Sunday, June 19, 2011

Milestones for the G3

The happy Garrett baby
What a week! The Garrett family had a wonderful week. To start off the festivities, Zach's mom came to visit and she arrived on Tuesday the 14th. We were so excited to see her! She hasn't been here since March and was looking forward to seeing her little girl before she learned to crawl. Although Dylan is making progress in this area, she is still just sticking to her tried and true army crawl (as per her daycare teachers). No hurry though; she's getting into enough mischief!

Christina celebrated her 30th birthday on the 15th and spent the day with Jodie and Dylan. There was shopping, lunch and relaxing time with the three Garrett Girls. Zach came home from work about 4:30 and then Jodie spent the evening with Dylan while her parents met friends for drinks in honor of the big 30.
Dylan really likes cat toys
Alyssa, Dylan and Christina
On Saturday we all took a drive to CT to see Eric, Tammy and Alyssa and spent the day at the pool. It was a beautiful day, but the pool water was still very cold. Despite that, Christina still braved the temperature and joined Alyssa for a swim and some sloshing around on a new pool float. It was ridiculous to see but really fun. Dylan enjoyed her little pool but then joined the older girls in the big pool and didn't seem to mind the cold water at all. In fact, she made it about 30 minutes in there and kicked her feet and splashed.

We were treated to some homemade pizza and an ice cream cake to celebrate our birthdays (Zach's is today). It was a late night and Dylan was pooped but we all had a lot of fun sitting in the sunshine and catching up.

Today is Zach's birthday and very first Father's Day. Sadly it was the end of Jodie's visit but we really enjoyed having her here and also thoroughly savored her cooking! Dylan enjoyed having grandma around to play with and hug and hopefully we will see her again soon. Zach is going to enjoy and relax today.

A very good week indeed!

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Oh to Boston We Go

Castle Island, South Boston
The Garrett family has had a pleasant and relaxing weekend so far. Yesterday we ran some errands and did our usual Target visit. We found some bargains at Ocean State (swimming items for the little one) and then relaxed. Zach found some time to go skate and the girls spent some quality time together and played and went for a walk. The weather has finally been nice so we wanted to make use of it.

Boston Skyline
This morning we took a drive to South Boston and walked around Castle Island; it's become one our favorite spots. The weather was fantastic and we showed Dylan the boats on the water and airplanes flying overhead. She seemed to enjoy it. After our walk we headed home for some lunch, did a little grocery shopping and cleaned up. It's nice having some time to ourselves over the weekend to get refreshed for another work week.