Memorial Day Weekend

On Saturday we headed up to Ipswich to see Timery and Steve. Jason turned 1 last week so we wanted to get all the kids together to celebrate! S&Z had fun playing with all of Jason's new "big kid" toys, including this awesome ball tent.

I love this shot of the two boys checking each other out!

Zoe and Silas had fun "helping" Jason open up his birthday presents.

Then they showed him how everything worked :)

The kids were very interested in the newest additions to the DeBoer-Bilakovics family - 2 kittens - who smartly hid under couch!

After dinner we decided to test drive Jason's new awesome all-terrain wagon! First we tested it out inside,

And then we took it outside,

Jason and Silas are so darn cute together!

Before too long, S&Z just wanted to push it...

After all that hard work I loaded up two very tired kids and headed back to Boston!

On Sunday we headed over to Wendy & Dave's house for a twin BBQ extravaganza! They have a great backyard with tons of fun toys for all the kids! Much like at Sydney & Ivy's birthday party, S&Z again loved this ball pit.

But this party was different from the bash in the fall because now all the kids are WALKING!

And climbing,

And rocking,

And socializing,

And flirting :)

And playing cottage,

And generally being cute and crazy!

In total there were 7 sets of twins belonging to 6 sets of mommies and daddies + lots of other kids. What a great way to celebrate the kick-off to summer!!! Tomorrow I look forward to going out for lunch as a family and then chilling out the rest of the day...

You can all of the photos from our very fun weekend by clicking on the Picasa link below,

Memorial Day Weekend

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