Mystic Seaport Ice Festival & More!

This weekend we visited the Mystic Seaport Museum for their Ice Festival. We got to see St. Bernards, did some sock skating, saw a bear sculpted from ice and got frozen in ice!

old timey photo

Frozen!

2 year old St. Bernard

13 week old St. Bernard

Ice Bear

Silly G

Sock Skating

 

The dogs were there as part of a demonstration and the 13 week puppies weighed about 40 pounds!! They were so big but so cute!!

We also got a little bit of snow lately but it's already gone. I took a couple pics from our house. We didn't get to play in it because Gavin and I were both sick with colds and Gavin is still fighting an ear infection. The cold didn't slow him down too much though....here's a video of him playing with boxes.

Playing with Daddy

Hugging his Valentine's card!

Here is an updated pic of the baby bump from this past week!

In case I didn't share it in a previous post, here is the video from when Carlton found out I was pregnant! He had been gone for a race for a few days and this was his welcome home present.

New Hampshire and Updates!

We took a trip to see the Fall Foliage this past October but I hadn't really had much time to go through all the photos and organize everything. So these are a few months old but still very pretty, so I wanted to share!! Our first day, we took the Cog Railway up to the top of Mount Washington. We were hoping to get great views of the Fall foliage from there, however, it turned out to be a very cold and overcast day! It was about 25 at the top of the mountain (not including wind chill) and visibility was horrible! Apparently Mount Washington is known for having very unpredictable weather, so it can be very dangerous for hikers. On April 12, 1934 the observatory at the summit recorded a wind speed of 231 mph which was a world record until 1996.

Our train

View from the train 

G trying to balance on the steep incline

Summit of Mt. Washington

The view - COLD!!

More of the summit

Little mountaineer

View from building to our train

Official Sign

inside the Lodge

View from train

Heading back down

The ride up the mountain was interesting since there is an average 25% incline and a maximum 37% incline on the 3 mile track!

Gavin enjoying Carlton's glove

Selfie in front of the train

Gavin's penguin buddy in waiting rm

Next we went to check out the famous Mount Washington Hotel which is a luxury tourist destination spot with views of Mount Washington.

Mount Washington Hotel

Cog railway track

Foliage behind hotel

Massive fireplace

New Loyalty Ambassador!

Then we had to stop to get pictures of more fall colors and a couple waterfalls that we passed along the way!

Next up we explored covered bridges, Pumpkin People in Jackson Village, and Jackson Falls.

Young Frankenstein

Military Heroes

We did a short hike to Sabbaday Falls to stretch our legs more.

Top of the falls

Partial rainbow

Cutie with colorful background

Another covered bridge

Here are some recent pictures of Gavin and a baby bump photo at 24 weeks!

Testing out Dad's backpack

Joining his toys in the bin

Sharing the tunnel with Daddy

Reading a book to a bear

Shopping at Target

Lastly I will leave you with a video of Gavin crawling over me in the tunnel. I had to flatten myself as much as possible for him to fit through!