Talent Show

Last night our youth in our ward had a talent show. Our wonderful Bishop was the only adult who participated. He was such a good sport! This is Braden, his friend Donovan and our Bishop!

I had to do this in two parts.....it was a bit long...it is also a bit bumpy, I was laughing and I am not a good videographer!

1. talents

2. brave kids

3. rain

The Wedding!!!

The wedding was beautiful. The morning started out really nice, but come time for the wedding, the weather didn't want to cooperate. It was still decent weather.

The wedding took place at Waters Farm in Sutton, MA

The scenery was beautiful.(I know I need another adjective, but it was beautiful!)

Brian, Braden, Allen, Eric and Brandon

(Brian and Eric are Ashley's brothers)
Ashley and her Court
Marissa and Brynn were the Flower Girls

My girls had to keep Ashley from crying, that was their job before the ceremony.

Todd performed the ceremony. No, he is not a Justice of the Peace, or a minister, but in the state of MA, anyone can have a license to perform a marriage for the day.

Ashley and Joe

The Groomsmen

The Bridesmaids

The Ceremony

Exchanging rings

Husband and Wife

The Happy Couple and the Flower Girls

Ashley, Brynn and Marissa

Preacher and the Couple

Ashley and her cute yellow shoes

The gorgeous bouquet.

Joe's side of the family

Joe and Ashley

The first dance

Father/Daughter Dance

Mother/Son Dance

Brynn and Danika grooving on the dance floor

Danika, Kylie and Brynn on the dance floor

Brynn loved the dancing. Braden was being a good big brother and danced with her.

Aunt Shauna and Uncle Joe dancing with the girls

Trying to dance with Brandon

Marissa and Danika

Todd and Marissa dancing

Allen dancing with the girls

Brandon with Alejandra

Marissa finally dancing with Brian

Brynn loved Ashley's friends. She was not at all shy. I think she danced with almost every single one of them!

It was a fun, wonderful day. It was so fun to have all the family in town, thanks to everyone who made the trip out. I know it meant a lot to Ashley and the rest of the family!

We love you Ashley and Joe! Congrats!

1. the wedding

2. love

3. family

Another Track Meet

We had to be back from Lexington for Braden's second track meet.

He wasn't overly thrilled with his performance. He only cleared 4'8" this week. He took 3rd place. It doesn't help that he was up until 11:30 babysitting and watching the Bruins game the night before. As a side note, we were not gone that late, he was only babysitting until about 10. After that, he was free to go to sleep. Sad thing is, the Bruins lost.

Lexington

Some of Friday was spent in Lexington and Concord. We got a bit of a late start, couldn't find all we were looking for, and had to be back for a track meet, so we saw some of the

Minute Man Museum.

Danika wanted to take pictures with my camera. She is a pretty good photographer for a 3 year old.
Dawn and Danika

Kylie, Danika and Brynn all had matching shirts. Marissa has one too, but she had to go to school.

Dinner

Thursday evening was the dinner for my cousin's wedding. It was at Lucky's Cafe in Worcester.

This is the happy couple! Joe and Ashley

More............

On Wednesday, Denise and Lance went to New York City for the day and my parents and all the kids hung around the house and in the afternoon Braden had an orthodontist appt. in Rhode Island. So we all hopped in the car and went to Providence. We did a little shopping, had dinner, got a bit freaked out because of Kylie's allergies(had to make a CVS run for Benadryl), then Brandon had a Court of Honor. He earned his Tenderfoot and 2nd Class ranks.

Thursday Lance and Denise and their girls went to Salem and York, Maine. My parents, me and Brynn went to the grocery store!

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!