A couple days after Christmas Nonna, Sarah, Nate and Mia drove from NC to NJ to visit and hang out with us for New Year's! Here are a few pics of our visit:
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| Watching the kids play and visiting |
It snowed the day after they arrived, and the kids had a chance to play in the snow. It was an icy, light snow, and melted off within the next couple days. Sarah's friend from college, Megan, another recent NJ transplant rode the train down from Hoboken to hang out with us for the day.
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| Lindsay + Nate = BFF cousins |
We celebrated Christmas with Nonna and the Morris clan, and it was so fun getting to see each other open their presents in person!
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| Nate and Lindsay started the present opening earlier that night by themselves. Luckily they only opened their own presents by the time we realized what was going on. |
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| Maddie getting some lap time with Nonna |
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| Love this pic... Nate to Maddie: "You're as cute as a bug's ear!" |
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| Thanks for the rainboot Nonna!! |
We took a day trip into Philadelphia to the Children's Please Touch Museum. In my opinion, it is the best Children's museum we have been to, and trust me, we've been to a handful to compare. It is really big; two hours isn't enough time to walk through it. There is an indoor carousel, a mini hospital (Lindsay's fave) grocery store, post office, shoe store etc... (basically a tiny city) with props for the kids to play. However, I wouldn't recommend visiting in the winter (everyone got sick afterwards) and on a holiday weekend (super busy)!
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| Had to wear her new boots to the museum. My big girl is getting too grown up!! |
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| Auntie Sarah, Mia and Nate at the grocery store... so much fun! |
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| Our littles, Madison (11 months) and Mia (1 year) |
Now, for being cooped up in the house for several days, the kiddos got along famously. Lindsay was a great hostess and was happy to play and share her toys (most of the time). Nate did wonderfully entertaining himself by playing with girl toys for 5 days, and they both were so gentle with the babies.
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| Playing in the playhouse in the garage. It was 29 degrees outside. They were little Popsicles when they came in. |
We rang in the new year right, with Reid Tacos and sparkling apple cider!
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| We don't give our children booze. Just sparkling cider, folks! |
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| Nonna made her famous Hershey Chocolate Pie!! |
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| "Happy New Year".... at 8:30pm |
We had a wonderful time with our family, and LOVE having a house full! Come and visit anytime family, although it is our turn to head south next time! xoxo
So I'll expect you guys... in about a year?! ;)
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I love this: "We don't give our children booze. Just sparkling cider, folks!"