Visit to CT

We recently spent some time visiting Joe's family in CT. It was a wonderful trip and one of the definite highlights was a trip to the Jones' family farm to pick strawberries. We ALL had a blast and had almost 10 pounds of delicious strawberries to boot! The kids didn't spend a whole lot of time picking, certainly more time EATING!

Riding the truck out to the field.


Getting to work!

Mum-Mum giving Ella the goods...

Bliss. One in each hand and a mouthful!

Ready to go!


Ella and her ridiculously adorable curly locks!

The girls!

The guys!

Delicious!


Running away!

Random fun...

A few of our recent adventures!

At the Pittsburgh International Children's Festival. We saw three wonderful performances of children's theater. Parents, if a show from Russia called AGA BOOM ever comes your way, don't miss it with your kids of all ages!! Both Will and Ella were mesmerized and laughing out loud!
Playing some tennis on the lawn between shows.

Benjamin and Jennifer taking a turn! (Congrats to the Powell's on the super exciting news that they are expecting Baby #2!!) We can't wait for him or her to get here!

Ella trying out the hula hoop.

Ben giving it a shot!

Daddy's girl...


Adventures in eating...
Will and Ella just LOVE to cheers with their milk. Sometimes this makes meals extremely long as it can go on for quite a while. They are adorable though...

Ella LOVES to eat. And she can surely pack it away!! Here she is sharing her snack!


Spaghetti night. Will, spotless (and would have been at Ella's age too).

Ella. No more need be said.



Playing some corn hole at our neighborhood block party. We have so much fun shutting down the cul-de-sac, rolling out the grills and coolers, and playing the evening away with our dear neighbors!

Will has a serious obsession with red clothes at the moment. Some days he won't wear anything else. I have decided this is a battle I'm not going to pick. I had the cutest outfit picked out for him for the block party, but he insisted on his red Elmo t-shirt and red Nike shorts... oh well, I just do laundry frequently :-)

Ella playing in the Pirate ship with Gracie at the block party. The kids LOVE this water table from Auntie Lynn and Uncle Dave!!!

Ella the dancing queen!

I apologize that this is sideways, I have no idea why and can't seem to fix it... You'll get the picture though!

Ella loves music. So much so, that a minute of quiet in our house is hard to come by. As soon as she finishes her breakfast she walks over to the cabinet where the stereo is and starts bouncing up and down and pointing. Cue the music!! Lately, she's loving Dan Zanes and his folky kid tunes! Enjoy!