Richard's Ice Skating Party!

These two knuckleheads like hanging out in the penalty box!

Lisa, Ainsley and Jen looking awfully graceful. :)

These hockey dudes don't need crates!

All the kids, complete with the hockey cake...yum!

At one point I told Colton to slow down because he flies...he turned to me and said "Mom, it's all about speed"...oh am I in trouble!

Best Buds

Our buddy Rich turned 3 this year and had "the best birthday party EVER" according to Colton and Riley. It was an ice skating party in the North End...a boys dream come true! It was so much fun and all our friends were there to skate and celebrate with. Happy Birthday Rich!

Edaville Railroad

Back in January we had a date with the Wells and O'Connell families at Edaville Railroad for the day. It was a cold, cold outing but the kids loved it none the less. The kiddie rides were open and the cranberry ball pit never gets old. The train ride is a favorite for everyone with all the Christmas lights and a chance to defrost your toes and fingers for a bit!

Leighton goes shopping

A few weeks ago Alicia and I made the trek to Providence Mall with Leighton for a girls shopping spree. I had to share my photo shoot of her with you, she gets cuter everyday!!!








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Nick's Birthday

Last weekend Nick turned 35 so we had a nice family dinner. Here are a few pictures. Notice the cute beer mug candles I found!






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Never too old to sled...

With all this snow we have been getting it was impossible to not get that urge to go sledding. Although it snowed the whole time we were there and it was really cold, we had a great time Saturday afternoon hitting the hills with our tubes. Uncle Zach brought his snowboard to warm it up for Sunday and to show Riley a few moves...I think he was impressed minus that major wipe-out! Buddy came along too and chased after us every time we went down the hill...he even tried to catch a ride on the tube a few times. Everyone had a great time and were completely beat following our escapade. The day ended with dinner at our house for some homemade spaghetti and meatballs and to do a 1000 piece puzzle. It was almost like being 10 again (except the adults could barely walk afterward needed a few days to recover).

Buddy the snow dog

We got hit pretty good with that winter storm this past weekend. Here are some pictures of Buddy playing in the snow New Years day. He didn't want to come back into the house he loved the snow so much. We played pass with the football for awhile and it would get buried in the snow and he had to go nose diving to find it...so cute when he would pop up with the snow on his nose! On another note, Colton likes to eat snow so we have had to teach him all about not eating that yellow snow now that we have a dog!

New Years 2010

We had an exciting New Years Eve over at Heidi's house with a pajama party! We ordered Chinese food (why this is traditional new years grub I have no idea), had some Patron shots, few bottles of wine and lots of games. Catch Phrase again was a big hit, so was guitar hero. This year it wasn't just us and the O'Connells, the Galens, my mom, Corey, Kelly Hunter and her boyfriend Nate, and Phil's friend Beetle joined us. Colton and Riley were the only kids to make it to midnight with the adults. They were really intrigued with seeing this "ball dropping" thing. Unfortunately we counted down with Dick Clark and they didn't even show the ball dropping!!! Very odd...when midnight hit they just showed random people kissing like Dick Clark sucking face with his wife. It really was disturbing for all...did anyone else see that?!?! Yes I could do lots of Dick jokes here but this is a family blog so let's keep it clean...I really wish Dick had that night...ewwwww. Anyways...Happy New Years to all our family and friends...we love you and feel so blessed to have such wonder people to celebrate life and another year with!!!

XOXO - Kelley

Hunter and Heidi faceoff

Riley's new guitar hero idol...Nate

Guess it is time to go home.
He slept until 7:30AM...woo hoo!

Happy New Years!!!

Christmas 2009

Every year is better than the next with kids. This was Leighton's first Christmas, it was so nice to have a baby to snuggle and to also have a girl in the mix for once. This year Colton got a new bike from Santa, which he loves however, I think Santa could have just given him a stocking because the first thing he unwrapped were matchbox cars and once again these proved to be a favorite! We spent a relaxing Christmas Eve at Wally and Alicia's with her parents and sister Amy. Christmas day was a full house over at our place with all the family. Tradition over the last couple years has been to drink into the wee hours of the morning and play games guys vs girls. This year it was Catch Phrase and the girls smoked the guys. They really had no chance with drinking that much jameson and eggnog...lol. The rest of the weekend was spent in our pajamas, we even had the O'Connells over for a sleep over (we stayed up until 3AM doing a puzzle) and Sunday we went over to the Cartmells for dinner since Brandon was home from Miami and we hadn't all gotten together in quite some time. I have yet to take down all the ornaments and the tree...I am rebelling this year...can't Christmas stay for a little longer?!?!

I may have bought her this onsie. ;-)

A happy little dude.

The Kelley's First Family Christmas Photo!

Really though???? CUTE!!!

Matching pajamas but Brayden refused to cooperate for the picture.
Leighton with her cousins. :-)

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!

Gingerbread house

This past weekend there was a noreaster here in Massachusetts so we stayed in our pjs all day. It gave us time to bake cookies, wrap presents (Colton learned to wrap this year in school so he helped out...you will be able to tell), play in the snow and build our gingerbread house. Many of the candies mysteriously disappeared with Colton helping...must have been those elves!


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Buckaroo

The other night we played Buckaroo for awhile with the kids. If you have no idea what Buckaroo is you need to watch the video (you should watch it anyways). We had played it so many times that night and pretty much Colton was the person who caused the thing to buck every time. No matter how many times we play he still gets so scared when the thing bucks and literally jumps on someones lap and hugs them so tight. It is sort of mean but one of those things you love to torture him with because it is so funny...does this make me a bad mom? You be the judge and watch for yourself. :-)