Sue's School Picture

Sue's school has switched to a new company for taking the annual school pictures, and they are much better than the last one. Here is this year's pic.

Montreal Vacation

Last week we took most of the week to visit Montreal with Kim, Larry, and Natalie. It was great to get away for a real chunk of time. Montreal was fun to explore, and we had a wonderful vacation.

Sue's Birthday 2010

I'm late posting about Sue's birthday this year. Since her birthday fell on the day before Memorial Day this year, we decided to have her party the following weekend. This meant that the actual day was a pretty quiet birthday day, although there were presents and birthday cake.

Grandma Gail and Grandpa Jim bought Sue matching outfits for her and her American Girl doll Emmy. They were a big hit:



The weekend after Memorial Day we had a girls' party for Sue -- eight girls on her eighth birthday. We did finger nail painting, games, a scavenger hunt, pizza and cake. As Sue said, "Eight is great!"

Here are the girls racing to see who can make a mummy the quickest.

Horseback Riding

Sue is making real progress in her horseback riding lessons. She is now riding around the ring without someone leading the horse, and she is starting to be able to really control where the horse goes.

The Running Of The Children

The town of Branford had its local Easter Egg Hunt in Foote Park this past weekend. It was a gorgeous day. Every year Branford cordons off a number of large rectangular areas, strews large handfuls of candy and plastic eggs filled with toys and more candy, and then lets the kids have at it, by age group. This year Nancy Ferlow was with us. She dubbed the event "the running of the kids", and she really nailed it.

We arrived about 20 minutes early, luckily, because they launched the kids about 10 minutes before the official starting time. We ran into a number of families heading in, on our way out.

As you can see, Sue completely filled her basket, and was one happy camper.