Lauren's Ice Cream Parlour Party

For Lauren's 6th Birthday we found a great inspirational idea for a party here. We decided to go all out with ice cream and toppings. The girls had fun playing a couple of games and creating their very own ice cream masterpieces. Happy Birthday Lauren- we love you!

Christmas 2010

We were fortunate to stay home for Christmas. My parents came to us and we had a great time with them. They picked up Alison first and flew to Nebraska where my sister Amy and her family just moved to and went to our nephew's baptism. Alison loved traveling and had a great time. Thanks mom and dad! This picture shows just how popular grandparents are when they have an Ipad.

Alison with her doll Ruthie and her new outfit.

The twins loved Christmas day with wearing princess shoes and painting.

We went over to my cousin David's house for Christmas Eve where we all had a great time together and celebrated cousin Heather's engagement to Pat and their upcoming summer wedding.

Lauren was so excited to get a harp from Santa. She loves to play it.

The Chair

O.k folks I know I have been absent for some time now from blog land and I am sorry. To make it up I thought I would send out a crazy amount of pictures of our life and all the Laverty happenings. So here we go-

This is the before shot of my $20 chair. I bought it knowing it needed to be reupholstered and updated. Steve helped me tremendously with strengthening the chair and upholstering.
After shot- I painted it a creamy white and found a grayish fabric for the chair. We love it! Not too bad for our first reupholstering job.
Here it is next to our Christmas tree.

Steve's 1/2 Marathon

Last weekend we took a short trip up to Bird in Hand, PA for Steve's 1/2 marathon and a tour of Amish country. We had a great time. We toured the Amish Village where the girls went in the old school house and had fun playing "school."

We were also happy Grandma and Papa could come with us on the trip. We saw a lot of these black buggys in the area since this is one of the modes of transportation for the Amish.

Here we all are waiting for our athlete to run through the finish.

Yeah! There he is- not the one in pink. Official time: 1:56:02

We are so proud of you Steve! Great job on the race.

Trick or Treat

We had a witch, an angel and two hula dancers ready for trick or treating.

Lilly and Baily are becoming quite independent and wanted to walk the neighborhood just like their big sisters.

Pumpkin Time

We all had a great time on a beautiful fall day at the pumpkin patch to collect some pumpkins before Halloween.

Hay ride

Bailey

At the pumpkin patch we also got to visit all sorts of farm animals like horses, sheep, and goats. The girls loved it.

October happenings

I've been a little behind in updating our blog.

Here are a few things that have been happening.

General Conference looked like this for lunch and President Monson's talk

then it looked like this:

Yes- we're working on reverence.

Alison working on homework and Lauren coloring

We had a great visit with Steve's mom- Grandma Muriel and Omar. Thanks for your delicious apple pie!

Labor Day Weekend

This weekend we went to D.C for a museum day. We had lunch at the sculpture garden and enjoyed the fountains.

National Gallery of Art (my favorite).

We also went to the American History Museum. We loved seeing Julia Child's kitchen and all her pots and pans.

The Ruby Slippers from the Wizard of Oz- the girls were very excited.

We also ran the annual Potomac Street mile race. Alison and Lauren ran it together coming in under 10 minutes. Steve ran it in 6:47 (not bad for someone who is recovered from recent knee surgery) and Tracy 6:55. We all had a great time.

Alison and Lauren coming into the finish.

last of the MV pictures

Steve and Lilly on our sail boat ride.

Bailey and Lilly loved helping the cars get all clean again.

Our love for walking down the lane is two fold: 1. Find blueberries 2. Find huckleberries
Charlotte and the twins had fun hanging out this summer.

More MV

For my birthday we had dinner at the beach- it was great. My sister Trisha was there for a good week with us.

Uncle Stuart with the cabbage patch kids in sand.

My dad, me, Aubs, Stuart and Leon ran the Chilmark Road Race. Leon came in first in his age category!

Aubrey and cute Charlotte at the Edgartown lighthouse.

Me and the all our girls.

Summer on MV

Lilly all decked out for the beach.

Papa took all the big kids down to the South beach one night to catch some crabs.

We were so happy Amy and her boys were able to stay for awhile. All the cousins had a great time.

Flying Horses

The Plumbers- Steve and Stuart did many summer projects this year. One of which was installing a new hot water heater.