East Coast Trip

I have been putting this post off for far too long. At the beginning of June we went to Boston to see my brother Alan graduate from M.I.T. with his PhD in organic chemistry. We visited in Massachusetts for a few days, drove to New York for a few days, went to Connecticut for a day, Rhode Island for an afternoon, and then went back to Boston to fly out. Phew. It was a week long trip and we packed tons into it. I have over 200 pictures but I posted a few to give you a feel for our adventure. Enjoy! :)

Boston Temple

Graduation dinner
We walked part of the Freedom Trail
Boston's Children Museum, best museum EVER!
We climbed Bunker Hill...it kicked our butt
Alan getting "hooded"
Check out how much Tyler looks like Alan! I wonder how many people thought he was my husband and Tyler our son. haha

Samuel Adams

The U.S.S Constitution

I just thought this was the cutest picture of Tyler :)

First time touching the Atlantic Ocean, it was really cold. This was in Rhode Island.

Submarine Museum in Connecticut

Time Square

Central Park

The Bull!

Statue of Liberty

Flying in my uncles plane around New York...Tyler and I both threw up :-/

View from the plane.

THE END

Fun with photoshop...

MY ALL AMERICAN HERO

ENGAGED!

Read carefully friends and family because I'm about to tell you something VERY exciting......
I'M ENGAGED!!!!!! And I must add that I'm getting married to the most wonderful, most caring, most loving man. Tyler and I are so lucky to have Deke.
OK so here's how he did it.....Deke and I love to read, we try to spend a little bit of time each night reading together. I was just finishing up on a very inspiring book called The Wednesday Letters, its a book about a father who wrote letters to his wife every Wednesday throughout their entire marriage (short and sweet version). In the back of the book there is a glued letter titled epilogue (this all ties in to the proposal, I swear). So I finish the last page of my book and announced that I finally get to read that glued letter in the back. I open it up and pull out not one but two letters. Needless to say I was a little confused...I pick up the letter I didn't recognize and opened it up to find "KIMBERLY HYDE WILL YOU MARRY ME". At first I thought it was a joke but when I looked up Deke was on one knee with my BEAUTIFUL ring. (BIG sigh)... I of course said YES and haven't stopped smiling since :D Life is good.

Tyler's Tball 2009

Tyler's team this year is the Yankee's and he's FINALLY enjoying it. Last year he hated tball, he constantly tried to walk off the field to go to the playground. This year he's excited to be on the field and tries really hard to get involved in the game. YAY!

This was funny, Tyler accidentally took his mitt up to bat so he stuck it between his legs and tried to bat like that. It was a cute solution.

Every time Tyler reaches home plate he stands there anticipating some sort of recognition. He doesn't walk back until someone cheers for him or gives him a high five.

Deke's Graduation From The Fire Academy!

FINALLY!!!!

So cute in his turn-outs I ♥ MY FIREMAN
I'm not sure what Deke's doing here but I'm going to pretend he's serenading me. Awww how romantical ;)

Getting his sweet badge

He's so much taller than everyone else, I love it.

They did several demonstrations after the ceremony, it was pretty cool.

Memorial Day Weekend!

This past Memorial Day we spent the afternoon kayaking, I was more than happy to finally get my boat out in the water after sitting in the garage for so long. Brian came with us and I rented him his own kayak as a birthday present. The weather was nice but the water was too cold to swim in, this however didn't stop Tyler from hopping in (go figure). After that adventure we came home and swam in the nice CLEAN pool and barbecued. Fun Times! :D

Tyler making Brian do all the work.

Trying to get off some rocks...

Muscle mania!

Two cutest boys EVER! ;)

Our Gardens Progress

This is our little pea plant. We planted at least 20 seeds and only about 5 grew. We're kinda amateur with this whole gardening thing.

The first row are carrots, the second row are broccoli, and that little lonesome plant to the far left is a string bean plant that Tyler gave me for mother's day.
Our lemon tree has flowers! Good sign!!!
We planted this lemon tree last summer and its already grown several feet.