Wetdown!

What a great weekend! Saturday was Suckasunny Day (correct spelling) followed by a wetdown to celebrate Roxbury's purchase of a new tender. To those of you that have no idea what a tender is, they used to be called tankers until a few years ago when FEMA decided that the fire department needed to standardize it's terminology, so there would be less confusion while coordinating multi-jurisdictional responses for large incidents. In other words, they were afraid that if someone from New Jersey called for a tanker in California, they would get a water drop from an airplane instead of a truck. So if someone from California asks for an engine, do we get to send them a locomotive?

You say potato...

Anyway, the kids had a good time. There was a lot of good food and plenty of beer, and trucks from neighboring towns came in with lights and sirens before they stretched their lines and soaked our new TENDER.

Drum Roll, Please...

Bang away, buddy! Just keep it in the basement...

It was an interesting weekend. Michael played in two hockey games - his team lost to the Long Island Ice Cats on Saturday and they beat the NJ Devils on Sunday.

At Sunday's game, Joey hit his head on the bleachers and ended up with almost 20 stitches. He toughed it out and didn't even cry while the doctor put in the stitches. At one point he even made us laugh by acting like a monster! After having 3 boys, I guess we've come to realize that a weekend is not complete unless it involves something dramatic like an ambulance ride to the emergency room.

Next Sunday is Michael's hockey jamboree in Stockholm, and Joey's Karate school is having a demonstration on Saturday for Succasunna Day. I don't think Joey will be participating, but we may stop by to lend our support.

Unfortunately, our flag football season is over because of Joey's stitches. We just can't take any chances. However, I'm looking forward to watching many Jets games next to him on the couch!

Appetizer

When all you get from the garden is three peppers...

Make Salsa! Thanks hon.

Pepsi Shootout Hockey Tournament

We spent Labor Day weekend at a hockey tournament in West Chester, PA. Michael's team played well considering we had two games at 6:00 AM on Saturday and Sunday. They lost to Delaware in the semi-finals, but they took third place overall.

We stayed in a hotel that had two pools (the kids loved that) and between games we squeezed in a trip to the American Helicopter Museum. We saw a replica of the helicopter used in MASH, and a retired Apache. The kids got to sit in a few of the helicopters and play with the controls.

First Day of School 2010-11

The bus picked the boys up right on time at 8:46 AM on Tuesday the 7th. We had a great summer with quite a bit of travelling towards the end, so hopefully the kids have a lot to talk about at school today. The house is very quiet right now..