Tubing Down the Duck River

On Labor Day we asked friends if anyone wanted to go tubing with us. Turns out they all did and we all enjoyed a day on the river. We took the first float from about 10:30-12:30, got out and had a picnic lunch, and did it all over again. We were finished by 4pm and everyone declared it had been the best day. 

I have to say, getting 20 people down river was not the easiest task. especially when 12 of them are children. It was quite hysterical in the beginning when people would flip out of floats, parents would get ahead of their child, only to hear the child screaming in terror. We should have been filming a comedy show. Everyone finally got the knack of it and it was really fun. 

 

 

The fun filled day wore everyone out! I think all three were asleep 10 minutes into the drive home! Tubing may have just become a tradition!

School Picture Day 2018

The kids had school picture day. It seems the cost of those keeps rising so I decided to take a few shots of my own before they left for school...although mine turned out a little blue-ish which means I didn't have a setting right, which irritates me a little. Oh well. Obviously I take pictures of them all the time.

Amy, 11 years old, 6th grade 

Will, 8 years old, 3rd grade 

Tyler, 6 years old, 1st grade 

Although, if you are capturing personality, this is more "Tyler-like." He's such a performer! 

I can't believe another school year is upon us! 

Nicole and Kevin's Wedding

My darling and lovely cousin Nicole got married last weekend. I was fortunate to make the trip up north so I could attend. Lee and the kids stayed home as they all had school. The wedding was beautiful and it was the perfect weekend!!

When I flew into Rochester and picked up my bag, it looked like this. Mind you this was a brand new bag. The entire front pocket was torn off. The red is the lining. And the fact that my bag was shredded was not something I wanted to deal with at 11:30pm.

This book was brand new and inside the suitcase. There wasn't any water damage, this is just how it was compressed?? Actually we think the bag got stuck under a wheel and was dragged. 

But I did and got it replaced with this bag. Which is slightly larger (defeats the purpose of a carry-on) but its hard shell so I let it go. 

I am also sad to say that I was in NY for a full 2 days before I took any pictures. And the only pictures I took were on my not-so-great cell phone. I even brought my good camera and everything! Ugh, makes me so mad. I did the same thing this summer.

Here are the cell phone pictures I took from the wedding.

 

I thought this was neat. This poem and board remembering those who have passed away.

Nicole and Kevin wanted a cookie bar. 

Mom painted this tree and people signed it with their thumbprints. I didn't get a final photo but it looked really great.

The DJ asked for a couples dance. Me and Grandma were sitting by ourselves. :(  haha.

We were all quite surprised with how great Kevin's voice was! He is the karoke king!

I hadn't seen Ben and Ashley in a long time. It was so good to spend time with them.

(Better photo taken with Ben's phone. :)

Anna and I went in together and bought them this string art. It was delivered the day before the wedding- we were glad about that!

And just as quickly as it started, it was over. Time to fly back home and get back to normal life. I had an early morning flight and took this of the sunrise.

Congrats Nicole and Kevin! So glad you could get married so I had another reason to go to NY this year! (This made my 3rd trip!) The wedding the beautiful and it really was the perfect weekend!