catching up yet again

Enjoy some random photos as I try and catch up on some that I have been missing. We took a fun visit to the zoo with two of our neighbors and their kids.
this looks like a line up shot, and sometimes fitting, at least for my two

MJ and her butterfly

Megan and her Butterfly and cheesy grin

true LL and her butterfly

Cute smiley Jack

can you tell that he is teething?

LL took a sports class from the local rec center and this is her tennis day

Boys will be Boys

Or men will be boys too! Our neighbors were out playing with this and Matt had to go play too.

Cousins Visit

6 Month Check Up

Our little man is not so little. He just went in for his check up and weighed in at 18 lbs and is 28.5" long. Yes that is right he takes after my side of the family. I have a brother that is 6' 4" so maybe we have a basketball player on our hands:) So Jack decided that he didn't like the clothes he was wearing and had a blow out right when we arrived at the doctor's office. I thought oh great, so we get in the room and I change him then get his diaper on and turn to look for his clothes in the diaper bag. Only to find that he had these blue pants and no shirt. I couldn't put him in the poopy outfit so he went out with a bang and will always be remembered in that office. Thank goodness it was warm.

WOW

Welcome to the wonderful world of LL and her Flexibility!

summer fun!

I am really trying to keep up with everything, but here is a rush look at what we have been up to. Enjoy! Our tour in the "Grandin Printing Shop"
pool fun with Ariel dolls
oh yes and fudgesicles outside

I love that it both ran down her arm and dripped on the ground and her foot, but did that stop her, NO WAY!

loving on Jack

picking strawberries

spending time with Grandma and Grandpa

walking around downtown Rochester

my two favorite men (Matt and my Dad)

and Matt being sworn into the NY Bar

Vacation #4

We had a fun couple of days with my parents who flew all the way out to Boston from Washington State then drove to Schenectady. We met them the next day in Cooperstown, NY for a visit to the Baseball Hall of Fame! Then we also visited Fly Creek, Niagara Falls (CA side), down town Rochester and witnessed Matt being sworn into the New York Bar. I thought this was pretty funny and a side note it was just Hot Chocolate!
Grandma and Grandpa in front of the Hall of Fame Building

Grandma as a Future Hall of Famer

This is for Kyle, we found Gary Carter for you!

Maid of the Mist Boat in the bottom of Niagara Falls

Jack at Niagara Falls

Vacation #3

We traveled through Canada to visit family in Michigan just recently and had a blast doing it. Matt took the girls to "UP" while I walked around a huge mall, we went to the beach, Matt and his brother went to a Tigers game and we had a lot of kids running around and having fun together.

My little cupcake!

the play place at the mall was a big plate of food and a spilt soda with ice cubes. Really cute idea that the kids loved.

Where we live, at last!

Okay so we are still renting but we hope that we are going to stay here a lot longer then our other places. Enjoy our wonderful place and a cute picture of Jack's first taste of real food.

our garden that was just planted

and now being watered

vacation #2

Old Towne San Diego,CA

this place had the best chocolate tortillas ever

vacation #1

A wonderful vacation with some of my favorite women in the world.

8 great people to...

hang out with, stay up late talking with, play in the cold Ocean with, play volleyball with and many other great adventures in San Diego, CA for a week. Thanks ladies and I can't wait to see everyone again. Love you all!

Memorial Day

We all had fun watching the local parade that morning.

Slacker!

So we have been checking out the sites here in the Rochester, NY area. The kids have loved it and have already made a few friends in our neighborhood too. MJ, LL and Claire at the Zoo
the girls watching the meerkats

Jack, MJ, LL and Me looking at the Hill Cumorah

LL and MJ riding an elephant at the park

Girls at Hill Cumorah

Palmyra Temple

5 Month old Jack

We are New Yorkers now!

It's official we are here. And loving it! We live in a nice quiet neighborhood and we have a big farm across the street. We had our friends over for dinner and the kids all played in the front yard then yesterday we went to the Lilac Festival. I have never see that many Lilac trees in my life and they were huge.
yummy corn dogs too!

we stopped to smell almost all the flowers

MJ and Claire playing in the yard

taking pictures

Thanks everyone for letting me take your pictures and have fun with your families.

Saying Goodbye, Again...

It's hard having to say good-bye to friends so soon after moving here. But off to another job and another town. So good-bye to all our friends in the Salem area we are going to miss you... but you can come visit:) Oh and check out some more pictures here. Picnic in the park (because the beach was too cold)
Tessa coming to play for the day
dinner with our Cambridge friends before they head to Virginia and we head to New York
dinner with friends/former co-workers of Matt's

And of course we had to go to the aquarium before we left too, the only thing the girls wanted to see was the shark, and then MJ wouldn't go near the glass when we finally found it.

LL loved the jelly fish

one more good-bye for our beloved Richardson's Ice Cream (Yum!)

and a stop in Toppsfield at the homestead of Joseph Smith Sr

My Fav's from this week

LL found her shadow and said, "Look Mommy I'm Peter Pan, No I mean Wendy"

A true shot of LL

A true shot of MJ

Boston Marathon

Dick and Ricky Hoyt

running to get our spot on the course

Jack is 4 months!

Look Jack got 3rd runner up at the Lasagna Bake off (okay so Matt did not Jack)

Getting loves from his sisters

Baby?

Who is that baby?