Father's Day Weekend

Here's Elizabeth in Emma's old outfit. I love this outfit.

Here's Emma when she was two in that same outfit

This weekend, we decided to go to the Jersey shore to celebrate Father's Day. We normally go Memorial weekend b/c it's my birthday usually, but it was too cold this year. Jer took half a day on Friday and played golf with Pete, which I was glad about because he LOVES golf and hasn't played in a long time. Then, after work, we headed down to Wildwood. We didn't get there till about 10:30. So the girls were exhausted. Here's them trying to sleep in the same bed.

Then we woke up early and had a quick breakfast and headed down to the boardwalk for a bikeride. We rented a surrey. I don't think Elizabeth knew what was going on at first....no smiles...but I think she warmed up to it by the end.at first she didn't know what was going on, with her bare feet in the sand, so she squatted for a long while. Emma was so excited she couldn't contain herself. She loved every minute. Daddy had a good time celebrating Father's day. He's the best!!Elizabeth was pretty tuckered out so she took a nap on the towel. Then Emma and I went and flew a Barbie Kite, we had a lot of fun... That night, after naps we went to Cape May to the Lobster House and had a really delicious dinner of crabcakes, shrimp and lobster tail..mmm...actually the girls stuck with the same old chicken tenders. I had the yummy dinner :) Then we headed back to the boardwalk for some fun. Then we woke up and gave Daddy his cards and gifts and the girls played 'Horsey' with him. We had breakfast and headed home, we got sunburn and were ready to head out. We had a very nice weekend with Daddy and Mom Mom and Pop Pop. We were exhausted by the end though.

This is emma dancing in the surf

To see more pics of June 2008 click here and you can see my kodakgallery slideshow. I have about 200 pics :) Only a few made it in the blog.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=ap2ksmf.7y0jpy17&x=0&y=-4sa29b&localeid=en_US

July 5th: Festival, Concert and Fireworks at Penn's Landing :: gophila.com - The Official Visitor Site for Greater Philadelphia

July 5th: Festival, Concert and Fireworks at Penn's Landing :: gophila.com - The Official Visitor Site for Greater Philadelphia

Update...

We got one of those kiddie pools for the girls to play with. Elizbeth wasn't a happy camper at first..
Emma loved it as long as there weren't any bugs..

We went to Pete and Angela's on saturday and got together with some friends and their daughters. This was the first time all 5 have been together.

From Left to Right (not including the grownups)

Macy, Elizabeth, Galadrielle, Zoey, Emma

This pic wasn't easy to take... 5 kids under 5

In order from youngest to oldest:

(Macy, Elle, Elizabeth, Zoey, Emma)

Emma and Galadrielle

We brought our sprinkler because it was such a hot day. Emma was the ring leader of course...Zoey actually went in the sprinkler a little and even Elle, but they were all still kinda little to enjoy it a lot.

Here's the garden before. this was taken June 1.

Here's the garden as of yesterday, June 11

We went to Rita's last night with Mom Mom and Pop Pop and got water ice..mmm..

Elizabeth enjoying her last days of binkies..we threw them all in the trash last week....

"Ideology by Numbers"

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLtopstories/A000007588.cfm

Check this site out, it has an article that's pretty fascinating. It's funny, b/c most liberals I know fall into these categories. It's amazing how 'ideas' DO have consequences, and how our moral compass has declined so much in this country and we wonder 'what's happend'. This is just an excerpt of the article. :

Hoover Institution at Stanford University, packs into 212 eye-opening pages:
Seventy-one percent of conservatives say you have an obligation to care for a seriously injured spouse or parent, versus 46 percent of liberals.

Liberals are 2 1/2 times more likely to be resentful of others’ success and 50 percent more likely to be jealous of other people’s good luck. (sounds like someone I know...and they're liberal)

Fifty-five percent of conservatives get satisfaction from putting someone else’s happiness ahead of their own, nearly three times the number of liberals: just 20 percent.

Young conservatives are more likely to volunteer for a charity, any kind of charity, than young liberals — although young liberals are more likely to say they have attended a protest rally.

Fifty-nine percent of those who describe themselves as “very liberal” think it’s wrong to cheat on your spouse, compared to 86 percent of those who self-identify as “very conservative.”

Emma"s recital video