Easthampton Visit

John, Sophie and I just got back from a wonderful visit with John's brother, his wife and their new baby, Noah. The twins got to spend their birthday together for the first time in four years and we had fun having our babies meet for the first time (they are exactly four months apart). They sat together (well, Sophie sat, and Noah sat propped up by Britt) and laughed and smiled at each other. It was really cute. We also got to head down to New Haven, CT and hang out with their sister, Bekah for the day. So fun to get to see lots of family. We all love to play games, so we did that a lot, as well as go get coffee and walk around Northampton, a fun town near where they live. We hit up Boston and wanted to do New York but it was just going to be a long and expensive day with the kids, so we sadly decided not to (I LOVE New York! No seriously I do, it's not just a t-shirt, it's a reality).

It's really fun for us all to be at the same stage in our lives. My brothers and John's older sister, Rachael, have all had kids for a few years now (our oldest niece and nephews are 6 and 7!) and it was fun to get to connect with Mark and Britt on the fact that this is our first kid, and they're around the same age, and that we're all learning so much about babies and parenting. We just love that Sophie has so many cousins right around her age - she will have four total by June all born within a year of her.

We decided to do our own little photo shoots in Boston and in Easthampton, and here are some of the pictures from our time (thanks, Bekah, for taking our pictures!). We're going to send the one of the four of us with our new babies to the Taylor University alumni page, to introduce Noah and Sophie.