We're home...

VALISES OUBLIEES, originally uploaded by Boccacino.

...but wishing we were still at the beach. The weather was fabu-U-lous and certainly didn't feel like October. I'll be back later with trip update and photos.

A Weekend Away

Tomorrow, we leave for Primehook Beach. Our final trip of the year. October is such a great time to visit as it is the start of the fall migration for Snow Geese and Canada Geese. The waters in the refuge actually look white because they are so littered with Snow Geese. It's a beautiful sight to see and with each year, the kids are getting older and can appreciate it more. I'm excited for them to see it again this year.

We're spending the weekend with one of my best friends and her family. She has four year old twins and I love that our kids are so close in age (and another set of twins, no less). I've planned for a campfire on the beach tomorrow night with mulled cider, butternut squash soup and baked apples (on the fire, of course). The weather is supposed to be gorgeous and I'm sooooo looking forward to a campfire on the beach! Summer is just usually too hot to do this plus the bugs are bad.

Here's to a lovely fall weekend at the beach. See you when we return.


1. Sunset w/ Beach Fire, 2. Mulled Cider, 3. November 25 (butternut squash), 4. Snow Geese, 5. Cackling Goose, 6. geeseinflightenmasse_MG_5388.jpg, 7. Untitled, 8. Untitled, 9. 2cattailsgeese_MG_5567.jpg, 10. Boardwalk, 11. Blue Fruit, 12. a long path in fall, 13. Private Beaches14. Not available15. Not available16. Not available

A Great Idea

LOVE, this.



Now, the search is on for a suitable jar for the job.

A New Layout

Just wanted to share a page that I did earlier this week. I think it's my favorite to date. I'll be back later to post a few more.

My twenty favorite wrinkly toes...

I'm Back

Back with a bit of tweeking to the blog itself (new look) and hopefully back on a new regular blogging schedule. Yeah, right. But with the new look, it's a step in the right direction and I'm thinking positively!

Too Long

Gosh - sorry it's been so long since my last post. I promised I would be a good blogger and haven't done so, unfortunately! So much to post about since my last one. Let's see..

the twins turned three on April 11th. So hard to believe. They are now in their own rooms and big boy/girl beds. Here are some photos of their new beds:

We got EJ's bed at a consignment shop in York for $44 and got Olivia's bed at basically a junk dealer for $20! Can you believe that?? They both needed some TLC with sanding and new paint (as they were both a very ugly brown color when we bought them) but at $64 for two bed frames, we couldn't pass them up. And, I love how they turned out.

My mother in law painted the butterflies on the wall of Olivia's room and the trucks for EJ's room. In these pictures they weren't finished so I'll have to post new ones now that they're done. Their rooms turned out so cute!

For their birthday party I made my first ever birthday cakes. EJ wanted an alligator cake and Olivia wanted Cinderella. I found a pretty good plan online for a Cinderella cake but the alligator cake was a different story. I had to basically break apart two 8 inch round cakes to form his alligator. What a job!! In the end, I loved how they both turned out and they were worth all of the work because the kids loved them! Not sure I want to attempt two homemade cakes next year but I'm sure I'll be talked into it!

And lastly, here are some pics of the birthday boy and girl!