Cruising At The Lake

What a weekend!

We went to New York on Thursday afternoon so Michael could go to the new Yankee Stadium with some friends. Shana hung out at Table Local Market with Cynthia and Patrick. Teddy hung with Grammy and Pop! On Friday, we went to Grand Prix New York for some kart racing. Here is the crew in uniform.



If you can't figure out who is who, that's Elizabeth, Peter, Shana and Michael from left to right.

We then went to the lake for the "anything that floats" raft race in which Cora, May and Patrick took 2nd place and then to the 50-Mile Meal at the club. It was such a fun weekend and we can't wait to do it again soon!

Pennsylvania 6-5000

Teddy made his first offical telephone call last week...without any supervision! He loves to play with the phone because it lights up and makes noise. Somehow he managed to scroll through the phone's telephone book and hit "send." He called my Aunt Mary Ann in Butler, PA. It was quite a surprise for all of us to hear her voice on the line but we were all thrilled that she was his very first phone call!

It's Retro Rocket Time!

Teddy has learned how to push himself around on his little retro rocket. Turning and getting on and off are considerably more difficult, but he still has a great time scooting around!

Housework is...baby's work!

He wasn't very helpful with the housework and he doesn't look happy about his new chores, but Teddy was rather entertaining playing with the dust mop.

Formal Dinner

On The Dock

Look what landed on my parent's dock one morning...a beautiful heron.

Strawberry

Teddy loves fruit and just wanted to dive into this strawberry. We usually don't give him whole fruit but we just couldn't resist this little adventure!

To The Park With Nanny and Papa

My camera was hijacked one afternoon when Nanny and Papa took Teddy to the park. There are their super cute photos from the day.

Lost Power Cord = No Blogging!

Where have the Russells been? We lost our camera power cord at a wedding and haven't been able to download our photos. Finally the power cord was recovered and we are ready to blog!

June 19, 2009 was our 5th wedding anniversary. Michael planed a surprise trip to Boston and we had a WONDERFUL time! We stayed at the swanky Intercontinental Hotel and had dinner at Cafe Romero off Newbury Street.


Here is Michael enjoying a drink on the outside patio at Cafe Romero.

Then we went to a Red Sox game at Fenway...something we have been talking about since we started dating. The Sox were playing the Atlanta Braves which, coincidentally, was the same team the Yankees played when we went on our very first date to Yankee stadium.



The next morning we had breakfast with our good friends, Emrick and John, and drove to Hartford for the wedding of Dana Betterton and Taylor Wolfe, good friends from Trinity College.

They had a fun lobster bake and we all go into the act by wearing our lobster bibs!


It was somewhere between that picture and the following picture that we lost our camera's power cord!



We actually think it was Aunt Hilary's fault that we both had a little too much to drink!

You may be wondering where Teddy was while we were taking in a baseball game and dancing the night away with Trinity friends...he was at the lake with all of the Grandparents!



It was a fabulous weekend all around!