Our Trip to Vermont - Part 1

Jason and I both grew up in Northern Vermont (also known as the Northeast Kingdom) and most of our family still lives there. It's a beautiful area that we always enjoy visiting, especially since we don't get to as often now that we live in Minnesota.

Our trip home last week consisted of three main themes: meet, relax, and celebrate. All of which were just amazing.

Meet: We got to meet our friend's baby girl. We fell in love with her immediately and are thrilled for our friends and their new role as parents. They are all doing so well and seem very happy, which is all we can ask for for people we love. :-)

Relax: We got to bring our friends from Boston home with us! Kristen and Dane had visited Vermont with us during Christmastime but hadn't seen it in the summer (the second best time to visit, fall being the first because the leaves change and it's SO pretty!) We got to go canoeing and lounge around and basically just relax with our friends and soak up the very SLOW pace that is home.

Celebrate: We got to celebrate my Sister-in-Law, Amanda's pregnancy and soon-to-be-born baby girl! I am ridiculously excited to become an Aunt and it was great to get to see a bunch of my family at the Baby Shower as well as Amanda. The next time we see her she will be a Mom! So great!

Left to right: Before heading to Vermont we spent some time in Boston and visited the Sam Adams Brewery -- Cheers!, we didn't waste any time heading over to visit Jess and Ms. Mackenkie, she's just SO cute, we spent some time on Saturday on the lake canoeing and relaxing -- Kristen definitely had the relaxing thing mastered, Sunday morning we headed to a blackberry patch to do some picking so that Kristen could take some home and make some pies, I then headed to Amanda's baby shower to celebrate the Mom-to-be and eat way too many cupcakes, and finally, the last photo is of my cousin Tori and our friend Sarah's baby Emma. Love. :-)