Happy 4th!

Wanting to steer clear of traffic, Frank & I left Arlington super-duper early on the 4th in route to Long Island. We were up at 4am and out the door a little before 4:30 – Our ridiculously early departure time paid off – We made it to Frank’s sister’s house in 4 hours (a record for us)! We fit in lots of visiting family and friends over the weekend – On Friday, we spent the day with Frank’s sister and our niece, Kate…Then scooted out east to visit Keith and Deaneen (more friends who are expecting! Baby Thomas is due 7/19…) We spent Friday evening in Commack at Uncle Mike’s, drinking wine and watching the fireworks from his back yard. His neighbor put on an incredible show that actually wasn’t too far off a professional display – I was quite impressed! On Saturday all of the visitors came to us – Danielle had a BBQ and lots of Frank’s family came over – even my Dad stopped by for some pasta with crab sauce and burgers (good ol’ Italian BBQ). Today, we swung by Huntington on the way home to meet my grandparents for breakfast and then were off by 10am. We got lucky with the traffic and were home right before 3pm – Just enough time to unpack, enjoy some left over crab sauce, then head to Frank’s soccer game, one that he actually played in instead of coached. I went to cheer him on from the sidelines, which seemed to work out well since they won – just in time, too…right as the game wrapped up, the skies opened up with an evening summer t-storm. Packing so much into one weekend makes it feel so much longer, which I love. Unfortunately now I have a five day work week looming ahead...