Avalon 2008

I know that I am not the best at posting blogs regularly, but I have been out of town for two weeks and just had a lot going on. Recently our family traveled to Avalon, NJ for a family vacation with my husband's side of the family. This is an annual event and we have a lot of fun each year seeing everyone and watching our family's grow! This will be the last year that traveling will seem easy because next year there will be two children and double the stuff to take with us! Thank goodness for the Hovans ( Brian's cousins) because they have three young children that are 100% entertainment for Christian! Jenna, Kurt Jr. and Grace are great babysitters and Christian absolutely adored all of them! I do not know who he annoyed more....Gracie as she tried to sunbathe on her towel and he kept crawling on her; Jenna when she was trying to dig in the sand and he was literally under her feet; or of course Kurt Jr. who so patiently moved from place to place trying to get away from Christian's antics. Thanks you three for being absolutely the sweetest cousins we could have wished for! Lisa you probably might disagree, but I thought they were fantastic the whole week!

Brian's parents rent a house every year down from the Forrey's house (more cousins) where we all gather every night for drinks (except the preggers), dinner and great company! Debbie and John are always fabulous hosts and cook great meals every year. We all pitched in this year and everyone was assigned an appetizer, drink, dessert each night. This was great because we all could contribute and Debbie did not have to do all the work! The Forrey's have three boys whom we all got to spend time with each as they came and went. Alex was there for a couple days before he was off to Martha's Vineyard and then to run with the bulls in Spain.....pretty cool. Jimmy came later after all his Lacrosse games and of course Rob was there the whole time. Brian's Aunt Sue and Uncle Jim were there and of course it is always great to see them. They were off to London and then Greece after leaving Avalon and I can not wait to see pictures. I know they had a wonderful time and I hope the weather was great for them.

I think that Nene and Poppy had the best time of all getting to spend time with their two grandchildren Christian and Bennett! They are both so much fun right now. Christian is talking and Bennett is walking so it is a blast to watch the interaction between them. Anybody who has a child knows that stage where they do not believe in sharing! Well, both kids are in that stage and is hilarious to watch them fight over toys and stuff. We are trying to curb that habit since Christian will have a sister soon, but we will see what happens.

We were in Avalon for the 4th of July and Christian got to watch fireworks for the first time and loved them! He kept saying, Wow.....Wow every time one shot off into the air. It is adorable to see reactions to new things he has never experienced. His expressions are priceless! All and all we had a fabulous time and we thank the Banta's, Forrey's, Hovans, Blairs and the Mizerany's for a wonderful vacation. I posted all the pictures for the family on snapfish and sent them out to all family members! If you did not get them, let me know!