Priceless!

I had to post this picture, my sister took it at the Boston Commons this past weekend. I just love everything about it!

Two Fun Filled Weekends!

The past two weekends have been busy for us, but really fun! This weekend coming up is going to be the same but that is ok with us :) We have a wedding on Saturday, then Sunday I am running in the Bristol Mumathon - a 5 mile race. After that we have a birthday party for our friend's daughter who just turned 1 & after that a family party. Crazy busy, that is for sure!

2 weekends ago we went to the Big E after our last day at the beach for the year. The Big E if you are not familiar with is a huge fair that takes place in the fall every year in MA. The Big E runs for 3 weeks or so and draws in some pretty good live entertainment. It is only about an hour ride for us. The fair has everything from your typical animal rides and carnival games to infomercial displays. What makes this fair unique is that each state in New England has their own building so you get to sample and see what every state has to offer. Here is Uncle Tommy & Eli together at the fair.
The weather was perfect and Eli loved being at the fair. He also enjoyed sharing my giant Maine baked potato with all the fixin's. While Adam, Tommy and Tommy's girlfriend Danielle enjoyed some delicious beers as we walked around, I consumed some yummy fresh squeezed over priced lemonade, a deep fried snickers, and I also had some periogies. You could say I took full advantage of this pregnancy that day! hahahha...Surprisingly the snickers was good! Don't even want to know my calorie consumption for that day....

Here is another picture from the fair, Eli is as close to a farm animal as I think he has ever been and he wasn't scared. The donkey was very gentle, it was pretty cute to see him observe the animals.


This past weekend Eli and I went up to my sister's to visit and spend a day in Boston. Eli really enjoyed playing with cousins and keeping up with them! He loved my sisters house because they have so many toys there. Melina & Ben have cousin's from my sister's husbands side so they have double the toys, it is insane, but totally fun to watch. We spent Saturday at the Boston Commons enjoying the perfect fall weather and watching the kids feed the ducks and geese Kix cereal. We even cought the kids enjoying some cereal in between feeding the ducks, they couldn't help themselves!

After we visited the duckling statues at the park to take pictures we went to a great Italian restaurant called Maggianno's. This was Eli's first situation where he had to sit for an extended period of time at a restaurant. The first 45 minutes went pretty well after that it got a little hairy! He doesn't quite have the attention span or ability just yet to color at the table, all he wanted to do was get out of the high chair and run!

Here are some pictures from our day, the first picture is before we even left my sister's house! Melina was trying to keep the order as you can see....



Ben and Eli having fun in their pj's before bedtime! They were so cute together, and totally boys. You can tell they play rough already!!