Week 1-Block Island

Block Island is an island off of Rhode Island in between the Block Island Sound and the Atlantic. G's sister has a house on the island and lets the family use it for a week for free and then G and another of her sisters rent it for an additional week. We stayed for a total of 16 days.
This island is a very beautiful place with something awe-invoking to look at around every turn. I can imagine it being a very peaceful place for G & S... especially since they have me there to work for them 24/7 while we were there. In the time we were there, we did several fun activities, and had a blast, but at the end of every day, I just wanted some me time.. which wasn't really an option, so I became tired and grouchy by the end of the second week.
Let me focus on sharing about the fun things that we got to do during week one.
The cottage is right off of the beach, about a minute walk, so every morning we would take the dogs (Kati and G's sister's dog Nala) to the beach for a romp in the sand with all the other doggie visitors. Of course the kido's had to join us too, so it was just craziness, and fun! Everyday we pretty much enjoyed the same activities, beach time in the morning for the dogs to run, then back up for breakfast and to change, then packing lunch for more beach time in the afternoon, where we can play in the waves, build sandcastles, chase children and dogs trying to get them to stay in our little area. Going in the water carrying little dan and then holding little ann's hand. We were on the Atlantic ocean side of the island, so we had to be extra careful in the water bc of the undercurrent.

One afternoon, G dropped off Little dan and I at a playground for 2 hours, another night we all went to go see the movie "Get Smart", then that friday was the 4th of July Parade, which was very cute, followed by a nice lunch at a restaurant called the Oar and then a fireworks display in the evening. And that was pretty much it for week one!

Laura!

Laura came for her visit June 19th through the 23rd. While she was here we spent most of our time just hanging around CT. We did head down to nyc for a day to shop a little and explore the wonder that is China town. The thing that I love most about China Town is all of the little 'secret rooms' (or secret vans on the side of the street if you're extra special like Laura and I..don't worry we made it out ok), they are all filled with knock offs of great handbags! Coach, Gucci, Prada... you name it-they've got it, and it can be yours for around $25, depending on size and quality. of course they'd all have you paying $50 but most of us love the game of bartering for your bags, and you end up getting some real steals!

Other than New York and China Town, we went up to try going to Six Flags which is right across the border into Massachusetts. But of course with our luck, by the time we got up there, there was thunder and lightening and bc a great sum of their rides have metal framework or are water rides, they were pretty much shut down. We found something wonderful to replace it with though! couples massage! We were going to go in for just the standard opening but of course for the time slot they had open there was only a couples massage available, so we did it. It was very relaxing!



For the rest of Laura's stay here, we spent some time with the Little's at the beach, we went to some of the local malls to shop, and we just hung out. All in all it was a relaxing and fun weekend!

Hip Hip Hooray!

I finally have my computer back!!! Yay Yay Yay!

I know I'm a big nerd, but I'm just so happy :D

Anyhow, here is a quick update and then I will post more in detail with pictures soon:
My friend Laura came for a visit in the end of June (the weekend of the 20th)...we had a blast!
The following weekend I left with G, S, and the little's to go to Block Island from the 28th of June through July 13th... it was fun, but it was very exhausting!
After we got back I had an entire week without anyone visiting or me going anywhere which was great!
This past weekend Kelsey came to visit, and this weekend my friend Kelly is in NYC with her family and that brings us up to date.
I will start posting with details on one event at a time since I have been busy and without a computer, and I have lots of fun and crazy stories, as well as some good pics to put up for everyone to check out....

And one last yippeee!! for getting my computer back!!! Hooray!

Dogs On Thursday

The insane people that I work for would like to get another dog, that I will love and care for and walk and miss when I am gone.... as if Kati weren't enough. So they are looking at adopting (at least they are doing part of it right) Sally. Sally is about 5 or 6 months old and is a German Shepherd hound mix -you all know my love for hounds :)


Isn't she precious! S went to look at her yesterday, and G is taking Kati and Little Ann to go see her today.. which means we are pretty much getting her. I can hear little Ann whining with soo much animation "but she's so cute! Can't we just bring her home!!!" And G will melt like she always does, and we will have 2 Puppies under the age of 1! (Although Kati's Birthday is coming up in August)...

So anyhow, its not official but I think we're getting another dog, a cute one, that is supposedly already potty trained... I think she's cute :)

:( Munchkin Monday

So guess what little dan decided to do today?!  He went to the bathroom and then came out and I said "did you go potty?"

"yea"

"did you flush?"

"no"

  So I went to go in with him and he said "Krystle, look!  Your phone!" all excitedly and was pointing into the toilet... and sure enough there was my phone in his pee in the toilet!  What was I to do but reach in grab it out and said "no tyler! What did you do"

"I just dropped it in!" (said with his little cute 'I did nothing smirk, that was definitely not cute at that moment)

 So I said "no" again

"oh, thats not good?"

"no thats not good...now my phone is broken"

"oh, I'm sorry krystle"

So now my phone is sitting on the counter and I have taken all the pieces out (battery etc.) and I'm really hoping that it will dry out bc the last thing I need right now is for my phone to be added to the list of dead things that I own!  

Ugh!

(and yes, I washed my hands)

Agh!

I never thought I was one of those people that couldn't do anything without their technology... but now I am realizing that the monster has been created.. and now its unleashed!!
I feel naked!
I arrived back in sunny Connecticut late on Sunday evening, and finally got an opportunity to call Gateway and Best Buy to try to recover my sadly dead computer. Last night I brought it into the Geek Squad and they said that it is either my keyboard that died or my hard drive, but either way its under warranty! (thank god!) So it will be back to my local Best Buy store in two weeks on average.. could be more, could be less... lets all hope for less!
The good news: I was able to purchase an external hard drive and back-up all of my pics, docs, and music!
The bad news: My computer is still broken, and I am finding myself lost without it....

What this means for anyone that might possibly still read my blog after the month+ long hiatus in my updating: I won't be able to get my pictures off of my broken camera, or update often (who am I kidding, I never updated that often to begin with) until I get my baby comes home. I may post some sort of an entry in about a week to give a brief update, which I will elaborate on with pictures and such when I can!

Until then... thanks for checking in!

Guest Blogger

The Princess is still alive and well - she's just vacationing with the Little on Block Island in the New Jersey Sound. Unfortunately, the day after she left her hard drive crashed. She gave me all of her super secret passwords and asked me to let everyone know that she is taking lots of pictures, composing blog posts in her head and as soon as she can either get her (not that old) computer fixed or replaced she will be back to regular posting - with photos even.

Meanwhile - please carry on enjoying the summer without her, but don't forget to check back as she will return.

Thank you - gmarie (otherwise known as "The Queen" or Mom)