Happy Memorial Day!

Yes, Jer did burn the white hots.

We took a wonderful long weekend up to Ithaca to visit Jer's Parents. I love to visit Ithaca. It is such a beautiful place, and it brings back many memories of being a college student and of dating Jeremiah. It makes me very grateful for the experiences that I've had. It was so exciting to share this place with Luca. He does not get to experience the outdoors in the same way living in a much more urban environment.

Happy Birthday Luca!!!
Luca had a fun birthday complete with a treasure hunt! Here they run on their way to discover the next clue. At the end Luca holds up one of his presents, A LIGHTNING MCQUEEN CAR!!!

Whenever we visit Jer's family a familiar scene plays out. Jer finds the chain saw and takes on his forrester alter ego. He roams the property with a crazed look in his eyes searching for some poor species to cut down. His parents follow pleading mercy on behalf of the trees.

Here 3 generations of Fairbank Men work together to build a fire.

We drove through beautiful Cornell Campus. Below is the infamous Rand Hall. You'd think for an architecture school it might be more impressive. As we drove through we explained to Luca that if he works really hard maybe someday he can go to school here too. We told him that if he did we would move back to Ithaca with him. That may turn out to be a deterent.

Here we are up behind the Ithaca Gun Company at the top of Ithaca falls. You can see Cayuga Lake and Ithaca in all its spring splendor!

Grandpa Meditates in the Chapel for prayer and meditation. Only in Ithaca.

Beautiful Ithaca falls. I drove by this spot almost everyday. It is so easy to take it for granted. Luca really enjoyed walking out to the base of the falls and engaging in the age old ritual of rock skipping. Maybe someday he can be a master like his old man.

Luca gets his hair blown back at the Ithaca Science Center.

Since I didn't get to have a little girl to dress all in frills, I have my fun by dressing my little boys in matching outfits.

Luca loves to water his garden, so in order to prevent it from being a swamp we control the portions using a spray bottle.

We have been very busy the last few weeks. Here we are in State College PA for Becca's Graduation from Penn State!!! We got to visit Nana and Papa while we were there.