Thursday, July 23, 2026

Canadian Smoke

Last Thursday, the smoke from the Canadian wildfires really arrived.  The air quality was awful.  You could barely see the sun.
The boys wild watching something.  
Pics from camp.  

We played Monopoly that night.  
Amy was the big winner!
I went with Aden to film another scene from his movie.  It was my death scene!  This was my view laying on the ground outside.  
The actor dude was huge.  He picked me up and threw me over his shoulder.  He carried me to the grass and dug a hole to bury me!
Last Friday, the air was still really bad.  
You could see the smoke.
Camp pics.  

Wonder why they were so dressed up.  
We went to the shore a bit earlier than usual.  Traffic was bad so we drove through the Pinelands of New Jersey.  
We picked up food from Betty's for dinner.  
Yummy barbecue.
Honey came to visit.  
Have a great weekend!

 

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Ice Cream Cake Gone

Last Tuesday, I took Ariel back to camp.  We stopped at Trader Joes and Wegmans to get some snacks.  
Her friends were so happy we returned!  Or maybe they just wanted the ice cream cake we brought back.  
The gang!
Bye girls!  
Ariel kept her phone for a bit before turning it in and took this pic of the girls finishing off that pretty large ice cream cake!
I hit some golf balls.  
I'm working through the bad habits I developed.  
Aden wrote a short movie script.  This was the day he did principal photography.  He got some kids from the drama department at school to act.  
They came back at night to film more including my scene!  
The twins helped out.  
Last Wednesday, Jordan, my guitar teacher, worked with Aden and his guitar teacher.  They made some great music!
Eli has been enjoying the summer.  

Playing with Vicky.  


Rita's at camp!

 

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Happy Birthday Aden!!!

Last Monday, It was Aden's 18th birthday and we had Ariel home with us!  It was so nice and I'm sure she liked sleeping in the air conditioning.  She had to get up early to go to the doctor then she went to visit Taylor.  Even though she wasn't at camp, pics of her were still popping up.  A boy band came to entertain them one night.  The girls were in love!


I took Ariel into the city for another doctor appointment.  
Of course we went to Brandy Melville.  
Ariel's home away from home.  I think the order is camp, Brandy Melville, then home.  

Then it was candy time.  

We had lunch at Marathon and then Ariel chased a food delivery robot down the street.  
Of course we had to stop at Levain.  
We got back, Ariel had fun LoveShackFancy stuff to go through.  
We are going to have a hard time taking our yearly beach photo with Aden going to school so early to school so this I think will be it.  All except the twins were going out to a nice dinner.  
My sister and dad joined us at the Capital Grill.  Amy and I shared the porterhouse.  Yummy.  
Happy Birthday to our first born, who is now a man!  Crazy stuff!
He got a bunch of lottery tickets.  
We went back and watched the home run derby at the All Star Game.  Kyle Schwarber from the Phillies came so close to winning it and it was in Philly.  The crowd was going nuts.