Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Things We've Been Up To


Spencer made some delicious home made cinnamon rolls for Christmas breakfast, enough to feed 60 people.  This is the dough, I had to document the volume.


We went to the Enchanted Village, a Boston tradition since 1958.  It's a pretty cool exhibit of various Holiday vignettes with lots of animated characters; the girls enjoyed it more than I guessed they would.


Santa left the kids an indoor trampoline, he is so popular around here.



Spencer's cousin and his family came for dinner they day after Christmas, here's a video of the kids performing Jingle Bells.


The following pictures were taken today at Castle Hill in Ipswich, MA.  It was really lovely.  I would say it was my 4 favorite things wrapped up into one fabulous package: 
1. The Beach 2. Fancy Architecture 3. History 4. Family Time
Sea Serpents and Shell detail, hint at what's behind the house

Kids are at the front door - what scale

A view up the Allee`

Kate thought this part of the courtyard was built as a tap dancing stage

View on the Allee` towards the ocean

A huge chestnut 

View from the ocean back towards the mansion
Tomorrow we start potty training Adam, wish us luck!

5 comments:

Kendra said...

That mansion looks magical and straight out of Europe!

Christy said...

DO you have a potty training method you recommend?

BECKY said...

fantastic pics! i love reading about your adventures! and that's a lot of cinnamon rolls!

Emily said...

Seriously with Adam? I can't stop laughing. I'm picturing my boys before they were 2 and the messes they would have made...good luck!

That place looks amazing! I want to go to there.

Also, cinnamon roll dough. HOLY.

Megan said...

this place looks amazing! i love the pics you captured. very fun stuff.

okay, and i need more info on this potty training adam business. not that i think isaac is ready, but the thought of no more diapers kind of makes me want to try it anyways!