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Weekend || Boston to the Beach

Published on July 17, 2017 by 7friarysLeave a comment

I don’t usually get the Monday morning blues in the summer but I was really sad to see Monday get here so quickly after such a fun weekend.

We took the kids into Boston on Saturday. Jon’s wanted to take us into Chinatown for a while now. I think it’s another one of those “I miss London” things. I know that a lot of people complain about the food in London but it was honestly some of the best we ever had. So we headed out into the city for some lunch (London’s was better but this was still good).

Don’t let Beckett’s face fool you, he loved it! Ha! His appetite started picking back up this weekend and he spent the entire lunch flirting with the cute waitress.

We had to run into Primark while we were there. I love that we have two near us now!

Sunday we tried a new (to us) beach up near us.

It was a perfect beach day!!

We stopped for some pizza on the way home

How cute is she??

This weekend was full!! Jon took Megan, Chloe and Lucy to the drive-in on Friday. Emma was out with Collin. Once Beck went to sleep I had the entire house to myself and it was glorious! Hahaha! I love my kids but sometimes I crave the quiet. Saturday night Megan and Emma went to another movie. So Jon and I had a quiet night with Chloe (Lucy decided watching YouTube was more fun than hanging out with us). I’m just gonna add that I love the fact that my girls all love hanging out with each other. They’re always off shopping together or going out to eat or the movies. They’ll run up to Starbucks and get a quick desert together once a week too. They’re so lucky to have one another!! Love them ❤️

A couple more photos from the weekend:

Grocery shopping with half our crew

Moment like that are ones I ALWAYS want to remember because as fun as the city and beach are our everyday moments are by far my favorite.

I ordered Beckett some new fall shoes and he was obviously excited when they came in

Hahaha! This baby cracks me up!

Happy Monday!!

Life, This Week

Published on July 14, 2017 by 7friarysLeave a comment

I have 600+ photos on my phone from the last 10 days. This summer has been kinda funny, we’re either really busy or really bored. The weather this week has been horrible!! Hello… 58 degrees yesterday!! So the past few days definitely fall into the boring category.

Last week we spent the afternoon and evening with Kirsten and her family. They just put in a new pool and the kids had a blast!

I just love that picture up above of Kirsten feeding our babies. We’ve been friends since fifth grade and have gone through EVERYTHING together. Those two sweet little babes are our rainbow babies ❤️

We had a ton of fun that day and maybe a little too much wine

Before the weather turned spring like, it was HOT HOT HOT!!

He was hamming it up until he heard something in the woods

Getting all five of these kids to sit down and take a picture for me has been hard lately! Seems like someone is always missing.

Sometimes I find cute selfies on my phone and I want to keep them forever because I know that next year this little girl will be off to college and I won’t find these gems from her anymore

Beckett and I are always taking selfies too!

Speaking of Beckett, this little boy has hit the toddler picky eating phase. It is so hard to get food into this boy lately!! It’s frustrating because he used to be such a great eater and now I’m constantly worried that he’s not getting enough calories throughout the day. Yesterday he sat down and ate about 30 mini pretzel sticks with hummus. Yay!!

I heard about a frozen yogurt place that sells Dole pineapple soft serve, like the kind I obsess over in Disney, so we took a ride out there to see if it was any good. It was absolutely delicious!! If it was 20 degrees warmer I would’ve closed my eyes and pretended I was in the Magic Kingdom.

Lucy started gymnastics this week and she’s loving it!! She and her friend got moved up to the 10 year old class so she’ll start that next week.

I have to throw this last picture in here because Beckett was climbing the rails while I was on the computer and I kept telling him to get down. He would turn his little face around, look me right in the eyes and yell “get down”. like he was totally mocking me. He’s such a little stinker!!

Let’s hope that the weather starts to warm up so we can get on with all the fun summer activities we have waited all year for.

Happy Weekend!!

The Beach and the Fourth

Published on July 5, 2017July 5, 2017 by 7friarysLeave a comment

I’m just going to start off by saying that I never saw a baby, kid or adult have as much fun at the beach as Beckett did! I’m not sure if it’s his obsession with the Moana movie or what, but he had such a blast! He thought that the waves crashing over his feet were the funniest thing EVER!

One of things we dislike about living up north is the fact that it takes two hours to go to a really nice beach. We tried Scarborough beach in Narragansett for the first time and it was SO nice! Definitely worth the drive for us!!

Usually when we drive that far we go to the cape or Newport but we knew both areas would be super crowded with it being July 3rd. No beach trip is complete without ridiculously bad for you but super tastey fried clam cakes. Jon threw in a couple of lobster rolls and we were in Heaven!

We celebrated the 4th at Marlene and Brian’s with most of Jon’s cousins and their families. Beckett took a liking to Miss Julia. He LOVES teenage girls and pretty much wraps them around his little finger.

Ha! He is pretty smooth!!

And little Connor knows how to wrap Lucy around his little finger too!

Ah summer…… you are a close second to my autumn. I’m going to enjoy you every day!! Even Target’s back to school section couldn’t entice me this morning!

Pre 4th Festivities

Published on July 2, 2017July 2, 2017 by 7friarysLeave a comment

This is one of my favorite Instagram weekends! I love seeing all the cute little babies and kids all decked out in their red, white and blue outfits celebrating our great country! You all know I’m a sucker for traditions and this weekend we had our town parade and fireworks. Such a fun day!!

My Patriotic babies

Emma and Colin

A cute dancing baby and his equally as cute daddy

Beckett wasn’t a huge fan of the fireworks. He moved from person to person burying his head in their neck to pretend that the sky wasn’t exploding with fire. He didn’t cry but he was definitely not a fan!

As you can see we were short another child during the festivities. We missed you, Megan! We did get to meet up with our friends at both the parade and fireworks, though. It was a really great way to kick off summer!!

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

Gillette Stadium

Published on June 30, 2017 by 7friarysLeave a comment

A few pictures from our annual trip to Gillette with the kids. Some of the kids.

I have to admit that it’s a little sad not having the whole crew together when we go off on these family outings. But, we still had a GREAT time with these three

loved seeing all FIVE trophies!!

Beckett was so cute! He kept throwing his hands up in the air and yelling Touchdown! So funny that he remembered that from the season.

I started taking these Wilfork pictures while Beckett was in my belly 💗

After walking around the Hall of Fame (and yes I cried during the movie….again) we stopped for lunch at Patriot Place

I probably shouldn’t say this out loud but I am SO ready for football season to begin!! LOVE me so Patriot football!

I’m trying to convince Jon into buying me Patriot tickets for my birthday. He’d rather watch from home but I HAVE to go to one this year!!

Last Day of School

Published on June 28, 2017 by 7friarysLeave a comment

Just like that another year is over. I can’t believe that my little Lu is going to be a fourth grader. Where does the time go??

She honestly wasn’t that excited for school to end this year. She LOVES being able to spend the day with her friends!! She loved her teacher this year, too! Luckily one of her very best friends, Carleigh, lives right across the street.

We have a tradition of going out for ice cream on the last day of school. This is the first year that it was just the two of us. Her sisters finished up last week and changed the ice cream tradition to pizza.

I’m definitely looking forward to our summer traditions and lazy mornings but I really wish time would slow down a little. Next year at this time I’ll be crying over the fact that this little girl will be heading off to middle school. Gulp….

Recent iPhone Photos

Published on June 27, 2017 by 7friarysLeave a comment

Today is Lucy’s last day of third grade. I know I say it every year but this has GOT to be the fastest year EVER!!

Jon took Emma, Megan and Chloe to the Red Sox game the other night

I had a very nice, relaxing night with Lucy and Beck. I bought Beck his very first Happy Meal. He wasn’t impressed

He follows her all over the house. The other morning when we went to wake Lucy up he crawled in bed with her

Jon and I took our weekly (sometimes biweekly) date to our favorite restaurant and yes, I ordered the same thing AGAIN. It’s actually the only thing I get there because it’s my FAVORITE

A few more photos from the week

Summer vacation officially starts for us in 1.5 hours!!!

Red Sox Game

Published on August 18, 2015August 25, 2015 by 7friarysLeave a comment

Jon and I took Chloe and Lucy to their first Red Sox game on Sunday. It was a HOT HOT HOT day!!

We were a little late to the game due to the unexpected Sunday traffic so we had Yawkey Way pretty much to ourselves

Oh how I miss living in a city!! It brought me back to last year in London and all the time Jon and I spent in Boston BK (before kids). I like my small town and the sense of community I get here but there is nothing like walking out your door to a fun and busy city! Someday…..

But to get back to Sunday:

Jon wants to know how many other kids go their first Red Sox game and orders a kale chicken caesar wrap instead of a Fenway Frank

Our kid…. and it was SO good!!

Luckily we were sitting in the shade because it was 90 degrees that day. Makes it VERY hard for a pregnant woman to sit for a few hours but we were having so much fun it didn’t seem too bad. These two didn’t complain once!

They got to see Big Papi ( the only Sox player they knew)

Our seats were fantastic!

Lucy said she’s excited and ready to go back to another game! I can’t wait either!

Patriots Hall of Fame

Published on July 21, 2015July 29, 2015 by 7friarysLeave a comment

The plan for Saturday was to meet at Patriots Place for Heather to drop Megan off from their week down the Cape. Since Chloe was at my parents house we asked them to meet us there too and go to the hall of fame with us. We try to go every other summer to get us ready for football season (our favorite part of the year).

Just a few pictures to remember a fun day:

I can’t wait for football season!

Cape Cod Day

Published on July 20, 2015July 20, 2015 by 7friarysLeave a comment

Do people around here actually call it Cape Cod? We went “down the Cape” last Thursday to meet my parents at Mayflower Beach. We try to get in one beach day with them each summer (except last year). We were missing Megan since she was spending the week (down the Cape) with Paige.

Chloe was with us too but I didn’t get any pictures of her (sorry Chloe). She ended up going home with my parents to spend a couple of days (a mini vacation for her, which she was spoiled at 🙂 )

After Mayflower Beach Jon and I took my two Mini Me’s to Provincetown for the rest of the afternoon. We had to stop at Captain Frosty’s first.

Seriously, mini me’s

Then we jumped back in the car and drove down to Ptown

We always have so much fun walking around there and stopping at all the little shops. WARNING: The toy store on the main street isn’t actually a toy store. I didn’t realize that until after I pointed it out to Lucy. It gave me a good laugh though 🙂

Ptown is one of the prettiest places on the Cape (in my opinion) and one of the most fun too!!

After walking around for what seemed like hours for this pregnant mama we headed off to Pepe’s Wharf for dinner. We ate there a couple of years ago and had to go again. I’m funny like that when it comes to places to eat. I knew we would enjoy the food and the atmosphere is so pretty so why try something different? Especially when you’re pregnant and food is SOOO important to making or breaking your day.