New York City

As if we hadn't already done enough galavanting around, we went to NYC with Chris' brother & sister-in-law over the weekend. It was a very nice trip up there - we hung out in their hotel room, ate dinner and then took a short jaunt through Central Park before we hit the subway back to our car.

Peek-a

BOO!

Hmm... what's this?

Everyone is smiling so I guess it goes in my mouth...

Ewww... what was that?

Don't mind me...

I'm just hanging out.

Enough playing around. I'm exhausted!

Farm Fair

Friday after we went to the shore, the Koenig's took us out to dinner and then to a local farm fair. Dinner was at a new Italian restaurant and was delicious!

The farm fair had all the carnival rides and food, but we stuck with the animals. Elianna enjoyed getting to look at and pet them all!

The cows were a little unfriendly and scared even Papi.

Elianna got so excited when she saw this dog. She even stuck her little face down in front of the dog's face with the hopes that he would give her a good licking. The dog did not oblige her but instead gave her a look of "What in the world is up with this little girl? I'm not part of the exhibit."

She got to pet goats, sheep, a rabbit, a baby duckling and a baby chick.

She absolutely loves animals - who knows, she may be a veterinarian and can charge others exuberant amounts of money for broken legs. But that's a complaint story for another day.

The Shore

Friday Chris took off of work and we headed out to the Shore for a few hours. It was Elianna's first time to the beach. Seeing as she did not care for the pool at all, I did not have high hopes for the shore. How wrong I was. She loved the sand. She loved the water. She loved eating the sand. She loved everything about it. Except for having to wear the hat.

This is how she fell asleep on the way home. Silly girl!

Harley Update

Well after Harley's run in with the semi truck, he only broke 2 bones in his front right leg and then, of course, has the big gash in his face. He does not appear to have any internal injuries. The vet was amazed that this is all that happened to him. Right now, he has a temporary wrapping on his leg. Monday we go to get the "permanent" cast which he will have to wear for 4 weeks. Four very long weeks. Four weeks of not being able to run out all his energy. Four weeks of carrying him up and down the stairs. Four weeks of him hobbling on 3 legs. Long weeks. He will survive, but will we? Oh our aching backs.

Ouch!

You know how the whole day is planned out in your head and then all of the sudden something happens and that all changes. That's how my day is today. Today was going to be errand day. We were going to the cleaners, the farmer's market and somewhere else but I can't remember now. So what happened?

This morning I put Elianna in her high chair to eat her waffle while I took Harley out really fast. As we were coming back in the house, he happened to look over and see 2 dogs walking ... on the other side of the main road. So Harley takes off, with me yelling at him to stop, and runs straight out into the street and into the tire of an 18-wheeler truck.

It was heart wrenching to say the least. I won't go into detail about his crying and dragging himself along the ground, but know that my momma heart was hurting! He has a huge gash on his face and his leg. I put ointment on both cuts and wrapped his leg up so it wouldn't bleed all over the house, and as soon as Elianna gets up from her nap, we will be taking him to the vet to get it cleaned out.

Stupid Poor Harley.

The last 2 weeks

The last 2 weeks (VBS) ended up being harder than I initially thought. Two weeks of not putting my little girl to bed at night was very hard. Two weeks of the hot sun beating down on my back was very hard. I think I'm getting old. Two weeks of getting to bed a hour later than normal was super hard on Elianna.

We did have a great 2 weeks, despite the heat, of VBS. We saw 3 junior high teens accept Christ as their Savior. We had a high (6th-8th graders) of 86. They were shooting for 100 so they could get pizza and Rita's water ice. It was close. But alas, they did not make it and another year of VBS has come to a close.

Yesterday Chris was asked to speak at a church in PA for their third Sunday youth service. He did a great job and we enjoyed ourselves but it was, once again, very hard for Elianna. She fell asleep on the way home and did not wake up even when Chris got her out of her car seat.

This week it is "Back in the Groove" week. Back in the groove of Elianna getting her rest, back in the groove of keeping up with the laundry, back in the groove of cleaning this here house, back in the groove of keeping up with 2 blogs and back in the groove of exercising. Wish us luck. Especially on the last one.

Pictures

Elianna recently got some "non-monthly" pictures taken. They turned out super cute so I wanted to share. It's fun to see how her personality comes out in so many of them.