House of Hannas

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Philly, Boston, Nantucket

In September, Johnny had a meeting in Philadelphia, so we were able to visit some of our favorite places from when we lived near Valley Forge. The next day, we flew up to Boston and wasted some time before heading south to Nantucket for my cousins wedding.

Our trip was typical of the way we travel - GO GO GO, pictures pictures pictures, time to go home.

The problem with traveling this way is I don't remember a lot of the details, but at least I have pictures!

Valley Forge:

Washington's Chapel in Valley Forge:

George Washington's Home - Valley Forge:

My happy place, a hidden garden at a home called Rolling Acres:

Washington Crossing

Boston

The whole purpose of the trip - Nantucket wedding

John Adams gardens in Braintree, MA

and I couldn't go home without some crab fries...

Monday, September 01, 2014

School Starts

I'm not ready for these boys to be in school, but they were ready to leave me! It made it harder for me this year :(

Drake and Pierce go to a small private school and LOVE it. Each of their classes has 10 kids and a lot of the subjects are divided and/or overlap so they spend a lot of their day with each other. Recess, Spanish, lunch, P.E., dance, and yoga. I love how much they get to be together throughout the day.

We celebrated two Birthdays in September! Conrad turned 4 and Johnny turned...36, I think.
I've been teasing him about being 40 for years so I've forgotten his real age.

Johnny took the boys to Hang Time and loved that they were so little, waiting in line with the big kids for the rope swings.

Romney's 6 month checkup verified that he's chubby, and Banks worked on washing hands and getting stranded.

We used the pool as much as we could before fall and colder weather came, and played outside with the new pup.

Johnny had a work conference up in Park City and I got to take a break from my mothering responsibilities and join him!

We went riding and remember just how allergic Johnny is to horses - even on a full dose of Benadryl he couldn't breath and had to keep his eyes closed the whole time.
And we saw one of our favorite friends, Miss Virginia Love, who is awesome.

The last night we brought all the boys up to swim in the balcony hot tub, watch movies, and do some family activities.

We hung out at home...

...and it was all exhausting.

A Puppy

Remember last post where I said that this mothering of 5 little boys is easy so I could totally have another baby? Well, two weeks later, we decided to get a puppy!

Here we are picking him out of 7 other pups:

We decided to go with the best eater - we wanted a big dog.

We named him Chatsworth. Why? Because he is British. Also, Chatsworth House and the surrounding gardens are my favorite places on the planet. My happy place.

(Look familiar? Mr. Darcy's house in Pride & Prejudice)

Some pictures I took when Johnny and I went there a few years ago.

Because it's the end of the year and I'm trying to catch up on documenting our family, here are 5 months of photos of Chat.

His first time up the canyon: