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It’s Complicated

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I may have over simplified things in my last post when I said Andy’s parents took Ben for the weekend. In actuality, I headed to Lockport Friday with Ben and all his travel equipment. From here it gets a little complicated :) My friend Allison was back from Italy for the week so I spent the morning visiting with her. We heard that our highschool friend Sarah was having a garage sale, so we popped over to her house. Ben was the charmer as he met Sarah’s mom for the first time and smiled at all the garage salers. After the garage sale, Allison and I met Sarah’s twin sister Heather, at the church she works at. We chatted with her for a little bit before I dropped Allison back off at her house.

From here I headed out to visit my dad, Leslie and Christopher. They were in from Massachusetts, staying at a friend’s house while the friend was on vacation to Virginia. Justin and Kate joined us for lunch and a swim. You can read more about our afternoon and see pics in Leslie’s post. So much fun :)

After Ben woke up from his nap we had a little snack and then packed up all his gear. He headed off with Justin and Kate for Friday evening. First time spending the night with his Auntie and Uncle :) Saturday morning Kate dropped Ben off at Andy’s parents’ house (which is right across the street from Justin & Kate’s apartment).

Ben had a lovely weekend with grandma and grandpa. There was swing time, exploring the yard, splashing in the pool, church on Sunday and much more. Sunday evening we met Andy’s parents at a restaurant along the thruway to do the Benjamin swap.

All in all a crazy weekend for the little guy, but he seemed to have fun! He slept VERY well the next few days we were home :) Andy’s parents took some pics of Ben’s weekend and these were my favorite:

Kiddie pool

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A friend found a little kiddie pool on sale at Target and sent me a text asking if Ben still needed one. Yes indeed he did :) We set it up in the yard last week and he LOVED it.

4th of July

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This year we went to my mom and Paul’s cottage on Lake Ontario to celebrate the 4th. We camped out Tuesday night and Ben slept in the guest cottage out back. It’s not that we didn’t want to introduce him to camping…it’s just that it was so much easier to have him sleep in the quiet cottage!

Andy setting up the tent. And yes, I took pictures instead of helping ;-)

He actually had to fix a problem with his truck when we arrived. It turned out a little stone had just gotten jammed somewhere it wasn’t supposed to be. Paul handed him a hammer as a joke, how helpful.

Tuesday night we hung out with my mom, Paul, Justin and Kate. We played darts in the garage and the girls won. I may have cheated…

Mom and Aubrey watching the game.

Paul has all these fun things hanging up in the garage. One of them is a t-shirt from a band he used to be in.

Beautiful sunset on Tuesday night.

Aubrey watching the sunset. She’s SO cute!

My mom and Paul had a party for their cottage neighbors and friends on the 4th. We didn’t really hang out with people much as we were baby wrangling ;-)

We ended up not staying for fireworks because Andy had to work the next day. We definitely had fun at the lake but a holiday with kids isn’t entirely relaxing ;-) Ben’s such a good boy, he’s just SO adventurous and there was the water, rocky cliff, steps, road, dogs, cars, people, oh my! I don’t know if next year at almost 3 will be easier than this year’s almost 2, but here’s hoping. Even though it was a lot of work, we really enjoyed the time with family!

Surprise!

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This weekend we went to a surprise party for Andy’s Aunt Bonnie. She retired from teaching English and we wanted to honor her and the years she’d invested in kids. A bunch of friends and family got together at Dan and Bonnie’s beautiful log cabin home (pics from Thanksgiving).

Bonnie was really surprised! She thought friends were coming over to see her son who drove up from SC. She had no clue everyone was there for her until she walked onto the porch.

(As a side note, I’m kind of mad at myself for not getting a better picture. I had the camera all set up for inside their warmly lit log cabin and then everyone raced outside and silly me forgot to change camera settings.)

Luckily, Andy was recording the whole thing. The video is kind of long, and probably won’t mean much unless you’re family…but enjoy ;-)

There was a beautiful cake and gifts.

Sisters :)

Andy’s cousin’s youngest daughter (how do you like that explanation?) All the kids had fun playing together.

Andy’s cousin’s kids were excited to see Ben too. They remembered him from Thanksgiving!

Ben was fascinated with the four wheeler! We didn’t ride it, but he was so excited to just touch it and sit on it.

Finally, the really cool moth that was hanging out on their porch.

We were so happy we got to the spend the day with you guys! And Aunt Bonnie, we’re excited for whatever is next for you! Whatever you do and wherever you guys end up, we love you!

Father’s Day Weekend

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Saturday night we went out for ice cream to celebrate Father’s Day. Ice cream for dinner that is :) Sunday was pretty low key too. Andy’s Father’s Day gift was to pick out a hammock. I didn’t exactly know what kind he wanted, I just knew he’s been wanting to clear out an area of our side woods for a hammock for quite a while. We checked out a few places, but unfortunately everyone seemed to be sold out, so he’s going to have a look online. I teased him and asked “when do you have time to lay in a hammock?” but I think he’ll definitely enjoy it!

Playing with trucks together in their pajamas.

Andy even let Ben play with the little car that had been his favorite as a kid. When you push the front wheels down it lights up and plays a little song. Very cute!

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