New Year's Eve

The beach with friends is a great way to spend the last day of 2009. We packed a bit and worked on our palm tree puzzle, then went down to the beach to meet Sarah, Uwe, and Lila. The crazy kids even dipped into the Gulf then stuck around for a little building in the sand.

A sand bunny.
No legs for Braeden!
Lila helps bury Teagan's legs.
Fun in the sand.
Making the sand bunny.

After some time in the pool we went to Sarah and Uwe's for a New Year's dinner of roasted veggies with pasta. Yum! What a fun way to end the year!

Fun on Siesta Key

We had a great day swimming and playing on the beach. The Santoros came over for dinner. Before dinner we went out to watch the sun set and take some pictures.

Sunset and palm tree.
McCabe kids

Cousins

Riley and Logan
Braeden and Teagan and sun set
Lala took Teagan and Riley to get manicures. They chose their own manicure, so they both came home with this gorgeous pink and green polka dot design.

Baby sitting Lila

Sarah and I went to lunch together rather than exchanging gifts .It was so nice to have some time together without kids and/or cooking. We actually got to complete sentences!

Teagan had a great time baby sitting Lila. Sarah brought her over to the apartment and we went out in the village. We went to a yummy restaurant called Sun Garden Cafe.

Beach view from the apartment.
Village view from the apartment.
Lila in Teagan's hat.
Lila and the kids on the terrace.
Braeden
Jeff calming Lila down.

Braeden gets glasses!

Braeden got glasses for distance today. I thought he wouldn't actually walk out of the appointment with them, but that is almost what we did! We did have dinner while we waited for them, but that was much faster than I expected.

Halloween night

The Bean family came over for some trick-or treating, Jeff and Johnny went visiting all of the houses with our cousin Angie while Nikki and I stayed in the warm indoors in case anyone came to our door. We all ended up at the Hempstead's where there was beer for the older trick or treaters.

Teagan and the Bean girls-Avalon, Gwennie, and Abbie.

Halloween Party

Birthday Parties

Four birthday parties this weekend! We are managing to make all of them, but with a tweak here and there.

Saturday found us heading down to Chatham first for Emma's birthday party, then being one of the first to leave to rush off to Plymouth for Jillian's birthday party. Since Chatham and Plymouth are an hour from each other and there was only half and hour between presents, we warned Jillian's mom we would be late. Crossing the Sagamore took us an extra half hour because it is only one lane each way due to necessary bridge repairs! We still made it to Jillian's party to play for a bit and get some pizza.

Meanwhile, Braeden and Jeff headed over to the Sandwich Karate Kids to help Brain celebrate turning 8.

Today Teagan and I head over to Mashpee for Bella's party with Miss Lori!

Usually I like to really consider the gifts I get for the birthday child (everyone of these children is or has been in my class). Last weekend I took my coupon and carefully chose a Webkinz for each child! The kids made cards and we wrapped them all at once--I am learning when and where to focus my energies! In this case I needed to focus on actually getting there!