Catching Up

Just a quick note - and a picture of Lauren with her new do from last week. This was her stylist Charissa who was great with her.

Well we surrived the marathon of events. The birthday celebration at Sweet Memories tea room. The work picnic at Musikfest - which we ended up spending the ENTIRE day there from 11:30 am until about 6:00 pm. Great music and great food and A LOT of walking. (Musikfest is an annual 10 day festival in Bethlehem with hundreds of musical acts and tons of food and artisans. Lots of fun if anyone wants to join us next year :))Plus the family gathering the next day to celebrate my mom's, brother's and Lauren's birthday's. Whew. All of the cousins had a blast playing together. Landon at 4 1/2 is the leader of the pack. Lauren, at almost 2 is the mother figure and Griffin and Cassidy and slightly over 9 months were just happy to be in a new environment with new toys and their cousins and to have free reign of the house. Life didn't get any better than that. The celebration was great because my grandparents at 86 and 84 years old were able to join us. The older I get, the more I appreciate times like this. Someday, I hope my kids will too. Lauren got some neat presents. Favorites were a Barnes and Noble gift card, Curious George books and the Dora Back Pack (that Landon picked out for her.)

This weekend my dad is hosting a reunion of his catholic elementary school classmates and Landon was invited back from last year. (He was supposed to go for just a few hours last year, ended up staying the entire night and won over EVERYONE in the class so they invited him for this year. We (Kurt and I) invited ourselves cause my dad throws a good party.) Our child has a busier social life than we do. Then on Sunday is Lauren's actual birthday. I can't believe that my baby is turning two already. Time is really flying. We are celebrating by going to the Philadelphia Zoo. They are having a "Member Morning Stroll" which means the zoo is opening early because they are letting the triplet tiger cubs out into their exhbit for the first time. Landon is dying to see the cubs and we thought going to the zoo would be a good way to celebrate Lauren's birthday since she loves the animals too. I'll be sure to take lots of pictures and post a few when we get back. Hope everything is going well for everyone.

Hugs

Mary