SparkleShan

Bob's work organized a white water rafting trip in Maine, so we went for the weekend. I was scared because I hate water, but it was actually a lot of fun. The only part that sucked was that we had to camp out in tents. Our camp site was on rocks and our air mattress deflated the first night and never recovered. Our boat consisted of Myself, Bob, Massey, Meggy and Matt. I think I laughed almost the entire time. We also visited the tallest waterfall in New England, Magic Falls. It was right down the road from us.

My Aunt and her first husband got married again, after 30 years on August 1st. Since I am an ordained minister they asked if I could perform the wedding ceremony. The wedding was held in my mother;s back yard and then we had a picnic/party afterwards. Emma was one of the flower girls, along with her cousin Aiyana. My mom and Aunt and I made the centerpieces for the tables and I put my crafty skills to use and made her small bouquet. After the wedding Bob, Kristen, Ann and I all went to the casino for dinner and drinks. Fun times again, lol.

July brought more fun by the pool and at the beach. As I had the summer off we went to my mom's a lot during the day to go swimming and sit by the pool. I also got together with my cousins Stephaine, Christy and Meghan for dinner and catching up.

My baby girl turned 6 years old today! I can't believe she is going into first grade already, time is going by too fast. We celebrated her birthday at Chuck E. Cheese's. She had a blast and is leaving for vacation in Michigan for a week with her grandparents tomorrow.

Now that I have a wheel, I have started spinning up my Fiber Stash. I spun up super soft pink and black Merino that my friend Melissa sent me. She is so great she sent me a package of fiber that was waiting for me at home when I got back from deployment. I love the wheel. Here are all the yarns that I spun up this month. And some more Fiber I ordered from Uniquely Yours , Bohoknitterchic and Jazzturtle . I was lucky enough to snag a June Fluff Phat Fiber Box too! I also got to met a wonderful friend that I meet on the Bad Knit Girl Group on Ravlery. Karen (angrypoddle)also lives in Connecticut, so we met up in West Hartford for lunch and desert. I also got to meet her wonderful like boy Liam. He loved Emma and she was sweet trying to help feed him.

Month was another fun month and going out with the BFF. It also started to get warm enough for pool and beach weather. And I meet my now boyfriend on June 6! Here are some more pictures from our nights out, beach and pool time. Another night at Ultra 88. This is the night I met Bob, I didn't get any pictures with him on that first night, but his hand did make it in to the left side of the below photo, LOL. Kristen turned 21 when we were overseas so she had never been to the Casino. SO we took her to Mohegan sun for some dinner, Slots and Ultra 88 of Course. We feed her tons of drinks and got her to throw up in the bathroom! Ha Kristen, Erica & Ann having dinner at Lucky's Playing Slots, we didn't do so well! Kristen and I at Ultra 88 Another weekend Ann and I decided it was a girls night out with some high school friends and friends from Ann's work. We got a hotel room and went to LBD (little blak dress night) at Ultra 88 of Course. This was definetly an int...

Since I was gone for a year I had tons of partying and going out to make up for with my friends and BFF. Here are shots of everything that went on in May of this year after I got home. Since I am way behind on Posting I am going to do everything for the month!! This picture is from the first night that Ann I went out after I got home from deployment. We went to Ultra 88 of course. This night we went to Shrine at Foxwoods and the dumbasses kicked us out because they said Ann was drunk, so not true, jerks! I then when out with my two wives that were deployed to with me. We went to a party in Bradford, but it was boring so Velez and I decided to bring Kristen to Van Dome in New Haven, since she had never been to a club. I haven't been to Van Dome since I was a freshmen in college (and I will never go again, lol). They took our picture for the website! LOL