Wilton's Beach

Still catching up from the summer . . . obviously is not this warm here. Our little beach is just 5 minutes from the house. We visited it quite often and really enjoyed the warm weather.

Summer Ball

Sean had an interesting summer playing ball in Connecticut.

As a parent I had an interesting time watching the lack of

respect for coaches, parents or anyone playing.

Sean played well and was a good sport but is greatly looking

forward to spring baseball in Texas.

Yes, we will be sending him to Texas so he can play with his

team one last time before mission and college.

Special Spring Visit

We loved our special visit from this cutie pie and his parents . .

Cuddling with mama . . . .

This little man was all smiles and fun . . .

look at those cute teephies

We all went to Weir Farm for a nice walk . .

actually it was a bit humid

Kaden taking in the sites of this beautiful farm.

Historical Weir Farm CT

A beautiful farm right around the corner . . .

April was thrilled to find bleeding hearts . . . one of her favorites . .

A lovely English garden . . . .

An artist's paradise . . . . .

Beautiful trails to explore . . .

Picnic time at the pond . . .

A very interesting tree . . . .

Fun rocks to climb and imagine long ago battles . .

All in all a most beautiful spring day!

Spring Baseball with Daniel

We had a little bit of an adjustment to CT's rules for baseball . . . . no score keeping and no stealing bases . . . . what?

Perfect hit for Daniel

This is how April likes to enjoy CT baseball . . .

near the stream.

Backyard Beauty

Loving the beauty right out our back door.

This beautiful Hawk landed while we were trying to watch conference this spring. We just had to go out and snap a few pictures.

This Hawk actually hung around all summer hunting the little creatures in our backyard.

How about this lovely vibrantly colored Cardinal?

. . . and of course the deer came to visit as well. We saw them just about every evening at dinner time which drove Indy and Breann crazy.

Spending Time With the Washburns

Cutie girls laughing together!

WOW!

Julia & Julie (Catherine & Jacque) experiment . . . .

Beef Bourguignon

Whaalaa!

An exquisite piece of fine French cooking.

Beardsley Zoo CT

We took our annual trip to the CT Zoo. The peacocks were fun to watch running around.

It was pretty sad .. . . they didn't have very many animals and those we did see we in small cages.

The crocodiles we smiling . . . . .

We did see the biggest cow in the world . . . WOW!

They also had an English farm . . . . . why??

And back to the beautiful peacocks

They did have a few beautiful bushes and trees

We decided that they need to either turn the zoo into a working farm or give it up and set the animals free in their own environment of course. We look forward to visiting the Bronx Zoo soon to see what they have. Disappointing but good to be together.

Rocking Horse Ranch NY

We joined the Washburn family on their adventures at Rocking Horse Ranch. It began with a pie eating contest with Catherine being the lady and not sticking her face in the pie. Next we quickly got into bathing suits to enjoy the indoor pools and slides . . watch out for Daniel

"That was great! I need to do it again." My turn . . . . The boys enjoy rock climbing together. Sean did have the harder side. Sean, Breann and I tried our hand at tennis . . . . I am much better on the Wii (and so are they).

April was a little nervous at first with the bungee jumping . . . but soon she was doing flips.

Daniel got right to the flips

After watching the boys rock climb I thought no problem . . . . that was as far as I got. I just can't handle heights anymore.

Daniel and I spent some time paddle boating and

Breann and Kamberlynne being silly

I do have cute children . . . they are wonderful!

Our good buddies the Washburns enjoying some campfire time

Hugs and marshmallows are the best

More time in the pool

The Shooting Range

Our hunter

Getting ready for horseback riding.

Daniel just chillin'

The next major leaguer

Back to the pools again . . . cute little Ellie

To finish it off we enjoyed some Karaoke from April