Memorial Day Weekend 2021

Memorial Day Weekend marked our first overnight trip since August! 

Ron, Sherri, and Melissa joined us for the weekend in Formia. We rented a little beach house and had the BEST time!

Our go-to dinner place just down the street from the house.

Mr. Ron had Emma laughing a lot this weekend...

Saturday morning walk along the beach

Camden living his best life on the great patio at our beach house

 

Family photo op in the water

The kids played paddleball 

Ron and Emma had much better luck!

Playing Bocce 

Our afternoon set up at the beach

Ron and Chris enjoying a stogie 

Ready for dinner on Saturday night

Sunday morning brought unexpected rain and a temperature drop! We had a lot of fun playing poker.

When the skies cleared, Emma caught a few rays on the lower patio of our house

At dinner, a rainbow popped out for us

MAY the fun continue...

Emma went on a big day trip to Rome!

Gen, Lena, Rox, Emma, Vic, and Gabs in St. Peter's Square

Emma LOVES her "big sis" Gen!

These 4 have made so many memories together over the past few years! We are going to miss them like crazy!

Lunch at a cute café

Trevi Fountain 

Spanish Steps

Chris and I hit a big milestone: year #10 for team teaching CCD. We had a fantastic group of 5th and 6th graders who joined us on Google Meet each Sunday morning.

Camden, Jake, and Patrick after their last EVER CCD class!

Thursday afternoons with these sweet friends has been one of the highlights of my year!

Final game of after school basketball for 2/5 of this crew

Emma and Antonia enjoyed a sleepover with Mel

Early morning round of golf to kick off Memorial Day Weekend

Happy 14th Birthday, Camden!

Camden Lee Kasparek is 14!!! 

He wanted to celebrate with an afternoon of basketball and swimming at our house.  Saturday was the perfect early summer day for the festivities. 

This was the inaugural day in the pool for 2021.  It was a little chilly and all the boys agreed they need to work on their farmer's tans!  

Somehow hide and seek tag ended up with Dylan, Mason, and Camden on the guesthouse roof #boyswillbeboys

They gave him this AWESOME t-shirt!

Pizza dinner poolside

The birthday boy with his birthday donut 

Opening some gifts from Grandpa & Nana

Ending his special day doing one of the things he loves!

Mid-May Adventures

 The fun is continuing this month!  

Friday evening Boats & I helped Chris with Operation Get Down Tonight followed by Movie in the Park

Emma, Camden, Gen, Vic, Gabs, and Ryan are all in their socially distanced pods ready to watch Ghostbusters (too bad the rain came 30 minutes into the movie!)

Camden had a great round of golf Saturday morning and scored his first ever birdie

Saturday afternoon we joined Kate, Vito, Chris, Natacha, Dave, and Madds for a delicious lunch and wine tasting at Porto di Mola

Gorgeous evening at the Vitulli's house in Pozzouli

Camden, Mason, Jake, Jett, Dylan, and Patrick had an after school adventure at Water Bike Campania. 

They had the perfect afternoon exploring the Bay of Naples

The best news all week was that the Pfizer Covid Vaccine arrived at the U.S. Naval Hospital.  The kids received their first dose.

Camden participated in the color guard at the NJROTC Change of Command ceremony 

He received many awards including: Outstanding Cadet Naval Science Award, Naval Science Certificate of Aptitude Award, and The Cadet NCO of the Year Award

Hip Hip Hooray! We're so Happy it's May!

Our world has opened up a bit and we've been out and about having some fun!

Camden had a socially distanced band concert on the high school track.  He made the move to the percussion section earlier this year.  

 

Colleen, Amy, Darci, Melissa, and I were so happy to be back at Enoteca 45! 

Maddalena and I had the BEST end to Teacher Appreciation Week.  We took a day off and enjoyed coffee on her patio, pedicures at Donnarumma, and a seaside lunch at Turistico! 

Mel joined us after school at CapoBlanco 

Chris' knee injury is much better and he is back on the golf course. Camden has become an official competitor in the Carney Park Golf Association Saturday Blitz.

Our 19 year + 1 month anniversary date. We have a tradition of going out in Pozzouli to celebrate our anniversary.  It had to be postponed until the restaurants opened up again (only outside dining is available and there is a nationwide 10 pm curfew). 

Mother's Day photo session before heading to Mass