Thursday 27 February 2014

The Cousins Come To Visit

Aaron, Laura,Cecily, and Gilbert arrived last week and spent from Monday night till Friday morning with us. We had a great time visiting with them and letting the cousins play together. The time seemed to go all too quickly and before I knew it, it was time for them to go home. We didn't get half of the things we had planned accomplished, but that just means there will be more things to do the next time they visit!
We packed as much as we could into every day we were together, watching movies, shopping, exchanging makeup tips, and watching the kids play. Aaron did a bunch of research and visited a couple of farms while we girls had fun being sisters... and mommies. :)
Thank you so much for coming to visit, guys, and hurry back as soon as you can! We had a blast!!!


Cecily was quite taken with Brett's walker and wanted to ride in or on it all the time. Laura told her that she was too big to ride in it, so she came up with a new way to ride it....having Brett transport her around. :)


She was also very interested in Brett's pacifiers. Laura doesn't use them for her babies, so Cecily had never used one. When we weren't looking she took one to her room and tried it out, and then came out and told us she had tried one of Brett's "soovers". Since it was one Brett doesn't use very often, we let her play with it, and she spent most of the rest of day popping it in and out of her mouth. She would pretend she was a baby that needed to have her pacifier to make her stop crying.


Having fun with some makeup tips we got from Pinterest and the internet.


Doing some Youtube surfing while waiting for supper to cook. Brett didn't seem to mind Uncle Aaron that much, but he was not okay with Auntie Laura.


Cecily's version of pretty hair. She saw us getting beautiful and wanted to do the same. This was the result.



I'm not sure who should be holding who. Cecily wanted to hold Brett, but looks like he's just about as big as she is. Haha!



 Getting ready to head to Ellsworth shopping. Aaron dubbed these two "the Twin Smurfs" because of their matching jackets.


Ready for some shopping. It made me laugh so hard when I saw her outfit complete with pink sunglasses.



The backseat of the truck on our shopping trip to Ellsworth. I don't think we could have fit another thing back there!




We tried and tried to get some good pictures of the two little boys in their matching jackets when we got home from shopping, but these two are the best we ended up with. They had had enough of shopping and were not all that eager to pose for pictures.


Home from prayer meeting all tuckered out after a busy day of shopping without any afternoon nap.


The guys and their technology. Aaron was using the iPad to research the route to the ski slopes, and Matt was using his phone to research out downloading the movie Courageous onto the laptop.


 Matt took us all to Bangor shopping on Thursday. We loaded everybody into the Tahoe he had for a demo and took off for a day bashing around Bangor.



We enjoyed lunch at Panda Garden, our favorite Chinese restaurant in Bangor.


Cecily enjoyed the toy rides they had at the Bangor Mall.  Our shopping trip was one of those eventful days that made memories we will remember far into the future.


Gilbert is just learning how to stand and walk by himself and often pulled himself up by Brett's walker. There was a problem though when Brett started  moving away. Poor Gilbert had all he could do to stay upright and walk along wherever Brett was taking the walker. Two boy cousins can get into mischief pretty fast. :)



The guys often helped look after the kiddos while Laura and I did dishes and cleaned up from meals.



Friday 7 February 2014

Musical Entertainment Part I


Uncle Jason and Aunt Rosanna gave Brett this xylophone for Christmas and he enjoys seranading Matt and I with it. He composes a different song every time he plays it. I laugh so hard when I watch this video because it looks like he just looks upward and lets his creativeness take over. :)
If this video doesn't work please let me know in the comments.