Blueberry Picking!

A bit of blueberry trivia for you: "How do you know when your child has had enough blueberries"? Answer: "When he is pooping blue". Yes, I know a bit gross, but true. We went blueberry picking last weekend. It was such a great day out and the blueberries were so delicious. Isaac was a great little picker and helped fill up our box, Owen on the other hand was the eater and helped diminish the contents of the box. We were lucky to have Jules out for the weekend. It was a lot of fun to see her. The boys were over joyed with the fact that Auntie JuJu was coming to visit. We also went with Alex, Janae, Abby, Emma, Kira and Kade. It was a great afternoon filled with blue fingers, full tummies and a lot of laughs.

Keepn' Cool!

When July started out we weren't too sure if we would ever see the beach because it was so rainy and cold, but a couple of weeks into the month it became VERY hot and humid. Believe it or not, we were pretty happy about that and were very gratful to have so many options to cool off with. We have spent most of our time going to splash parks, Lake Cochituate and Wingearsheek Beach to stay cool, but our favorite by far has been Wingearsheek Beach, because daddy and Alex have gotten off work early and have come with us. The nice thing about Wingearsheek is that the beach is wide and deep so there is alot of exploring room for the kids and the water sits on a sand shelf so it is pretty shallow. We usually arrive at 3:30 or 4:00pm with the umbrella, chairs, sand toys, sun screen, portable grill, and plenty of hot dogs, kool-aid and s'more fixings to keep us satisfied until we head home around 7:30 or 8:00pm. Jonathan and the boys have pretty much perfected the "Water"copter. Jonathan will take the boys into the ocean and spin them around so their toes spray water in each others faces, the boys get such a kick out of it. I love to watch them and take pictures of them when they are in a state of happiness and excitement. It has been fun to have Alex, Janea, Abby and Emma here. It has given us an excuse to get out and about.

4th of July

I feel like such a slacker. I am posting our 4th of July happenings on August 3rd. I guess better late than never. We had a great 4th of July week. We started off our celebrating at Old Silver Beach in Falmouth, MA. We had a lot of fun, we played in the water and the boys buried me in the sand. On the 2nd we drove down to Pawtucket, RI to watch a Pawtucket Red Sox Baseball game. We won which was an added bonus and then after the game we watched a fireworks display, they did a pretty good job, it was fun to see all of the colors exploding in the sky. The best part was watching the boys faces as the colors exploded. We brought Jonathan's cousin Alex with us. He had just moved all of his families things out, but Janae and the girls were still out West, so he tagged along and seemed pretty content will all of our craziness. On the 4th we drove Alex to the air port and in the afternoon we enjoyed all of our friends company at a Big BBQ. We were so exhausted by all of our excursions that we couldn't keep our eyes open for the actual 4th of July fireworks. Oh, well maybe next year.