Time to catch up....

Wow, time flies!! It's been a while since I've posted anything on here. It's hard to believe that Mikey's almost 9 months old and Honor's a whopping 2 1/2!! Mikey's trying to assert some independence but the "Mikey Police" aka Big Sister Honor is always on the prowl making sure he doesn't have too much fun or make too much noise unless it's crying. She's really trying to be a good big sister but it's so hard for a 2 year old to share toys (or Mom) with a little brother who slobbers on everything worse than the dogs. It's so funny how Honor will go get a wipe and clean off anything that Mikey has drooled on before she'll play with it.
Mikey's getting so big and so determined to walk. He knows how to crawl and can do it pretty fast but he'd much rather cruise along anything he can stand up and support himself on and now he's already trying to climb on anything that looks worth the effort. He's feeding himself more and more, I think he's going to turn in to a Cheerio if he keeps eating them as much as he does!
Darren and I are doing great, we really love Grafton and have decided to stay in the apartment in hopes that within a year we'll be able to find a house here. I've made some friends here who also have little girls around Honor's age and we go out a few days a week and walk on the high school track while the girls play.
Darren's working at EMC in Westborough so he's much closer now and gets to spend more time with the kids and if you read the previous entry he's really enjoying my cooking adventures.
Both of the Grandma's are now in the area, Darren's mom is in Millbury and my mom is living in an apartment in South Grafton until her house is done. It's great having them so close to help out and the kids love seeing them so often. It's was great that Darren's dad got to come down about a month ago and see the kids since he hadn't seen them except from pictures we sent him.
Mikey's trying to grab the laptop from me so I'll stop here. Bye for now!!

My wife is the best cook in the world!

Caryn created some to die for apple-butter today by altering this recipe by a 12 apples to 1.5 cups of sugar. mmmMMmmmm

Some cute kids

I had to post this pic because it's just so darn cute.

Gotta love Davis Farmland!

We had our second trip of the season to good ol' Davis Farmland. This time the splash park was open and Honor actually enjoyed it! She usually doesn't like water in her face but since her friends were having fun she figured it was ok to get a little wet. :)
And this time Mikey made a new friend. A cute little Jersey Brown calf thought he smelled really good and almost looked like he wanted to take a nibble!! He did take a little taste of the stroller and found out it wasn't edible.
We always love going to see the llamas (one day we'll have our own) and these babies were just too cute! The spotted one almost ate everything out of our feed cup!! Can you tell we love this place??

Home sweet Home

Well, we made it back sanely and safely from our road trip. Even though it was only 5 days it felt like we were in the car forever! Honor did a great job as the flower girl and as soon as I have pictures I will post them. She didn't actually make it down the aisle dropping flowers but she was her usual cute self sitting down in the aisle dumping out her flowers then counting them. People kept telling me that they had more pictures of Honor and her flower petals than they had of the wedding ceremony. :o)

It was nice to be back in FL for a bit, it felt strange being where we lived for years and almost forgetting that we had to drive back up Massachusetts. But like I tell every one who thinks it would be nice to move to FL that it's a great place to visit but not a great place to live in my opinion.

We had a nice little detour to Hilton Head on our way back. Darren said it was my Mother's Day gift and that was fine with me! It was nice to take a few hours and just sit on the beach and relax except I ended up with a sunburn on my back because I missed a spot when putting sunscreen on!!

One question I have is, are we the only ones that would stop at IKEA for the bathroom and food, not for the furniture?

I had to post the pic I took of Darren trying to take a nap. ;o)

Off to FL.

We're heading out soon for our whirlwind trip to Florida. Honor still doesn't quite understand what a Flower girl is but she definitely loves her dress!! We'll post pictures when we get back and let you know how she did.

Davis Farmland!

Davis Farmland opened up and here are some pictures of the first trip this year to see Moo Moo...



Mikey decided to go incognito on his first trip...


Honor taking her second pony ride is starting to look like a pro!

Two cute little kids...


And Honor enjoying a ride on Mimi who's enjoying a hayride...

Iggy's been getting frisky...

...enough to drop some lovin' onto Simon. He had been acting weird all night, chasing ghosts and even attacked my foot for no reason at all. While the sun was out Iggy decided to squeegee Simon's ears in a fit of spring cleaning frivolity.

Mikey's first cereal!

Mikey likes it, he really likes it! Yes that is his "like it" face.

And here is just an adorable picture of Michael showing how much he loves playing with his big sister...who loves to spin him around in the toy donut. He hasn't gotten dizzy yet...

Happy B-Day pippen!

In celebration of pippen's birthday, its time we post a picture of her and her boyfriend, foster, from quite a while ago; its just a great picture.