The End of the Stettler East Coast Tour

We just got done with the last of the East coast tour for the month. This time we were in Virginia visiting my family. We went for a couple of reasons one to visit my dad before he took off to Afghanistan for the next year and two is because I wanted to tell them I was pregnant. Oh did I mention this yet?? Yeah, well I am and we're really excited. I'm due on Christmas and I'm almost 14 weeks. Okay, enough about that, back to Virginia. We were only there for a week, but we packed in a lot of good times. The first day we went to the beach. Here are Eric and my brother Nathan playing on the beach. Look at those manly men!

Sarah got her very first job at a place called Tropical Smoothie. We all went and visited her on her first day. 

Sarah in her little uniform, doesn't she look cute?

Nathan enjoying a smoothie.

Jared enjoying a wrap.

Brett trying to decide what to order...

My parents took us up to Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. It actually was really interesting. Thomas Jefferson was such a clever guy. I loved seeing all the gadgets he put throughout the house and the unique architecture. We weren't allowed to take pictures inside, but here we are out front. Obviously, none of new where the camera taking the picture was except for Eric, but at least you can see the house.

Other than that, we pretty much just played Wii the whole time or ate a lot of good food!

The Best Baptism Ever

This past weekend my niece had her baptism. It was a stake baptism so there were tons of people there. My nephew Max is three and he was sitting in front of us and I was sitting next to this overweight guy with glasses and a button up shirt on. Max being pop culturally savvy as he is recognized this man as "Family Guy" and declared it to the whole congregation, about 8 times. He even asked my father-in-law to take a picture of him. Luckily, Max still slightly speaks in his broken three year-old english, so we're really rooting this guy isn't traumatized for life. 

Boston...2 weeks later

So we went to Boston forever ago and since it is one of the few interesting things we've done in our lives lately I need to post it. I just kept putting it off and now I have all these post ideas building up, but I feel compelled to do this all chronologically, so I've just been thinking, "gotta post Boston....gotta post Boston". So here it is ladies and gentlemen (I don't think any guys ever read this, but who knows whose lurking around on the world wide web??).

I think I'll do this nyc style and just post quick highlights. Cause honestly, who care what I write? You guys are just here for the pictures!

I sat in the same pew as Teddy Roosevelt at the Old North Church.

Did you know they still dress like that in Boston? Yeah, I was surprised myself.

Eric had to have lobster while we were over there. Hope he enjoyed it, it cost us $63! Believe me, we will never be fooled by "Market Price" on a menu again.

While I went to my conference all day long, Eric went to Lexington and then walked to Concord, later on he figured he walked about 16 miles that day. We have a picture of his bloody blistered feet that may better suit this post, but I thought you would enjoy a picture of Louisa May Alcott's house in Concord instead (recognize it from the movie Little Woman?).

We went and walked around Harvard and I realized, 'Hey, I'm probably the dumbest person walking on this sidewalk right now...'

Then I spent the last half of our day in Boston following Eric around the wharf telling him he can't catch a jellyfish with just a stick. Not one of the highlights.