Weekend Wedding

This past Thursday we went down to the Cape for friends Shannon and Dean's wedding. I was in this wedding and enjoyed spending the day Friday getting ready with the bride. The wedding was supposed to be outside, but the weather did not cooperate. Shannon worried about the bottom of her dress getting wet with the torrential rain, but we bridesmaids came up with a solution that ended up being pretty funny. Now at least Shannon can say that she looked gorgeous in a trash bag on her wedding day!! We rode to the ceremony in a 1941 Buick wooden wagon. Here also is Tara, another Colby-Sawyer friend.


Riley's top right tooth has come in and she's drooling so much that the other must surely be on its way as well. It rained almost all weekend here and I haven't had much time lately to spend outside in the garden. It's looking a little weedy but at this point I'm too lazy to do anything about it. I did have a new dahlia open up this week so it's nice to see that I still have some time left before the season is over. The first frost could come any time and then it will be tie to dig the tubers up. It's a little bittersweet - I'm excited to see how many new tubers I have - but will be sad to see the end of the season and don't know where I'll find the time to do all of the digging and dividing I need to do.
Chris is in his last week of golf season, so life will be much easier once he doesn't have practice to go to in the afternoon. I might be able to read some of the magazines that have been piling up!


Shannon in her trash bag.

Happy Birthday Daddy!!

Hanging Out

This was a good weekend for hanging out. Chris still has some hours left to use up at the pond, so he's been getting up early to go down and wait for boats. Yesterday Riley and I hung out and went to the grocery store after her morning nap. In the afternoon Grandpa came over and he and Chris went to chop down some trees. When they returned with Grandpa's pick-up full of wood, we watched him and Chris cut the wood into stove sized pieces for next winter. Today was a beautiful day here and we sat outside for a little while. Now it's time for me to get back to work and prepare for the week.

The Weekend

This weekend was full of firsts for Riley. On Saturday we took her to her first high school football game. It was Conval's Homecoming and for that game they typically play Milford. It's always nice to go and see our teams play each other and now Chris and I can be happy that we've supported our schools by going to at least one game this year.
After we returned home from the game Riley took all of the toys out of her toy bin and enjoyed taking a ride in it.
On Sunday Grandma and Grandpa came over to watch football and Grandma and I went shopping before the Pats game. While we were gone Grandpa went fishing while Chris hung out with Riley. Later in the day we Riley's new tutu (her first) on her.
She also enjoyed chomping on a pretzel or two. I'm not sure how much of it she actually ate VS how much became mush that coated her clothes. Here she is enjoying the pretzel on Grandma's lap. She loved to suck on it, but would get very annoyed when she dropped it and couldn't pick it up again because it was too slippery. Later as I was changing her into her pjs I found the remnants of a pretzel fall out of her clothes.
And finally, here is a picture of Riley with her Grandpa. He sent this picture to me to post on the blog claiming that there has never been a picture of the two of them together on here. Oops! He also wanted to say, "that it was an especially good day for Grandpa as, in addition to visiting with Riley, both the Pats and the Giants won and [I] caught a 4.25 lb. largemouth on the pond." I will mention that the fish was 4.5 lbs when Grandpa told the story at our house so as the story spreads the fish shrinks. I didn't think that fishing worked that way. I thought the fish would be 5 lbs for sure by now!

Winter Coat

Yesterday I found a winter coat for Riley at a local consignment shop. It's LLBean and barely used. I was psyched to find it. I tried it on Riley today and, from the looks of it, it will definitely fit through the summer. Here are a few pics.

Dahlias, Dahlias, Dahlias

Due to Hanna sweeping through New England last weekend, I cut many blooms so that my dahlias wouldn't be weighed down. I cut TONS and my house is filled with blooms. It's nice to have flowers everywhere. I still have many outside and you can't even really tell that I cut a bunch. Maybe tomorrow I'll cut some more and bring them in to work.

The weather here is crummy today with pouring rain earlier. It's dry but stormy looking now. Because of the weather, Chris didn't have practice this afternoon and now he and Riley are playing on the floor. She has adjusted alright to daycare and seems more excited to see me this week than she did when she first started.

8 Months Old!

Riley is 8 months old today! She didn't want to pose with her sign - she only wanted to play with and eat it.







We had fun on Labor Day when Nana, Grampy, Uncle Peter, Grandma, Grandpa and Great Uncle Mike came to visit.















Riley is getting very flexible and can almost do a split!