Monday, July 2, 2012

Tebo Family Visit

Campfire in the backyard

Morning time in the motorhome 
The girls waking-up daddy

View of the deck, pool, and motorhome

Travis, Aunt Deb, Isabelle, Gabriella, and Emily
Lola the dog (missing Gracie)

Gabriella, Cara, Uncle Larry, Travis, & Isabelle

Amherst Fire Department 
(where Uncle Larry works)

After a super quick stop to New Hampshire, just to say we went there, we headed to Amherst, Massachusetts on Friday to see Uncle Larry and Aunt Deb and invade their house. It was an awesome surprise to see cousin Emily as well! Gabby got to meet another second cousin, which makes her super happy. They have a great house and they even have a pool! Yay! It was so crazy hot that we were pretty excited about that. Gabby fell in love with their two dogs (and was even singing to them) while Isabelle ran around as we chased after her-- typical 17 month old phase. So tiring! We stayed in their motor home and had a lovely time at fire department picnic. Travis and I were once again amazed by the enormous portion sizes of food that were offered, but being a pregnant woman--- there was no complaining from me. Ha! Uncle Larry drove me around three college campuses (UMass-Amherst, Amherst College, and Hampshire College) so I can tick that off the list of college campuses I've seen. It was a brief but good visit and we look forward to seeing them again in the future... Thank goodness for Facebook because it's so easy to keep in touch now. :)


Friday, June 29, 2012

Gabriella's 5th Birthday (for real)

Gluten Free Chocolate Cake

Happy 5th Birthday, Gabriella!


Make a wish

Tebo Family 

Since Gabriella already had a big birthday party in China, it was a low-key celebration with the family.

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!