Mr & Mrs Brian Reid!!!!

Will upload photos later!
It was a BEAUTIFUL day and we definitely had a blast!
Congrats to Carrie & Brian!!!

Here's what it's like...

to find out that your kid is NOT on the bus on the first day of school...

Jake's First Day of School!!!

OK! So the drama of getting off to the first day of school is done!!!
What a relief!
Jake did WONDERFULLY! I could tell he was a little nervous, but he was very brave and we're so proud of him!
It might be hard to hear in the video, but he asked the bus driver if she had my phone number so that she could call me if he had any questions. :) SO SWEET!!!
So, right now he's sitting in class and in hour he'll be eating his lunch!!! OH, to be a fly on the wall in his classroom!
These pictures are all out of order, so sorry for any confusion. I just wanted to get them on here so everyone could enjoy the videos.
To celebrate Jake's first day of school, he requested lasagna for dinner and a chocolate cake with raspberry frosting for dessert. Rudy and I have our work cut our for ourselves today!!!
So far, the house is unusually quiet. Rudy is watching cartoons and there's no fighting! I'm sad that Jake isn't with us right now, but I think I can get used to this!

Here comes the bus!!!

Putting his bookbag in his cubby

Mrs. Rock

Looking for his classroom

Following the bus to school

Waiting at the bus stop!

Please excuse my acting like a spaz and telling Jeremy to "TAKE MORE PICTURES!!" and also excuse my blubbering at the end of the video...I can't help it! My baby is going off to school all by himself! I thought I was excited for this day and that I could be strong, but as it turns out, I am WEAK! ;-)

I am not even about to try to catch up on the last several months of pictures that I haven't posted...

JP loved playing fussball...Every time won, he would run around the house yelling "Pascarella Stadium!!!"

Cassie taught me how to play "trash" then KICKED MY BUTT at it!!!

Some of us ladies watched "Message in a Bottle" and Grandad heard us sobbing so he came over and handed out tissues! ... so sensitive :)

This is the entrance to the kids' favorite beach store. Every time we drive past it, they yell and get so excited!

I had just caught Jeremy trying to make (yet another) stupid face at the camera.

Jordan and Rudy. The kids played almost non-stop all week long!

Jake played the frog game at Barefoot Landing and won the biggest prize for getting 5 frogs in the lilypad!!!!

Carrie read to the kids before bed.......so sweet!!! They love their Aunt Carrie!!!

Me at Barefoot Landing

The kids have so much fun on these trampoline things!

AQUA NERD!!!!! Carrie taught him that! :)

Crab Night!!!

I love this picture of Rudy asleep on the couch next to Grandad.

The kids LOVED playing putt-putt. Jacob, of course, took it very seriously...and Rudy just enjoyed dancing!

JP and Grandma playing Monopoly.

but, we did just get back from Myrtle Beach so I wanted to upload a couple of cute videos. We had a fantastic time! As the kids get older, going to the beach becomes a little less work and a little more fun. We came home with plenty of stories...some good - like Jake learning how to swim...some not-so-good - like Rudy getting stuck in the elevator on the first night (Ugh!!!....it was terrible!).

Unfortunately my camera's battery went dead in the middle of the week and I forgot to pack the charger, so I'm hoping that someone else in the family is willing to share their beach pictures with me. :)

There just aren't enough hours in the day!!!

Anyone know what movie that line is from????
My guess is.............NO!!!!

I just finished up helping Jeremy out with typing an appraisal (if I want an RV I guess I'm gonna have to work for it!) so I thought I'd get on here and share a favorite youtube video. Actually I'm pretending to be typing an appraisal, but I'm actually just farting around on the internet...don't tell Jeremy though! :) haha!!! I've come a long way since I started learning ASL. Now I can actually understand what they're signing, which is pretty exciting! :)

Hopefully, when I'm able to squeeze in some time I will get some pictures up from Jake's 5th birthday. I'm expecting that I'll be able to do that sometime around his 6th b-day.

We're SUPER busy these days. Between baby showers and bridal showers and lots of other summertime activities, work, and getting ready for school(for me AND Jacob!) again in the fall it seems like the days go by so fast and there isn't a minute to spare. Life is good, though, and I've got nothing to complain about. :-)

If you've been thinking about that line...it's from...........................................
(surprise, surprise)................Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory!!!! Duh!!!!

Shoot! I can't figure out how to put the video on here. So if you're interested, here's the link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkjtm2VRvC8

Enjoy!

The Air Show!

Yesterday was our annual trip to the Air Show at Andrews AFB in Maryland. Jeremy is really into these planes, so even knowing that he would pay for it by working all day and night today, it was worth it. The weather was a big ? all day, but turned out beautifully.

Rudy wasn't afraid to show off his guns for Batman!



These guys also weren't afraid to show off their guns! Gee Whiz!!!

Rudy covered his eyes and refused to look at Wolverine. Too cute! :)

The boys put on some "fatal vision" goggles which make you feel drunk. Then they had to walk the yellow line and try to shoot a basket. It was quite entertaining. What was even more fun to watch was the adults trying to do it. It looked like a scene from Cops doing a sobriety test on the side of the road. :-)

Jake.........I just don't know what to say about this boy......He HATES loud noises, so the air show isn't exactly his cup of tea. In addition to the head phones and blanket, he also had ear plugs....and he still got upset. We tend to do EVERYTHING together as a family, but I think that we'll give Jake the option of staying home next year.

Disney World

This was so sweet. The night before we left for Disney, we were up late packing and getting the last things ready to go and I came up the stairs to find Jacob asleep on the steps in his underpants. :)

We were really thankful that Grandma came with us. We tend to wander around and not do a whole lot when we're on our own, so with Bobbie there, she knew all of the best rides to go on and always got us fast passes for those rides. She may be hard to keep up with, but she made sure that we made the most of every day at the park. If it weren't for her I wouldn't have gotten to go on the Tower of Terror or some of the other rides that Jeremy is too chicken to go on. :) (Jeremy will be pissed when he reads that!) Thanks Grandma!!

This group, Mulch, Sweat N' Shears was in Hollywood Studios. They were a riot! If you ever go to Disney, you MUST see them. The guy in the red shirt is the band's "Manager" and he had us cracking up. He picked Bobbie out of the crowd to go up and rock out with the band (or in Jeremy and Aidan's words...jam out with her clam out). We laughed so hard at some the the things this guy was saying to people in the crowd. :)

Animal Kingdom was amazing! We didn't spend a whole lot of time there, and I wish we could have gone back, but I'm sure this won't be our last Disney trip. Thanks to Bobbie (again) we got to do the Safari Ride twice - with no wait. Rudy kept saying "I want to ride the bus with the aminals again!!!"

On our last day we went by bus and boat to tour some of the resorts. My favorite BY FAR was the Fort Wilderness Resort. It was gorgeous...and surprise, surprise - it's the resort where you go if you bring your RV. But really though, it was so peaceful...and that's just what you need after a day at a Disney park. :)
The kids were able to take pony rides, which they loved. Rudy's pony's name was Snickers and I can't remember Jake's pony's name...that's what I get for waiting a month to post a blog. :)

It was such a great trip. We could not have asked for better weather. Even the drive to and from Florida was a lot of fun. The kids were great and ask (almost on a daily basis) if we can go back. I am so thankful that we were able to go and look forward to going again in a few years...maybe even in an RV!!! :) Rudy was just a couple inches too short to go on some of the best rides and he's the one that (I think) will love the fast rides. Jeremy and Jacob both prefer to sit the scary ones out, so Rudy better like the roller coasters because I need a riding buddy.