Merry Christmas 2012

Christmas Headgear!

Christmas Experiments

Roasting With Sis

Birthday Party No 8!

Making the Bday Cake!

Bitty Baby Forever

Buds with an iPod

Gingerbread Man

The kids are decorating their own gingerbread men at Cindy's.

Jingle Bell Jog

Addie and Charlie

Matching Sunday

Home

We drove 12 hours from Roanoke, VA, home today. It was some serious driving time, but the kids were absolute champs. We are positively wiped out! More about the trip later, but for now you can know we all had the best time ever! We're already thinking about the next one.

Dairy Farming

Wow. This is how we do family vacation! This place is awesome. You can
learn about dairy dear in AND buy lots of yummy cheese!! Again, fun
times for the Adams crew!

Troutville, Va Cracker Barrel

If they kill me I'll only grow stronger.

Stonewall's Headquarters

Our Empire

Little Town of Bethlehem

The Adams Family soaked the marrow out of life today - starting with a 7:30 am departure from our Boston hotel and ending in a slightly dingy but mostly comfortable hotel room here in Bethlehem, PA, home of Lehigh University and Sands Resort and Casino. In between we rode the Metro North in from White Plains to NYC's Grand Central Station, went to the top of the Empire State Building, wandered through Times Square, made our way up through the Christmas-decked streets of 5th Avenue got a glimpse of the Plaza Hotel (home of Eloise) and walked through Central Park before capping it all off by eating at an old favorite restaurant from mine and AB's NY days - Red Eye Grill. It was all fantastic! The kids had incredible stamina. We walked a long way and they never once whined about being tired. I think they were too busy being in awe of New York. They loved it! Addie wants to move there. Today. I love my crew and I'm glad to be tucked in to this tiny Bethlehem hotel. Tomorrow we head back to Roanoke. Happy Thanksgiving!

Rock Center!

Radio City

Here are our future rockettes!

NYC - Grand Central Terminal

Dinosaurs!!

That's a big footprint!

Hurricane at the Boston Science Museum!

Big Dreams

They are mom's dreams of course.....

We rode the T in Boston!

The Adams Family in Boston

Here with ate with George Washington!

Sweet Addie!

My Ducklings

Boston Public Garden

Train to Car

We're on the train headed back to White Plains, NY, after a long day
fun day in NYC to find the suburban and drive to Bethlehem, PA, our
home for tonight.

Can You Afford an Adams Girl?

NYPD Blue

Big Red Ornaments and Trey

30 Rock

Times Square!

Empire State Building

Dreaming of NYC

Family Trips

It's 6:15 am and I'm up earlier than the rest of my slumbering crew showered and excited about the day to come. We're headed to NYC, and more adventure awaits! This has been the most exciting week. Driving across the country as a family was thrilling! I told Anita Beth as we traversed the Hudson River Valley that this was the most adventurous thing I've ever done. Having spent a semester in England she thought that was sad, but it really is, and I can't wait to do it again. Before this trip (laugh if you must) I never considered driving further than a 6-hour trip to the beach. I operated as though anything further would be too difficult, that we would have to fly and well, that just wasn't affordable with four kids.

I'm happy to admit I was wrong!

There's something about driving across the country as a family that brings you closer together. I love this time we're having cramped up in hotel rooms, watching movies together and touring the city. It's the most fun I think we've ever had as a family, and I hope it's just the first of many more such trips. Where to next? The mountains? Chicago? California? Thanks to Audrey's sweet little hands, this trip and my much more daring wife all seem like possibilities.

A Day at the Science Museum

After letting the kids sleep late thanks to very effective hotel blackout curtains we dressed and headed back to our favorite restaurant - Boloco. They make awesome breakfast burritos. Flowood needs one oh so badly. After that we hit the T and made our way to the Science Museum. We saw a ship wreck exhibit, dinosaurs and a great IMAX movie. By the time we left it was dark. The kids were real troopers. Even Trey hung in there like a champ. Tomorrow - New York City! We gotta wake up early and I'm as wiped out as everybody else. We played hard!

Fun Times in Boston

Dino Roar

Science Museum of Boston

My morning jog to Fenway

A Full Day in Boston

It was a beautiful day in Boston, and we made the most of it. I started things off with an invigorating 6:30 run around Fenway Park. After AB squeezed her run in we bundled up and headed to Boston Commons for a couple hours of figure skating, chasing squirrels (the kids, Trey especially, were determined to catch a pigeon or one of the many fat bushy-tailed squirrels) walking and taking family snapshots in the park. We eventually loaded the kids on the T and rode to Children's Hospital. Before the appointment we had a fantastic lunch at Bertucci's, Audrey's favorite place to eat in Boston. We were all famished from the busy morning. Afterwards it was time for Audrey's appointment with our beloved Perer Waters. It went great and he seemed pleased with Audrey's hand. The giant cast is off and I'm proud to report that Audrey didn't cry when they pulled the pins from her fingers. She is SO brave! All in all it was a fantastic day.

Family Photo

With all of us. We think of Peter Waters and Laurie Travers as family
now. Happy thanksgiving!!!