Vermont trip

Our final stop before heading home was Vermont. Johnner and Jamie Freitas hosted us in their beautiful new home.

Uncle John and Mikey build Lego towers (or John builds them and Mikey knocks them down!)
Aunt Jamie grabs Mikey for a snuggle!
Daddy and Mikey on the Clock Tower Lawn at CB

Scenes of Boston

the 2nd leg of our trip took us to Boston where we stayed with Beth and Willie and boys. Somehow we have no pictures of all of them together! Hopefully someone else snapped a few! We spent time at Anne Freitas' house and had a great gathering of camp alumni, from Anne's 91 year old mom (aka Grammy) to the future Billings boys CJ, Sam, Mikey and Ben!
Does that kid have a license?
Great new jammies from Kate, Marc and Sam
Daddy and Mikey at Foxborough (home to the N.E. Patriots)

Sorry Aunt Susan

During the Boston portion of our trip we spent a few hours touring Fenway Park. It was really neat but there were LOTS of stairs to climb with a baby and a stroller!!
Mikey and daddy
Checking out the field from the Green Monster seats.
Mikey fell asleep about 1/2 way through the tour!

More McCarthy Fun

Jack and his birthday cake! Thanks for sharing with us Jack!
Daddy and Mikey on the Merry Go Round at the Battleship Pier.
The little ones prepping for a meal.
Mikey and Uncle Kev chiling
Messy Mikey and Juicy Jack

Fun with the McCarthy's on vacation

The little boys at the Buttonwood Zoo

Last week we spent a week in New England, exploring places of Jen's past and visiting with friends. Our first stop was Fall River, MA to stay with the McCarthy's. Each night the boys were messy enough from something fun that they all ended up in the tub together!






Jack, Kevin and Cormac on the Merry Go Round


The boys outside Chili's

Mikey and his cousins

Mikey doesn't get a chance to see his cousins very often so when they come to Elmira to visit we make a beeline for them!

Jamie and Mikey
Aunt Karen and Mikey

Mikey, Mama, Stacey and Jamie

A visit to Camp Billings

When I was a kid my parents made a wonderful decision to send me to a summer camp in Vermont known as Camp Billings. It's on a small lake on the eastern side of the state about 1/2 way up (near White River Junction)... on our tour of New England we stopped on by so Mikey could dip his toes in Lake Fairlee for the first time. I met some of my closest friends at camp and hope that in about 7 or 8 years when Mikey is ready to go he'll think its as wonderful as I do (and that it's still the same great place as it was when I was a kid!!!)


first dip in Lake Fairlee
Daddy and Mikey on the green benches