A Hometown Sunset

I caught a beautiful sunset tonight on my way home. The color was so beautiful that I stopped to take a shot. I didn't do it justice but i wanted to share. I hope your weekend was as good as mine! Goodnight!

Rainbow Pumpkin

Katie and Nana went to a Fall festival today. They rode a hayride and painted a pumpkin. Here is the proud artist and her masterpiece...rainbow pumpkin.

Cape Cod in the Fall

We are down the Cape this weekend to visit Nana and Papa. It's a beautiful Fall weekend. It's great in the summer but equally nice in the off-season. This is me and Marin on our second walk of the day. Marin's not sure if she wants in or out or to just play with the buckle on her stroller. Luckily, there are no cars as we play in the street. Two months earlier and we would have been mowed down two times over.

UMass?

I have to get my kids some UNH gear!

Happy 4th Birthday Katie

Happy 4th birthday to Katielady! She was so anxious to turn 4 that we were excited for her. Four finally! We decided to expand Katie's brithday over a few days. It was the "Weekend of Katie".

Katie's love of Batman began over the summer so she requested Batman cupcakes for her birthday. After doing some research on the Internet, I found some cupcakes with bats made out of black fondant icing. Have you ever worked with fondant? Me neither and I'm not sure if I will again. I was going to make the cupcakes for Katie to take to daycare on Friday since her actual birthday was Monday when daycare is closed. Due to my schedule, I was getting this project started at about 9pm on Thursday night. Fortunately Chad made the cupcakes while he was home earlier in the day and thank God for that. The fondant was not as easy as they made it out to be. Chad eventualy swooped in like Batman and saved the day by helping me out by cutting the bats out with teh stencil I made. It was definitely a team effort. When Katie saw them, I think she thought we were super heros. She was very appreciative and happy. She reported back that all of her friends LOVED the Batman cupcakes.

As a special brithday treat, cousin Ella was also going to stay at our house for her first sleepover at 72 Cedar and we took them to Davis Farmland for the day. It was great to see the three girls hanging out together. Even Marin got into feeding the animals but she was a little bit of a tease hording all of the feed. Oh and a bunch of giant goats hip-checked poor Ella to the ground but all-in-all there were no official injuries. It was a great day!

We came home and had Katie's birthday dinner. Grammie got her a Batman costume which she immediately put on and wore all night. This is probably a sneak preview of Halloween. She loved it. My Aunt Sheila came over and said to me "Where did Batman come from?"  And what she meant was where did Katie's new obseesion with Batman come from. Katie was quick to pipe in and let her know that Batman comes from Gotham City!

We saved one last Batman cupcake for the birthday girl!

Katie also recieved some new Toy Story dolls. She took a sharpie and wrote her name on the bottom of their feet...just like Andy in the movie.

She is heading to the doctor's next week so there will be more four-year-old stats on Katie next week.

I Finally Made It!

I finally made it! I finally made it to Chad's season ticket seats. He's had them for 9 years and this was my first time seeing a game from the seats. Full disclosure: I wasn't all that interested since the seats were in the last row but Chad and Steve (Chad's friend who he shared the tickets with) received an upgrade this year and I was all over that.

In the early years, Chad and Steve would go together. As years progress, children arrived. Work schedules started to creep in. Other obligations would pop up. And I've been to a couple of game since he became a season ticket holder. I just had never been to my husband's seats.

Off we went to Bob's house. If you are a Foxboro resident you can charge people to park on your lawn. It can't be more than the stadium and there is a 15 car limit. I think we were car 13 or 14. We met some nice people and thanks to the wooded lot, it felt very rustic. Very little traffic coming it which always puts you in a good mood.






Heading into the stadium for the home opener against the San Diego Chargers....




Checking out the new seats which are about 30 rows back around the end zone. It felt very close. I think Chad was impressed by the view and that there were no concession lines. It was fun and the Pats won!


 

The game ended a little before 7:30. We headed back to the car, jumped in, took Bob's super secret way back to the highway and we were home by 8:30. Bob's a saint!

Pickle Barrel

Marin enjoying a .25 cent pickle from the pickle barrel at Wild Willy's Burger.


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