weekend trip to Cleveland

We made a last minute decision to join Aunt Michele and Uncle Jeremy on their weekend trip to Cleveland. What a whirlwind! Although it was a lot of driving for 2 days of visiting, it was well worth it to see our cousins and aunts and uncles and grandparents! And we did pretty good in the car, too....just melt downs about 1/2 an hour from our end destinations. Not bad!!

Thank you to Uncle Brett for allowing us to crash at your house, eat all your food, and wake you up at 7am on the weekend!

You will notice that Gabrielle is being held in a lot of the pictures...hmmmm...I wonder why that is??? (hint: could it be that she is the "needy" one of the bunch?)


family breakfast at Gene's place. This was the babies' first time in high chairs at a restraunt!
(michele, mateo, jeremy, gabby, pa)

(hilary, thomas, ed, cas)

(grammy, mary, hilary, thomas)

mateo - "belly. fully of gas. AGHH- I need to let one rip!"

gabby - "let me pause from my eating to show a big sweet smile." (i have everyone fooled!)

mary - "eek! can someone let me out of this thing....i keep sliding off of it!"

grammy & gabby

pa & gabby

babies in the play pen

mateo kissing mary (or biting her ear off... we prefer to think loving thoughts)

belle, kelsey, & gabby...with brett in the background

ashleigh & mary

belle & mateo

brett & mateo (early Sun morning!)

gabby - "uncle brett... I just want to borrow your hat for a short bit!"