Thanksgiving 2010

Here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania with Nicks family. It was lots of fun as usual and Grandma was out of the hospital which was a relief (however since I wrote this she is back in...so prayers please!). On Saturday there was a baptism for Gracie and she looked absolutely beautiful. Nick's whole family was there and his cousin Scottie's kids Zach and Hilary and his girlfriend Nicki and her daughter Amanda was there so Colton and Aiden had lots of other kids to play with this year...so fun! The only minor crisis during our stay was when Colton used my head as a race track for his Zuzu pet. Those suckers keep moving and making noise and there is literally no way to get them out other that taking your hair and scalp with it! I lost the fight...damn Zuzu.

Anytime you can get a great grandma to wear a dancing turkey hat...you take a picture!

You can't really see it but it was snowing!
Yes, it was a white Thanksgiving in PA!

Colton with Zach...he followed Zach everywhere!!!

Little bastard

Colton's favorite, pineapple with ham, hold the onion...lol!

Gracie with her godparents

Gracie and her mommy

My favorite shot of the whole weekend.

I mean solid moves...dontcha think?

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Plymouth's Thanksgiving Parade

This year we watched the Thanksgiving parade from the windows of Wally's office which is right downtown. The parade was no joke about two hours long so being inside with heat, a bathroom, comfy seats and most importantly endless mimosas and spiked coffee really made the parade a top ten parade for me! Lisa came with Colton and I down to Plymouth and after the parade we all walked down to the Chowder Fest where there were kids crafts and lots of good chowdas to sample. I am almost positive that Colton ate more than I did. To top the night off, when we got home Colton was already sleeping for the night, Donna had taken the commuter rail to my house and her and Lisa and I went out for a few drinks and dinner. We hit the new Boston Beer Works in Hingham Shipyard and then we got a late night glass of wine next door at the Wahlberg's restaurant Alma Nove. Yeah we can still hang.

Mom, Colton and Lisa

Leighton and her Aunt Amy

Colton and Mommy

Lisa just hanging with the Pilgrims

Colton and Nana

Little Miss Fashion and her Daddy

Rocking the turkey

Love this one...my brother is one lucky guy!

Colton of course is obsessed with Meatball

Hope that is just orange juice

Hysterical

Colton and the Mayflower...
Happy Thanksgiving to all our Family and Friends...we love you!

All dressed up and nowhere to go

Colton was looking all dapper the other day because he had his school pictures. When I got to Heidi's after work to pick him up I commented on how handsome he looked and he said "yeah mom you should take me to our date place". What a little playa. So usually our date place means the salad bar at Whole Foods (he is obsessed with their soup and edamame). We switched it up though and hit our other favorite date spot, Paneras, and Bryaden wanted a date night too so he joined us. Here they are enjoying their soups!

Time to rake the leaves

Fall in New England brings lots of leaves to rake. Brayden and Riley were over this weekend and they joined Nick and Colton in cleaning up the yard. It was hard work but nothing is better than making big piles of leaves and then jumping in them. Nick showed Riley how to use the leave blower/vacuum and he earned a little cash to buy something special at Target (umm...he bought a Hawaiian nutcracker guy...says it looks like the Polynesian guys from Disney...how cute is he). Unfortunately, it has been a really windy though and there are at least the same amount of leaves back on the ground, guess I will have to put them back to work again this weekend. ;)

Leighton's First Birthday

Look at who turned one! Leighton had a dress up Halloween Party that we unfortunately missed because of our wedding in PA. However, I did see pictures of the cute little ladybug and Uncle Zach, aka Captain America, and Uncle Phil aka Tigger. Hysterical and it sounds like her first party was a success. For her actual birthday dinner, family just went over to Wally and Alicia's and we had cake followed by presents. She really enjoyed the chocolate lady bug cake Auntie Heidi baked...so did I!

Let me at it...

Hey, I was enjoying that...

Bring it back!!!

Sporting the party hat and loving it.

Halloween 2010

We went trick or treating with Riley and Brayden this year. Everytime Colton got a piece of candy he would jump up and down and say "YES, YES, they really do give you candy!!". So funny. The best story I have to share though is the one where one of the houses gave Colton a Twizzler and he promptly replied "oh no, I don't like those, you can have it back" and put it back in the guys candy bucket. OMG - I almost died, luckily the guy thought it was hysterical and asked him what he did like and let Colton pick something else. It was all very innocent and after that house I explained to him that it was rude and why you shouldn't say that, he was pretty embarrassed and asked me not tell anyone...naturally I post it here on the blog so it is cemented in his history. Auntie Heidi later explained to him that Twizzlers are her favorite and he should always take them and give them to her. ;-)

My little clone trooper (he thinks he is a stormtrooper though...hehe)!

One guess who Darth Vader is...

Riley...partners in crime!

Road trip to PA

We had a wedding in Scranton this past weekend which was great because we got to see Nick's entire family and it had been quite some time since we last saw them. Jeannette's best friends, Melissa and Eric, got married so Nick's whole family was invited to the wedding, even the kiddos. We finally got to meet baby Gracie, who is about 3 months old now and just cute as a button. All she does is smile, laugh and really just a perfect baby. The wedding was a lot of fun and Colton didn't get off the dance floor, it was hysterical. He definitely may have been the first one to get in the circle and start the dance off, he did the running man, the moonwalk, the worm and of course his signature move the robot. Words can't describe how funny it was, no joke I was crying and there may have been some older folk who peed their pants from the scene. It was a great weekend with family and we will be back in less than a month to see them all again for Turkey Day!

Me and one of my dates.

The whole clan (well half of some). :-)

The two pirates and their bird.

Just funny.

See You Later Mickey...

This is my last Disney post. Our flight home wasn't until 6:45pm so we had the day to hit our favorite ride, sit by the pool and do some last minute shopping. Magic Kingdom was the last park and Colton sat through the Mickey's Philharmagic about 4 times. Leighton did Dumbo, Riley did Space Mountain and Brayden did it all but was most excited about his monorail train Nana bought him. We were really sad to leave. Sometimes you go on vacation and are ready to get home by the end of the week, no one felt that way this time. We all could have stayed a few more days and believe it or not, we weren't sick of each other at all! Best family trip ever was probably said a couple hundred times that week by both the kids and adults. In all honestly, we will be back and do it all over again, we can't wait to see the kids a little older and just as excited. Like I said, Disney is truly magical.

Animal Kingdom.

We did hit the Animal Kingdom which was super fun as well. There was the Safari and the Rapids Ride (Colton LOVED this one and was just tall enough for it), the Everest Coaster (Alicia and I got stuck in the 1st seats...yike a-roos), and the animals and scenery were just beautiful. My mom has such great photos of our day, I am almost embarrassed to post what few photos I have.

We are in the second row (Phil, Riley, Alicia and me).
I think the guy with the yellow shirt though in the front row is just classic.

Epcot

October is a great time to go to Epcot because it has the Food and Wine Festival. With so much to drink and see we had to spend 2 days there, eating and drinking our way through. It was a lot of fun and we hit all the rides as well. I think we all agree that Soarin was our favorite attraction. Colton really enjoyed the Coca Cola from all the different countries...yuck. Epcot is a great place to meet all the characters and the Illuminations fireworks is a definite.