Great vacation!

I've been MIA because of a wonderful week of vacation with my two favorite boys. A visit home to see family, a drive up to Canada to experience Thousand Islands in the fall, and family time at home....what a great week. Many memories made! As it comes to a close, look for lots of pictures and stories to come this week :)

Fun Times Friday

Gavin and I were so excited to see Jen and Andrew last Friday. Jen and I worked together at Shaw, and they were in town with Jen's family for an awards ceremony for her dad. So, on Friday, Gavin and I went to pick up Jen, her husband, and Andrew and we took them for a fun morning at Strong Museum. It was so great to see them and to get the boys together for a playdate. Of course, Sesame Street was a favorite area for both boys. Gotta love Elmo! I just wish we'd had more time so I could have taken them more places. I would have loved to go to The Sandbox and Melon Bean. I didn't edit the pictures yet...so just ignore Gavin's red eyes!

Do you know how hard it is to get two toddlers to sit together and look at the camera at the same time?

Man, those eyes look evil! Guess I should have edited that first!

He even likes fake corn!

I told him to brush the teeth and he brushed his hair instead.

Thankful Thursday

I'm so thankful that now that I work for Tastefully Simple, I'm able to do more to help out the community. When we moved to Rochester, I sought out as many resources as I could to learn about the new area. One of the things I found was a website called RochesterMommies.com. I joined, and immediately took advantage of the message boards to meet other moms and find things to do with Gavin. Well, last month, I learned via the message boards about a local family who had just received word their 5 year old had cancer. Now that I'm a mom, these stories hit me even harder. Jarrod and I had just gone over insurance policies available through his work, and I couldn't help but think about how the medical bills would be so hard to deal with on top of knowing your son was battling leukemia. My heart went out to them. After a couple weeks of planning, another mom from RochesterMommies.com and I have officially started a Tastefully Simple fundraiser to raise money for the family. I'm donating 15% of the sales to Abigail and her family. My original goal was to hit $1000 in sales and be able to send her a check for $150. But, just two days in, we're already close to $200 in sales, and the fundraiser goes for 3 weeks! I'm so thankful that I'm able to do this for her family, because not only is she a fellow Rochester mommy, but she's also a Tastefully Simple consultant herself!
**If you want to participate in the fundraiser, just email me!**

Wordless Wednesday

Letchworth in the fall

Warning...lots of pictures coming. *Seems like I always post a lot of pictures, huh? Maybe too many???* Anyway, we visited Letchworth State Park this summer when my family was visiting, and we knew we wanted to go back to see the fall colors. So, we drove down on Sunday and enjoyed a gorgeous, very chilly day there. It was beautiful and Gavin loved the leaves.

Cool shot of a rainbow from the fountain

Photo courtesy of Jen

Time to go home, Daddy.