100 humidity! Sizzlin'!! I'm so glad we got to see the Ashley's home in Bowling Green. I even saw Mandy's almost complete new practice! It's going to be great! On Wednesday Mandy, Sienna and I did a two mile historical tour of Mammouth Caves while Noah watched Asa and Cody become Junior Rangers. Sabi was a perfect princess in her dresses and Wyatt loved Sienna right from the start.
Asa was very proud of himself for helping Sienna to sit up all by herself. Now she can do that without falling down. She also started eating rice cereal with bananas. She's growing up so fast! The kids did great on the two flights back and we even got to see Paige briefly (that's another story) during our delayed layover in Denver. She looks amazing with only one month left before baby Schmidt joins her/his five other cousins. Hopefully we'll all get together next year around this time. I'm trying to promote a Montana trip. Next up Laura and her kids are coming in on Wednesday. Man, summer is non stop action packed fun. With all this action it felt pretty great to be still at yoga this morning for just an hour then it's back to it-this time it was a dino theme Cody friend party. Ahh namaste and goodnight.
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