Cote North Carolina Vacation

Mamma and I departed early for a whole week visit to Casa Cote. It was magnifico! The best was the redneck pool party on the front porch. Us kids had fun splashing around bare naked in the pool. We also got to celebrate Chris's B'Day with a Mexican Feista. Overall, it was an awesome time. Excited to spend time again with them.

Later, Massimo

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In Central Park with Dadda on Saturday

Dadda and I in Central Park by Mount Sinai. Taken using cell phone.

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Visit to West Point for Dadda's Reunion

Mamma, Dadda and I spend a great weekend visit with Dadda's old West Point friends and checking out the historic campus. What a beautiful site it was to see and honor to see many alumni in there military uniforms that had recently come back from Iraq or Afghanistan. I got to watch Dadda and the other old grads march onto the parade field along with the Corp of Cadets marching on the parade field welcoming them back to the hallowed grounds of which many of our fore fathers have stepped that have gave their precious lives to protect this great land and freedom that makes this country so special. After the cadets passed and reveiwed, the black knight parachute team jumped in. What an awesome site. We then went up to 49ers lounge to have food and drinks and spend a little to relaxing and catching up and the pasted years. Friends and family are what ground us to this earth. Without them we are just feathers in the wind with no real place to land.





United States Military Academy (West Point)


Jeremy, Anita, Me & Dadda, Tom, Kurt and Toby


Cadets Marching on the Parade Field


Tribute to the Old Grads by the Sups House

Black Knights on mark for the DZ

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Wittwer fantastic vacation

Our awesome trip to Virginia to visit with Dadda's West Point roommate and his wonderful family.

We had a great trip down to Virginia visiting Nick, Claire, Nico and Bella. They have a wonderful home and Mrs. Claire is an amazing cook. Mamma and Dadda both said they gained 5 lbs over several days from the wonderful food. The best was some homemade bread that we could not stop eating. We even took a whole loaf home even though we were only suppose to take half. They have an adventurous pool area with all sorts of cool stuff to play with. It was a just a blast. We hope to visit them again soon.

Love McRae


I always have to chew on everything

Mamma and Claire having a great time with the kids

The families having some wet fun by the pool

Mamma and Bella chilling out on one of the comfy couches

The End of an Amazing Summer

I want to say thank you to all the wonderful friends and family that made this summer one of the most fun and exciting. I will always have the fantastic memories and friendships. Look forward to more to come.

Love you all...Massimo McRae

Trip to Nantucket

Mamma and I had an amazing time on our trip to Nantucket. Natasha let us crash at her amazing pad with her family. We had a chance to hang out by the pool, hit downtown and just spin around checking out all that Nantucket has to offer. I had my first taste of Nantucket's famous "Turkey Terrific " sandwich with fresh cranberry, stuffing and roast turkey on some tasty freshly baked bread. Just, Yummy!

We hope to spend a month next year in Nantucket during the summer so Dadda can join us and have a great time as one big happy family.

Hope you are all doing well. The summer has been one big barrel of fun and will be sad to see it end. The grand finale for the summer will be a trip to Jess & Chris's place in Cary, NC and then Labor Day visit to the Wittwer's in Charlton, VA.

Enjoy the photos and piece out!

Crae

Dinner at Dering Harbor Inn (OnShore) on Shelter Island

I had a wonderful time having a Saturday night dinner at Dering Harbor with Mamma, Dadda, Mumu and Aunt Linsey and Uncle Larry. The food was amazing as usual.







I am just having a fantastic time at dinner with everyone. Especially after the grilled gnocchi followed by chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream. I have a bit of energy to burn off.

A run on Ram Island with Dadda

Dadda and I had a nice run out to Ram Island to check out the landscape and wildlife. On the trip we watched a Mommy hawk feed her two chicks in a tree top nest. We walked along a pier by the harbor and ran thru wild flowers. Of course on the leg back, I got a little sleepy and fell asleep in the jogging stroller. Mamma was there to when we got home to give me a baba and put me to sleep.



We have been having a great time and look forward to updating everyone with more news.

Love McRae

My First Birthday - July 4th 2007

I had an awesome 4th of July birthday--my first ever! Despite being rained on, I think everyone had a swell time

I had about 20 people for burgers, dogs, pasta salad and of course an ice cream cake. Dad bought a dozen colored balloons, and about 9 birthday balloons. Dad was worried about the wind and made two slip knots to secure the balloons on the deck so they would not fly away. Of course, the slip knots slipped and up and into the trees they went. Dad should have had Uncle Bill the sailor tie the knots.

Everyone that came over was fantastic. And thank you so much for the wonderful birthday gifts. We had Aunt Jennifer, Uncle Bill and Cousin Vaughan, Grandad Ingram, Doug, Scott, Lissie, Ann, Lee Ann, Pavlos, Andreas, Nickitas, Connie, Sean, Harrison, and Georgia. Momma made a wonderful 4th of July gift bag for the kids. We played with gliders, flutes, and other cool really loud noise machines that caused all the parents to cringe.

Overall, It was a fantastic time. Of course Dada had to squirrel away ice cream cake so he could have more later in the night. I guess half the cake was just enough to satisfy his ice cream craving. He must have had a guilty conscience, because the next two days he went biking and running.

I look forward to many more exciting birthdays to come.

Happy Independence Day and look forward to future updates!

Massimo McRae

Shelter Island Summer Vacation

Yo Yo it's Mac Daddy and it has been some time since I have had a chance to scratch some new verbage on this Blog. I have been highly engaged and have had little available bandwidth. You know, having to assist Paris labor through the challenging stretch behind bars and taxing effort to persuade my g/f Lindsey to stay off the drugs. My girls just can't seem to keep it together and stay out of the media.

My summer vacation has been wonderful. I just heart SI! <---not Sports Illustrated. We have been spending time cruising the island and catching rays in the backyard by the pool. I hang with my posse each morning at Stars Cafe while I chow down on my blueberry muffin, sip my iced coffee and help sling hash with the cooks in the back. Then I have to jet over to pick up the Post to check out Page Six. For lunch or dinner, I usually go hang out at Sunset Beach to get some good eats and fill my belly on the scrumptious eye candy floating around the bar and beach. The alternative is to go over to On Shore Restaurant at the Dering Harbor Inn and have delectable "assortiment de grande nourriture". "Il est magnifique!" Last weekend a pack of cool cats were able came over for some burgers, dogs and pasta salad. We had margaritas, beer and wine to wash everything down. It was a sweet time. It was awesome to see little baby Julia, Rich&Allison, Matt&Liz, Keil&Nora, and Second Cousin Greg. Mama tried to help Greg meet the ladies at Sunset Beach, but she was off her game after downing over 6 planters punches. Greg even had one on the reel, but Mama created a big wake and caused Greg to lose his catch on the line during the late evening.

On July 3rd, a bunch of us slipped over to On Shore for a sunset filled dinner. In between bites the kids played by the fountain and down by the harbor. Everyone seemed to enjoy the meal and the spectacular view.

Thanks everyone for tuning into my blog. Look for my July 4th birthday posting very soon.

Peace

Massimo McRae

Me and Mama at Dering Harbor

Me, Mama and NorNor chilling on the deck

Dering Harbor Sunset View

Granddad, Vaughan and me at Dering Harbor taking in the view

Additional pictures and video

Hope you like the additional photos from this last weekend. You can click to view these pictures and additional ones on the photo album just below or enjoy the ones embedded in this posting.

XOXO

Massimo McRae

Mother's Day Picture Gallery

Video: Swinging in Central Park Playground with Cousin Vaughan

Video: Part II Video