Hullabaloo

After a long day of birthday fun Dylan was worn out. He passed out on the way home from the bay.

Rachel getting ready for the 25M backstroke.

One of my good friend’s MIL has 2 horses. Now that my friend is pregnant she can no longer go riding w/her MIL. Since I rode most of my life she volunteered me to help exercise the horses. I gladly accepted! This was my first ride out, Western, which I’ve never done before. The horse is name Henry and he’s only 3 years old, but acts about 15! After we came back from our trail ride Dylan wanted to go for a ride. I put him up in front of me and he held on to the horn. He loved it!

The kids and I went up to Rochester for my mom’s 60th birthday. We met my brothers there too. My mom chose to go to “Arigato” for dinner, a Japanese hibachi restaurant. (My favorite place as a kid!) The waitress put the kimono and wig on my mom and the staff sang “Happy Birthday!” in Japanese. Pretty funny. (And I’m sure my mom is going to kill me for posting this picture and her age!)

I found this neat little sculpture along the edge of the water. Dylan wanted to knock it over, but I wouldn’t let him. I guess these are found frequently and no one else was as impressed as me!

My baby girl is sitting all by herself! After I finished taking pics of all the kids I let Gracie stay underneath the tree. I took a ton of pictures of her but this is one of my favorites. Rachel was acting like a goofball and cracking Gracie up!

We visited with my mom in Rochester over the weekend. She has raspberry bushes behind her shed. While I was taking pictures of the girls for my pseudo-photoshoot I spotted Dylan behind the shed. He had his hands full of raspberries, but lo and behold, he won’t eat them, just pick them.

Today was Sean’s 33rd Birthday. We went out to dinner at the Willows, which was delicious! Then came home to have cake that Linda brought over. She only had 31 candles, that’s why there is a #2 candle in the middle, he he he. 31+2=33, right?

My favorite place to go for pictures has shut down. I took these myself, not great, but they’ll have to do until I can find a new place to take the kids.

These hands were made for drawing!