Cousin party

Cousin Izzy turned 1 in NH this past weekend. Good times were had by all!

auntie Julie and Izzy

ready to swim

these kids were like fish

gorgeous cake! all of that is cake!!

presents!

sniffling w/ grampa

she likes it!

singing to the birthday girl 

cutie pie 

the birthday girl sleeps on grammie

more family pictures!

More pictures of the fun we had this past weekend!

he really likes being on the floor

brothers

Auntie Kate and Eliot 

Auntie Spring and Eliot

miss Phoebe pitching to the littlest man

he totally has the bent knees down and love him some baseball!

packing up...and chattin'

auntie and molly

First of Gillian's birthday Parties for the year

Lily will turn 5 in a week, so while we were in Maine we had a little party for her with the cousins and aunties/uncles and mummi and papa. Well...not so little when your family is this big ;) It was going to be a tea party. Then it got so hot it became an iced tea and water gun fight party. She loved it!

Lily and Mama in their summer dresses 

present time.

whatcha got sis?

daddy and auntie steph

aunt spring and levi

enjoying her presents

cuddles!

ice cream cake from DQ, nicely, they write on it!

birthday hat!

light the candles

mmmm ice cream

measuring the door for her 5th year

she grew about an inch and a half! Go gillian!

And we leave Maine...

We skee-dattle out of Maine, with one last pit stop at the family restaurant in Windham. parting is such sweet sorrow...but the food is great!

modeling a studly hat

happy despite not being allowed to eat anything here ;)

table 1

table 2- just missing daddy, he was off procuring more cofee

look we match!

The last of Christmas: The Maine cousins

We ended the week after Christmas with a big all Maine (and Massachusetts and California!) cousin event. It was quite the night at Mummi and Pappa's!

look what you started!!! good job!

all mummi and pappa's grandbabies, with 2 extra cousins thrown in (and aunties steph and Bridget because our toddler boys were being a wee bit high maintenance...)

Daddy and his siblings (and gabe too)

Auntie Spring and Uncle Rich take it all in

2cd cousins Kelsey and Erin wtih 1st CA cuz Alyssa in between, or as we call her, "big alyssa" (for her age and height relative to my little ones)

dessert time!

homemade gift success: super sock the superhero sock puppet!

batman sock puppet, BRILLIANT

Phoebe and Molly help lily put on her princess sock puppet they made her, delightful!

if you have a family full of lovely girls, there is likely to be a dance number on tap!

the older girls and double dream hands...ha ha

Gillian especially enjoyed this part of the evening ;)

the big boys looking cool