Corning, New York

Another week has come and gone without a whole lot to report.  Life has been pretty usual with swimming, trips to the park and the kids finding ways to keep the our apartment in a perpetual state of chaous.  One day we did get to go with Jake on a field trip up to Corning New York.  I have decided that from Pennsylvania to New York to Vermont everything looks the same.  They all have narrow winding roads, over rolling hills, covered with trees. It’s beautiful, but all the new towns we have explored are starting to run together in my mind.  Corning is set apart by its large glass factory.  They also have a glass museum that we were able to attend that was actually very interesting even for the kids.  While there we got to watch artists work with hot glass.  It was a very fun trip, but the best part was just getting to spend the day together.  Its so nice that the kids are big enough that they are getting easier to go on adventures with.  I’m going to do my best to take advantage of having as much fun this summer as possible before we get tied down again with a new little one.      

The kids think they are so cool when they wear our sunglasses.



If nothing else, we did a good job of wearing them out.



Everything Hudson does Ellie has to do.
Everything Ellie does Hudson has to do.

My pretty little thing had a rough week.  She smashed her finger in a door so bad it was left purple and swollen all the way to the big knuckle. Then the next day she got smashed in the face with a swing at the park that left her pretty bruised. On a fun note, Ellie's vocabulary has just about doubled this week.  It has been so nice to get to hear more about what is going on in that head.

Hudson got his "daddy church clothes" this week.  I couldn't get him to hold still so I had to hem his pants three times and they still aren't right!
He got to go rock climbing again with his daddy and he thinks that is just about the most fun you can have.

We had a wonderful conference weekend. Jake stayed home from school on Saturday so we could spend the day together and watch the Saturday sessions. Thanks to the time change we actually got to listen to the morning session since the kids napped furring it both days.  Its such a blessing to get to listen to the talks and get a spiritual refocus. However, based on the stomach ache I had last night I think we may have treated it a little to much like the super bowl.  I definitely should have focused more on being spiritually fed and not so much on filling my stomach with such a large assortment of indulgent foods.  We certainly enjoyed ourselves.