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Front Yard Fridays
On Friday night, Dan and
I kicked off the summer by hosting what has been dubbed "Front Yard Fridays". Along with some other neighbors, we had been talking about wanting to start something like this. Basically, we're hoping different people will host a lawn social every two to three weeks throughout the summer and even into the fall (as long as it is warm enough). The host provides some basic supplies (a couple of appetizers, ice, mixers, soft drinks, water, and drink boxes for the kids) and neighbors bring an appetizer and their drink of choice. The nice thing is that we had it from 5:30 to 7:00, sort of like happy hour, and people can still grab dinner afterward and get kids to bed early. And as suspected, a few people even hung around later than 7:00, so that was fun. The night turned out fantastic, despite the unseasonable cool temperature, and we had about 19 or 20 "households" to show up. We had babies as young as 11 weeks old all the way up to some of our original residents in their eighties. Believe it or not, we had 3 sets of twins there at one time ~ one set which will make great babysitters in the next couple of years. Check out the dads with the Baby Bjorn carriers. 
The trend seemed to be that the dads were the ones carrying around the little ones. It was really cute. So all in all, the night seemed to be a huge success. We met some new neighbors down the street and also around the corner. Some of the guys are talking about starting a poker group. That's great for Dan since I already have my Bunko group. The neighborhood seems to be getting younger, as more and more families like ours are moving in. I think I have mentioned this in an earlier post, but there have now been 8 babies born since August, one more is due in June, and there's another one due sometime soon. All of these babies live on either our street or a street that intersects our's. In that group, there are 5 girls, 3 boys, one I believe is a girl, 
and one unknown (because I haven't met them yet). Who knows... there may even be more?!?! [Actually, I just remembered another girl who is due very soon who lives a few blocks away!] And the great thing is that 1 lives right next door. Audrey is not quite 3 months younger than Fenn. Her very cool mom and dad are Wayne and Nicole, and they also have a 2 1/2 yr. old named Miles. (That's them in the first group picture). 
I just had to include those cute pictures of Miles and Audrey. Miles is so cute... whenever he sees me, he asks me "Where's Dan?" and when he sees Dan, he asks him, "Where's Beth?" When Cole was living, one of his favorite things to do was go in his backyard and wake up Cole. Look at 
Audrey's pretty blue eyes and fabulous red hair! She was born with a head full! And then there will be a boy (due in June) who will live across the street. His parents are Ryan and Heather. They weren't able to make it, but we're hoping to get to know them better soon, especially since they'll have a boy just 6 months younger than Fenn.
I kicked off the summer by hosting what has been dubbed "Front Yard Fridays". Along with some other neighbors, we had been talking about wanting to start something like this. Basically, we're hoping different people will host a lawn social every two to three weeks throughout the summer and even into the fall (as long as it is warm enough). The host provides some basic supplies (a couple of appetizers, ice, mixers, soft drinks, water, and drink boxes for the kids) and neighbors bring an appetizer and their drink of choice. The nice thing is that we had it from 5:30 to 7:00, sort of like happy hour, and people can still grab dinner afterward and get kids to bed early. And as suspected, a few people even hung around later than 7:00, so that was fun. The night turned out fantastic, despite the unseasonable cool temperature, and we had about 19 or 20 "households" to show up. We had babies as young as 11 weeks old all the way up to some of our original residents in their eighties. Believe it or not, we had 3 sets of twins there at one time ~ one set which will make great babysitters in the next couple of years. Check out the dads with the Baby Bjorn carriers. 
The trend seemed to be that the dads were the ones carrying around the little ones. It was really cute. So all in all, the night seemed to be a huge success. We met some new neighbors down the street and also around the corner. Some of the guys are talking about starting a poker group. That's great for Dan since I already have my Bunko group. The neighborhood seems to be getting younger, as more and more families like ours are moving in. I think I have mentioned this in an earlier post, but there have now been 8 babies born since August, one more is due in June, and there's another one due sometime soon. All of these babies live on either our street or a street that intersects our's. In that group, there are 5 girls, 3 boys, one I believe is a girl, 
and one unknown (because I haven't met them yet). Who knows... there may even be more?!?! [Actually, I just remembered another girl who is due very soon who lives a few blocks away!] And the great thing is that 1 lives right next door. Audrey is not quite 3 months younger than Fenn. Her very cool mom and dad are Wayne and Nicole, and they also have a 2 1/2 yr. old named Miles. (That's them in the first group picture). 
I just had to include those cute pictures of Miles and Audrey. Miles is so cute... whenever he sees me, he asks me "Where's Dan?" and when he sees Dan, he asks him, "Where's Beth?" When Cole was living, one of his favorite things to do was go in his backyard and wake up Cole. Look at 
Audrey's pretty blue eyes and fabulous red hair! She was born with a head full! And then there will be a boy (due in June) who will live across the street. His parents are Ryan and Heather. They weren't able to make it, but we're hoping to get to know them better soon, especially since they'll have a boy just 6 months younger than Fenn.
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