Gma & Gpa come to town!

First, happy 6 month birthday sweet little Emma!!! Check back soon for updates of her half birthday week!

Alright, I know I am WAY, WAY behind in posts :(  Perhaps I am still recovering from a very exciting visit from Grandma and Grandpa!  We were so fortunate that Grandpa found a judicial conference to attend in Boston this year! It happened to be at the Omni Parker House.... you know what that means, Boston Cream Pie!

The first weekend they were here we enjoyed exploring a 'new to us' New England town- Newburyport.  It's located on the water of the northernmost point of Massachusetts and it is picturesque!  Great shopping to be done in Newburyport.

Emma and Patrick are discussing what they wanted to see and do!

When we were all shopped out, we headed to Plum Island.  What a pleasant discovery!  We love big sandy dune beaches and these were perfection :)  

Of course we needed our shades!  Like many other things right now Emma would prefer to eat them!

Here is Patrick practicing his male modeling with an infant for an accessory...

Yay, I'm going to the beach!

Emma's first experience of sand beneath her totsies

She thought it was a bit too cold for her preference

And Patrick did too!

Again with the eating of the sunglasses 

We stumbled upon Emma's favorite playground activity on the way out of the beach!

AHHHHH!!!!!!  

While Grandpa was busy at the conference Emma got in a lot of wonderful play time with Grandma! 

Suzanne and William joined us at the Esplanade wading pool. This was a discovery I wish we would have made a couple months ago :(  But I have a feeling Emma will be spending many summer days there next year!

There were lots of wonderful walks during the week!

Another stop at the swings!

How big is Patrick?

How big is Emma?

Only for Emma would Grandpa agree to a Fenway tour...unfortunately it was sold out :( 

But Patrick and Emma walked away with new hats so the excursion was not an entire bust! 

We frequented Georgetown Cupcakes almost every other night- yikes!

Thank you so much for the fun week!!!!

Come back and see us again soon!!! 

More pics perhaps to come if I can get them off of Patrick's phone!

Hello Westport! Hello Zoo!

Sorry I am a little behind in blogging- I've had some technical difficulties and am now good friends with one of the geniuses at Apple's genius bar :(  Last Saturday we were invited down to Westport, MA to spend the day with Phil, Adriana, and Adriana's mom.  It was one of the most relaxing days we have had in a very long time!  We had a lovely lunch at a cute little restaurant, soaked up the sun at the beach, picked up some lobsters from a fisherman right off the boat, played some badminton, had the most delicious lobster dinner, and topped it off with some yummy ice cream!!!  What a day!  More pics to come once I can grab them off of Patrick's phone.

On Tuesday Emma and I had another exciting excursion with our friends Suzanne & William and Kimberly & Grace... we went to the zoo! The six of us squeezed into Suzanne's SUV after some careful arranging and rearranging of strollers, bags, babies, etc and traveled to the Stone Zoo.  There were so many fun and interesting creatures to see- Emma loved the bears and I loved the monkeys but we could have done without the creepy reptiles! 

Everyone is all in- let's hit the road!

Emma's in charge

Bald Eagles are huge!

 Flamingos- stinky birds, who knew?

Gigantic porcupine!

Monkey with a mustache :)

Mama and baby monkey- that baby was a ball of energy!

 Emma was unimpressed with the reindeer!

So exhausted!

After the zoo we had a long and lovely picnic.  Here is Emma showing off her tripod sitting!!!