Today while the sun shines.

It was a beautiful sunshiney day and it was fun for me to have us all go out. Breakfast with Sienna. We sat there a long time, I finally asked if I could at least let her finish her yogurt upstairs. He said yes.

 Sienna thought the waffles would look cool like this. The dot in the middle is butter.

 At the mall so they could turn on my data so I don't get lost in an unknown city again.

 They are all starting to have more energy so we did a little working out around the hallways.

My sickies

About 2 hrs before we got there Sean started to feel really sick. By the time we got there he was done and laid in bed until Tom got home. Sean and Sienna and even Gabriel have been super sick. I have been bringing breakfast up for him but the guy at the front desk said I can't do that anymore. They also said we have to leave so they can clean, which is a bit upsetting since Sean is feeling so sick and Sienna is still doing poorly too. But I guess their hotel their rules. Anyways rant over. Bridget and I went and washed all the clothes that got put in drawers with cat hair so I won't itch when I cuddle the kids. It was really needed and I was glad I had to get out. I felt so much better and I made a friend.

 The awesome reading nook in our hotel.

Uncle Tom

• Sienna drew this for me while I was in the shower. It is a kitty and behind her arm it says, "I Love You." Made my day.

 Uncle Tom treated us to dinner. It was delicious.

 Valerie Nagle and Valerie Nagle. We have the same name.

To New Jersey

I am so glad the power came back on so Gabriel could bring his gifts in. Isn't he the cutest?

 His class had a gift for him too. A puppy with a red bandana with everyone's names on it.

 His principal, a phenomenal lady, even ran our family picture out to me as we were driving away. I had mixed feelings. I love that picture, but I also like the idea of it staying so...people remembered we were there.

 Gabriel was drawing things for me, to stall tablet time this guy is a werewolf, with a unicorn horn.

 The kids got excited when we drove past a city and so I took pictures of it. This is in Massachusetts.

 Connecticut was beautiful to drive through. There were trees, clouds, blue sky, and tons of little stone bridges.

 A cool bridge in New York. Almost in New Jersey.

We met Uncle Tom, cool guy. I was planning on taking pictures when he got home but I was so itchy and irrated from the cats that I was having a hard time focusing on anything else. We finally switched to a hotel and I have a lot of laundry to do. I was overly optimistic and brought blankets in, but my head isn't stuffed up so I am much happier.

Bridget's 3 and 1/2 year interview given on Siennas birthday

Favorite color: green costume
Favorite toy: green favorite toy
Favorite TV show: puppy dog pals
Favorite outfit: green unicorn costume ( mommy says saint Patrice day unicorn shirt)
Favorite game: the ribbon game, actual....
Favorite snack: pizza
Favorite song: my favorite song is...a game. (Is it ring around the rosies?) Yes.
Favorite book: Max doesn't eat his egg ( not the actual title)

Favorite drink: pink juice
Favorite holiday:
What do you take to bed with you at night:
Favorite breakfast food:
Favorite lunch food:
Favorite dinner food:
What do you want to be when you grow up:
Most memorable day:
Favorite animal:
Favorite thing to do outside:
Who is you biggest hero

First Snow in Vermont

We got snow before we left. Sienna and Gabriel are sick, but Bridget and I built a baby snowman just before the snow melted.

I made this and asked how Bridget liked it she said, "It needs a hat" and added a snow hat. Then she said the baby needed a mother and a father. When I told her there wasn't enough snow she took out the twig, destroyed the snowman and ate part of it.

Lights Out and Happy Birthday

2am Friday morning there was a terrible storm and the power went out. It was Gabriel's last day of school so I got him ready anyway. When we drove to the school half of the road out was washed away and just giant rocks were left. We arrived to an empty parking lot and a sign saying school was closed. I told Gabriel and asked if he was okay. He said, "We'll, it is boring to not have gym." It wasn't boring for long. We got to do presents first thing when Bridget woke up instead of waiting all day.

Green presents because that's her favorite color

Her cute fox hat from grandma and grandpa

Packing without power

Gabriel's school spider Web. Red of course.

Gabriel was so cute. After school on Wednesday he told me he had a surprise for me. He pulled out this paper and a little black box at the end he opened the box and dumped out a spider made out of a pipe cleaner. It was so great and his smile and giggles made me happy. On Thursday his class made pumpkins float. Gabriel said even the big ones floated because they were hollow inside.

Cake time

This girl is 3!

Cleaning out the car so we can pack it.

Taking the phone away from the budding birthday photographer.

Bridget came with me to run errands. We had to wait a little both ways as they fixed the road.

I turned the car so she could see.

That night we still didn't have power so we couldn't cook Bridget's frozen pizza's.  We did the 45 minute drive to Mcdonald's instead.

I love when my girls hug.

That night we made the kids a little cave under their bunk bed and it kept them quite warm. But with the toilets not flushing and the cold we decided to pack up to go on Saturday. Saturday I drove down to the post office and used someone's phone to call the power company. They said not to expect power until tomorrow possibly monday. So we got the car all packed, the house as clean as we could without light or water, drove to the laundry mat and on the way there we saw the men fixing our power. I made Sean laugh when I told them, "Oh bless you!" In a voice of pure joy. Ahhhh sweet power. Then we went to the goodbye dinner Sean's coworker's house and that was a lot of fun. My favorite part was coming back and seeing a few lights on inside.