Rosh Hashanah came to Melrose this year!

Aunt Jaki, Grandma and Pop-pop joined us for a sweet new year 

(Nana and Grampy came too! and Cara and Ben even came for dessert!)

 Sophie has fun with Aunt Jaki and Grandma

 L'shana tova!

 The next day we had a bit more fun with Pop-pop and Grandma...

 While Noah and Grandma played Monopoly inside, 

Sophie and Pop-pop played Candyland outside.

Daddy's birthday started out fantastic, making bagels with a very special helper:

 Roll the dough and make a circle!

Let them, rise, then boil and bake - yum...

 Bowling and lunch at Sacco's is becoming a birthday tradition

And then Nana and Grampy joined us for a birthday dinner!

 

A princess making dessert!

Fun with Grampy and Nana!

Merry Christmas!
We celebrated a bit early with
Nana, Grampy, Uncle Zack, Aunt Jen, William and Drew
Noah and will opening presents under the tree!

Will gave Sophie one of her presents - a bedroom set for her dollhouse!

Drew managed a charming smile despite feeling under the weather!

Nana, Grampy, Noah and William try out Will's new game!

July 4th weekend in Maine - fun fun fun in the sun!
(despite forgetting Mom and Dad's suitcase at home!)

we even took the boat out for a bit...

First Mate Julie

Apprentice Captain Sophie

Fisherman Noah

Mama and Sophie

On Mother's Day (and grandma's birthday!) Aunt Jaki came too,

and Nana and Grampy

and we had our first party at the new house!

Eastover at Uncle Zack and Aunt Jen's house was so fun!

Nana and Grampy brought over a gallon of bubbles (no joke)

Noah, Will, and Grampy played some baseball

and Daddy, Noah and Soph tried some soccer

poor Drew wished he was big enough to run around too!

Merry (pre) Christmas!

Noah helps Will open his present

Zoob!

Auntie Jen helps Sophie build a tower

(okay, Aunt Jen built it and then Sophie toppled it!)

"fishing" with grampy from Serena on Vimeo.

a masterpiece!

William and his crew

who will make a bigger mess?

It was hard to pick a reasonable number of pictures to post from Memorial Day Weekend up on Frye Island - after a long winter, there was just so much green! The weather wasn't fabulous, but we made the most of it anyway.

Daddy manning the grill.

Grampy taught Noah how to cast a fishing rod!
They practiced for a long time on Beach 3.

Sophie had a lot of fun with Daddy's hat.
Here's lookin' at you kid!

Time for bed! Nana reads a story to Soph.

Grabbing a little sunshine before we head home!