Celebrating 8 years

This year marked our 8th year wedding anniversry! With two kids and busy work schedules (yes..I consider being a SAHM "work") we were in much need of a little time alone. Thanks to Grandma (Thanks again mom!) Juan and I grabbed the car and headed up to a great Inn resort in Manchester, VT and spent an amazing day/night. Seriously, is there anything better than finishing a great meal by sitting outside at a stone fire pit while downing a yummy bottle of wine and indulging in gourmet chocolates???? I didn't think so. Happy Anniversary to my wonderful husband, it just keeps getting better! Here's a pic of "our" fire pit:

Summer fun and..... bikini's???

Wow it's been awhile, I think I've been Blog slacking this summer! Can you believe it's already August! We've kept busy this year with weekend visits with friends and lots of playdates. Our favorite pastime has become picnics at the park, these days this mom is always prepared with snacks in the cooler bag in the car just in case the spontaneous little two year old says "mommy, doesn't a picnic sound fun for right now". This little two year old is probably the only spontaneous thing in this over planned, over prepared mom's life....and it's actually pretty fun ;-) We got to spend a great weekend with Tia Susy and take her on a picnic too. She repaid us by giving Vanessa a bikini. Yes...I said bikini. Wait, make that a string bikini. For those of you who don't know, I am a bikini Nazi and spent two weeks looking for the perfect ONE PIECE that didn't show too much skin. For now the extremely cute "bathing suit" is one that we only see inside our own four walls but I had to include a photo because it is pretty stinkin cute (and hand made right from a friend in Venezuela).