Boston

October 10, 2009
A few weeks ago we decided to adventure up to Boston for the day.
This was our view from the van. The leaves were beautiful and the highway was lined with trees all the way up.
Despite the beautiful trees Addi preferred to watch baby Einstein and she didn't get car sick. yeah!!
We went up to Boston to go to the temple. We hadn't been to the temple since we left Iowa and thought it was about time.
Since we didn't have a sitter we had to take turns watching Addi. I went first and we had fun walking around the temple grounds.

And we stopped to smell some flowers.
And of course mommy had to take some pictures.
When it was daddys turn he took Addi for a little walk in the trees.
And from the pictures it looks like they had a lot of fun.
Addi wanted to go in the temple, but she will have to wait til she is a little older.
I am glad that we have the opportunity to visit the temple and that we are sealed together as a forever family.
Since we drove all the way up there we decided to see some of the sites of Boston so we went to Boston commons (sort of like central park of Boston) and the frog pond.
Addi enjoyed the big slide.
She went down many times until daddy told her she could go down slides anywhere he wanted to see other things. Mean daddy.
We meet up with a friend I use to work with in Iowa, Sarah, and went to dinner.
After dinner we went on a walk through the public gardens.
And took advantage of having another person with us to take a family photo.
As we were walking we saw a bunch a people bent over and pic up stuff off the ground. Jared and Sarah started to make fun of them, but I noticed what they were doing and joined them.
They were collecting chestnuts and I thought they would make a great addition to my fall decor.
We had to say good bye to Sarah as she had places to go.
We finished our walk and found these cute little ducks.
I think Addi had a fun time what do you think?
After our fun day in Boston we had a nice relaxing drive home with a beautiful sunset.

The Big E

Septemper 30th 2009
So I know I am way behind on blogging so I am going to take advantage of this rainy day and a little Super Why time and caught up. At the end of September we went to the Big E in Springfield, MA. It is like a state fair but for all 5 of the New England states. Although it wasn't as good as the Iowa State Fair we had fun.

We had our share of fried food.

And saw lots of over grown vegetables.

Addi enjoyed seeing all the animals. She was at ah with the giant horses.




Baby piggies were soo cute.

Some of the animals we got to pet.



And others we were able to feed.

Addi tried to join some of the animals and the way she is acting today maybe we should have let her.


We even pretended to be other animals. Aren't those the cutest lambs you ever saw?
Addi found some toys to play with and almost wouldn't let us leave without a baby doll, but then I found out it was almost as much for those baby dolls as it would be to have a real baby so a no go on the doll.

Next to the animals Addi's favorite thing was the singing Veggies.
She would have stayed there all night.

Granma and Bampa are coming

I have may things that need done and many things that need blogging, but they will all have to wait, because Granma and Bampa (Jared's mom and step-dad) are coming tonight along with Great Grandma and Grandad. We are so excite. It is gong to be a very busy week and I am sure you will all hear about it when they leave. We have been having so much fun as a family I can't keep up. The Big E, Boston, Jared's Birthday. And then we will have Philly this weekend, Palmyra and Niagara falls early next week, NYC complete with a Broadway show and the statue of Liberty, and then back to CT for a a ride on a steam engine and old river boat. We love Grandmas and Grandpas.

Happy Birthday Jared!

Today Jared turned 29! We went to Boston yesterday and today we had a little get together with his co-residents. We had fun and yes I have pictures, but I am tired, so you will have to wait. I just wanted to say Happy Birthday and that I love my husband very much and appreciates all that he does for our family. Love ya!!!

Carmel Apples

We had lots of fun this past week making treats with all of our apples. Yesterday we made Carmel apples and they were yummy. IF you want to know how we made these and all of our other yummy treats checkout Mommy Creations.

Master Sorensen

I (Jessica) now officially have a masters degree. But wait you read about my graduation last year.Well that is true I walked in graduation last year. I was completely finished except for finishing my research project up and turning in my paper. I had already presented about my research project was expected to be done with it by the end of last summer so I walked in graduation. Well since research and life doesn't always go as planned that didn't quite happen. My research didn't turn out hw I planned and with the struggles of being a new mom I didn't finish my project until the end of the year. I then turn in my paper in February and for the next 6 months went back and forth making changes. Since my research didn't quite turn out right it made writing the paper more difficult. Well all in all the paper finally got approved and I got my grade. I had forgot all about it and went on with my life until last week when this showed up in the mail.
My diploma. So now I am officially Master Sorensen. Not that I use this degree at all since I am a picture taking stay at home mom. Having gone through this program makes me a more paranoid mother. I learned about all sorts of ways that people die so my thought are very morbid sometimes. If my baby sleeps to long I have to make sure she is still breathing, if she is standing by a window I imagine her falling out. If I am around people taking about guns or at a shooting range in my head I am seeing exactly what the bullet would do if it hit someone. Driving down the road I see us in a car accident in my head and wonder who will take my baby if she survives and I don't. It gets worse sometimes, but I will spare you all the gory details. So see a morbid paranoid mind. I guess on the bright side it makes me more aware of safety hazards and I had fun going to school and people think it is cool that I am "like those people on CSI".
So what does a girl get when she gets her masters degree do you ask? Well this girl got a carpet cleaner and is very happy about it. I have been wanting one of these especially since we don't have a dog door anymore and if I forget to take Tito out he goes to the bathroom in front of Addi's closet or in the corner of the dining room and since our dining room is carpeted and I have an 18 month old that throws her food on the ground when she doesn't want it anymore. Now I can clean my carpet anytime I want and I don't have to live with the stains until we rent a carpet cleaner about once a year.
So I am Jessica Lynn Sorensen M.F.S who stays home with her beautiful little girl taking pictures and cleaning her carpets and I couldn't be happier.

Bushy Hill Apple Orchard

On Saturday we took another family adventure to Bushy Hill Orchard. I picked this particular apple orchard because they have dwarf trees so they would be small enough for Addi to reach the apples.
Addi always enjoys her adventures with her daddy.
I couldn't sleep the night before so I got up and made Addi this dress to wear out of some cute material I found in the remnants bin. Remember last years dress and trip to the apple orchard?
So maybe I made the dress a bit short, but I think she looked awfully cute in it.
We got to ride a tractor out to the orchard to pick the apples.
We had fun picking the apples
but I think Addi enjoyed eating them more


Addi did pretty good considering she only has 6 teeth, or maybe daddy helped her out a little.

We also got to pick raspberries. YUM!
Addi didn't like the raspberries as much as the apples but she had fun picking them and then smashing them.

We came home with 10 lbs of apples and 2 pints of raspberries and have been making fun treats ever since including apple crisp, apples and peanut butter, and apple raspberry, mango crumble. And later this weekend there will be carmel apples and chocolate raspberry cupcakes.