Summer

Dear New Jersey,

Thank you for that bitter sweet feeling I've had all summer long. Your beaches were beautiful and well what else can I say... The people are mean here and they have a right to be!

Love,

Jessica Stevenson

123 Sesame st

We went to Sesame Place this week with matt and the kids had a blast as usual.



Walker and Cookie monster instantly bonded.

Asbury Park

Asbury Park is probably 95% Gay! so my husband thought it appropriate to buy matching tanks with his little buddies spencer and taylor. Needless to say they were quite a hit...after a gay couple saw the boys prancing in there matching shirts we saw them later buying the same shirts in the store.
I heart A.P.

Rain or shine

It rains a lot here on the jersey shore so one day, (while it was raining outside) I ran into this store and found these adorable little raincoats. So now, when it rains we go outside on a walk because it is hard to stay inside all day.


I love when matt comes to the beach with us. It was so hot today, i actually got in the water... and i tried surfing.

Beach/Pool Party

We started the party off with a sand castle building contest.
Nice try Steve...better luck next year.
Justin and Courtney's "Tomb of the unknown APX Salesmen" notice the butt cheeks in the back
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We had a lifeguard judge the castles and the poor girl got hassled by a bunch of salesmen trying to sell her on why they should win.
And the winners are....Don't really know? They all just started combining their castles together.

Lining up for the swimming contest, Justin won by a hair.
Walker's favorite part of the party...PIZZA!!!

Fresh food!!

I went shopping at Delicious Orchards market and bought every vegetable in sight. I'm not usually a real salad eater but these fresh veggies just taste so much better than regular grocery store veggies. I just had to take a picture because I was so proud of myself...eating so healthy and all. Okay so i did have some oreos and milk afterwords.

GO Yankees

This year we are routing for the Yankees! but really our hearts belong to the Phillies. Our seats were awesome because we were in the shade and the Yankees won! so despite our two little tag-a-longs we had a good time.

P.s. walker was the best cheerleader, he clapped and cheered the whole time...and ate a lot of ice cream.

I heart floaties!

This summer both Kelty and walker have learned how to swim with floaties and it has been such a lifesaver. I was so stressed out about watching the both of them at the pool all by myself, but luckily Kelty mastered the floaty skills and then Walker just had to follow his big sisters footsteps. Sometimes I do have to watch walker closely because he's a little top heavy and goes under if he runs full speed into the deep water...but he's been a really fast learner.

Hot surfer

I finally got some good pictures of matt surfing. The waves were massive today... if you look closely you can see the fear in matt's facial expression on these waves.


Grandma and Grandpa were visiting this week. Every morning Kelty wakes up and runs to our balcony to yell for grandma to wake up and come take her on a walk.

Walker

My little Walkie is such a sweetheart. He follows his big sister around all day and does everything she does. Lately he has been trying to learn how to ride Matt's razor scooter. He sees all the other boys riding them around and he MUST ride it too! He will not let me help him, he will not try kelty's 3-wheeled scooter and he cannot do it, so he basically walks around with the scooter crying in frustration hurting himself and then crying some more. 

He also insists on swimming in the deep end of the pool like all the other children. Even though I have let him drown a few times, he still walks straight into the deep end with no hesitation. So, i have put floaties on him and he quickly learned how to swim!! well sort of... its more like he floats and then sputters a bit when he starts to tip, but he does stay above water without my help. Walker is turning 17 months in a few days and he already can do almost everything that kelty can, except carry on a conversation. Sometimes I forget how old walker really is and i treat him like any other 2 year old. There is definitely a special place in my heart for my sweet red headed walkie talkie:) And thank you kelly for taking these cute pics for me.