Saturday, April 6, 2013

Spring Break!

No, I did not really have a spring break...but all of my friends did!! It's been great to be home, but sometimes got a little boring.  So Olivia, Laurel, and Thomas all had spring break the same week and it was awesome to hang out together.  We did lots of things and caught up.


Thomas and I love going to get Starbucks.  I've found that my favorite drink ever is Carmel Apple Spice.  Seriously the best! 

Laurel, Liv, and I took a day trip to Philadelphia!
Laurel, Liv, and I got to go to the Franklin Institute to see the Titanic exhibit as well.  It was soooo cool!  There were tons of different artifacts.  So many things were still intact and easily recognized.  There was a champagne bottle that still had it's champagne in it, shut tightly.  

We all got to touch a piece of the Titanic too.

We took some goofy shots on the steps too :) 


Next we got to go to Philadelphia's Magic Gardens.  Basically what it is, is a bunch of trash and recycling you would throw away made into really pretty mosaics etc.  

That says Philadelphia Magic Gardens




Liv and I









This wall was so impressive

So cool

Liv and Laurel

Laurel and I

Walking around

Cool pathway

Bottles

Stairs

An overall view


Bottles

Awesome stairs


The three of us

Chilling.

Liv!

Best friends since 1st grade :)

Awesome wall




Later that week Liv, Laurel, Thomas, and I went to Tarentella and the girls went to the mall afterwords.  Liv and I got matching Build-A-Bears :)

His name is Frito

And of course we ended the break with another Starbucks trip! 

We were the most disruptive people there, cracking up.

Happy friends!

Green Apple Rita's!  First day of Spring freebee! 
Dad reading us Narnia



And for the little family in NJ that has been watching the show "Parks and Recreation" :)



Thursday, March 14, 2013

Boston February 2013

We left for Boston right after I got home from Seattle.  It was way fun to see the boys and Janelle and Scott.  They had gotten a lot of snow the weekend before and it was perfect to play in!  I don't think we've had a good playing snow in awhile, so it was pretty fun.

Love this one of Alan :)

Mom working hard on the slide and Alan playing

Evan enjoying eating the snow

Ready to go!!

The finished product of the slide!

It was WAY fun.

Alan going down

Everyone loves the slide

James even enjoyed it! 

This is a really cute picture !! 

Evan going down on his stomach

Building snow forts

I think Alan's second favorite thing was dropping snowballs on Uncle Evan...I dont think Uncle Evan felt the same way haha




Working on the fort


The snow was a little high for Jamesy, he preferred to stomp in the mud

The almost finished snow fort!

Time for some food inside after all our work in the snow!

James...was less than pleased haha

And of course we played some Headbandz with Alan.  Curious George and Simba joined us too :) 

Alan, Evan, Mom, Dad, and I all went to the Children's Museum in Boston too.  It was dollar night, and we got Happy Meals on the way :)  I think Alan had a good time! 

 
Alan and Evan got all the way to the top!

I decided to participate...I'm 19 I promise

The rock wall was actually really hard haha, I couldn't make it to the end...and believe it or not I had pretty long legs compared to some of the kids attempting to do it too haha.

Mom and her bat.  She really loves bats, actually.  Right mom?

But in all seriousness I do love giraffes haha

Alan playing with this very agressive boy haha.  I don't think Alan really wanted to play...but this boy sure did!

Evan and his giant bubble blowing! 

Instead of going down the slide some more, we went to a park and tried the hills there.  They were a little icy and rough on the rear haha.

James and Uncle Nate



 Not too sure he wanted to be sitting there

Getting ready to race!

James liked it, I promise haha.




Happy James

Mom and I think that Alan with the hat and rosy cheeks, Alan could be one of the Peruvian kids in the cold.  So cute!

We alos got to celebrate Janelle's birthday a week early!

James

The lively Nathan

Just getting started...

Really enjoying himself!! 

This isn't the best video of James dancing...of course whenever you pull the camera out they stop.  But we did have fun dancing!  



James was pretty ticklish this day...and this video shows it well.  What a cute little guy!


Thanks Janelle and Scott for letting us come visit before I go back to school :) 
PS.  Janelle have you showed James the video of him laughing? I think he would like it haha.