Fun Slide

At the orchard they had slides with potato sacks to slide down on. They were so much fun!

Braxton was scared at first but after we went down the first time he loved it and was mad when we stopped.

Happy 4TH of July

I wanted to get some cute 4th of July pics and I thought what was 4th of July more than watermelon and a flag?

Carmine using blueberries as his eyes.

More 4th Fun

All the kids on the 4th eating a snack.

This is Neelah, she is almost the same age as Braxton. The last time we were here she and Braxton fought all the time over toys. This time they were good buddies. (which I was happy about!)

Heather and me.

HaPpY 4Th !!!!!

Sparklers!

Braxton was holding a sparkler for the first time. I totally liked it, I thought he would be afraid of it.

It was Carmines first time too, he liked it a well.

Fireworks

While we were waiting for it to get dark enough to do the fireworks the kids were catching fire flies in a jar. It was so fun to watch.

Carmine and Brax were trying to catch them in their buckets.

We are about to start the fireworks and they boys are very excited!

Friends

Here is all the kids and Heather watching the fireworks.

Carmine and Braxton LOVED the fireworks. Last year Brax fell asleep and Carmine covered his mouth the whole time. This year they were both saying "more fireworks Mommy?"

Carmine and Finn enjoying the fireworks.

I have no idea why he is sitting like this but I thought it was a funny picture.

Baltimore Aquarium

This past weekend Anthony's brother Nick and his daughter Jade came up to visit. We took the kids to the Baltimore Aquarium and it was a lot of fun! Here is Carmine by the harbor waiting to go into the aquarium.

They had these big water things that had bubbles in them. The kids thought they were cool.

They had the biggest sting rays I have ever seen. This is not even the BIG one.

This is called a zebra shark, I guess when they are born they have stripes and then it turns into spots. Weired!

More Aquarium

They had about 3 sharks in this tank. It was so cool to see them up close.

Carmine, Braxton and Jade.

Look how BIG that fish is. Can you believe Carmine isn't even scared of it!

The dolphin show

To end the tour we went to the dolphin show. I liked it the best, I think the kids did as well.

I could seriously watch the dolphins all day if I could.

They are so cute!

Ever since we saw the dolphins Carmine and Braxton like to pretend they are dolphins. They say "hey Mommy watch", and they will jump high in the air and say, "I'm a dolphin".

Ahoy!

After the aquarium we walked around the harbor and saw this ship wheel. The boys wanted to try it and were saying "arrr I'm a pirate".

The harbor

Carmine and Jade in front of a pirate ship.

The Baltimore Harbor

If you can see the people in the back, they were dressed up like pirates (I think it was for one of the ships you can tour) The boys thought it was cool to see real pirates. Braxton goes "ARrr" really loud when he saw them, it was so funny.

Hey good lookin!

Carmine and Braxton modeling. Isn't Braxton a pretty girl? (poor Brax)

Nick and Jade

They were having a sand castle contest. It was cool to watch them do it. I could never have the patience to do that.

I have no idea what they are supposed to be.

All in all it was a fun trip and I am glad we were finally able to make it up there.

Brotherly Love

One day I put a sheet over our kitchen table for the boys to pretend they were camping. They had fun for the first 10 min. and then they were bored with it. At least I tried!

One day they boys were in my room and I turned around to see this. Why boys want to put their dirty underwear on their heads is beyond me!

SICK! I don't know about boys!

Just another picture of us eating a bagel at Panera. They love their bagels. (I do too!)