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Choo Choo

We went to the train event at RIT a few weekends ago. Ben LOVED it! There were a ton of model trains to watch, wooden trains to play with and plenty of sights and sounds.

The Great Pumpkin Party

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This year for Halloween Cassidy and Ben were Little Bo Peep and her sheep.

We visited a few neighbors after an early dinner. When they asked Ben what he was he said he was a “sheep costume.” Afterwards we headed to our old church for their Great Pumpkin Party event.

Little sheep waiting to play some games.

Ben’s cotton balls unrolled as the night went on, he started looking a little shaggy.

We were leaving a little cotton ball trail everywhere we went.

A few gratuitous shots of Miss Bo. I am so not into “frilly” but my goodness she was cute in her dress. I can’t believe little girls used to wear outfits like this all the time!

We ran into Heather, Eli and Casey at the party too!

Mahna, mahna

We even met Gru and one of his minions :)

Fun times!

Ok, worst post title ever. The book wasn’t even about grapes…anyway…we went grape picking last weekend! A vineyard about 30 minutes south of us had juice and upick grapes for sale so we bought some Aurora, Niagara and Moores Diamond juice along with Niagara grapes. I had no idea there were so many varieties or that wine is named after the type of grape it’s mostly made from. So a Riesling wine is made of mostly Riesling grapes. That one is actually way out of our budget at $17.95/gallon. The juice we got runs about $4-6 a gallon. Upick grapes were super cheap though, our Niagara grapes were .35/lb.

Ben had a ton of fun eating and picking. We strolled around the vineyard for a bit too and just enjoyed the little family outing. Next week we’ll return and pick up some Concord grape juice and Concord grapes.

Lake weekend part 1

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We headed to my mom and Paul’s cottage this weekend.

Ben was SO helpful with setting up the tent.

There was a lot of Cassidy loving.

She smiles now :)

My mom saved our old Little People and Ben was so excited to play with “the peoples.”

Andy discovered some blackberry bushes growing under the deck.

The coolest piece of driftwood had washed up to the cottage.

He still needs a name though.

We also had the maiden flight of Andy’s quadcopter.

Always tinkering with something!

Andy also got a jet ski lesson from Paul.

That night we enjoyed s’mores around the fire. If you were Andy, you enjoyed leftover chicken wings.

The boys had the great idea to hang a sparkler from the chinese lanterns they were sending off.

They did look pretty cool, and nothing caught on fire :)

It was a beautiful evening.

Keuka Lake

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My dad and Leslie rented a cabin on Keuka Lake for a week. We headed down and spent a few days with them, Gabby, Danielle, Chris, Justin and Kate. Kayaking, fishing, board games, swimming, eating and all sorts of family fun. Long post with pictures in random order :)

Runner of Steel

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This weekend I headed to Pittsburgh for the Marathon, Half Marathon and Relay.

The Y running ladies were doing the Half and Relay and I tagged along as photographer and cheerleader.

We first went to the Expo where some of the ladies picked up their race bags. The convention center was really pretty.

We walked around the city a bit.

And got pictures at the finish line the day before, which proved to be smart because it was shoulder to shoulder crowds the day of the race.

Somebody has a sense of humor.

They had started to set up for the race.

Just waiting for race day.

Saturday night we had a pasta dinner at one of the girls’ sister in law’s house. We all turned in to the hotel soon after that because it was going to be an early morning start.

A little coffee for Sue to get things started.

Julie helped pin on Jodi’s race numbers.

Group shot at 5am before we headed downtown for the race.

Julie and I dropped the rest of the girls off at their starting points, parked the cars and then set up camp around mile 9.

The first people to come through were handicapped racers.

They were amazing!

These guys were the first runners we saw, they were insane. Look at the muscles!

We waited alongside the road for members of our team to come by.

Beth was the first of our half marathoners (13.1 miles) to come through.

Followed by Sue who was also running the half.

Lexi waiting at her relay check point.

Sarah was on the other side of the road running the relay. We caught her right before she handed off to the next relay runner.

Jodi doing the half came through next.

Cheryl did the half too!

This little guy was cheering next to us.

He was waiting for his dad to run by.

This guy was pretty special.

The team after running, they look great!

Julie (on the left) is from Pittsburgh and was my tour guide and who I hung out with all day. There’s no way I could have navigated the city and gotten shots of the girls in the race without her.