Just the Five of Us: Meadow

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Lately...

We have had such a fun spring. Sadie is already 6.5 weeks old and is just sweet as a button. At her six week appointment she weighed 11 lbs 7.5 oz (90%) and was 23.75 inches long (95+%)!! Another big Allenby baby! She's starting to coo and smile and has brought so much joy to our lives already. Scott and I often look at each other and wonder how we got such a laid back baby after our first two were so challenging right from the start! We have definitely settled happily into life as a family of five and the boys are so good with their little sister. Here are some pictures of what we've been up to lately...
On a walk with Sadie and Micah while Camden was at preschool...

Playing at a new playground with my cousin and her kids...

"Simon Says" with friends after dinner at the dining hall...

Bonding with Ami...

Walking to lunch on campus with Daddy. We are so lucky we get to see him in the middle of the day!

Story time at the New London library...

Our happy little girl!

After church we went to White Park together. The last (and only) other time we had been there was last Mother's Day with my Dad. It brought back lots of sad memories...but the boys had a blast.

After the park we went to our favorite Beech Hill Farm for the first of many visits this summer...here they're looking at the peacock...

Love these guys...

Poor Sadie... :)

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Lots of Love

What a week we have had! I turned 30 (!!!) - I'm still a bit in denial, but I'm working through it. There may be a blog post about that one of these days. We also had a wonderful Sunday celebrating Father's Day and our 6 year anniversary! In a way it doesn't seem like all that long ago that we were college kids - playing sports, hanging out with friends and very slowly falling in love...and yet there are times I can hardly remember my life before Scott. Life just seems so right with him in it...and with our two boys by our sides. We are very blessed.

We enjoyed a date night out on the town to celebrate my birthday and our anniversary. Dinner out and an incredible production of Ragtime at the New London Barn Playhouse! Thank you Mom and Dad A for the gift and the babysitting! We had a blast!

We have had a stretch of beautiful weather. It's been in the low 70's and sunny with a light breeze...aghh...perfection. Tomorrow is supposed to be in the 90s...ugh.
We enjoyed an impromptu family walk down the the meadow behind our house on Saturday. This is definitely one of my favorite places in the world. It has been since I was a child, and now it's literally my backyard. Amazing.

The boys love throwing rocks in the river. We'll be spending a lot of time down here this summer!

Big boys playing by themselves (don't worry...it's shallow and we were close by!)...

We were dog sitting for our neighbors for a couple of days. Pretty cute...too bad Scott is allergic.

My Mom and Dad swung down on their way out of town to say a quick hello and let my Dad see the beautiful meadow for a few minutes.

On Sunday evening we hung out with both of our sets of parents for Father's Day. We were a little unsure if my parents were going to be able to make it over to my in-law's house with my Dad's wheelchair and everything, but we all decided to give it a try. It was a really special time and it was nice for my Dad - and all of us - to have a change of scenery. My in-laws have a beautiful home and have done so much work since they moved in just two summers ago! I'm not sure what we would do without them! So glad they moved NH!

They created this amazing little path through the woods that the boys love to play on...

Both our boys have been sick this past week with Hand, Foot and Mouth disease. No fun. Micah had it first and then, of course, Camden got it. Poor little guy needed lots of snuggles from his Daddy.