We had the best time in Boston for Mid Winter Break this year! I’m so glad we’ve been putting the effort in the last few years to get the Martin cousins together as much as we can given two opposite sides of the country. It’s really paying off – they play together so well and were all excited leading up to the long weekend.

We tried something new and instead of using an entire day to fly east, we took a 3:45 flight – with a cockpit viewing for Paige! – that landed in Boston around midnight. An uber ride later and we were at Mike and Kelly’s around 1am. The kids woke up the next morning at 8:30 and minus being a little tired, they were on east coast time without any real adjustment!

On Saturday we spent the day at the house letting the kids play together. They spent most of the weekend playing family and enjoying the leftover snow. Paige shocked us all by being the last one standing outside.

I love seeing the four of them together – they are now at an age where they can all have a conversation and it’s so sweet to watch their relationships grow.

On Sunday we headed into Boston for the Children’s Museum and lunch. I’m trying to get to as many as we can before Paige ages out. She had fun with some of the activities and also helping Abby enjoy the museum.

While Paige and Abby spent a lot of time together this trip, these two were a little pair. They are both in Kindergarten this year and seem to be connecting a lot, especially over Paw Patrol. It’s always fun to see how the kids pair up.

We headed to Pink Taco for lunch (or brunch, we are not cool anymore so we all forgot that 1pm on a Saturday means brunch), where all the kids wanted the pink churro pancakes and a side of bacon. We warned them they probably wouldn’t actually be pink, but what do you know! We had four very excited kiddos.

We headed back to the house for more outside time…

…while Uncle Mike and Greg picked up Grandma from the airport! We also had cupcakes for Paige’s birthday this night, but I didn’t seem to get a photo.

Monday morning was more playtime then a trip out of the house for bowling and the arcade. (And yay! I finally made it into a photo on the resuscitated blog!!)

That night all the grown ups went out to dinner in Providence, but we forgot a photo to prove it! Michelle, the girls’ nanny, came to watch the kids and it was reported that she is “super fun”.

We had some last bits of TV and playtime on Tuesday morning…

… then it was off to the airport. Greg left separately for a work trip and the kids and I ate an early dinner before our evening flight back west. We really had the best time together and can’t wait for our August trip. In fact, the kids requested a 177 day paper chain, lol!