It's been a while!

Well its almost been a month since our last post. Lots has happened since then. Mike finished up work and has been on leave since his birthday spending lots of time at home with the kids. We are outside constantly from sunup and past sun down.

On 9 June we flew out to New York to spend time with Grandma and Grandpa. They and their house survived intact!! Pictures are coming soon. We spent a day down in Manhattan, taking the ferry from New Jersey then having a great lunch at Carmines and making a stop at the M & M store! The next day we drove down to Sea Girt, New Jersey and spent time with Aunt Nancy and crew. We went to the Beach (cold water!) then to the joyous heated pool at Aunt Nancy's house!! Larry, Stacy, Larry Jr. and Lindsay came over to keep us company making the trip a great time! On Saturday we hit the Palisades Mall to do some shopping then spent time with Brendan and Jeanelle, our good friends from Germany and Katie's Godparents. Sunday was the first time in years that both Kevin and I were home for Father's Day and spent the day outside, playing with water guns. Monday took us up to West Point to visit the old Alma Mater and stock up on West Point stuff. The day ended with a trip to Woodbury Commons then some good old New York Pizza for dinner! We flew back on Tuesday and Julia did great on both flights!

Since then Mike's office had a farewell ceremony for him which the whole family attended. We've been spending alot of time with friends, staying up way to late every night and went to Michael's birthday party at the pool on post yesterday which was a lot of fun. Mike has one week left before the start of SAMS and he can't wait to get back into the military groove!

We'll try and get some pics up today or tomorrow. Hope everyone is well!!