Meet Pippa!

We added to our family last week by welcoming Pippa into our family. She is 4.5lb cockapoo born on Easter Sunday (she should grow to 15lbs). She has been a lot of fun and in her first week has been to the beach (most of which was spent sleeping in the truck), gone shopping, had multiple walks and had 3 play dates. This weekend she is crossing her first state line as we head up to Crystal Lake, NH to visit Ashley's family. Swimming lessons begin tomorow.

Day of service day #2

So, on day two of the Mitchell's Give Back Weekend, we volunteered for a kids bike ride in Westwood....I checked in riders and Jay was part of the leaders of the pack. This was a super fun day seeing all of the cute kids that had raised money for charity (sure most of them raised money from their parents checkbooks, but still cute watching them proudly turn in their checks). I have to admit that I left with an amazing feeling after the weekend.. energized and ready to take up more regular volunteering.....haven't actually gotten around to any more volunteer work yet....ya know.. summer and vacations got in the way..but this fall..promise...service and volunteering.. here i come!

Jay and his work buddy getting ready for the big ride...



What a cute leader..

All of the kids getting ready to take off

Mitchell's Days of Service

Jay and I spent an entire weekend at the end of May participating two local community events... We referred to it as the Mitchell's Give Back Weekend...very fulfilling. On Sat we volunteered for the "serve-a-thon" fixing up local Boston schools. We were assigned the huge job of painting a mural on the cafeteria wall. Thankfully Jay is very artsy...cause I almost walked out when they gave us a transparency of a black and white copy of the drawing and a few buckets of paint and told us to just go at it. I need directions, paint by number, exact color match..this was nuts. But my calm and focused husband got right to it and began working on the mural. It ended up being a ton of fun, and I think turned out pretty good. We had a few others painting with us, and after a very long day, we finally finished. I imagine the students were very excited to come back to a cafeteria that was covered in new and exciting murals.

Just beginning...

Cute little kids helping painting as well...this little girl was so cute and I couldn't resist taking a pic of her wearing the giant shirt...too funny..

Getting closer...almost done..

Finally Finished and you can actually tell what it is..yea us!

other cute kids helping...

Big City Patio

So we finally did it...broke down and got a little patio set. It is perfect for our little patio, and this is a pic of our first meal on our new furniture. (It should be noted that the chairs also work surprisingly well as a clothes drying apparatus)

(Doesn't Jay look so excited!)

Since April.....Segway Tour with the Gins

The Gins came to town to visit us, and what a better way to show off our town but by tour Paul Blart segway style. It was so fun, super dorky, but so much fun...


Kelly gettin her learn on...

Jay getting segway lessons from a real life Blart...

"I'm sexy on my segway"

Notice I'm the only one not brave enough to put my hands up...yikes!

Michael doesn't look embarrassed at all

Ramps=scary

Since April....Fun Day in the Park with the Daileys

How could you not love this little girl..baby Lila, Nell and I had and incredible afternoon in the park in Maine...I just love taking shots of this girl....too cute

Rock Chalk Jayhawk...

Good news from the Jordan Brand Classic, Josh Selby the number 4 ranked player in the country committed to Kansas. This is big after Xavier and Cole announced they're headed to the NBA. Here is a video of the next great Jayhawk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36td_ejDRJ8

As I'm typing this a former Jayhawk just schooled the C's....Mario Chalmers...