Photo Hunt

I have decided to attempt the October Photo Hunt. I read about this on Meredith's blog, La Buena Vida , and decided to give it a try.

Several months back I made a feeble attempt at 12 weeks to Better Photography, by feeble I mean I read each week but really only took and posted one set of pictures.

Since then life has become even more hectic with baby, work, and school but I find myself having my camera with me more and using it to help myself remember to slow down and enjoy life.

I work with 2 year olds so I get to take a lot of fun pictures and Seamus has gotten A LOT of personality so I enjoy getting to take more and more pictures of him.

I am hoping that by doing this challenge that I will CHALLENGE myself to take and post some pictures and actually finish a challenge.

Everyone should sign up! It will be fun to see how everyone interprets the categories (there are 20 total) and its seems to be a lot of fall stuff and I know how much we all love fall!!

More New York Pictures

View from Mossy Bank

Seamus meeting some horses

Seamus with Uncle Bob and Cooper

More Horses

Seamus waving Bye to the horses

New York New York

Labor day weekend we took a fun family trip to visit my Dad's family in upstate

New York.

We (me, Chad, my dad and Seamus) loaded up the car, yes the car, and drove

14 hours

to New York. We drove through the night so that Seamus could sleep as much of the trip as possible. It worked. He slept the whole night, which was the bulk of the drive, and we arrived about 10am on Friday. It was a great trip and Seamus got to meet his Great Grandparents (on my dad's side). We got to visit all of my dad's siblings (he is one of 7) and Seamus got to meet lots of family!

Seamus playing with Great Grandpa Wheeler

(who is almost 90)

Seamus with Great Grandma Wheeler

Handsome Boy at Mossy Bank over looking Bath, NY

Our Little Family at Mossy Bank

The Boys

(Grandpa, Chad and Seamus)

at Mossy Bank

Time With Family

After a lazy Saturday....

We took a trip to Chad's sister's house to have a cookout and enjoy some family time. Chad's parents joined us as well and a great time was had by all.

Seamus got to play with two of his cousins.

All the cousins have been asking since he was born when they were going to be able to play with him. Well, he is big enough and mobile enough now that he got to have a little taste of playing with them while we all watched and laughed.

Seamus started the visit by giving Bucky a wave, and hitting him in the face in the process. Seamus thinks it is a lot of fun to "play" with faces.

Seamus' cousin JD LOVES to play with him. Since he was little and used to stay at their house JD has enjoyed taking care of Shay.

He was very excited to finally really get to play with him.

He thought it would be fun to wrestle with Shay, I don't think he realized how HEAVY Shay was going to be when he pulled him on top of him.

Seamus had an AWESOME time playing and eating hamburger and homemade peach ice cream that Chad's sister Jennifer made. I didn't get too much because Shay REALLY liked it so I let him eat most of mine :) It was YUMMY!

Weekends with family are wonderful. We are so glad to have family so close and that Shay is going to grow up playing with his cousins.

New Blog

I have started a new blog about weight loss for anyone who wants to take a peek! I will still post all of our family updates here!

http://upandrunning576.blogspot.com/2010/08/up-and-running.html

Beach Days

Once again it has been more than a month since my last update.

And what a month it has been! Here is a quick recap:

Chad went to camp

Chad turned 31

Chad went to camp again

Seamus turned 7 months old (wow time flies)

My summer classes finally ended

We took our first trip to the beach with Shay

My new class started at work

While all of that may not seem like a lot considering Chad was gone for more than 1/2 of the month it was crazy! Now on to the real reason for this post:

Our First Family Beach Trip

My mom's side of the family has been going to the beach every year since 1989 and this was Shay's first year as a BeachNut :) We had a great time, Shay was a little scared about the waves, but he really liked the sand and his little baby pool. We had so much fun and can't wait to go back again next year!

Shay looking around his first time down on the beach.

Shay loved his baby pool. He really liked standing up but he learned that the water makes him slip and maybe standing up was not the best choice.

The aftermath. Shay got more than one face full of sand while we were at the beach. He didn't mind the sand so much but he did not like getting rinsed off with the cold water!

Since we were on vacation Dad and Grandpa decided to give Shay a little treat of Klondike bar. He loved it, but really who wouldn't!

We got to spend a lot of time together and there were smiles all day long!

Shay also got to spend sometime with his new Uncle Michael (my sister got married just before we all came to the beach) Shay enjoyed stealing his hat and wearing it!

Those are some highlights from our trip. I will leave you will a picture of the moon from our deck. The nights at the beach are so clam and this picture I think really captures that.

Independence Day

We had some friends come over a grill out on Saturday and then we went to watch fireworks at the Marietta Square! I hope everyone had a great 4th!!

Here are a few pictures from our day. Seamus got to meet a new friend! Baby Campbell, Campbell is almost 2 months old and his mom and I used to work together.

They were both a little tired from all the excitement of the day :)

We ended the night by taking in a nice fireworks show. Seamus woke up for the finale but snoozed through most of the rest.

**Sorry for the blurry cell phone pic!