My red socks.

This night began with a walk down Hanover Street. A friend of mine who lived in Boston for a few years, Alisa, gave me the tip to visit Mike's Pastry. Oh my this was a treat indeed. I have to go back to have another cannoli. Yummy in my tummy! I didn't take a picture of the actual dessert because we opened the box up at night in the car. We all enjoyed the tasty dessert.
My mom and dad, with Jess' help, surprised us (sort of) by getting tickets to a Red Sox game! We all were so excited. Andi and Nick stocked up on their Boston gear, they looked like they were true fans. The moments leading up to the first pitch were exciting. Here is Willie walking down one of the streets leading up to Fenway.This is the ticket office. We already had our tickets so we didn't need to stop, I just thought the ticket office looked cool.Here's a bad picture of the Fenway Park sign. Oh the excitement was building up inside!Can't you just feel the butterflies as you are walking up the steps to see the field!!And here is the glorious sight. Yeah. How awesome!This was one of the first and last times we looked at the scoreboard. We sat right under it. This gave us the opportunity to catch a few balls from the home runs we saw. Granted we weren't even close to the home run balls.What a hot dog!! Yeah Parker had a hot dog for dinner, and he loved it. He was really nice and shared with Logan or Dax, can't remember which one it was now. The dog was so big for a two year old.The rain didn't stop us from having a good time. The boys tried catching raindrops in their mouth when it was sprinkling.
Here is a cool picture that Nick took. Most of everyone is in it. My two favorite parts are Andi smiling and Parker getting WAY excited about something. This Red Sox game was SO great. Many cool things happened. We saw three home runs that were eaten up by the Green Monster. One player got hit in the head with a fast ball. I sort of missed that one and they were respectful and didn't show it on the jumbo-tron. I'll mention a few more memorables further down.
Thanks mom for the fun 'surprise.' It was lucky I dressed the boys in the right colors and even in baseball attire. Who knew that's what we were going to do?Lincoln got to be with Grandma nearly the whole game. He sure loves her.My family having a good time at the game. We had to borrow Andi and Nicks new hats to make it look like we were true fans.
Andi and Nick and their boys enjoying the game too.
Parker and his cousins had so much fun playing with each other. They were so excited for the game. I know I have used the word 'excited' about a billion times already but I just can't think of exactly how to describe the awesome feelings we had at the game. During this game we sang 'take me out to the ballgame.' We found a penny smasher and smashed a penny with the Green Monster on it. During the seventh inning we saw a fight against the Blue Jays fans and the Red Sox fans. Okay I didn't see much but various members of my family saw fists being thrown and a chick jumping on someone's back. I did get to see the Blue Jays fans escorted out of the stadium. The rain began picking up and I really thought about staying to sing 'Sweet Caroline' but we all decided to go. Just as we were picking our things up the rain really hit hard and the field was covered up. Yep we never did get to sing. We later found out that the game did continue after the rain stopped and the Red Sox won in the last inning. What a game!!

All the kids were getting tired and Lincoln fell asleep in my moms arms. Thanks mom and dad for giving us such a great time at the ball game!

Boston Harbor Cruise.

The Boston Harbor Cruise was cool. I really enjoyed seeing the Boston skyline. We even had a possible sighting of President Obama. The cruise took us around the harbor and over to the USS Constitution and another ship that I can't remember the name of. Most of the pictures come from 'the other ship.'
I'm proud to be an American.


While I fed Lincoln my mom took Parker on board 'the other ship'. She said that anytime they stopped near one of these wheels Parker would stop and play for a LONG time. He sure loved spending time with Grandma.Nick took the cutest picture of Logan in one of the windows of 'the other ship.' How cute is his smile!? Super cute, I know.
Daxton took Parker by the hand and made sure that he was taken care of. Thanks "Daxxxton".Yeah he's cool, wearin' mommy's sunglasses!It was a little chilly but Grandma kept Parker warm. Thanks Grandma.

A night at the Museum.

The Museum of Science was one of our stops while my family visited. My goal is to take Willie to see all the cool stuff that we saw. We didn't get a lot of time at the museum but the time there was pretty amazing. Who knew Science could be so interesting? :)
Our first photo is of Lincoln. He was checking out a model of an early Lincoln vehicle. He was excited about the idea of a car sporting his name.
Next we have Daxton and Parker putting together a 'puzzle.' I'm not sure what it was but it was a tile with pictures of dinosaurs on it and they loved putting them up on the board.Good thing this monster dinosaur is dead, he could have crushed both of my boys! I'm glad my Stripling Warriors are brave and kept a happy attitude.
Oh no! Lincoln and I are about to be eaten by a T-Rex! Luckily I had speedy legs and could run away fast.
Okay enough of the dinosaurs. Let's check out some of the fun things to do. My mom and dad found some cool magnetic beads to make shapes out of. Lincoln had fun watching Grandma make a house.
Two year olds.
I thought this was a nice picture of Mom and Andi. Aren't they just so cute!?
Parker had a blast with this track. You put the ball at the top and watch it go down. You were suppose to find out which track was the fastest.
Needless to say we must go again.

Duck Tours.

We did it. We took the Duck Tour. My overall rating of the tour was a three out of five. I enjoyed seeing the sites and not worrying about the boys being in car seats. Our driver was very entertaining. I think that I would have liked to hear more about the history of Boston on our tour though. We heard a lot about famous people, especially the Kennedy's (Ted Kennedy died a few days before our adventure).

Parker and Lincoln did really well for me. Parker wanted to sit by me and I had Lincoln in the baby back pack. They had plenty of life jackets on board for everyone, even Lincoln.

All the boys had so much energy. Their favorite thing before we left on the tour was to run around this pillar. They had so much fun running after each other.
The video doesn't represent their full excitement. I took the video after they had been running around for ten minutes.

The energy didn't last long. Within about half an hour many of the kids were asleep. Parker didn't wake up until we were just pulling out of the water. He missed the best part.


We were a lucky set of tourists. We had the privilege of going INTO the water twice! When we were out on the water we found a stranded duck. We hauled them back to dry ground then took another plunge. To be honest I was expecting more of a splash.


Those who were awake got to experience something way fun; driving the duck! It looks like Nick enjoyed it more than Logan. I guess Logan was being a bit serious. Grandpa was kind to take Lincoln while Parker slept.

The next few photos are of everyone, in my company, on the tour. We had Andi, Nick and Logan. Then Grandpa and Daxton.Grandma and Logan.Grandpa took Lincoln after Lincoln woke up.Here I am with the boys before Parker fell asleep.Andi and Nick.At the end of our Duck tour we realized that even though Parker slept through most of it he did take home one thing, 'quack.' Any time we saw a Duck Tour in the city from that time on he would say 'quack, quack.' Thanks for taking us on the Duck Tour. We had a lot of fun.

The pictures on this aren't the greatest. Maybe my sister can send me some good ones.

I was so excited to have visitors come out to Boston to see us! We had my Mom and Dad, and Andi, Nick, Daxton and Logan come to visit. We had so much fun having them come out. It's a good thing we picked a cool place to live. Parker had so much fun with his cousins. He and Daxton were buds.
We went down to Boston Common the first day out. We tried to get a lay of the land and find the best places to park a big vehicle. We ended up finding meter parking on the street the first day because the parking garage wouldn't let us in.
The following pictures are from Frog Pond and chasing birds within Boston Common.



Lincoln relaxed on the grass. By the way Nick thanks for the cool sail boat you gave Parker. Parker warmed up to Uncle Nick right away. Parker enjoyed when Uncle Nick was silly. These videos are my favorite. The first one is of all the boys chasing the birds. The second video is the bird call that Parker used while chasing the birds. All the boys made this sound when they participated in this event.