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The last few photos

I thought I would add a few more photos from our trip. Who could resist these adorable faces!!

NYC our last stop on our trip

It has taken me a while but here is the last installment of our trip to the east coast. Will's sister lives in Brooklyn so we decided to go down and visit her there. A few other members of Will's family came out to see us there for the long weekend! We had a lot of fun. We saw some Broadway shows, walked across the Brooklyn bridge, went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and ate at several burger joints.


That is the statue of liberty over Will's left shoulder.
The Brooklyn Bridge

The family
Lower Manhattan in the background
There were these 4 waterfalls structures all along the east river. They are an art instillation and look pretty cool if you ask me.
Elsie on the subway for the second time...the first was in Boston last November.
Nathan's hot dog stand on Conny Island is in a Seinfeld episode so Will had to eat there. The food was average.
Grandma with Elsie

Our trip to the beach

Who would go to the east coast in the summer and not go to the beach!!! Not me because we definitely went to the beach!! We were able to go to the beach with my sister and her son and a few friends too. It was a great day out and the water was surprisingly warm. Elsie liked playing in the sand better then playing in the water though. She seemed a little scared of the waves. I can't wait until next year to try it all over again!!




I think Elsie is crying in this photo but her cousin Nate is happy as can be and actually crawling into the waves!!
The first thing you do after a trip to the beach is strip off all those sandy clothes and jump in the tub!

Our trip to Boston

I guess I have not explained anything about our trip yet. Elsie and I went out in early August to spend time with my family in Vermont. My parents live there as well as two of my sisters and their kids. The pictures in the previous post are from Vermont in early Aug. Then Elsie and I headed down to Boston to spend time with my third sister and her son. We also got to visit with some friends which was so much fun!!

It was great to get to see Mandy and her little ones.
I was so touched by the number of ladies from the ward that came out to visit with Elsie and I at the park. Cherisa planned a lunch and we had a great time playing and talking.

This is a shot of my old beach with the Boston sky line in the background!! I used to live a short five minute drive away from this beach. Will and I would go walking on it almost every night. Now I live in the middle of the country far far away from any beaches. But I do live next to a nice park which we go walk at often. It is crazy how fast life can change. Just look at how fast Elsie has grown. She is already 15 months and can do 10 signs and say 3 or 4 words! I can't believe she can communicate already it seems like she was just a newborn yesterday.

Here we go

Well I have about 30 photos to post so I guess I will just get to it.

Grammy with her long lost grand daughter.
This is our nephew Joe with Elsie. He did such a great job watching her and she loved playing with him so much.
This is most of the cousins minus Joe and Zack.
I was so excited to take Elsie to Center Pond where I used to go swimming when I was a kid. She enjoyed her first adventure in a body of water that had sand on the bottom and not just cement.
Cute isn't she.

My sister in Vermont has these great blueberry bushes. Elsie loves blueberries and she even got to pick them right off the bush herself. We ate a lot of them while we were visiting.
This is Elsie and her cousin Nathan.
Here are the three cousins born within 5 months of each other. Elsie came first (center) then Nathan (right) then Raymond (left).
Here are the moms and the babies. Don't we all look great!

We made it home in one piece

We have been home for 4 days now and we are loving it. Don't get me wrong we had a great time visiting family and friends but there is nothing like going to bed in your own bed at night!!! We actually had a fabulous time so much so that I am tempted to tell Will he needs to get a job in Boston again! But that is not going to happen for quite some time.

This is just a small sample of what is to come as I have tons and tons of photos to share with all of you!!