Whirlwind!

The last week at the Eichler house has been a whirlwind! We have been busy, busy, busy! I have been SO busy I haven’t had any time to post about our adventures. I just downloaded 200 pictures that I have taken in the last week! This past week we celebrated 4th of July, met Kyle’s parents who were visiting him from California, and went to my sister’s baby shower in Illinois!


Here are some pictures from our 4th of July festivities!
We watched fireworks at night. We went with our friends and their daughter Eliza LOVED the fireworks. It was so cute to see her get so excited! Ava loves spending time with Eliza.

Brock and his baseball team sold drinks at our hometown 4th of July celebration. Brock was down at the park ALL day on July 4 selling drinks! I think he really enjoyed it! It was his job to collect the money.  Here is a picture of the whole team!

We had a barbeque with our friends, it was SO hot so we spent most of the day inside!

Graig and Aaron

Sabrina and Shawn

Ava and me

Brock's friend Trey who moved to Washington State was visiting family in NY so we went out to lunch with his family.  Brock loved visiting with him!

Brock and Trey with Ava and Trey's younger brother Evan!

 

We also met Kyle’s parents who are in NY for the week visiting Kyle. They are SO nice! We went out to dinner with them a couple of times and we watched some of Kyle’s games with them. They are great! I am so glad we got a chance to meet them!

 Last Thursday morning Ava, our neighbor (and Ava’s BFF) Anika, and I left for Illinois for my sister’s baby shower! We drove and drove and drove on Thursday and they did really great in the car! We got to our hotel in Columbus, Ohio at about 6pm and the girls swam in the hotel pool.

Tomorrow I am going to post all about my sister’s baby shower. It was the cutest shower ever! Her colors were light pink and brown.



Happy Thursday!!

Cohen

Today I am joining the day of blog silence for Cohen

Our trip to NYC!

Sunday Kyle had a day off from baseball so Ava, Grandma Jan and I decided to take him to New York ity!  Graig and Brock had to stay home because they had an end of the season party to go to for Brock's Little League team. 

It's suppose to take 4 hours to get to NYC from our house but on the way down I took a different route and it took us 6 hours!  On the way back home I went my usual way and it only took 4 hours thank goodness!!

On the way down my phone died because I was using the GPS and I also forgot to bring my camera so I have NO pictures of our trip!

Once we finally arrived we decided to take Kyle on a double decker sight seeing bus.  Graig and I did that tour about 12 years ago when we still lived in Illinois and came to NY to visit his family.  It's a great way to see all of the city sites in a short period of time.  The tour took about 3 hours and it was SO hot, it was at least 90 degrees while we were there!

We got off the bus at Rockerfeller Center which was perfect because it was right by the American Girl Store.  That's the only thing that Ava wanted to do all day so we went in and got her a bunny for her doll Lanie. 

We left there and headed for Times Square to get a nice dinner before we got on the road to come home.  We ate at Famous Dave's bbq which is my Dad's favorite resturant.  It was SO good.  Ava and I shared some baby back ribs!

We took a taxi back to grand central station to catch our train to Newark, NJ where my car was parked.  It was the first time Kyle was ever in a taxi!

Summer Flowers and Baseball

Yesterday we took Kyle our baseball player to New York City for the day.  Ava, Grandma Jan and I took him.  We had a fun day but we didn't get home until 12:30 am this morning so we are SOOO tired today!  I am going to do a post about our NYC adventure tomorrow.  Today I thought I would post some quick pictures that I took with my iphone!

I love this picture of Brock this was after his first all-star baseball game last week.  He hates when I take pictures of him during games so he wouldn't smile for this picture-ha ha!

Last week Ava brought home some of her art projects from school.  She loves art!  She did some really great projects this year at school.  I LOVE this picture that she drew.  It is based on van Gogh's sunflower painting.

I took this quick picture tonight of the flowers on our deck.  They are finally looking "full"  I just got the two patio hydrangaes this year and I love them!

Flower pot directions

The flower pot that I posted yesterday is SO easy to make!  This project takes about 15 minutes from start to finish!  I used my house #'s on my pot but I also think this would be cute with your monogram too!  Here is the finished project. 

First you need to type out your letters or numbers as big as you want in microsoft word.  I used modern #20 font.  Then print and cut them out.    You could see some white paper after I cut my numbers so I just filled in the white with a black sharpie. 

My pot is plastic and brand new so to make it look older I brushed on some white craft paint and wiped it off using a papertowel.  I kept wiping until I liked the way the pot looked.  Then I modge podged (you can get this in the craft section at wal-mart, it's fabulous!)  my numbers on and I went ahead and modge podged the whole pot so it all had the same sheen. 
I let it dry overnight and then I added my plant the next day. 
I love the way it turned out!  I also think this would be a quick and easy hostess gift!

Have a good weekend!

Thursday, Thursday!

Tonight Brock doesn't have a baseball game so we are going to relax at home grill out steaks and have mashed potatoes and salad!  I also want to work a little bit in my flower beds.    Kyle has a game so Brock and I am going to watch him play later on tonight while Graig plays poker at our house with his friends. 

Ava is still enjoying her time in Philly with our neighbors. Today they went to the Philadelphia zoo!  She called and talked to me today and said that she wasn't even one bit homesick-ha ha!
I am SO glad that she is having a good time!  This is really her first time going for so long without us.

I did a little summer re-arranging on this shelf in  our living room.  I really like the way it turned out!

I also did this little craft project a few days ago.  I printed out our house #'s and modge podged them on a pot.  I used microsoft word modern no. 20 font.  I think it turned out really cute!

Have a great Thursday!

It's summer!!!

Brock and Ava are FINALLY out of school!!  Now our summer can offically begin!  I have been in summer mode since it turned so pretty and the college students left last month. 

We are doing a bunch of different things this summer for fun we don't have any really big trips planned except for our girls weekend to Illinois  in July to go to my sister's baby shower!! 

Last night Ava left with our neighbors to go to Philadelphia for a mini-vacation.  They are staying at the Crown Plaza and their hotel is on the roof.  Ava was SOOOO excited before she left about the roof top pool.  This afternoon my sweet neighbor sent me this picture of our girls by the pool.

Last night Kyle's game was rained out so I took him grocery shopping so he could get food that he likes.  He picked out a lot of "boy" food like pizza rolls, hotdogs, bacon, hot pockets, etc.  I also picked up some stuff to make  chicken caesar  salad because I have been craving it.  I made it for dinner when I got home and it was SO good!  It's already gone and I am going to buy some more romaine lettuce so I can make it again.  It's so easy just get a bag of romaine lettuce, frozen grilled chicken (I used Tyson), fresh grated parmesan cheese, crutons and ceasar salad dressing. 

We also watched Shutter Island last night, I know it's been out for a while and I have been wanting to watch it.   It was really good, there were a lot of twists and turns in the plot so I actually want to watch it again now that I know how it ends. 

Tonight Brock has a baseball game in Cooperstown.  He's in a wooden bat tournament there where the boys have to use wooden bats instead of metal.  Graig has held two practices with his team this week so they could practice using the wooden bats. It will be fun to see how the boys do tonight!

Have a good Wednesday!