Living Life and Loving It: Memorial Day Weekend

May 31, 2011

Memorial Day Weekend

Last weekend was awesome! We really packed a ton of fun into 4 days. Brian was able to "work from home" on Friday, so we hopped on a train to Connecticut and spend Friday and Saturday with family. Brian's sister, Heather, kept asking, "What do you want to do while you are here?" My response, "Nothing!" And that's what I did. I lounged on a shady swing as much as possible, holding my baby, and watching my kids run and play with their cousins. It was paradise. I was so lazy that I didn't even take photos (I kept thinking about it, but getting that camera was too much work!). Okay, I snapped one:

My little Joan of Arc

We were back in the city late Saturday night and had a fairly normal Sunday except for a fun picnic with old friends in Harlem. It was so lovely that I forgot to take any photos.

Early Monday morning we picked up a zipcar and headed to Brighton Beach (just east of Coney Island) with Brian's brother, Spencer, who flew in late Sunday night. The bag full of swimsuits somehow never made it from our apartment into our car. But the kids, of course, didn't care. While at the beach I remembered how much I love to take photos. My favorite thing to photograph? My children playing at the beach.

I love this photo! I think it may be the only one with me and my busy brood.

Oliver loved the water! He couldn't stop laughing.

Isabella was very brave and loved it!

Out running Uncle Spencer--not easy to do.

Like I said, he loved the water! "ow" as he calls it.

Artistic sandcastle. Her first solo castle.

Once the beach got too hot (about noon) for our fair skin we grabbed lunch and then headed back to Manhattan to drop off Spencer so he could hang out with a friend. Then our little family drove up the Palisades Parkway, along the Hudson River. It's one of my favorite, just outside the city, drives. We stopped in Piermont (super quaint little town) to relax and run at a playground.