Cousin Fun!

Piggybank Game

They could play this for hours... putting coins

in here and taking them back out again :)

Mikayla Rose

Such a doll face!

Almost a smile!

Such a sweetie!

Smile!

Pretty eyes

Love her!

Todd and Annarita's House

It's such a gorgeous house and 

they have beautiful landscaping.

Bouncy house fun!

The girls LOVED this!

Isabelle

Playing in Mikayla's little coupe

She loves this car! Too bad they're WAY 

over-prived in China!

FUN!

Mikayla

Big smile

Uncle Todd bouncing them around

Love this back yard!

Cousins

Gabby and Mikayla 

thought this was the best

Uncle Todd would turn them around

Big smiles!

Mikayla and Gabriella

Gabby hammin' it up

Watching TV

The Tebo/Meeker girls have been having such a good time playing together! The obvious trait they all have is that they're TALL! Gabby said she wants to live here forever because it's so much fun... it'll be tough saying goodbye :( but we'll keep in touch... cheers to more good Meeker/Tebo times!

Fenway Park Tour

Daddy and Isabelle

Walking along ground floor

Stadium was smaller then we thought

Setting up for a concert

Daddy and his girls in front of the 

Fenway Park sign

As close as we could get to the field

Visitor locker room-- boring!

Isabelle just chillin' out while we were listening

Press Box-- awesome view!

Press Box view from the outside

Another stadium picture

Standing room bar

Isabelle just wanted to play with the stroller

Clearly not impressed.

This sums up our tour...

Isabelle playing with the stroller and Gabby pouting.

Travis and I made the mistake of taking the girls sightseeing at Fenway Park-- bad idea! We're clearly not at that stage yet to do this sort of thing with two kids. Rookie mistake. I guess we'll just have to go back again!

Boston Visit

Aunt Annarita and Isabelle

Miss Gabriella

At the local park, just walking distance

from Todd and Annarita's house

Learning to do monkey bars

She's getting better!

Mikayla and Isabelle

Cousins

Gabriella helping Mikayla

Going down the slide!

Isaboo-- Love this girl!

Boston Common Carousel

Swan Boats

Travis, Gabriella, Uncle Todd, and Mikayla

Make Way for Duckings (book) statue

Gabriella walking with her Uncle Todd and cousin

Cy Young statue at Northeastern University

We left New Jersey at 5 am on Monday June 25th to make it to Boston before the major traffic jams and thunderstorms. We made awesome time and drove up to my brother's house around 10 am, that was even after a stop to Costco. We told them we'd be there in the afternoon so they were a bit surprised but cool about it. Its been so nice hanging out and having the cousins play together. Mikayla and Gabby have hit it off. Isabelle is just too young to really be any fun and likes to take toys. It's the age.

New Jersey Visit

Gabriella loved this "jack in the box" toy

Isabelle being silly

David Dine-- such a sweetie!

Gabriella and Isabelle's second cousin

Isabelle and David playing

Jeff (David's dad) is helping mediate

Shakespeare Book

Apparently, Trav's Polish Great Grandfather 

read this plowing the fields 

Isabelle and David having some snacks

This was a cool "learning tower" thing David eats his food on

We drove to New Jersey on June 25th to see Trav's cousin (Deborah Dine) and her lovely family (husband Jeff and son David). We stayed for about two days... It was so nice to catch-up and they have a gorgeous house in this really neat area of New Jersey that's close by everything. Highlights include... going to the community pool that had a slide (gabby loved that slide!), eating some yummy deli and bbq'd food, and watching a procession of some Italian saint where you pin a dollar to it for blessings or something like that. This happened down the street. Kind of random but an interesting cultural event for Gabby to witness-- lots of "Soprano" type Italians... We obviously don't see a lot of Italians in China or in Washington. The best part is getting re-connected with family and for the girls to meet their second cousin, David. Good times. :)