Back to New York

It was a bitter sweet trip back to New York this year. It was great to go visit and see so many friends and family, but we were very sad to say goodbye to Papa Mike. We are happy he is not sick anymore and know he is in a better place. We will miss him alot and look forward to the day we will see him again.

We received the call that Papa Mike passed Saturday the 23 of July and were on a plane the next morning. We left our house at 4 am and were in New York by 4pm. It was a long day with little to no sleep, and with our kids everything is an adventure.

The kids were about as good as they could have been, only getting bored a few times. And Taryn slept pretty much the whole time.

We fought to see who got to sit by Camire. Kyle had her the first plane for 3 hours and I had her the second for an hour. She colored on his shorts and spilled apple juice all over her and me so I would say we are even.

We went and saw Kyle's brother Jay's new house and had dinner with some of the family. Here the kids are with Grandma Carter. (Kyle's grandma)

Grandpa Carter

Cousin Ainsley, she is almost 7 months and the kids loved to play with her.

In the back yard cooking some smoores.

Grandma and Taryn.

There was an awesome tree that the kids climbed all over. We miss the trees.

The gang, Grandpa, Kyle, Jay, Grandma, Jared, Jody, and Meghan.

Grandpa and Taryn.

Field Days. The local Fire departments race their trucks and there is games and food. Here the kids are watching the races.

Here Dayton is playing one of the games, Rolo. It is thier favorite and they play till they win so they get to pick out a prize. Camrie played this year by herself and won after just a few games.

Dayton played so many games that I lost count, and won at least 7 times, I lost count after that. He would play till he ran out of money and then someone would give him more so he would go back and play some more.

Sitting with Grandma Jody, (Kyle's mom).

Spaulding Reunion.

swimming in the kid pool.

We kicked the boys out and made it the girl pool.

Here's the boy pool.

Some of the guys hanging out.

Taryn loved her cousin Brooke who held her almost the whole time.

More pool time.

Happy Birthday Grandpa Bill, (Kyle's Dad).

Last day in New York packing up and hanging out with Uncle Jared.

He is so fun. He held Taryn when she cried, played rolo with Camrie till she won and got a pony, played games and had sleep-overs on the couch with Dayton.

All ready to go to the airport. Little did we know we were going to be delayed and miss our connecting flight and be stuck in Atlanta for 24 hours. The only good thing was that we flew home in style riding first class.