We celebrated my dad’s birthday with a lobster feast. Happy birthday to a loving Dad/Grandfather who loves God and loves his family, a faithful follower of Christ and a devoted husband. Love you Dad!

Lesson continues even @96 ? weather…

We’ve been so lucky to have many gracious friends who let us use their pools to cool off this summer. We literally have been going to different friend’s pools at least once a week. Thank you!!

Our turn to host a Basketball Camp today. They also played badminton and football.

My version of an Italian Sub. 

We’re having special guests this evening and I made, watermelon feta salad, Mexican street corns, guacamole, lobster rolls, and for dessert, peach cobbler.

We played Basketball, golf, tried skateboard tricks and ended the night with badminton game. Thank you Noel family for coming over to play with us! We are so grateful for your ministry!

We had an awesome day at the beach today. We packed up and got in the car by 7 am, arrived at Ocean Grove by 8:30am, in the ocean by 9 am. The water was clean, refreshing for this beautiful summer day and we had so much fun riding the strong waves! It was not crowded in the morning, and when it was getting crowded by noon, we packed up and left by 2pm. Great Day!

Tutor session outside the house

Piano lesson, wearing a mask…

I took my parents and Chloe out for a walk in Piermont, NY and we had lunch at a restaurant for the first time in months. 

We decided to make a list of experiences we want to achieve as a family this summer, sort of like a summer bucket list. My first pick was kayaking on the Hudson. 

I booked us a kayaking tour on the Hudson valley and that’s what we are doing on this gorgeous summer morning. We began our adventure kayaking south under Storm King Mountain before crossing the Hudson River to the base of Breakneck Ridge on the Eastern bank. This was a long stretch of constant paddling which took about 30 mins until we crossed the river. Then we paddled North to Pollepel Island. When we got to the island, the kayak guide shared history of the castle as we paddle around, viewing the ruins from the water-level perspective.

This was a lot of fun and really exhausting. I was amazed how strong Chloe was. She had no problem keeping her pace with everyone and she was the only teenager on a single kayak. 

I hired myself as my kids camp counselor today. I got them up early, went jogging, and we put up the badminton net and played…

And then I realized today is 4th of July.