We’re celebrating our 15th anniversary tonight!

The best sushi in town, an awesome broadway show, and delicious cocktails. What more do I want? 😉 Thanks babe! Happy anniversary to us!

My Chloe packed a little snack for me this morning- brioche toast with cream cheese and hot pepper jelly. Isn’t she the sweetest?! 🙂

I’m loving the Saturday morning routine. Yoga in the morning, then Chloe’s soccer game right after, then enjoy spending the rest of the day at home with my family. Chloe and I stopped by at the market after the game and put this together for lunch.

Then we had Korean kalbi for dinner. Chloe’s been talking non stop about her grandmother’s kalbi since few weeks ago, my mom made it again. Yay!

The grill master

YUM.

We’ve been looking forward to coming here again since we visited last year.

These grapes are the sweetest!

So glad we were able to bring my parents here this year!

Corn maze

Today happens to be their Octoberfest so we decided to stay afterwards and ended up having BBQ dinner with live music.

Love my family!

We have another birthday in the house – it’s Andrew’s birthday!

Kids made him his favorite food for his birthday dinner. My genius idea.  🙂

Happy birthday! Love you babe!

While I’m getting ready for our next activity, bonfire & s’mores, Chloe’s reading outside the tent,

and Shane’s inside on his iPod.

Roasting marshmallows and hot dogs.

It was so much fun! Happy birthday my sweet Shane!

And we all slept in the tent…

We are celebrating Shane’s 8th birthday and we are having a camping party in the backyard. 🙂 My sweet boy didn’t even ask for a party and even though we didn’t do anything special on his birthday, he just thought that was it. So when we surprised him with our little “camping trip” in the backyard today, he was thrilled!

Chloe’s an awesome sister. She bought him walkie talkies with her own money, wrapped beautifully with a card and gave it to him on his birthday. Shane said it’s “the best gift ever”, and they’ve been communicating through it all week. Andrew got him a brand new bike but who cares about that . ;P Actually he’s been riding it a lot and he’s very happy to ride a big boy’s bike.

Chloe’s praying for the meal.

My mom made Kalbi and Japchae. So yummy!

To the best 8 year old boy Shane,

Sweet, smart, kind, athletic, funny and bright. That’s you!

I am so proud that you are my son. I hope I tell you that often enough. I love how when you wake up in the morning (only during school week) all tired and needy and have to come to find me in the kitchen to sit on my lap hugging me for a while before you start your day.  When you outgrow my lap I’ll be really sad. I love how you randomly call me to say you love me throughout the day. You are a sweet sweet soul… You have so much love to give and I hope you love your God the father the most before anything else in life. I love you with all the love I can imagine…my son.

At 8 years old:

1. Your favorite color is black.

2. You want to become a football quarter back player when you grow up.

3. You’re going to live next door to us and be our neighbor when you get older but you’re also going to have a house in Bar Harbor.

4. You love to play basketball, football, baseball, soccer, basically all sports and you’re so good at all of them.

5. You find your sister Chloe to be the funniest comedian on earth and you are her biggest fan.

6. You still like to sleep in our bed every chance you get.

7. If we threaten you to take away your video game time on weekends, we can pretty much have you do anything we want…

8. You discovered U2 early this year and it was your favorite band for months. Now you found out about Z100 music station and love everything they play. You’re a music lover.

My mom prepared us delicious birthday breakfast for him! And us. 🙂 

Celebration continues for my mom’s birthday. Thank you for always being there for us and being my role model, my best friend, & my mom…

My parents came back from their little getaway and we planned a surprise brunch for my mom’s birthday. Chloe helped with most of the food preparation and keeping my parents from coming to the kitchen 😉

Chloe praying for the meal.

Happy birthday! We love you so much~~