Golf Tournament!

We had another super successful golf tournament! The weather was the best yet... 80 and sunny! We had a great turnout! Always fun to spend the day with friends. It means SOOO much to us to have our friends there and we appreciate the effort it takes to get out there! :) So thank you for coming! Meredith came and spent the day hanging out with me and was a HUGE help! Dana and Leslie's hubbies came and golfed and then the girls came down for dinner! It was awesome! I loved having them there!

It is such a crazy crazy busy day of running around and trying to be organized but we still manage to have lots of fun and remember our Stacy. It is a great day to hear stories about her and have so many people together who loved her! We treasure the memories!

Me and Mer out on the course. Look how cute she is in her golf apparel!
Dana's hubby is on the far right (Aaron), and Leslie's hubby (Justin) is next to him. I am so sad that I didn't get pics of the girls :(

My sister (2nd from the right) and her friends were selling jello shots and running a bar on the 6th hole... so Mer and I spent part of the day there.

Heidi, me, Mike (my bro in law) and Mer doing a cherry bomb... ugh!

Visiting Mindy (Stacy's best friend) and Kim... they were running a game at a hole.

(L to R) Mindy, Mary, Kim, Me & Mer

My favorite part of the day when we let off balloons up to Stacy at the end of the day.

Our little Tiger Woods!

So Matthew has really been wanting golf clubs, so we finally ordered him some. He is left-handed and all of the "play" golf clubs are right-handed so the clubs he has, he hasn't been able to really use them correctly! So we waited and waited for UPS to deliver them last Friday. They finally came at 6pm and Matthew was SOOO excited. He had his golf gear on... including his soccer cleats, and was ready to roll! He and Ben have been to the driving range twice in the past week! I think that I need to hurry up and have another baby or I will be hanging out by myself quite a bit while they are out golfing! :) Here is a little video of the action!

Labor Day weekend highlights and FIRST day of PRE-SCHOOL!

We started off Labor Day weekend on Friday afternoon with a going away "night out" for the Toppins (Maggie & Chris). They are moving to CT for Chris' job! We are sad to see them go, but will have a new place to visit! 45 min train into NYC! WooHoo! We went to the Skybar and sat outside and cocktails and then to Pizza Luce and to Bootleggers... good time had by all! So good that we had to stay downtown at the Graves 601 hotel... such a nice place! Good deals to be had on ORBITZ!! :)

We got up on Saturday morning and headed straight to the cabin for some Forced Family Fun! Which really isn't forced at all! Everyone was down at the cabin for at least part of the weekend! We had a great time and AMAZING weather!! So much fun. I hate Labor Day weekend... it always feels like the end of summer and that is SOOOO depressing to me. I love fall but HATE what comes after it!

And TODAY is the biggest day... Matthew started pre-school!! My baby is at pre-school right now! Yes, I did cry when I left him, but he started it! So hard to see him sad. I know he is having so much fun! I just can't believe that he is old enough to be in preschool already! time boes by so fast! I feel like it was just yesterday that I was sitting with a brand new baby! I really can't believe that he is 3 1/2! I can't imagine the day when he starts kindergarten... I will be such a mess!

On that note... i will leave you with some pictures!

Here are Maggie and Chris... so cute! Jess (Tri), Maggie and myself at Bootleggers

On to the cabin... my grandma made us all these aprons, so here we are modeling them!

Matthew with Connor and Griffin looking for "sea glass"... so cute! They were gone forever! Thank God for older cousins to entertain Matthew!

The WHOLE clan!! Only missing my brother who got called away to work!

A family photo of us by the bonfire!

I'm feeling a little nostalgic so I had to put in a picture of my little baby matthew... what a sweet baby he was! Check out his nice clean blanket which is now completely tattered and a gross shade of grey! it has gotten a lot os love over the past 3 1/2 year! He was only 1 day old in this pic!
And here he is on his first day of pre-school! Ugh, how time flies!