Boston!

We had a busy day in Boston! It was a ton of fun and very tiring. We put many miles on our shoes.

One of the few things Marissa wanted to see was the Old North Church. She has been learning about it in school. Unfortunately by the time we got there, it was closed!

Statue of Paul Revere

Another thing Marissa and Lance wanted to see was Paul Revere's house. Again~CLOSED!

We took a tour of Fenway Park! It was awesome! My dad wants to go to all the Major League ballparks, but every time he comes here, the Sox are out of town or the game is sold out. We figured this would be the next best thing.

Grandpa, Brandon and Braden on the Green Monster. Seats out there are expensive!

View from the press box. Cushy!

View from left field. Brynn always having to pose!

Left field

Championship rings.

Fenway Park

We also took a Duck Tour. I highly recommend it. I can't remember what this is, but I liked the picture!

I am thinking the driver took this picture since I am in it and Todd wasn't there!

Boston Skyline from the Charles River on the Duck Tour

Danika driving the Duck

Brynn driving the Duck

Brandon driving the Duck

Marissa driving the Duck

Massachusetts State House

Kylie didn't drive the Duck, she wasn't very happy on the Duck, Braden didn't drive the duck because I think they thought he was an adult.

We had a great day and the kids were troopers through the whole thing. We spent 11 hours in the city and we were exhausted!

The Family is in Town!!

My family came to town!! My cousin is getting married and they all came! How lucky am I that she decided to get married here!

We were a bit tired, so we kind of hung around at my house, plus my kids couldn't miss school because of MCAS testing, so we went to feed the ducks at the West End Creamery. Unfortunately, Kylie hurt her hand and didn't want to be in the picture, but this is everyone else with my parents.
Feeding the ducks. They didn't want to be fed at first, we had to corral them to get the to even go into the water.

The girls were in dress ups most of the time.

Our little princesses!

Presents

I didn't get many pictures of Marissa's presents, but.......

closing her eyes because I didn't wrap it
excitement when she sees her Wii Fit!!

Happy Birthday!!

Happy 9th Birthday Marissa!!!

9 Reasons Why We Love Marissa~

1. she is funny

2. she talks A LOT

3. she is a great helper

4. she is usually willing to play with her sister

5. she is NEVER dull

6. she loves everyone

7. she can tell a great LONG story

8. she never runs out of something to talk about

9. because she is Marissa!

1. Marissa

2. Birthdays

3. Mother's Day

Marissa's Birthday Party!

Marissa had a small birthday party this year with a few friends from school. It was nice, as I was able to pick them all up after school and we were able to party!

Marissa, Raylyn, Meghan, Shayla and Brynn
Isn't a party without cake!

Braden's First Track Meet

Braden had his first track meet on May 1st. He is doing the high jump and throwing the discus.

These pictures are in no particular order, but he won the meet in the high jump. He jumped 4'10"!!

BOSTON MARATHON!!!!

Today is Patriot's Day in MA!! There are A LOT of things going on today, the marathon,

the Red Sox play and there is a reenactment of the Battle of Lexington.

We chose the Marathon, free and not 5:00 in the morning!

Today is also the start of our weeklong Spring Break!!

Deriba Merga of Ethiopia, this is the guy that actually ended up winning the marathon. We had just gotten to our spot at mile 19 and he was running by. Yes, he was fast. The race started at 10 am and he passed us at about 11:30. He finished in 2:08:32.
This is Rick and Dick Hoyt. Dad is 68, son is 47. Dick pushes Rick the entire 26.2 miles.

They are very inspiring. Rick joined the church not long ago and is in a Branch that is in our stake.

We saw numbers in the 27000's.

Passing out water.

Brynn and Jane passing out water.

At one point, the kids were having a contest to see who had the most water taken.

More water!

It was a very fun day! I had a friend who was supposed to run this race, but she got hurt and couldn'tmake it, but it would have been so fun to see someone I knew. Although some of the friends we were with had friends running. Hopefully, we will have friends in it next year! I did get to see Bill Rodgers and he looked like he was going to throw up on Marissa. I was so excited to see him that I forgot about my camera and didn't get any pictures of him. I will do a post about him (since none of my friends that were with me at the race know who he is). I will wait until some of my friends who had their cameras and didn't really care about Bill and had the sense to take pictures, sends them to me!!!

1. MARATHON

2. decent weather

3. fun friends to hang out with and shake!

What is it???

What is your NAME???

I get this question A LOT!!

People do not understand our last name. I know it is a hard name, but really???

I do not like it when people don't pronounce names right. It isn't too hard and if you don't know it, ASK. Don't just assume. My youngest daughter gets called BRIAN all the time. People who run a business should be especially careful. My old carpet cleaner would call my neighbor(who he knew because she referred me to him) the wrong name all the time. I would even say her name the right way and he still didn't pick up on it. DUH!!!

Does this bug anyone else but me?

1. names

2. taxes being DONE!

3. dinner

Space Shuttle

The pictures are of the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station flying over our house!!



Last night at about 7:41, we were folding laundry when Braden reminded us that it should be flying over, so we all ran outside and we spotted it.



It was really neat, even though you could only see what looked like a shooting star!



1. sunshine
2. fun things to share with my kids
3. warm weather

Can You Guess??

What these pictures are of??

I Could Take It No LONGER!!!!

I had to get the BBQ grill out today!!

The weather has been teasing me, and it was time to grill!

Made teriyaki chicken, sticky rice and broccoli(I didn't eat the broccoli, never fear!)

My kids were playing at the bottom of the circle while it was grilling and they kept coming in saying they could smell it down there and they were wondering how much longer!

Now if only the weather will stay nice so I can keep the grill out!!!

1. nice weather

2. BBQ grill

3. smells of the grill

BTW, Happy St. Patricks Day! Everywhere I went today, people were wishing me a Happy St. Pattys Day and asking if I was having Corned Beef and Cabbage for dinner. Of course not, I wouldn't eat that. I had several people ask me why not??, because I am Irish!! Am I??

Don't know