Thursday, July 22, 2010

Staycation 2010

On Monday, we took the kids to my parents' house in PA to stay for the week. 
(it has been a ritual for a few years now)

The kids have been so excited!  Ian & Lily started packing their toys earlier in the week.  It was too cute.  Lily was counting down sleeps.  She was super excited to have a long slumber party at Nana's house.  Ian woke up early on Monday and got dressed so he was ready to go.  Once dressed he ended up waking up the whole house, he was so excited about leaving.

After dropping them off we took our time coming home.  We went to 3 of our favorite places outside of Pittsburgh, Don Pablos for linner (lunch/dinner), IKEA & Half Price Books.  I am wishing we had these things in Buffalo.  

On Tuesday, we went wine tasting.  We had a wonderful time.  Our favorite wineries were Schulze Winery & Niagara Landing.  Their wines are so tasty!! 

While we were out we went to Olcott (like we did last year) and I got to take more photos of flowers.  I love taking photos of flowers.


We also took photos of each other.
Yesterday, most of the day we vegged out at home doing nothing but watching movies we rented.  We did go out to lunch.  Not sure what we are going to do today.  Tomorrow we are going back to my parents' house.  I want to go visit my grandparents before we come home on Sunday.  (My grandmother had surgery about a month ago)

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19 Sweet Comments:

Pesky Cat Designs said...

Your photos are always stunning and these flower pics are amazing! Love the pic of you by the sunflowers as well.

Unknown said...

Beautiful photos!

It sounds like you all had a wonderful time--off to check out some of the links :)

Unknown said...

Looks like you guys are having a great time!! Enjoy your freedom for a little while :) The flower photos are fabulous...I love the 2nd one!

Kate said...

Gorgeous photos! Have fun! Hop over and enter my giveaway if you have a chance too :) Maybe you'll be extra lucky with all that relaxing going on.

Braley Mama said...

WHat a nice time together! Your pictures are fabulous, your love for it shows!

Renée said...

What a fabulous butterfly pix! They are all gorgeous...so nice you can veg together watching movies and lunching!

Debbie said...

Sounds like the whole family is having such what they needed!
I so wish we had an Ikea.

Gem said...

As usual, AMAZING pix. I sooo wish we had an IKEA here too =)

Chelsey - The Paper Mama said...

I LOVE the butterfly photo!

Wendy Irene said...

I really enjoyed your photos!

Ann Crosby said...

Loved your photos!!!!!

Thanks for sharing.

Kimberly said...

Well look at you, Miss Pretty Thang! :) That's a great photo of you. And the flowers, ♥. :)

Unknown said...

Your flower photo's are just gorgeous!! I love the one with the butterfly in it!
Sounds like you are having a relaxing week! Enjoy it!!

Dawn Parsons Smith said...

Your photos are GORGEOUS! Wow!

I'm a huge Ikea fan...just went there a few weeks ago! It's two hours from the house, but so worth the trip!

Peach Rainbow said...

Lovely photos and you look beautiful too!

Maria said...

Ahh, sounds like a wonderful, relaxing trip with your family. :-)

I love the butterfly pic!

Liz Mays said...

I think it's so wonderful that you're having some special time together like this! The flowers are gorgeous!!!!!

vivian said...

Always was fun to send the kids off somewhere where you knew they were safe and well taken care of so we could get some much needed grown up time! Great pics, especially of you and your hubby. YOu werent too far from me when you were at Olcott. I think one of these days we should meet up for lunch!
ttly!
vivian

~ Noelle said...

love the photos... the butterfly is my favorite!!!!
you look awesome BTW~~

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