east for easter

after a brief blog hiatus, wherein noah and i travelled through two countries and four new england states to see sixteen family members and twenty-two friends (and wherein noah did not sleep at all on the five-hour flight from montreal to vancouver), i finally have the energy to document our travels for you, our blog-viewing public.

the first leg of our trip was from the julian house in beverly to grandma helen's house in vernon, connecticut, for an early birthday party for noah. (pictures to come.) it was great to see grandma helen, grandpa peabody, auntie pat and rob, and cousin jen. noah was tired but well-mannered and he was quite happy to mess around in his colorful birthday cake.

we stayed that night at aunt tiff's house in groton, where we met five-week old baby hayden.


here she is with her proud great-oma katie


here's big brother jackson


and here are tiff, grandma katie, noah, me and aunt molly, who joined me and noah from boston back to vermont


we had dinner in lisbon with terry and john junior




and then we headed north to vermont. noah got a little tired of the carseat on the five-hour drive.


noah's aunts and uncles thought this was funny.