Our Camping Trip

the next couple of days, you will see us posting on our camping trip to East Harbor State Park. We ventured out with Cal, his first camping trip... and our first camping trip since before we were pregnant with cal... so all in all, a momentous occasion

cal "helped" us set up camp by handing all the tie downs to adam. it took us a while but we finally got him trained to take shoes off before entering the tent... this is a strict rule with us

we had to go to the comissary to pick up some forgotten items... and a the biggest freeze pop I had ever seen, of course!

we were camping not too far from the play area, which was nice when cal needed to burn off some steam

New York City

If I had to give you any advice about a tour of new york city, I would say have someone who lives there give you the tour... If I had to tell you something else, I would say, don't take a two year old with you!

Although cal had a really great time, it was interesting just trying to figure out how we were going to get him and his gear on and off the subway. I will say this, though, there were plenty of sights and sounds to keep him occupied while we walked for miles and miles around the city!

times square was quite a sight...

and cal really enjoyed FAO Schwarz

the next day on the way home, we stopped at a rest area in PA and cal found an enormous flower that he was quite proud of!

Karen and Frank's Reception

The reception was awesome... Danbury's on the Sound definitely has a good cooking staff, and the bartenders are pretty great as well...

calvin enjoyed the lobster bisque

the views from the reception room were beautiful, here we just missed the sunset...

then there was dancing, and the cutting of the cake

and of course just plain silliness, since this was of course a family wedding...

and the after party was pretty great as well...

Karen and Frank's Wedding

it was a very hot saturday in long island, which I am convinced makes the locals talk with even more of an accent (to us it sounds that way, anyway...) when karen and frank finally tied the knot in a short but very nice outside ceremony.

cal, of course, got a little antsy but what can you expect from a two year old outside in the heat with dress clothes on?!?!

then there was pictures, for the wedding party, and for ourselves and off to the reception, which thankfully was right where the wedding was... if adam had to drive around long island anymore than we already had, I was pretty sure somebody was going to have their tire shot out!

Did you know...

that it takes over 11 hours to drive to Long Island, New York from Clyde?!? Did you also know that a normal attention span is 3-5 minutes for every year of a child's age? Did you know that this translates into an impossible 110 different things to do on a long car ride for the average 2 year old? Well, now we do!!

We were able to keep cal busy for much of the trip, but he simply ran out of things that were interesting enough to keep him happy...

Here we are getting ready to cross the George Washington bridge into New York City...

This is cal enjoying the sight of the bridge (we thought we were almost there when we hit NYC, but alas, there was still approx 3 more hours of travel time to get to where we needed to be on Long Island with the traffic on a friday night!)

And here is how cal cooled off and worked off some of his "long car ride" energy. We were lucky this little girl (nikki) was at the wedding, it gave cal someone to play with the night before and the night of Karen and Frank's wedding, which was the whole reason we drove to new york with a two year old in tow in the first place!

The Annual Wahl Party...

It was a quite a busy day here at the houseofwahl... Our annual party went off without a hitch this year, and no one got any burnt toes or bellies either(we have a history, here)!

The party opened up with a water slide for the kids...

There was a ton of food to be had, and everyone filled up, if you didn't, there was something wrong with you! There might have been some drinking going on, but I didn't witness any of that...

There was fireworks, (which unfortunately, we didn't get any ACTUAL pics of,)

And there was a fire at the end of the night. hil n mike cozy up next to the fire

All in all, a great night! Here I am, showing off some about-to-be-torched strawberry marshmallows!!!MMMMMMMMMMMM!

Forrest is 1!

Recently, we were invited to our nephew's 1st Birthday party!

It is hard to believe this happy little squirt is already one. My, how time flies.

His mommy is an excellent cake designer and made this little number... she actually made our wedding cake too! isn't it awesome...

Quentin and Forrest, cal's cousins.