While we waited in line the kids got to take turns going down the slide. 
Kara started out wanting to do flips, but actually got a little freaked out being up so high.
Kendra loved her turn and didn't want to get off. That's me jumping in the background. 
Early in the month is was hot enough to run through the sprinkler. 
My friend threw me a surprise 30th Birthday Party. The kids made the sign for me. Thanks Shana!
Tanner and Kara opened up a hotel in our yard. The cost is only $3 per day...not a bad deal. Tanner was paying Kara and Caden a penny a day to work there. They had to clean the "bathroom", and also give Tanner his massage.
We were at the park and Tanner found a four leaf clover. After he found it Kara was searching like you wouldn't believe. She never found one.
Strawberry picking was fun! We went when Barry could come with us this year. 
Kendra nice and clean before she started eating the berries.
Barry was a great picker! He did all of that himself. 
Tanner and Kendra just ate strawberries. Kara doesn't love strawberries so she just picked them. 
The kids at the Monroe Balloon Fest. 
Kara won a drawing for a mini finger skate board ramp. She was so happy and made sure all the other kids that were with us knew that she won and they didn't. 
Kendra had a tea party with Kamdyn. They are best buddies! I asked them to make a funny face and this is what they did. Here's a story about Kendra and Kamdyn...one day Kendra was saying goodbye to Kamdyn. She said, "Bye Damdyn (that's how she say Kamdyn)." It really sounded like she said bye dumb dumb. Kamdyn was very offended and told her mom that Kendra called her a dumb dumb. Her mom had to explain that the way Kendra says her name sounds that way, but she is really saying Kamdyn. 
I got to go see Wicked with my parents while we were in New York. I loved it and hope to see it again some day. Barry got to go on a cruise tour around Manhattan with his parents and sister.
My dad and I trying to figure out where we were on the map so we could go the right direction to find Barry, Stacy and the kids.
We did a lot of walking. Tanner said he loved everything about New York except the walking.
The Statue of Liberty. Tanner looks like he has bedhead, but it's actually a really bad haircut. 
Guess who we ran in to at Toys R Us?? Can you believe it, we were there at the exact same time and in the same section of that huge store!
Tan and Kara enjoyed their Ferris wheel ride with their grandma and grandpa.
Us in Time Square. Kendra fell asleep.
Trying to get back to New Jersey to go home was crazy. We left the hotel and took the subway to Battery Park to try to catch the ferry back across the bay, we walked pretty far to catch the water taxi, but it was closed for the night. We didn't know how we would get across to our car that couldn't be in the parking lot overnight without being towed. We talked to some police officers and they said that we would need to walk to the train station where the train goes under the bay and then we'd have to catch a taxi to our car that was at Liberty State Park. Luckily it all worked out. Tanner was very doubtful and thought we might have to swim to the car.
We did most of our celebrating yesterday combined with Memorial Day because that's when Barry had time off. He is on call tonight, but he had the day off so we were able to get pizza before he left and of course she had to open her presents. She loved the make-up kit she got from Tanner. Kara is funny and so practical...when I asked her what she wanted for her birthday she wanted a lamp, so that's what she got a nice lamp for her bedroom. 
