Sunday River, Maine

Weekend before last we took a second annual ski trip with a group of friends that we do a couples bible study with. Last year, most of us were pregnant. This year, we had seven babies! We skied, ate, napped, ate again...it was a great weekend. On Sunday we took the little ones sledding. I definitely found it far more amusing than my little one.

Remi and Laurel

 They were born about a week apart. 

 He was ready to escape before we even put him down.

After we remembered that Laurel is much better at sitting still, we put her in front as the anchor/trap. And as long as we were moving, they were pretty content with the situation.

Sunday River is gorgeous.

And the house where we stayed was pretty nice as well. Here were some of my favorites things.

 With seven kids under the age of 5, I'm pretty sure we got the good end of the deal on the cleaning fee...

Can't wait for next year!

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Hingham, MA {South Shore}

A short commuter rail ride away from Boston is a cute little suburb called Hingham. 

Last weekend we took a trip.

 Mr. Sabbe loves him some suburbia.

 ohhh upper class suburbia...

We love our New England day trips.

We love New England {period}

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Topsfield Fair {America's Oldest Agricultural Fair}

This past Saturday we took a drive to Topsfield, MA to go to the fair. 

 Remi was not impressed with Lil Sebastian. Probably because he's not from Pawnee.

Check out this jumbo pumpkin, I love the expression I caught on that guy's face.

And bless this one's heart. I get exhausted sometimes just feeding one little piggy. 

No wonder she doesn't care that there are flies on her butt. 

 Speaking of piggies. I come to fairs for pretty much one thing...

I'm also a big fan of the rides. Mr. Sabbe, not so much. As a former engineer, he thinks too much about it.

Not me, I woke up Saturday and announced, "I want to go upside down today."

 Mr. Sabbe prefers to focus his energies on more manly pursuits.

I love fairs.

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America's Hometown

Last week when we got home from the beach Mr. Sabbe proceeded to head straight back to the beach, one of the Boston beaches, with his friend Josh. I sadly had to stay home and catch up on work. But sometime throughout the day I found a major Craigslist score in Plymouth and when Mr. Sabbe got home this is how our conversation went....

Me: Will you ride with me to Plymouth to pick up something awesome I found on Craig's List.
Mr. Sabbe: {hesitation}
I mean who wouldn't want to sit in 5 o'clock Boston traffic during one of their very few vacation days!?
Me: You know the seller could be a total creepo.
Mr. Sabbe: {sigh, acknowledging that my statement was true} Can we go see the rock?
Me: Of course we can go see the rock!
Mr. Sabbe: deal
And we were off, horrendous traffic and all. But it was worth it.

In this scene I am pretending that Mr. Sabbe and I are the characters in The Notebook and he built me this house. Mr. Sabbe was not aware that this was the reason I made him pose in front of this house. I told him I needed a scale figure to show how big it was.

 Brace yourself, this part is a little anti-climatic.

Yep, no bigger than my coffee table. All weekend in the Adirondacks we kept pointing to large, jagged rocks and saying "now that looks like a Plymouth Rock." This did not look like a Plymouth Rock. And the story I have believed since the first grade is pretty much not true. It was kind of sad. And then there was this....

 All in all we enjoyed our time in America's Hometown and even managed to squeeze in a bit of this...

New England day trips are the best. Oh and my Craig's List find, I got 15 of these babies for $2.50 each.

Their new home will be posted shortly.

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