spring – Seven Friarys

May Catch Up

Published on May 22, 2019 by 7friarysLeave a comment

I just opened my planner and realized that June is almost here so lets play catch up on May before these pictures get lost.

This picture of Chloe was actually taken in April, the night she got home from Costa Rica, but I love it so much and had to include it. I was SOOOOO happy to have her home from Costa Rica!!

Its pretty much been raining the entire month of May (with the exception of this week)

img_7548-1

Friary Family birthday season kicked off with Emma turning 23!! TWENTY THREE! How?!?!

Beckett started spring soccer. His first 3 practices were held indoors due to all the rain we’ve been having.

Winnie is always by someone’s side.

I love watching him play with his toys!

Lucy is his favorite person to play with. Melts my heart when she comes home from school and plays with him. He waits all day for her to get home.

My shopping buddy

Orange lizards

Hanging out in my room while I was making my bed

Warm spring days

I got a new apple watch for Mother’s Day and was pretty proud of my morning steps!

My sweetest boy

We tried potty training one day. It lasted ONE DAY! Why are boys so hard to train? This is one stubborn little guy. I’ve been buying small packs of diapers once a week instead of a big box in hopes that we’ll get there soon.

Beckett is dying for a little brother. Ha! He tells EVERYONE that his baby brother will be here soon. Hahahaha!

We sat with this couple at Nathan’s christening and Beckett fell in love with them. Here he is going through this lady’s pocketbook. He ended up coming home with a pen and some hand sanitizer. hahaha!

These two cute dogs showed up on my front steps one day. They hung out with us for a few hours until their owners came and got them. Beck cried that he wanted to keep the black one.

Flowers from Megan. And the sweetest note from Chloe.

How Lucy does her homework. He was patiently waiting for her to finish so she could play with him.

Cutest lunch date in dire need of a haircut. Ha!

Went to our first Red Sox game of the season. The next one will be in LONDON! Can’t wait!

Mother’s Day 2019

Published on May 13, 2019 by 7friarysLeave a comment

Have you ever had one of those days where all seemed well with the world? That was my day on Saturday. I knew that both Emma and Chloe were working on Sunday so we decided to celebrate Mother’s Day on Saturday. The six of us hopped into the car and headed into the city to pick up Megan.

Our first stop was at Mike’s Pastry OMG! We’ve lived here our entire lives and we’ve never been before!! (well, Megan has since she’s our true Bostonian). It was worth the 40 year wait and I can’t wait to go back!! Just look at this yummy, mint cannoli……

We got a big box full of cannolis, cheesecake and chocolate chip cookies. Calories do not count on Mother’s Day!

We sat by the waterfront and talked for about an hour and of course we had to take pictures.

facetune_11-05-2019-19-23-32

Then we walked through the North End, which again was a first for Jon and I. I’m not sure why we’ve never been there before but, in my opinion, it’s one of the nicest area’s in Boston.

We walked over to Faneuil Hall where Megan ran into an old friend’s mom. She was so cute! She told Megan that on the train ride over she was wondering if she would run into her. What do you know? In a huge crowded city there was Megan. Beckett kept telling Megan “I love your new town”. After many trips into the city this also felt new to Beck.

It seemed like Boston woke up with the flowers this weekend. The hustle and bustle of the city combined with the quiet of the waterfront made for a pretty perfect spring day in the city.

This motherhood job that I have is pretty fantastic! I feel so blessed to call this crew mine.

(can you tell Beck was happy to have a few hours with his big sister?)

Easter 2019

Published on April 22, 2019 by 7friarysLeave a comment

I want to start off by saying that we so badly missed Chloe at Easter yesterday. She’s off on a school trip to Costa Rica and Panama. I know that she is having the time of her life but I think she missed us also. Can’t wait to have her back in a few hours!!

I am a sucker for tradition! Every year we go to the town field for an Easter egg hunt with the kids. This year I totally was not feeling it. I didn’t even bring it up hoping that everyone would forget about it. I felt a little guilty but figured that Beckett is only 3 and I would take him next year. He would never know. Then I realized that Beckett is 3!!!! We only have a few more years to do this kind of thing. So I quickly reminded everyone about the hunt and off we went!

I am SO SO glad we went! He had a great time running around collecting all of the eggs. Lucy, Jon and I also had a great time watching and cheering him on. I don’t ever want to take these moments for granted again!

412720ca-e360-4049-920e-04fa0677b32e 65bbec21-3c16-4b39-95e6-f7a737c6d2d2

Lucy and Beckett kept busy the day before Easter baking Easter cupcakes and orange chocolate dipped strawberries.

Eggs were painted

and carrots were put out. Early bedtimes were had by all so the bunny could come and leave treats

Beckett is into Jake and the Neverland Pirates so the Easter bunny put his goodies in a treasure chest this year

The Easter bunny must know that Lucy likes to go Rae Dunn hunting with me because he put her stuff in a new Dunn Easter basket. 57750182938__f43b55bd-7e23-4834-aaef-706fde200c1d

The older girls get boring baskets but they love their new shoes!

57750321578__9e6adba3-b976-4462-9fac-8e2334ec539e

He left Chloe her Birk’s a few days before she went on her vacation but left her a little treat for when she gets home 🙂

Look at how excited B was!! 3 year olds love the holidays!!

We went to my parents for a couple of hours in the morning. It was so nice for the kids to be able to hang out with their cousins for a little while.

Then it was off to Marlene and Brian’s for lunch and some more cousin time with Connor and Camden.

There is definitely a hole in this family photo. We can’t wait to get our girl back and hear all about her adventures!

In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb

Published on April 8, 2019April 8, 2019 by 7friarysLeave a comment

April 8th!! What?!?!? Happy Birthday to my mom!!

I feel like I blinked and March was gone and April seems to be heading the same way. This little space has been quiet but life definitely isn’t! The other day I was playing in the driveway with Lucy and Beckett and it hit me that I’ve had babies and kids for the last 23 (next month) years!! I’ve spent my entire adult life as a mom. I can’t imagine having life any other way but WOW!!

I’ve taken a lot of pictures over the last few weeks so here goes:

Deep in thought. Hahaha!! He is such a little cutie pie!!

Lucy got some gummy sushi from Amazon. It tasted about as great as regular sushi. Ha!

As we were walking in the grocery aisle the other day he said “hey, mom, take a picture of this and planted a big kiss on Lucy.

The weather has been so nice so we’ve been spending a lot of time outside.

Jon and I had a date night last week and I had to snap a picture of this gorgeous sunset.

The last two years Tracey has been coming up to spend a day with me. We go shopping, out to lunch and she does my school runs with me. It’s turning into one of my favorite days of the year. Tracey fun fact: when I moved up here she would come up every couple of weeks to spend the day with me and the girls. I think she felt bad because she knew I was all alone up here. She’s the BEST!!

This puppy is getting so big!!

Lucy art!

That picture just cracks me up so I had to add it!

Jon took Megan out to breakfast last week and then dropped her off to meet her friends for a soul cycle class. She LOVES her soul cycle classes!! and she loves living in the city!!

School lunch for Lucy

Beckett lunch. He’s so picky!! I’m having the hardest time trying to get nutritious meals into this kid. He is all about junk food so now I have to limit what we keep in the house. Which is obviously a good thing. Haha! Thanks, Beckett!!

We went to see our Megan in the city. Can’t wait to have her home!

I stole this picture off of Collin’s Instagram because it was so cute! Love Emma in her new glasses.

A few more random pictures:

35c6f139-8e93-4ec1-b754-7321b25bca71

Marlene found this old puzzle that she was gifted about 13 years ago. Look at those sweet little faces!

I can’t wait for school to be out for the summer so I can have all the pieces to this Friary puzzle back home for a few months!

This Moment

Published on May 31, 2018 by 7friarysLeave a comment

She was sitting on the couch while I was putting Lucy’s lunch together this morning. I turned and saw her staring at me. She smiled and I burst into tears. It’s gonna be a long week. Graduation tomorrow.

End of April

Published on May 1, 2018May 1, 2018 by 7friarysLeave a comment

Let’s get caught up on the end of April before all the hoopla begins! May and June are hands down my busiest months! May starts Friary Family birthday season. We have 6 months straight of birthdays in this house. Throw in prom, graduation, graduation parties, confirmation and all of the end of the school year activities and we are pretty much out straight. But, you all know that I LOVE it!! We have such a fun summer planned and I’m sure it’ll be here before I know it.

Let’s just take a look at some of the pictures I’ve taken over the last 2 weeks first

This boy is growing like a weed!! He is SO smart and SO funny!! I LOVE moments like those pictured above because I know that before I know it I’ll be writing about his graduation. He wants me to rock him to sleep before every nap and every night before bed so I’m just going to sit here and soak it all in.

The weather is starting to get nice so we’ve been spending as much time outside as possible.

We took a Happy Meal to Lucy the other day and Beckett was in Heaven!! He loves being around her and her friends. The girls always have friends over and he is always the center of attention. Ha!

Always!

SOOOO cute!

Love these girls!

My boys!

That picture above was posted by Tori Spelling this week. I have to admit, he is just the cutest little guy EVER!! Instagram has been keeping me SO busy lately!! I just got offered my 8th collaboration of the year. So exciting!! Come visit me over there at instagram.com/jillfriary

Happy May!!