Five Toes...

This little tiny foot belongs to our baby BOY!!!! We can't wait!!

...The Quarry...

There are a couple more posts after this long one, so check them out too!

After Rach and I went to Six Flags, we stayed out with the boys in their area so we could go cliff jumping with them the next morning (not that either of us were able to jump off any cliffs...). We went to the coolest place I have ever seen! It's somewhere in Massachusetts...no one seems to know the name of the town...but it's just an abandoned rock quarry that's now filled with water and has all kinds of cliffs to jump off of and rope swings. It was seriously so cool...we were the only ones there all morning, it was like a private park!

Some of the boys ready, and excited, to start partying...

This is the zip line you have to take across a river to get to the quarry...Omar's on the zip, and the lady throwing the rope behind him is Sissy...the lady who lives in the middle of no where and "runs" the quarry...forcefully requesting five dollar donations :)

This may look all fine and good, but I got within feet of the other side and slid back to the middle. Thanks to Nick who pulled me across...I seriously thought I was going to have to let go and fall in...that's a long drop for a baby!

Rach did the smart and safe thing and got pulled across sitting, while keeping everyones valuables safe in her bag...

Ty and Jared double-d it across to speed things up...Good thinking.

Ty getting ready to go off the rope swing right when we got there...

There he goes. Isn't the setting awesome!

Kevin off the swing...Nice Form

My ungraceful swing. I almost didn't let go because Rach read online you're not even supposed to go off a three foot diving board if you're pregnant, and once I got out there it looked high!!! But it was pretty much either that or smash into the cement wall...

I think this picture's so funny, that's me in the water and at the very top you can see Rachie's little legs as she's about to drop from the rope swing :)

Ty jumping off the 60 footer...I took this one from across the quarry...you can only kind of tell how high it is when you see how little he looks!

Different Angle...

Nate and Jeff doing acrobats off a side cliff

Neal and his awesomely fun log

Rach and me on the log

The log was then used in some sort of a team-building exercise...in which it was hauled out of the water and thrown off a cliff...

Having so much fun

Sort of a group picture...APX Boston 2009!

There were too many of them so we had to do a group "jump" in segments...

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Don't want to leave.

You have no idea how hard this picture was to get.

The cute Rad's

Ty helping me get my big pregnant butt off the ledge.

I have a bunch more pics of the boys being crazy on the cliffs, so I'll add a slide show later! It was so fun...this is the first taste of summer any of these boys have had all year, and probably for the past 6 years for Ty! It was well worth the sore necks and behinds, and Ty's killer sunburn...

Random Fun!!

So the two other office girls out here in Boston both left today, so I'd been trying to fit in as much as I could before they left!! Here are some of the fun things I've been doing :)

Dance Class!

I found the best dance studio ever out here, and have been trying to go as much as I can! They offer classes every night, so I've been going about twice a week. Erin has been able to come with me a bunch, so it's been so much fun! I keep telling Tyler I would move to Boston permanently JUST so I could keep going to this dance class! I'm going to miss it so much...

The Beach!

This is the beach in Hull, a little town about 15 minutes away from us, and this is the Saturday I dragged Rachel out there to spend the day with me. It was packed! We ate at a cute beachfront restaurant, got ice cream, and laid on the beach most of the day. Even though of course I didn't get a single picture with Rachel or me actually in it, it was a great day. Thanks to Rach who has been humoring me throughout our adventures...

Six Flags!

On Monday Rachel and I drove out to the area 2 hours away where the boys have been selling and went to the Six Flags water park...once again I didn't get a single picture of us frolicking at the park--but we rode the world famous, one of a kind Water Coaster (left), and even rode the nausea-inducing Tomahawk (right). I know, it's hard to believe two pregnant girls can party so hard. It was a great day, took me right back to all the summers I spent at Lagoon. I love Lagoon.

Pregnant in the City!!

Last week I went and met my sister-in-law Ashley in New York City while she was there for a few days while my brother did work. We ate at the cute little restaurant on the pond in Central Park, and went to really cute baby boutiques (thanks to Erin Colby for directing us where to go!) It was tons of fun...along with extremely hottttt...and it was so fun to see Ashley with a little pregnant belly because she wasn't showing at all last time I saw her! She's due in December and I can't wait for our little babies to be best friends...we'll tell them all about the time we partied in New York while they were in the womb...

Ash's cute belly! I can't wait to look like her!

These are the only pictures we got of the day, and as a disclaimer I had to leave my apartment at 6:30am to catch a bus to NY and then spent all day walking around in the sweltering heat...I feel a tad bit better about my terrible terrible appearance now that everyone knows that...

Ashley and me on some stairs by a little bakery we got huge cookies from...thanks again to Erin for the suggestion!

Ashley, Jen (whose husband also works with my brother, and who's having twins in March!), and me...a pregnant posse...

I got this itty bitty little onesie for the little biker baby we're expecting...and I told Ashley I was giving it to her if I had a girl, but now I'm thinking the baby will wear this no matter what the gender :)

Can anyone help me out on what this might be? All the onesies at the store I got this at had these little matching items with them...and I totally forgot to ask what it was for. I assumed it was just little pouch to put stuff in but the buttons don't snap closed, as though they're supposed to snap with something else? It'd be a really cute little pouch, but if someone knows what it's for I'd love to know! :)

Fun with Family

My parents came out to visit Ty and me a couple of weeks ago, and it was so fun for me to get a little mini vacation while they were here! We did most of downtown Boston in the spring with the rest of my family, and they've been there quite a few times, so we tried to do some different things we hadn't done before. It was such a fun week!

The first day they were here we drove up to Sharon, VT (such a pretty drive) and went to the Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial. I had never heard much about this, but they had a really cool visitors center and a tour given by the always great senior missionaries.

We're standing in front of the monument that one of the prophets had made to commemorate Joseph Smith's birthplace in the early 1900's. If anyone has a chance to go to Sharon I would recommend it, very cool!

The next day we drove down to Newport, RI and went through some of the preserved mansions down there. This is my parents on the lawn behind one of the huge ones. You can't take any pictures inside, so I don't have anything to give an idea of how they were, but absolutely agonizingly opulent would sum them up I suppose. Fun to see how they lived though! I would love to live in a time where you got dressed up for a ball every night!

My mom and me on one of the estates

The three of us enjoying our lunch and the tours :)

I wish I had gotten some more pictures, and probably my favorite thing about the day was the neat little town of Newport, such a cool beach/college/hang out town. I want to live there!

The next day my mom humored me and went on the Freedom Trail in Boston with me (it was her third or fourth time, but I'd never done it), while my dad did some work north of the city.

Amidst all of our walking (which was A LOT, including getting ourselves lost somewhere outside the city and calling 3 cabs in an attempt to get rescued), this is the only picture we got. We're in the North Church, which is where Paul Revere hung the lanterns...you know, 'One if by land, Two if by sea'. It was fun to see all the historical stuff...and I think both my mom and I are good on the Freedom Trail for awhile.

That night we met up with my dad and went to a Red Sox game. I really love baseball games, and my parents and I have had a chance to go to one everywhere I've lived for the past couple summers (the Minnesota Twins, and the Pittsburgh Pirates), but this was the first one where the stadium was actually full! Red Sox fans are definitely the best, and it was really fun being there!

So I just looked at this picture and the stadium is not full at all! Haha, but this was before the game started, so just envision all those empty seats full by the time it started...the Red Sox haven't had a game not sell out in something like a billion years. Cool.

On my parents last day we headed up to Concord, where lots of famous authors lived and where Walden Pond is. Concord was a really cute town and it was fun just being in it for the day...and I was able to put my American Lit skills to the test...I wish that class hadn't been so long ago, but it was really cool to see all of the stuff!

This is at Author's Ridge, where a lot of the early American authors are buried:

Henry David Thoreau and family's graves...that's right, the one that lived on Walden Pond

Ralph Waldo Emerson's grave...the one who let Thoreau use his property on Walden Pond, and also the one who made his wife change her name in order to marry him. First name that is.

Nathaniel Hawthorne and family graves...of Scarlet Letter fame, amongst many others. Although it's unclear why exactly he's buried in Concord because he only lived there for a very short time.

Louisa May Alcott's grave...Little Women, didn't everyone love that book when they were little?

My mom and I also went on tours through the Emerson house (which I would not recommend to any one who may be pregnant, and/or have a hard time with stifling heat and extremely slow tour guides), and the Alcott house. I loved going through the Alcott house...Mr. and Mrs. Alcott were way ahead of their time as far as awesome parents go.

We made it over to Walden Pond, but the original Thoreau house was apparently torn down and used for a chicken coop...so we did not get to see that. And while I would imagine most of you would picture Walden Pond as a serene, transcendental-like, quiet pond, like I did, it's actually a poppin' beach party with swimmers and sunbathers everywhere. Kind of funny, and it did look amazing to swim in!

After all of our author-ing, we drove out to Hull and spent a relaxing close to the day at the beach.

I'm so glad my parents were able to come, and we fit a whole lot into a little time! August is already flying by, so I'll be seeing them again in no time!

Soon to come, more family fun after I meet my sis-in-law Ashley in NY on Monday for some big city pregnant girl shopping!