Nearly wordless Wednesday-Cordelia's Photography

Cordelia likes nothing better than to snap pictures with my cell phone. Here's a sample of her photography! Can you tell she likes to use the effects?

Happy Memorial Day!

I hope everyone had a happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all those that have served and to those that continue to serve.

We honored Memorial Day by attending our local Memorial Day Parade. We missed most of the actual parade itself but made it for some of the program they hold. The sun was out and we had Bella with us and so between Bella and Cordelia "melting" we couldn't stay for long, but we enjoyed the time we did get to spend there.

This is our local memorial garden where the memorial day program is held.

We're melting!!

 After the parade we went home to finish cleaning up and hanging some pictures that we've been meaning to re-hang forever ago. And then it was the moment Cordelia had been waiting for, for forever. We headed to our neighbors annual memorial day barbeque/ pool party. Cordelia loves to go and hang at their pool. It is heated and with her floats she can "swim" independently. They also have a grand-daughter who is a little younger than she is so she has a friend. Today with the party there were actually quite a few new friends to play with.

Ahh the pool.

 Because our neighbors have grand kids they have lots of fun kid size things. Like the lounger chair Cordelia is modeling below.

 Ben got to enjoy the usual game of wiffle ball they play each year at the barbeque. He was looking forward to horse shoes too, but before we knew it, it was time for everyone to go home. But they'll have all summer for that!

Wordless Wednesday...Throw Back Baby Cordelia 0-12 months.

Heading home from the hospital

 

Enjoying snuggles with Nana..aka my Mum.

 

 

 

Ready for church

  

Partners in crime

Cordelia's 1st Christmas

Cordelia's 1st birthday

Weekend road trip to Delaware! Part 1.

So we had made plans this past weekend to visit Ben's Grand-mom in Delaware. She is only a few hours away, so we loaded up the family in the Jeep and hit the road.

 

 It was a little crowded with 3 people, 2 dogs and 1 cat. But we made the best of it. We played "I spy" and the alphabet game. The alphabet game started off a little slow, it took us about 15 minutes to find the letter B but it was so fun! Cordelia was so excited with every letter we found. However, the novelty wore off by the time we got to F or maybe G!

  

 Juju wasn't so pleased riding in the Jeep, though she did a lot better this time compared to previous trips. She choose to do this half hanging off the seat thing, leaning on the bags that were on the floor.

 

 We finally made it. We hit a little traffic and with having to stop to get dinner it took a little longer than it could. Everyone was happy to arrive and get out of the Jeep!

Bowled Over

This weekend was lots of fun. Cordelia got to spend Friday night and some time on Saturday with her Pap-Pap and Grammy. While Grammy worked Cordelia and Pap-Pap had to entertain themselves so they decided to head to The Garden State Discovery Museum! Cordelia had a ton of fun, but did get some blisters from her sandals, which, she is still "recovering" from! But that didn't mean the fun stopped there. When she was finally ready to come home and after Ben and I had had enough slogging away rearranging the garage we decided to go bowling!

Its been awhile and its not like riding a bike...it took some time to get back into the swing of things..sadly I didn't even get a strike! But we had a great time hanging out together.

Cordelia's turn-don't drop the ball!

We had to wait awhile to see how many pins she'd knock down as the ball didn't move very fast.

Yeah!

Fun times!

And you guessed it-Ben won the game! Way to go honey!

Alissa's baby shower

So not this weekend past, but the weekend before Cordelia and I got to attend her second cousins baby shower. Now on Cordelia's Dad's side of the family the cousins get very confusing, very quickly as they range from 35 ish to 6 months with this one on the way. I believe Cordelia is great grand baby #16. You do the math! 

We got to enjoy lots of good food and everyone's company. Cordelia of course had a ball. Here are a few pictures taken by another second cousin Malisa.

Time to open presents

Cordelia and her Mom-mom (aka great grandma)

Making instant friends

You can barely see it but that is a hair band in her hair..it lasted 5 mins : )

April come back!!

So I really don't know where the time went last month. after my birthday celebrations its seems May arrived and I could not get a blog post in edge ways! That pretty much summed up the end of April for me. Ben and I weren't able to finish our movies that we put on without crawling to bed 15-20 mins in, I didn't have a chance to meal plan or even get to the grocery store...it was bad! And now I think about it I have no idea what stopped me from getting things done!

Okay, maybe I remember a few things...

Cordelia and I got to enjoy a wonderful Mother/daughter activity at church. We made necklaces from washers, nail polish and ribbon. We made flower pens, note book covers and enjoyed doing some zumba together. Oh and as there was nail polish around we painted our nails!

Cordelia painting her nails "all by herself"

My pendant drying.

Painted nails!

Cordelia enjoying Zumba...I joined in shortly after.

Oh, but before we left to enjoy our night out, I nearly had a heart attack. Ben had left a few minutes before Cordelia and I, so I let the puppies out so they'd be set until we got home.  Well I go to let them back in and only Jada was in the back  yard! Where was my Bella Boo?? I check the side gate and it was wide open! WHO stole my Bella Boo? Hang on a second...no one could steal Bella without me hearing her bark them into next week. So where could she be? I immediately call Ben, hysterical, and he of course immediately heads home. Our great neigbors across the road hear my frantic calls for Bella and head over to help me. Cordelia was still in the house so I couldn't leave to look for Bella. As I'm walking in to the house I hear our neigbors calling Bella and who comes bounding out of the woods! BELLA. I was so relieved. I called Ben back to let him know he didn't need to come home, he kindly informs he that he had left the gate open! WHAT!!

Bella after galavanting in the woods