A little photo shoot

I love this hat that Preston has, so we did a cute little photo shoot with him wearing it. He was being really happy and cute too, so how could I resist taking pictures?! 

Vermont Trip- Part 2

The one whole day that we were in Stowe, Vermont we spent driving around and looking at the changing leaves. We really loved just driving around and doing this, plus it was a lot easier to take Preston around while sleeping in his car seat. Enjoy the pictures!

 This is what most of the roads we travelled on in Stowe looked like, so gorgeous!

 These pictures also do not do the colors justice, they were so much more rich and bright than this. 

 Spencer loved this trip. When we got home he even made a list of all the things he loved and then another list of all the things he did not like about Vermont. Well, there were at least 8 things on the things he loved about Vermont and NOTHING on the side where he didn't like anything. So he really loved this trip, and hopes to go back to Vermont again. 

 Our family having fun!

Those are mountains. Covered in trees. Trees that are in beautiful different colors. One of my favorite pictures from the trip. 

 This is a faraway view of the Lodge we were staying at. 

 Preston also had a fun time on the trip. I love this look he is giving me. 

 Such a cute cute boy. 

 On the day we were leaving this is what we saw up on the mountain that we were driving on the day before!!! SNOW!!!! It was their first snowfall of the season. So glad we got that driving in the day before. 

 While on our way home we thought we would stop at a Target to do some school clothes shopping for Spencer, especially since we had a car and wouldn't have to drive around a city or bring the bags of loot home on the subway. Well, we got off the highway and saw a Red Robin. Yum! Sadly, NYC does not have a Red Robin, so we HAD to stop. Well, we didn't really want to hold Preston, and so we brought him in in the car seat, and this is how he fit into our booth. We thought he looked so funny sitting there, but he did really well while we ate. 

We also did not make it to Target. We realized that if we shopped (which for me, it would be at least an hour in there....I love me some Target) then we would be getting back into the city right at rush hour....didn't really want to do that. So we headed back home and I ordered clothes online. 

Overall, our trip was fabulous. I would encourage anyone to go to Stowe, Vermont for a great little retreat away, it was so relaxing and one of our favorite places now. 

Vermont Trip- part 1

We decided our family needed a little vacation for ourselves. Since we live in the New England area, we thought, what better time than now to go see the beautiful foliage we have up here. It was a wonderful trip, and now you get to experience it through pictures, our pictures.

We rented a car here in the city so we could pack everything up in it from the apartment, instead of hauling a car seat through the train station and renting outside of the city. It was to be a good 6 hour drive, but it took us a bit longer. O-well, it still was fun, and the boys did great!

Here is Spencer, happy to start our trip and watching out for Preston.

 Preston fell asleep as soon as we started driving, here he is waking part way through and stretching.

 Can you tell Spencer and I were having fun?

 Cute little boy....with his hand stuck. I don't think I knew that was happening when I took the picture.

 First sights of the fall colors!!!

 The place we stayed was Stowe Mountain Lodge, and it was beautiful!! It was a ski resort type of place, and we paid a little more than what we wanted because when we went to look for hotels they were all booked!!!! So we quickly grabbed this one and it was perfect!

This was the room, and we had a little balcony looking up to the mountains. 

 Tyler holding Preston while we were relaxing.

 The HUGE bathroom! The tub was so deep, I loved it! And the shower was huge too. 

 The other side of the bathroom. For reals, you could have fit 20 people in there comfortably. 

 This is the view from the front door. Spencer is standing there in the little kitchen we had, which was good because we had lots of bottles to wash. 

The next post will show our drives out to see the beautiful changing leaves. We loved it so much, even if it was a little chilly. 

Birthday and Visitors- 8

Tyler's birthday happened and he was excited to be celebrating with not just us, his family, but his sister and her husband and kids came into town also! We had such fun with them, and loved having them and their two kids with us. 

Here's Tyler reading Spencer's birthday card to him, it was really cute.

The sweater I got him...looks happy about that sweater, doesn't he? 

He was happy to get this present. It's a date night at home or out, one every month, and each one being a different country! We just had our date this past weekend for October, we celebrated Germany! We had yummy German pancakes with bratwurst, then watched The Avengers....because part of it is in Germany! I got the idea from my sister-in-law, but the site is HERE.

Blowing out the candles on his cake. Preston is not quite sure what is going on. 

 Here is Spencer with his cousin. I think they spent most of their time playing their DS's, or video games. It was great that even though there was an age difference they played REALLY well together. 

More Preston!!

Yes, yes, I'm a mother to a newborn, and since I am I get the right to brag about him and share endless photos of him. 

Cute boy sleeping.

The tag in his shirt was bothering him, and when I took off his shirt his pants were hiked up like this. I had to take a picture because he looked like an old man....so cute.

I love that little foot peeking out at the bottom. 

I was about to take a picture to show how Preston will fall asleep with his eyes OPEN! No joke, he has done it where they are fully open, and it kinda freaks me out. So when I went to take this picture he smiled in his sleep and I caught it just in time! 

I can't help but think he is the cutest crier I have ever laid eyes on! He is so cute when he cries!!!! You might see more of these later.

Just chatting with mom.

 And then arching his eyebrow!? Where did he learn that from?? To which Tyler and I both tried to do this, but could not. 

Aw, baby is about to go to sleep all cuddled up with Mom.

Love how chubby he is getting....he really isn't, but his face has totally filled out.

Happy boy! Love it when we have our chat sessions two or three times a day and I get to hear him babble and see that smile so much!!