Canobie Lake Park

I love Canobie Lake Park. It's close to home, it's super clean and it has lots of really fun rides for everybody. It was kind of sad this year though that Gianna said she was "too big" for the kiddie rides. She is actually tall enough to go on some of the bigger rides but still small enough for the little rides. But no. She wants to be like her big brother and sister and do what they do.


My parents used to take us here when we were kids. I love that a lot of the rides are still the same....


Like this one. It was one of my favorite rides when I was a kid too. Julia and Nicholas got to drive their own car (with Mom and Dad in the back). Nicholas said it was his favorite ride of the day...


Of course we had to take a break for some fried dough. OK...my favorite part of the day!








We always end our days at Canobie Lake cooling off at their water park....








The summer is winding down. Only two more weeks left of summer vacation. I'll be happy to have the kids back on a schedule but I will miss the lazy mornings and all our fun "summer list" activities.

Danny, Nicholas, Julia & Gianna went on this....

Nicholas' friend party

Really...my cake tasted better than it looked...

Nicholas' 10th Birthday and some randomness

Well, it's official. My baby boy is now in double digits. Yikes! But he sure does look and act like a 10 year old so I guess I have to let him turn 10. Oh, it's so hard just thinking about him growing up so I have to try not to. He'll be leaving us in 8 short years to go off to college...OK Dini...STOP!!!

Pancakes for breakfast....




A ripstick...





and some more Harry Potter movies to add to his collection...






He picked a restaurant to go to for dinner and then we went back home for some ice cream. He's saving his birthday cake for his friend party on Friday. Happy birthday sweet, precious, loving little boy of ours!!!


So here are some random pictures from this past week. The kids buried Gianna in all her stuffed friends...



Julia and a few of the girls from her dance studio put on a mini recital for a nursing home...


The residents loved it!!!

Not sure what game Gianna was playing here but it totally cracked me up!! She loves these little plastic dogs and now has over 70 of them. And all 70 something have names!

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