The Campbell Family Blog

Monday, August 12, 2013

We Love Boston!

It was a beautiful weekend in New Hampshire! We made the most of it and spent Saturday in Boston. We went to the Museum of Science and walked around for a bit then had dinner. So much fun!

Waiting for the planetarium show.

A huge ball machine

Owen not looking too impressed with the huge lava rock from Mt Vesuvius

There was a little school house that you could go in and play in. Arilyn sat down in the desk and wanted Shawn to take a picture. Then she said- wait! I'm at school I need to look bored...

So then she did this!

Arilyn and the saber toothed tiger.

Me waiting for the kids to get done playing with something.

Addison and the giant grasshopper

The whole gang in the big chair.

Trying to get a good picture outside...didn't work too well.

There is a big t-rex statue outside and while Shawn was trying to figure out where we needed to go to get to the restaurant I was trying to get a pic of the kids with the t-rex. It was not happening!

So I told them to look scared, like the t-rex was looking for them! Owen wasn't too scared :0)

The walk to the restaurant was too much for Alexa and she finally fell asleep!

And then she woke up...and was not happy. Shawn thought it would be funny to capture me trying to eat my pizza with a crabby baby. Good times!

Arilyn always posing.

Trying to be creative against the brick wall

A little happier

Today was not the day for good pictures. This would be really cute if Arilyn wasn't giving me bunny ears!

Watching the Duck Tour boats in the water.

A cute one of me and Alexa

Owen being cute

Climbing on things :0)

Finally! A decent pic by the t-rex!

We had to go back through the museum to get to the parking garage. The kids thought the revolving door was the greatest toy ever.

So in 'parents of the year' fashion, we let them play and took pictures!

Owen wasn't doing much pushing.

Shawn was trying to take a picture of the kids on the bench. I thought this was hilarious because it was the end of the day and the kids were tired and cranky. Everyone is giving someone a dirty look.

And then smiling! Goofy kids! Another great day in Boston!

Piper's Birthday!

Although we didn't get her until October, August 9th was Piper's birthday. We couldn't let it go by without celebrating, according to the kids :0) So we let her wear a birthday hat and her and Ellie had doggie ice cream. The kids got to have human ice cream. Although she is still very much puppy and loves to play (and chew on things), she is a great dog! Happy Birthday Piper!

The birthday girl!

She wasn't too thrilled with wearing the hat :0)

Then I got some cookies out and she was sitting very pretty!

The string was really stretched out, so Shawn was holding it on.

Aww. Look how little she was! This was at the airport the day we picked her up in October last year. When we brought her home she could easily walk under our bench at our dining room table. That didn't last long, but I can't believe she was ever that little!

We decided to do one of those reenactment photos. Hilarious! Look at those long legs! Happy Birthday Piper!

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Fireworks

After the birthday party we ended the day on the beach watching fireworks! It doesn't get much better than that!

Shawn brought the camera and took some really neat pictures of the fireworks.

This is one of the best shows we think. This wasn't even the finale!

More fireworks

The crew...looking very tired!

Watching the fireworks...only 2 had their ears covered! :0)

Birthday Party #2

We had a 'friend party' for Addison over the weekend. She wanted a water slide, so we rented an inflatable water slide. The kids loved it, but it was a little chilly!