Foulk Family Visit

The Foulk Family came to visit sometime in April, I believe. Here are some pics from their fun trip!

We decided to do the freedom trail with the fam. Ev wasn't feeling well, so we'll have to do it with him another time, but we couldn't send Nate off to Russia without having done it.

Us in front of the famous(to us) Burger King restaurant by the common. We were in this Burger King when we got the news that my Grandma and Grandpa Tucker had received their mission call to Novosibirsk, Russia (back in like 2002 or something like that.) And now Nate will leave for  his mission in Yekaterinburg, Russia in a couple of weeks.

Some cute pics at the playground by frog pond.

Lucy was petty little and wanting to do these pretty big slides.

And apparently loving it. :)

Got ourselves some cannolis at Mike's.

In the Old North Church

Nate was so happy to be here with Paul Revere.

In addition to the freedom trail, we went to Einstein's Workshop one afternoon. The kids had a lot of fun exploring and playing with all different kinds of blocks etc.

Love this face, Dad!

And I just couldn't pick one of these pictures of our goose. I just feel like each of them aptly captures one of her many personalities. So I just put them all in.

I'm going to stare at you and not say a word

Classic Lucy happy shot

I'm about to do something sneaky...

"Cici funny"
She calls herself Cici. And she thinks she's pretty funny. And she's pretty pleased with herself. And we tell her she's not funny. But she's pretty dang cute.

Spring Fun

This is a complete hodgepodge of random photos from this past Spring! Enjoy!

I know this doesn't look like spring, but it was. 

We started playing soccer and baseball as soon as you could walk in the snow without sinking.

A trip to the Zoo!

Some outdoor fun!

The Science Museum. We went with some friends this day. And then decided to get a membership. We have loved going there!

This is in the butterfly garden!

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Great Brook Farm. One of Alan's classmate's had a birthday party there. It was a lot of fun!

Grandpa Robertson sings in this great community choir. Each spring they put on a great performance that we love to go to!

And spring isn't complete without a "Popcorn Popping" FHE

Disassembling a crate. I think he and his dad had fun here.

House Updates

So, we had a great winter this year. And not only was all of the snow a lot of fun, but it turns out that all of that indoor time makes for a good time to buy furniture and other home improvement types of things. Here are a few of the things we did this year to help make our house a little more homey.

We've been needing a rug for the front room. Nothing like cold wood floors in the dead of winter to inspire a rug buy. :) The kids obviously thought this was much more comfy and started making snow angels the second I took it out of the box. (Snow outside is too deep for snow angels)

And then they entertained with the box itself.

We decided to try to make our basement a more comfortable place to be and scored these couches on a good sale at Jordan's.

And found this on clearance when we were buying the couches.

And this is our new pellet stove. We love it. It really makes the basement a warm and comfortable place to be in the winter and just makes the whole house feel warmer.

You put the pellets into the top here and it feeds it down into the fire. Super easy to operate, and hopefully a good investment for many more cold winters. :)

Ikea. Who doesn't love Ikea? Another fun winter visit. I just loved this picture.

This was the purchase we made there.

Next steps are painting the basement and replacing carpet...It's looking like a project for next winter. Though we did get our kitchen painted and most of the upstairs bathroom. And then we stalled. Outside work took over...

And here are the fruit trees we planted for Mother's Day. Two peach and two apple. Unfortunately the animals have loved eating these things... fruit, leaves, bark. We'll see how they survive. We'll have to find some way to keep critters away!