Clam Bake and a visit to Steve and Si's!

We had a very long and busy weekend!  We went down to visit the family for a clam bake.  If you're not sure what a clam bake is... it's a big metal bucket with sea-food, potatos, corn, sausage, cooked over an open flame. It looks like this:

Nicky loves these kinds of foods, and I don't.  I go mostly because it's a great excuse to see everyone and to hang out with the family.  We had fun, Taylor and Aunt Star went to the swings 4 different times over the course of 5 hours.

Katie and Gary have been wakeboarding constantly, like literally 3+ days per week.  They just bought a new car to tow the boat.  It's very nice and seats 7 or 8 people comfortably.

For some reason the rocks were a huge hit with both Taylor and AJ.  Not sure what was so appealing about the rocks, but..yeah.  Lots of fun hanging around with everyone!

After the clam bake, we headed over to Steve and Si's house to hang out for the night and the next day.  It was great to see them again.

Ben is really funny, very thoughtful baby.  He makes great eye contact and you can tell the wheels are turning.  Wish I knew what he thought of whats going on around him.

You're doing it wrong!

We went to the park and AJ was showing off how good he is at standing up!  He turned 11 months old yesterday, and he took his first few steps this week.  He'll be walking in no time!

After all that standing, he fell asleep on the swings!  So funny to watch him as he slowly fell asleep!

Good fun, and a busy weekend.  I have some more pics from when we got home, they'll be in the next post!