the adventure that is life: April 2014

Easter Weekend

>> 4.21.2014 – easter, travel

Ben had Good Friday off- side note- it's so wonderful that he gets paid time off after so many years of self employment- so we decided to do a little Easter road trip. On Friday we just decided to be lazy and hang out at home. We dyed some eggs and did a little Easter Egg hunt

On Saturday we drove the couple hours to Philadelphia to check out the Please Touch kid's museum. Sophia had a blast.

Sunday we drove home and stopped to check out the Jersey Shore. So many giant houses and pretty ocean views!

We arrived home to some more beautiful spring flowers blooming in the yard ( and cheesy Sophia smiles)

Snow!!?! Ugggg

>> 4.16.2014 – family, New York

Do you ever have those weeks that just kind of stink? I'm having one and it's only Wednesday. I've had a flat tire, it snowed, I spilled a bunch of peanut butter in the microwave, and I was an hour early to a car appt today. Sophia and I are now sitting here trying to stay occupied- thank goodness for the iPad. I'm ready for Friday- which thankfully Ben has off.

This last weekend's weather was amazing and Ben's parents were here so we did quite a bit of fun outside stuff. I just wish the weather hadn't decided to take a turn last night. Our yard looked like this when I woke up

And it looked like this only a few days ago. This morning my poor daffodils were droopy and sad.

We went to Bear Mountain on Saturday and enjoyed the amazing weather

We did the whole Central Park tourist thing on Sunday. Again, amazing weather!

On Monday Ben went to work and we went to the Maritime Aquarium in CT. Sophia loved touching the jellyfish and sting rays. She went back over and over to get a touch.

The day was great until I was driving away and cut too close to a curb and... Flat tire. I got a new one and all is good again. Now we just need to get a good car report at the appt that we were too early for today and all will be good. Oh, and the snow needs to melt ASAP!

Tick-ed Off

>> 4.01.2014 – bugs, family, ny

We were giving Oliver a bath Sunday night- as we always do- and noticed something on his ear. I thought he had something stuck in his hair but it wouldn't come out. Ben mentioned that maybe it was a tick and I thought- nah- I don't think they look like that. So I googled it and yep- they do look like that- I won't show you a picture because ticks are disgusting when sucking blood. So Ben took it off with tweezers and I decided to do some research. Deer tick. Uggg- our yard seems to be a perfect tick haven and it ticks me off. We have a little stone wall around the yard and behind it lots of trees and brush and leaves. And where do ticks live? In stone walls, bushes, and leaves, etc. Basically the borders of our yard. And up here in the Northeast ticks seem to be all over- no escaping. I've read all sorts of stuff and am prepared to do tick checks and bug spray routines and try anything I can to keep those nasty things away. They don't usually go in the yard, so I've read, but along the perimeter-so we just need to steer clear. I realized I can't let the ticks scare me from being outside but rather just be more vigilant. No more jumping in leaf piles for us around these parts!

Thankfully the weather is warming up and today was nice. We got backyard and park time in while enjoying the sun- both of which I hope wear Sophia out because she was up at 6 am this morning and I was not quite ready to wake up.

I realized I never posted the rest of the pictures from my parents visit- just last week they were here with us- and we had such a great time!

We visited the Pez Visitor Center...

You could fill a bucket of Pez for 5 bucks. And all those Pez have already been consumed... By me.. Yummy. I don't like the regular flavor Pez but the sour ones-they were good...