Autumn Off The Green

D Family had a great weekend and I hope everyone else did too!

Every year on the first Sunday in October, our town hosts a fall Octoberfest type of event called Autumn on the Green.  Well currently, there's a lot of road work and landscaping work going on where the green is.  So it was hosted on the town's school grounds to which the nickname Autumn off the Green was made up.  Either next year or the year after it should be back where it belongs. 

It was a chilly day yesterday, but there were still a good amount of vendors and visitors.  This is just a view of one strip of tents.  At the end of this strip to the right were more and a ton more down the hill at the end.

Noah seemed to have a good time and was all bundled up with his monster hat.  He was such a good boy!  Hubby and I love to get some delicious food at these types of things.  We also got some Vermont made fresh apple cider...YUM!

Since Noah is an animal lover, he loved these Alpacas.  He was talking to them in his baby voice which usually has the most understandable words being dad and dat (that).

While I always enjoy all of the homemade crafts.  I just LOVED these chairs which I called rag chairs.  The lady made them out of any leftover material she had.  I thought these were amazing and she had them in all styles and colors.  I even tested it out and sat in it and it was very study.  These were definitely my favorite item I saw there.

Now it's back to work for me.  I hope everyone has a great rest of the day and week!

Our Recent Visitors

Happy Hump Day!

D family has recently entertained some very important and special guests for toddler D's Birthday.  I already mentioned my amazing friend Michelle, but we also had my parents (or as Noah knows them as mamaw and pap).  He was in such a great mood from seeing everyone, even considering he had an ear infection :(

I'm pretty sure my parents were equally excited to see their handsome man as well.  You wouldn't have even been able to tell that he's only seen them a total of 3-4 times.  He was truely spoiled with attention!

He loved playing with my dad!  I must mentioned that my dad was originally going to be called papaw.  As toddler D and papaw were playing puzzles, Noah didn't seem to like it when papaw put the puzzle together when he was trying so desperately hard to take it apart to bang the pieces together.  So everytime papaw put it together, Noah exclaimed, "Baba dada mama blahblahblah PAP!".  I think he was trying to tell him that he was doing it wrong...So cute! :)  So now my dad is just "pap" instead of "papaw".

I think I have seriously gained a ton of weight from all of the good food I ate while they were here.  Between my mom's southern cooking and eating out, I may have moved up a pant size lol.  Noah was of course our dinner time source of entertainment.  This is him making him "angry face" which is always followed by toddler D going, "haha haha haha". 

And everytime we have company, a trip to mine and AnDy's ultimate favorite spot, Mt. Washington Hotel and Resort,is in order.  We always have to share our story of how we met there while pointing out exact locations of where D family's story started.  I can't wait until the day we can tell Noah our story there when he will actually understand and remember :)

It was a slightly windy and cool fall day which made it perfect!

The views in the back of the hotel are absolutely AMAZING!!!

It was such a great, relaxing, and enjoyable time!  I wish I could have all of the people I love and care about up here with me all the time.  But since they can't, I will enjoy every ounce of time I can when I do see them.  In the meantime, we can enjoy our skyping sessions.

Now I must leave you with a crazy picture of me and some cute pictures of toddler D eating puzzle pieces!  I hope everyone has a great second half of the week!

Nice Weather for a Nice Walk

Yesterday the weather got significantly warmer than it's been.  In fact all this week it's suppose to be warmer.  Even most of the snow is gone, at least until we get a March snow storm after this little hint of spring lol.  That's ok because I will enjoy the warmer weather when it comes.  Since yesterday was nice and we now have an extra hour of light, we took advantage of Andy's day off and went on a walk after I got home from work.  It was so nice to be able to walk outside and get some fresh air without wearing a winter coat and worrying about slipping on ice.  Noah also enjoyed his ride in the stroller.  I can see many of these walks in the future!

                              He tries to act like he hates it when mommy takes pictures of him.

                                     But sooner or later he gives in and cheeses for the camera!

 Andy and I on the other hand were trying to get a nice picture together.  We took probably 5 pictures and either Andy and I would complain about how we looked in it.  After the 5th picture and because we didn't want to waste anymore precious daylight we finally said, "This is the last one and we're keeping it no matter what!

I have no idea what happened to this picture to make our head and faces so distorted.  It's kinda creepy but I think I kinda like it!  I guess that's a lesson we learned from being so vain.  New rule, one picture and we keep it no matter what!



Why I Fell In Love With Vermont

I just love living in the mountains!  When I was younger I would have never thought I'd be here and enjoy it.  It was always in my plans to live down south in the warm and close to the beach.  And at times, like now when it's snowy and cold, I still think of how nice it would be.

However, there is nothing like driving by this view every morning.  Even when I'm cursing that winter is still here and spring has yet to arrive, this cheers me up!