Here are some pictures from when we watched the boys. Shell and Dan went to Florida for their anniversary, so we watched them from Sunday through Wednesday. We had a lot of fun and they were SOOO good for us! They went to bed when they were supposed to, they played well and Griff went pee in the potty for me!!! We didn't actually take too many pictures...but we did have fun playing and drawing with chalk and reading and watching trash truck videos. Griff LOVES his uncle Josh! They read before bed every night which made it very nice for me!YUMMY!! Uncle Josh makes GOOODD lasagna!!

Bathtime!

Check this out...Griff's got talent!

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More Father's Day Fun

Let's just say that Josh and Danny had some fun with the vajunka that Josh gave all his groomsmen. They made Shell and I take a 1/2 shot and they took, oh, six, seven, eight maybe....

Still chugging along...
Needless to say, with the many beers consumed, neither of them felt too well the next morning...

Linc's birthday

Here are some pics from when we celebrated Linc's birthday on Father's Day. He's sooo adorable!

Look at how cute he is!
Okay, so maybe Griff was a little more into his present than he was...

Seriously, how cute is this dog?!

Really. Seriously, she's sassy and cute.
That's all...just a routine cute-Kowe post.

Festivals Galore

Here's a pic of the Vintage Indiana Wine Fest that I went to with my friend Trish. It was sooo much fun!! Hot, but fun! We tasted loads and loads of wine and listened to some really good music. Oh, and we also tried winearitas, the wine version of a margarita, and they were pretty snazzy!! Then this past weekend, we went to the Strawberry Festival with Josh's parents and Kowe. Josh was frustrated that he couldn't find his Italian sausages and because everything is paid for by tickets, but it was REALLY nice out and the strawberry shortcake with ice cream was sooo very good!! They didn't let dogs inside the actual festival, so we hung out and took turns going in, but it was really fun.

The Taste of Tippecanoe is coming up and we haven't decided whether we'll be able to make it or not. Josh might not be the biggest fan...we'll see. I REALLY REALLY want to go to the Taste of Chicago, so we'll see how my powers of persuasion turn out...

Happy Birthday Josh!!!

Josh turned 29 on June 4th...here is a pic of him giving a big cheese with his new Merrells!!! As for us, I didn't get any good pics, but I took Josh to see Spiderman 3 and to dinner, and I renewed his favorite magazine subscription!

On Saturday, Happy Birthday to Lisa!

Happy Birthday Lisa!! Nothing better than a weekend in Vegas with your sister and husband to celebrate your big 3-0! We hope you had a great time. (Despite the end of the trip.)

Happy Birthday Linc!!!

We missed Linc's First Birthday on Saturday when we were gone. But we want to wish him a BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY and we'll get to see him this weekend so I'll be sure to post some pictures when I get a chance.

Can you believe this was just a year ago?!?! Time sure flies!

More pics of the cutie soon...

WHALE WATCHING!!!!!!

So on Friday, we went whale watching and it was absolutely amazing. Truly, we (or at least I) were dumbfounded! I am so in love with these big gentle creatures!!

Here's Josh and Jeremy...so excited to be posing for a picture in public. :) So we left from Boston Harbor and it was like 90-something and HOT! But once the boat got going it was perfect! We weren't sure what we would see. Or if we would see anything, but we got lucky! The guide said that our watch was one of the best that they've had in a really long time. We saw three different types of whales, and possibly even four. We know that we saw humpbacks (and even a momma and her calf!), some miki whales (which are smaller) and some fin whales (which don't tend to put their tails out of the water...they're the longer looking ones that keep their fins out most of the time...hence the name!) But the guide said something about Wright whales as well, but it was never clear as to whether any of the ones we saw were that. (We'll pretend that we did since it's our last name...just because.) But she did say that we saw over 12 different whales which is just unheard of!! We got really lucky!

You can see two here...aaaahhmazing!

and two here too... Here's a fin whaleanother one up close and here are some tail pics......and then HERE is where we hit the mother load!!! we saw so many of them eating. It's crazy! The seagulls know they're coming up, so they flock around and land right on their heads.

Me using my mad camera skills...
And to top it all off, we met Lisa for dinner. (She had to work, so she didn't go whale watching with us, but she's lucky enough to work RIGHT in the middle of all of these buildings downtown...I SO envy her in that respect!) Anyway, we at at THIS place, and I ate an entire meal of seafood for the first time ever!! We had crab claws, some tasty spicy shrimp, and lobster rolls, crab cake burgers, the entire works! It was fantastic. Yum.

Then we headed home and relaxed. We had seriously such a great (or, should I say...LEGENDARY) time the entire weekend. It sucks to be so far away from these guys, but it's great when we get to see them. I know Josh and Jeremy had fun beating eachother in football and it was just a great weekend. We won't say who won at football. But again, we want to thank you guys for having us and for all of the thought and planning that you put into making it such a great weekend for us. HAVE FUN IN VEGAS!!!!!!!!!!!!! We love you guys!

Saturday=Tourists

Saturday, we were the ultimate tourists. We went on one of THESE and had such a blast! We highly recommend the Duck Tour! You get to see so many landmarks and learn some interesting stuff that you wouldn't otherwise get to learn. Like, we saw a bar that they used in the shooting of the Departed and we saw the Real World Boston's house (remember...the firehouse!) and we would have never known those things were there had our conDUCKtor not told us!

Here's a pic of Lisa, Josh and I before the tour started Yep, that's me. I got to drive the boat...along with like three kids. Hey, what can I say?! I wanted to experience it full force!
Here's a pic as we are entering into the water. How cool...basically a bus that floats!
Old Iron Sides (not the old ladies standing there, hehe)
Then, after a tasty lunch at THIS place (talk about getting a little tipsy on some Raspberry margaritas!), we hit Cheers. I think it is a requirement if you visit Boston that you visit Cheers. We walked through really quick, and no, it doesn't look like the bar. But it was cool, nonetheless.

Where everybody knows your name...duh duh duh da dum duh
Here's a pic of the Granary Burial Grounds where lots of famous people are buried...Sam Adams, Paul Revere, John Hancock...and I think possibly maybe even Mother Goose! If it's not this one that she's in, then it's another one that we passed in Boston.

We also walked around the Boston Common which is kind of like a mini-Central Park. It was gorgeous. And there was also a place called the Gardens (I believe) and we got to see lots of statues (even some of these cute little ducklings from a children's book that I meant to try to find) but we didn't take any pics with our camera that turned out very well. So you'll just have to imagine that part of the day...

Truly, we were like touristy machines this day. It is such a historic and amazing city. You could literally always find something to do. We cannot wait to go back and get to do more!!! And Patty, we definitely got our hot nuts! :) We all got a giggle outta that one.

More blogs soon...

Blogger isn't working to let me finish the Boston Blogs, so I'll do it asap after it is back up!!