Weekend

This weekend we started orange as you can see. Yep the boys have orange hair. It was "hair night" at Awana and the boys talked me into getting orange color for their hair. They picked orange to make dad and uncle Vit proud (too bad Broncos are done for the season).We did wash it off before they went to bed and I am glad we did. I didn't want to wash their bedding the next day :)

We headed down to Boston on Saturday to enjoy a 45 F day. Even though we wore jackets it wasn't that cold. Here are to boys in front of a big boat that is apperently carrying LNG.

And here is me and Emma.
And boys with dolphins.
We made it to aquarium again and we had a great time. Emma was very interested in the fish.
Sam was busy taking pictures and Emma posed for everybody with a camera.
Here is Fil and Emma watching a sting ray.

All the kids looking at a shark .....
..... and many more fish.
We had a great time.

Weekend

This was a very hard weekend for me. Since Fil is gone we got to spend the weekend ourselves. Sometime it gets hard by the end of the day and for some reason a trip down to Boston wasn't as much fun when Fil comes with us (mostly since I wasn't able to have an adult conversation during the trip). On the other hand the boys for some reason cannot stop talking.

Anyway Fil made it up north to Phoenix this weekend to see some of his old friends and he ended up seeing almost all of them. Our missionary friends were back from England so he got to see them and most of his college buddies. You have no idea how jealous I was when he called from a party when they got together. I wished we all could have been there. It has been so long since I've have seen everybody and I have to say that I heard all of the stories so many times that it feels I know most of you even though I met you only once. I know Fil misses all of you very much and it was hard on him to leave this afternoon. We always thought for some reason we would end up back in Phoenix area and here we are in New England. I guess God has different plans for so for now. I promised to take the kids down to Boston this Saturday to visit the aquarium. We got to walk by the ocean and found this very fancy apartment community. Here are the boys standing by a yacht that looked very cool. There was a several of them and a lot of smaller boats as well.
There were pretty flowers along the walk way.
Sam took this picture. I think he is old enough for some photography lessons from mom. He did a good job by the way. We are in the picture after all.
Here are the boys exploring the world of starfish.


I am always looking for some nice pictures. Here I was admiring this lamp while Nate .....
was trying to take apart the water hydrant (that boy is such an engineer).
And since there was time left in the day we stopped by one of my favorite stores IKEA. You got to love this store growing up in Europe. And my kids love it as well. Here is Emma on one of her favorite toys (we got to start thinking Christmas here anybody paying attention?)
And the boys will always find something dangerous to play with.



Thank you so much to all of you who took care of my hubby in Phoenix I wish I could have been there to take pictures to update my collection on our fridge. And I hope that some of you will make it to New England one day.

Aquarium II.

Well here we are in March and we already made a second trip to the aquarium in Boston. Fil's parents went on into Boston and since the kids do not care for much walking we headed to see the fish again. Emma on Fil's back. She is such a busy girl.
And did I mention how cute she is?


Sam ready for a ride on a turtle.
Emma ready for a ride.
And Nate ready as well.
Emma playing with a star fish.



The J.F. Kennedy aircraft carrier was in Boston for few day as a last stop before decommissioning. We did not go on since Nate and Emma are too small and the line was too long. We got to see it at least from the distance (It looked huge even from the distance).
It was a beautiful day and we got to walk around only in our sweaters.


Smile

New England Aquarium

Finally after crazy holidays and the kids being sick we made it again to Boston. (It is only 1 hour away from us) We were all looking forward to this trip for a while. And since it has been warm and the cold front is coming in any day now we thought we have to go sooner than later.

It was great to see all the sea creatures again. I do not think Emma has been in with us but the boys remembered our previous trips. She was speechless at first but after a while she enjoyed all the fish as well.

The boys were mostly interested it the big fish tank than the little displays. They do not trust sharks but they always get kick out of the biggest turtle we have ever seen. (How ever after Nate requested a book about sharks and he and daddy have been reading it.)
Emma and Fil looking at fish. Some of them were bigger than her. I think she liked the smaller one much better.

Nate and his star fish. Nate caught star fish in the summer when the boys were fishing in Prince Edwards Island. Still he was very careful to touch it.

Here is one of the turtles in the Aquarium. It is not the biggest one but that was the only one that came up for a close up. I do not have a good flash light for indoor pictures and I am still learning to work with my camera but some of the shots turn out very nice.