The Long Family: 2010

This past week my parents and sister came up to visit. It was a busy weekend!

On Saturday we watched Ian play t-ball.

After the game with went to the Coal Festival in Blossburg. They had amusement rides, a car show, a band, lots of fun, and a reptile show.

Ian is driving the bummer car. I needed to ride with him since he couldn't reach the pedals. He's a crazy driver!

There was lots of bumping going on!

Riding the Dragon

The guys watching Ian on the Dragon

Josh and Dad went fishing Saturday night. No didn't have any luck with the fish, but had fun outside

On Sunday we went to the Fly In Breakfast at the local airport. The breakfast is always great and we look forward to this event twice a year.

Grandpa and Ian

Aunt Nessa and Ian

This is a beautiful airplane and it looked like I arrived in it. We matched perfectly!

It was awesome to watch them!

This one was ready to take off..don't forget me ;)

After the Fly In, Josh and I went on a date while my parents watched the kids. We went to the GlassFest in Corning, Ny and then had dinner at the Texas Roadhouse. It was a relaxing evening out!

On Monday we went to breakfast at the Wellsboro Diner and then watched the parade on Main St.

Later that day Vanessa and I went to the bike trail and rode about 7 miles.

The weather was beautiful most of the weekend. It rained on Monday night, but by that point everyone was tired so we hungout and watched movies.

Our little boy turned ONE this past week. It was very exciting and sad at the same time. He’s growing up so fast and doing so many new things. We had a birthday dinner and cake on Tuesday. Nathan loves when I make roast and veggies, so that’s what we had for dinner. I made a little ducky cake for him to smash and then a miniature birthday cake for us.

Since we were having a ducky themed party. I found a cute t-shirt on the net. It says, Life is Just Ducky When Your 1! Nathan will not keep a hat of any kind on so we passed up the cute birthday hats.

Happy Birthday to YOU, Happy Birthday to YOU!

Dig In!

We were waiting for Nathan to eat his cake before we cut the other cake. Ian got desperate to taste the cake. Nathan loved sharing his ducky!

Where did the cake go??? ALL OVER!

Last Sunday we had Nathan's 1st Birthday Party at Knoebels. We had our loving family and wonderful friends there to share it with us. Thank you for making it so special!

I made these little thank yous filled with chocolate duckies.

Knoebels is about two hours from our house. How do we get the cake there??? I didn't want to put it in the bed of the truck in fear that it would slide and the ducky would fall apart. So I held on to it and there were no major causalities ;)

When we got to Knoebels we decorated the tables and then had some time before everyone arrived so Josh took Ian on some rides.

Mommy and the Birthday Boy

Our FaMiLy ;)

Nathan having some watermelon. His new favorite food.

Thank you to Tim and Grammy for making sure Nanna arrived safely to the party.

There were a bunch of monkeys at the party

Ian helped with blowing out the candle.

Nathan was exhausted after all of the birthday festivities. He took a very long nap and missed going on most of the rides. Here is another cute shirt I found on the net.

Balloons are great entertainment!

This is Ian's favorite ride at Knoebels!

I think the boys were trying to get Jen to go on the rollercoaster again.

Ferris Wheel, the one ride we all went on.

Since all the kids wanted to go on the rides after the birthday cake we decided to take the presents home. Nathan enjoyed pulling things out of the bags, but getting him to unwrap wrapping paper was another thing.