Hershey

We had such a fun time at Hershey on Saturday. Like a dream come true for the boys. Tyler has become braver ever since our trip to Sea World and even though he was a bit anxious, he was willing to try everything (and made it on 8 of the 11 roller coasters). Jared doesn't know what the word fear is. If his height hadn't gotten in the way, he would have been on EVERY roller coaster, without hesitation.

The park was very crowded, so we missed the BIGGEST and BEST rides (two hour waits) and the water park was a bust and complete waste of time...who waits in line to go in a kiddie pool, lazy river or wave pool for an hour). We didn't.

Evan loved all of the kiddie rides and was even really brave on the family rides--a step up from kiddie. We heard him say several times, "I think I'm going to throw up" or "I think I'm gonna die now", but he never cried or said he was scared.

Anna didn't care for much there. She'd go on a ride without much reaction. She was happy with her snacks and icee.

Rob score twice with his Wacky Wire skillz!! We now have Kung Fu Panda and Florescent Snake to join Leonardo! Lucky us!

I just enjoyed spending time with my family. I love when the kids are able to spend time with their cousins, especially in a situation like this. They had the best time which in turn made it a great birthday for me.

Surprise!

When I turned twelve, my friends from school planned a surprise party for me. It was the end of the school year. I was moving from Maryland to Pennsylvania during the summer, so I guess this was supposed to be our final farewell. But I ended up hating the whole process. Not knowing what was going on, I started to get upset because my friends were always whispering behind my back and giggling when they saw me.

Call me an insecure girl, ready to enter middle school.

How was I supposed to know they were in the midst of planning my surprise party and weren't doing a very good job at keeping it a secret.

Fast forward...seventeen years later (oh, I mean twenty-three). I didn't hear much whispering and giggling or maybe I'd given up my middle school ways, but this surprise party completely blind sighted me. Completely shocked, I was. And I felt completely spoiled.

Thank you everyone for making my birthday extra special this year!!

Making a wish...
that your next birthday will just as fun and exciting!

Joy. Dawn. What's your preference?

Rob loves his daughter.So much.




Anna loves to play in the sink. Washing cups. Making bubbles.

Rob is usually very thirsty. Especially after mowing the grass on a HOT, HOT day.

Anna meant no harm.

Rob was VERY thirsty.

Rob doesn't like the taste of dishwashing liquid and antibacterial hand soap. YUCK!

And he's feeling it now.

It's a good thing that Rob loves his daughter SO VERY, VERY much!

Chris Lee Style

We have had our fair share of rain over the past few weeks (or has it been months?).

Why not take advantage of it!

S-L-A-M!

The boys sure have taken a liking to baseball this year. It is so fun to watch their enthusiasm!! On Monday night, Rob took them to a Potomac Nationals game.


This photo was a highlight of the evening...

Notice the size of his bat...Notice the the black streak to the right of him...

The boys were giddy as can be that he broke his bat while hitting a ball.

Oh, the possibilities.

And Rob still doesn't think we need to lower the deductible on our comprehensive car insurance.

Keeping up with the Haley's...

...is pointless.
So we'll just be grateful to have them as neighbors! Thanks for sharing!

Signs of Summer

Well, the boys are officially finished with school for the summer! And summer is very well present already at our home!

Yesterday before Jared left for school, I noticed a bunch of scratch marks on his neck. I asked him about it and he said it just itched. Didn't think anything of it after that.

After school, I noticed some red blistery bumps on Tyler's neck. We had went geocaching on Sunday and I know that poison ivy shows up a few days later, so I had our culprit. I quickly realized that this was probably the cause of Jared's scratches and sure enough, upon closer examination I saw that Jared, too, had poison ivy on his neck and jaw line.

I asked Tyler if it had been itching for awhile and he said it had started at school that day and he told his teacher, but the teacher thought it was just a mosquito bite (at the time it was just a bump or two). I asked why he didn't tell me when he came home. "Because Mr. Trexler said it was a mosquito bite."

Oh, the innocence of youth. I wonder how much longer we have of the kids believing that the adults have all of the answers?

From the mouth of babes. Take 2.

Here is how the conversation went down last night...

James (neighbor boy, t-ball teammate and baseball game observer): Hey, Mr. Kunz! You have hair in your nose!

Rob: Yep, I do.

James: How do you know? Can you smell it?

Rob: No, my wife tells me.

Andrea: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...sigh...HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...(catching my breath now)HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!


Thanks, James for giving away our Father's Day gift!! And we thought Rob was going to be completely surprised!

An intruder?

You'd have thought that our home was broken into today. But nope! Just two unfortunate accidents which happened within 10 minutes of each other.

I came downstairs after blow drying my hair to find that a thief (named Anna) had gotten into our money jar. Gratefully, no one was injured in this incident.

Because we were in a hurry to get out the door, I left the glass clean up for later. I got the kids loaded in the car to deliver chairs for tonight's Enrichment meeting and when I turned the corner, the chairs came crashing down, smashing out our side window.

I've been reminded that bad things happen in threes. Keep me away from your glass! I'd run from me if I were you!

Life.

Evan likes it.
(He's just not ready to admit it, yet...to me...so he sneaks to eat it under the desk.)

Summer TV

Not having as much TV to watch is a good thing. But I'll tell you, I love my summer TV almost as much.

So You Think You Can Dance has started!!

And ABC has finally decided to finish of the seasons of two of my favorite all-time TV shows, Pushing Daisies and Eli Stone.

Because who doesn't love a quirky pie maker and pals...

and a group George Michael sing along.
I know I do.

I secretly still love George Michael.

And I'm not embarrassed by it at all.