Sesame Place -- woo hoo!!
Just arrived home from Sesame Place after a painful 7 hour car ride there, and an 8 hour car ride home! But, thankfully, the kids were amazing in the car! We had SO much fun this year -- we were joined by Mia, Aunt Jenny, Uncle Jon, Tita Ligaya, Mia H., Dylan and Melissa (oh, and JADA!). I just checked last year's blog, and Joli was only 34 inches... this year, she popped into Sesame Place at a whopping 39 inches ( 40" if you count her afro!):


Alright, it's going to be impossible to post all these pictures and tell all the stories, so here are my highlights of the busiest trip ever!:

First of all, you all probably realize that it's Joli's ONE YEAR anniversary of being cancer free (cancer diagnosed? I have no idea how to really phrase this.). We met up with our friends Matt, Melinda, Ellie and James -- a very dear family to us who happens to have had a similarly challenging year. Their little guy, James, was diagnosed with cancer around the same time as Joli. He had a few surgeries, did the whole chemo thing, had a port, etc. etc.. So, where are the pictures of James - aka, "sick cancer boy"?? Well, that little fella recovered so well, he ran circles around everyone!! He moved way too fast for me to even take a picture of him!!! Anyways, if you saw him, you wouldn't even realize he had the type of year he had. GO, JOLI AND JAMES!! James is coming up on his 1 year, too. The two of you are amazing!!

We basically hung out at the park for a day and a half. Jada rocked -- she was all about hanging out in her stroller and watching her friends and cousins run around the park and splash all the adults!

Jada loved the parade!

Joli hates taking a shower, yet she loved this "watering can" area!

* for some reason, blogger won't let me post more pictures... so you'll have to enjoy these for now!