Connecticut

We were expecting the weather in Connecticut to be a bit less HOT than Florida-but we were wrong, it was still in the 90's and humid. However there were lots of shady places and fun cool-off things for the boys to do.

In the morning the boys would go out with Grandpa and get the newspaper, then check the blackberries and find some new ones to pick. There were TONS of cool parks, Brandon really enjoyed hitting the balls hanging in the garage (you know that originally was so that you know how far to park the car into the garage)-so we started out with 1, made a second and had to keep putting new balls on-it was so much fun!

"The Beach"

Marie with Grandma!

They played in the pond, collected tad poles with their bug gear from Florida, rode the tractor-there was just loads and loads of things to do-it was such a blast..even though it was HOT. Oh and both boys LOVED a ride in the convertible.

Making cinnamon rolls! YUMMY!

I particularly enjoyed going to NYC. Not only was it fun but it was a fabulous time away from the boys. It was me, Eric, Marie and Mom-we did a tour on an open bus-and got to see many of the sites, went to the Statue of Liberty it was just really fun to see the big city again-and spend some time with the ones I love!

This is when NYC was still a bit cool..in the morning!

Proof we were there! Beautiful Skyline


Marie had enough of New York!



Mom captured this cute video of Marie yackin' away to Daddy!

Grandpa and the boys went to a petting zoo and some other really fun things-but we had both camera's in New York--so we just got to hear all the wonderful things they did..but they were asleep when I got home and they didn't even miss me!

The night before our flight we look at the Itinerary and it said that we had a 4 hour lay over in Cincinnati! I could NOT believe this-when I booked the tickets the layover was almost nothing and I was thinking we'd have to hurry to the next flight. So I was sort of sulking because I sort of feel that was my fault and we realized it too late. So we get to Cincinnati about 8:15 we check the tvs and it says there's a flight leaving at 8:30 so Eric jogs over there and asks if the flight is full-they say yes so we just have a very, very long breakfast, get a picture in front of Ronald (that's painted on the wall) and luckily there's a play place in the airport with a TV on that we hung out at-so it wasn't too bad.

However before finding the play place we're hanging out near our gate at a deserted area charging the DVD player. This gal asks me who we are-and she informs us that we had boarding passes to the 8:30am flight-they paged us like 4 times and she didn't say-but the probably gave our tickets away to standby. So it was heart breaking ALL over again that we could have made that flight and we didn't have to have this LONG lay over! It was sort of nice that it wasn't totally my fault-that I wasn't imagining things when I booked our tickets like 8 months ago-but it sucked all over again-reality that we had this LONG lay over! But we all survived!

Marie just seems like a whole new person now-seems like she's grown more than she should in the 2 weeks we were gone. She doesn't seem to mind the car seat as much now-she hardly cried the whole way back home-which was just incredible! She's more awake-wants to grab toys, really enjoys hangin' out watching the boys. So that's pretty fun.

Oh yeah-and Marie found her thumb on this trip..goodie...

The entire vacation was just a total blast. Marie's put quite a few sky miles in her short life time-but she was just as wonderful as the boys traveling-and I'm ready to do it all over again, and again, and again-I'm not ready for reality of Eric going to work, me shopping with 3 kids-the boys always wanting new toys and cooking and cleaning..but that's all part of life. Thank you Mom & Dad for such a wonderful vacation!