Reunion, sickness, 4th of July

How's that for a blog title? If you don't already know we've been sick as dogs in Vallierville. I have bronchitis, John has some cough and a stomach bug (which I had last week) and the kids are both randomly coughing and, in Lexi's case, throwing up occassionally. PLUS Brooke cut her foot at the beach on July 4th and spent 5 hours with John in the emergency room. Wicked blast!

Anyhow, we are on the mend hopefully! This weekend we are off to NH (I think) to visit Dad & Karen.

The reunion (2 weekends ago at this point) was great. A lot of people came and paid at the door (as I suspected) as we had a much bigger crowd than we had thought we would. We hooked up with Celia & Brad (shown with us in pics from reunion) beforehand and Mom gave us a ride down to the restaurant. A few friends I hadn't seen in a long time were there including Andrea Cummings, Carolyn Carey, Alisa Blitt, Heather

Tobin, etc. The women all looked amazing. The guys didn't. I am thinking guys just don't care as much as women (ya think?).

Anyway, a good time and everyone was wondering when we'll have the next one. The kids had a great time at Yia Yia's as you can see - though she was also sick.

We also got a chance to spend the day (this past weekend) with Kate & Barb our soon to be married friends in Hull, MA. They have a pool and a great yard and the weather was perfect. Brooke actually learned to swim in their pool on Sat. Previously she would cling to me and drive me a bit batty but she jumped in with John and got going on the noodle (swim toy) and couldn't be stopped. We all got burned and stuffed (Thanks Kate!) and had a blast.

Of course we were back in Marshfield at 4pm (we're just crazy like that)!

Here's a random pic of Brooke in her last gymnastics class (she'll sign up again in the Fall).