Go Italia!!

Alex is playing on the Italy soccer team this year and he is having a blast.



When Alex started he told me that he wanted to hear me scream "Go Alex Go!" and have pom poms to show everybody how proud we are of him.
Of course that made me laugh, I promised him that I would be his biggest fan but I told him that the pom poms were staying home.



Alex makes me smile so much, he's such a good kid. (Well, most of the time)

A little bit of CA sunshine in CT

While we lived in CA we made some really great friends.
Ande and I missed each other so much she decided to come for a visit.



For her birthday her husband bought us tickets to go see Avenue Q in NY so we made a mini vacation while she was here for her vacation.



In less than 48 hours in NY we went on a boat ride to get a closer look of the Statue of Liberty and see the amazing view on observation deck of the Empire State building.



(This is a great shot of the Chrysler Building)



We also managed to make it to the Metropolitan Musuem for a couple of hours and rest in the beautiful Central Park before heading home.



NY was an incridible adventure for the both us, I'm so glad we had the opportunity to do this.




Back in CT we decided to go to the USS Nautalis Museum in Groton.
We all got a better idea of CJ's life on a submarine. Here is a picture of the Officer dining room and sleeping quaters.




Everyone had a really good time. Now that the boys are older it was also nice for the them to visit another submarine and give them a better understanding of their daddy's suroundings while he's deployed.





Maybe we have future Naval Officers in the family?

Cape Cod

We hit the road to visit Cape Cod, MA.
It took us three hours to get there but it was worth it!



The first beach we went to was Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown. The water was unbelievably clear and calm. There was motion but there was not any waves!



Unfortunatly our day got cut short due to a hurricane heading toward Cape Cod but we still made quick stops at Marconi Beach and Nauset Beach and Light House.



I wish we could have stayed longer but we made the best of our trip and had fun.
I doubt this will be our last trip here since sea glass is a popular hobby here.

On the hunt for sea glass!

It was a gorgeous summer day so we went to watch hill beach with Nana.
Isaiah and Nana found some sea glass,it was over they were hooked!



Watch Hill became a strategic lookout point during the French and Revolutionary Wars.
And in 1806, the historic Watch Hill lighthouse was built.



I wish we weren't so busy looking for sea glass because we forgot to take pictures of us at the beach!

Gillette Castle

Nana came for a visit from WA State so we thought it would be fun to go explore Gillette Castle. William Gillette is most famous for his portrayal of "Sherlock Holmes".



The boys really had fun finding secret doors; all the doors (47)were different and had intricate locks. Unfortunately we couldn't have flash photography so we didn't get great pictures of the inside.




CT bought the castle in 1943 and turned it into a state park for everyone to enjoy. It is amazing, the whole castle is made out of southern white oak and field stone and the park grounds are absolutely beautiful.



I don't know if you know this but people say that CT is were you go to grow rocks and there is plenty of proof of that if you were to ever come for a visit.