Labor Day Weerkend Already?

Hi All,

As usual the summer has gone by too fast. We are both looking forward to fall though. We have the most beautiful autumn in New England. We are hoping to go away for a weekend in the fall and will take pics for you all to see. Since my cell phone takes pretty good pics I have been better about posting with pictures. I think a blog post with pictures is so much better than one with no pictures at all.
On a different note, I am officially addicted to Facebook. Even more so I am addicted to Scrabble on Facebook. I've been playing against an old friend from high school and she whips my butt ever time. She introduced me to this game called Pathwords. Have any of you heard of it? I am HORRIBLE at it but am determined to get better. It has gotten so out of hand that I was up until 3:00 am last night playing it. Thank God for my laptop! Actually the laptop might be feeding into the addiction b/c if I had to sit up in my chair until 3 am at our stationary computer I would not have done it. Anyway, if any of you know this Pathword game and have any pointers, please share. I think I am going to go to Boarders today and by one of those little books and try to perfect it that way as opposed to playing online with the timer. I get so frazzled as I watch the time running out that I think it hinders my game!!! Ok, I am a certified addict.


Ok, enough about my obsessive habits. Last Sunday we spent the day with Kyle's sister Heather, her hubby and daughter. We went to the Museum of Science in Boston. Kyle and I had not been in years and really enjoyed it. We spent about 3.5 hours there but could of spent an entire day. Below is a shot of Uncle Kyle and our niece Alyssa. It is a little blurry but clear enough for you to get the gist. The spaceship is a replica of the Appolo. They also had a butterfly exhibit that we went to as well (2nd pic). That was super cool to see all the different butterflies. I had no idea that butterflies only live for 2 weeks at the most. Fascinating!

Anyway, that is about it from here.

Summer Pics and Weight Loss Update

Hi All,
The above picture was taken last weekend @ the pool @ our condo complex. We had our nieces Lauren & Courtney (both 10) for a sleepover. It was such a blast. The 4th person in the picture (2nd one in from the right) is my friend Megan who is Courtney's nice on her mom's side. Meg also slept over and we had the best time.

As most of you know, I've been doing Weight Watchers for 6 weeks. I think this is the longest I've ever stuck with it. I am a total yo yo dieter. I know WW works but I always lose my motivation. Not this time. I got weighed today and I lost 2.5 pounds. In total, so far I've lost almost 12 pounds. Yeah! I'm really pumped and feel driven to keep going. So, last weekend I was totally off the diet from Saturday-Sunday. When the girls slept over we had pizza for dinner and delicious sundaes for dessert. I also had a few alcoholic bevs! By the time Monday rolled around, I knew I had to kick butt for the rest of the week if I wanted to have a loss by the big Friday weigh in. I am really psyched that I lost despite the 48 hour binge! I think it helped that I was sick on Monday and did not eat much.

Courtney (L) & Lauren (R) being super patient with Auntie and her need to take millions of pics!

Ok, the shot above was taken for my friend Moriah. She made the earrings that the girls are wearing. Unfortunately the shot is a little blurry. I gave them both these earrings that Moriah made and they really loved them. I also showed them Moriah's website and they loved everything!! In this picture they are lying on our pull out couch. Even though we have a spare bedroom they wanted to sleep on the pullout.

Anyway, we don't have much planned for this weekend. We went out to dinner tonight and our monthly B.J's trip. Tomorrow we may visit Kyle's dad's grave as it is his father's b-day and we have not been there for awhile. I want to have a quiet weekend b/c last weekend was super busy.

Hope all is well. I'm thinking I need to post some more older pics to get ya'll to comment more. I love getting comments-Hint-Hint!

Can You Spot Me?

This is my class picture from 6th Grade. I'm curious how many of you can spot me?

My New Phone Takes Pretty Good Pics!

This is our niece & goddaughter Michaela . She looks so much like me as a child.




Hi All,

Just wanted to share a few recent pictures taken with my new phone. I have to admit that I'm pretty impressed with the quality compared to my previous phone which Kyle now uses.

This past weekend we stopped by my brother's house and snapped the shots below.

This is my nephew Garrett holding a little toad!

Here we are with our nephew Conor. His twin sister is Michaela in the first pic above.

Ok, the above shot is Michaela, her sister Courtney and my SIL Nicole. See Conor in the background?

This weekend we are having our nieces Courtney & Lauren for a sleepover. We are excited! We love having them over. They are just so much fun.

I can't believe we are already in mid-August. Where does the time go?

Last night I drove to Manchester , NH to see my wheeler friend Tammy. I was lost for a good hour and that was super stressful! I will never trust mapquest directions again!!! Once I finally arrived it was so great to see my old friend. I haven't seen her since my wedding 5 years ago. Tammy now lives in Seattle but was in NH visiting family. Although we had not seen each other in so long it was like we just saw each other. I love those friendships where you can just pick up right where you left off! We had a really nice visit and got the great shot below from my phone!

Ok, gotta run and do some laundry.

Hugs to you all.

Love,

C

Priceless

On Friday I went to Dunkin Donuts after my WW meeting to but myself an ice coffee (I lost 1.6 this week.) I also bought Rosie two munchkins. After she finished her donuts she pranced around with the bag in her mouth. I had to take a photo w/ my phone b/c she was just so darn cute. For those of you that are not from the North East, Dunkin Donuts is huge here and there is literally one on every corner. Anyway, I was thinking of emailing this pic to the D&D corporate website. What do you all think? BTW, thanks everyone for your feedback with our adoption profile. Kyle is working on his part today and them we are finished with that portion of things!! We should have the profile in less than 2 weeks. We'll keep you all posted.

Hugs-C & K

Pictures of new car, earring by Moriah and trip to Plymouth, MA

Hi All,

Here is a photo of our newer car that we purchased in June. It is an 05' Camry. It runs excellent and is fun to drive. It is also pretty good on gas mileage.

We have been using the Camry more than we were using our Accord last year. We have changed our driving habits with the rise in the price of gas. We really have not done much traveling this summer, but today we did take a day trip to Plymouth, MA. Plymouth is know for the settling place of the Pilgrims, who fled England because of religious persecution. For more info, click the links here.

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http://www.history.com/media.do?id=mayflower_plymouthrock_broadband&action=clip

The rock is quite small and not really a spectacular site as it had been split apart in the past and the small portion that sits under the rotunda We also saw a replica of the Mayflower. http://www.history.com/marquee.do?content_type=Marquee_Generic&content_type_id=52226&display_order=3&marquee_id=52222

Here is a photo of Caitlin and her mom when we first arrived in Plymouth. It was a beautiful afternoon. We also did a little browsing around town and also had our first ice cream of the summer.

Lastly, here is a photo of Caitlin wearing the earrings that Moriah had made. Caitlin purchased these from Moriah's blog http://beadyeyelass.blogspot.com/.
She already has a received several compliments about them.

We had a very nice weekend. Sunday was relaxing and nice to take it easy... Saturday was our productive and cleaning day. Hope you all had a nice weekend as well!!!!

Caitlin and Kyle

xoxo

I Love Cape Cod

Hi All,

Here are some pics from my short trip to Falmouth. I headed down to the house my sister Megan rented on Thursday afternoon around 2:00. We had a great night and they really spoiled me by serving the most delicious lobster salad for dinner. Yummo! Aunt Mo you would have loved it! We spend a few hours at the beach and had a few margaritas. My precious niece Lauren slept in the king size bed with me and we had a blast chatting up a storm.

Below is a cute shot of Lauren in the kitchen.

Here is a shot of my niece Sarah (left) and her sister Lauren.

We bought our nephew Colin a new Patriot's jersey for his 8th b-day and I had to get a shot of him in it to show Uncle Kyle b/c he wasn't there :( Colin absolutely loved this gift!!!

Below is a goofy video my niece Lauren and I made on my cell phone for my sister Maura in NYC. You can hear my goofy laugh in it. yuck!

On Friday we went to the beach from 10:30 am until 3:00 pm. The beach has a great beach wheelchair so I was able to go swimming in the ocean 2 times. That will be my only time going in the ocean this summer so I enjoyed every second of it. I am thinking that I will skip getting weighed this week b/c I have been off the diet since Thursday. Tomorrow I'll start tracking again. Tonight I made us pulled pork in the crock pot, homemade potato salad and corn on the cob! Yummy. It was FAB but not very diet friendly even though I did use low fat mayo and wholewheat rolls for the pulled pork!

Ok, that is it for now folks!!!