Kites Over Clarksburg

After storytime on Saturday, we headed over to Kites Over Clarksburg at Ovid Hazen Wells Park. This is such a great event! Not only is it free (even the food is free, although donations are appreciated), but there was so much for the kids to do. In addition to the kites (people brought their own, bought kites there or made their own at the crafts table), there was a bounce house, a 4-H demo, games and the great playground at the park to entertain the kids. And even more exciting for us, Aunt RiRi was in town for Spring Break and came to hang out with us at the park!

Marino and his cousin Landyn (6). Landyn is the sweetest boy in the world; I love him! According to Marino, when I was taking the picture, "the sun is hitting me in the eye"

These two have a lot of fun together!

Me, Marino and Rianne

Trying to pick up Landyn (not successful)

Going down the pole with help from Ben (Landyn's dad)

The kite festival was really fun. I really enjoyed seeing all the different kites - some of them were just amazing! My favorites were a 3-D pirate ship kite and a huge owl shaped kite. AND we won free Jersey Mike's subs in the raffle! It's not the Mega Millions, but, hey, it's something!

Low Key Weekend

We had a fairly low key weekend. In case you haven't noticed from reading the blog, I have a tendency to overbook myself every weekend and never feel rested by the time Monday rolls around. I'm working on this!

Saturday was Evan's cousin Sammy's graduation/18th birthday party. Evan's cousins are all the best of friends and I absolutely love it. I hope that Marino has that relationship with his cousins one day (whenever my sister-in-laws get around to babies...no rush, Chelle and RiRi!!). Sammy is a sweetheart and has changed so much since I started dating Evan 5 years ago.

Here's a shot of Marino and Aunt Chelle at the party

Rianne and Sammy
Evan and Sam

Super cool cake...that's Sammy playing football on the cake

We had a great time at the party and got to visit with lots of friends and family.

Sunday we had a huge storm, so after our (indoor) swim class, we were lazy all day.

Today was a gorgeous day, so all 4 of us (including Max) went to fly Marino's Brobee kite after work. We had a great time! Marino kept saying "Brobee face in sky!!" He did a great job holding the kite and only let go once (we got lucky and the handle stuck on a chain link fence so we didn't lose the kite).

Marino loves to tell us "I'm scared" (I'm not kidding, he probably says this 20 times a day, sometimes for no obvious reason). He usually gets to the top of slides and then announces "I'm scared" and has to be coaxed down. This is what's going on here...

Loves to climb

Running with Max

Happy boy!