Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

I hope it's not too late to post photos from Christmas.
This year Eric and I went to visit my family in Maine to celebrate Christmas. It was the first time I had a white Christmas since (this trip here) and it was a holiday celebration to remember!!!

We arrived really late in the evening (delays due to weather) and this was what it looked like the first day we woke up!


It snowed the first day we where in Maine, which made it a white Christmas! Eric and I made a snowman and played outside like kids... then sat next to the fireplace to warm up.
My grandfather came up from NJ to spend the holiday with us, which made it extra special.

 My mom thought it would be nice if we all did a puzzle together. I became obsessed over it until it was complete and found that I really like doing puzzles (thanks mom).

 We ate so much amazing  food during the Christmas holiday! My mother is the best cook I know and my dad makes an amazing breakfast. 

Of course when one visits home they must look at old family photos, it's the best!
We also where able to see some wonderful friends that I grew-up with (my friend Cody put this floor down in her home herself and her mom made the big kitty toy.)


Then it happened... it snowed so much we where stuck in Maine!!! Our flight always leaves really really early in the morning so we normally spend the night in Portland (one of my favorite small cities) and ended up having a small winter vacation in Portland Maine.

There was such a big snowstorm in Portland that we ended up being in the local newspaper... you can see a video of us here in the snow.

We made the most of our snowy adventure and actually found ourselves having fun in the cold (who would have thought!) 

 The photo above is what it looked like out the window of the airplane the morning we flew out of Maine... we almost didn't make it home.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012




Part of visiting my family always involves looking at old photographs. My grandparents have a shelf full of albums and their walls are covered in photographs, it always makes me feel right at home. Here are a couple that I just adore! 
Eric and I went on a little vacation to New Jersey to see the family, it was his first time meeting my grandfather (Pop) and a few other members of the family. I hadn't been to NJ in over four years, so it was much needed. We had a blast! 

My Pop and Uncle Georgie run a honey business out of the family home called Jean's Honey Inc., so it always smells like honey and there are lots of bees around. I wish I had gotten more photos of everyone gathered like the photo above of my mom, pop, and I (this photo puts a big smile on my face.)


My mother is an amazing cook, she cooked every dinner, we ate so much wonderful food! My grandmother's side of the family is Italian, so of course we had to visit the Italian bakery, yummy!!

We went to a bunch of little sweet towns for a walk and lunch, as well as a vineyard, and the family cemetary.


 There just happen to be a 4H Fair in the town that we all went to the last evening. We went on the ferris-wheel, ate cotton candy, patted some lama's, and had a good time. Really it all went to fast and I miss everyone all ready!!!



Thursday, January 19, 2012

Last year at this time I traveled to Maine and was doing this and that. This year my family is coming down to visit me instead (way better.) I'm thinking about getting a fancy thermometer like my mom has on her deck, so I know the temperature. Do you check the temperature before going outside where you live? It feels as though it's been much cooler here in the USVI this winter.

Friday, September 2, 2011

Have you ever built a house?
I think that my family is pretty amazing, they have all built their own homes, impressive right?! It’s always been important to my family to have they’re own house and to own land. My father built his house when I was very young off the grid, my brother has built his home near my fathers and runs his home by solar power and my mom has just moved into her new home last year that her husband built for them. I love visiting and seeing all the new home improvements and find it comforting to know they will always be there.  Maybe one day I too will want to build my own home.


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Thursday, September 1, 2011



I recently became very homesick and just had to go up North to spend some time with my family and friends in Sumner Maine. It’s been almost 15 years since I lived in Sumner and I’ve never truly missed living there but there is something so special about my little home town. The one thing I've always missed most about home are my family and friends that live there. I try to go back at least once a year to see everyone. Here are a few photos of some of the best people in the world that I've known since day one, I love you guys!
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