Apple Picking at Shelburne Orchards

"APPLES!!!!!!"

Macintosh - Sara's fav! SO white inside

Goofy Kid!

Excited Face!

Cider Donuts - probably one of the the best kind of donuts ever!

Fresh Apple Cider!

Hugging his friend, Ana

Hugging his friend, Jack - ha ha ha!

We love Vermont and doing Vermonty things like apple picking!

Our good friends and next door neighbors, the Larsens! We love them!

Enjoying the evening!

A gorgeous end to a fun day!

Tan Tan Tan Tan!

This post is all about the Tanman!! He is so stinkin' cute these days! I just adore him and love spending my days with him. His newest thing is counting to 14 all the time. He has the cutest little voice when he counts! He still loves balls and cars and "digging trucks" that we see everytime we drive anywhere. He loves his friends Jack, Ana, and Ethan and is starting to interact with them. He is super attached to me and won't let me be more than 5 feet from him in public. Eli has spent the past 6 weeks in nursery because Tan is having a major difficult time staying there alone. He loves to make faces for different emotions: happy, sad, excited, mad. He LOVES "sticko" and coloring. He loves playing outside and going for walks in the "fodist" (forest). He is also a high-energy, feisty kid! We have used the time-out consequence a lot recently. But he is also so sweet and gives random hugs when he feels so inclined. Eli and I still tell each other multiple times a day how cute he is and how much we love him! Here are some recent pics of the Tanman...

Posing for the camera!

Loves for daddy

Eating "crunchies" (soy nuts) with daddy

He splashed his milk and wasn't too happy about it getting all over him

When we laughed, he relaxed and thought it was pretty funny, too!

He loves to make all kinds of ramps for his cars

"Splashin" in puddles with his new Mickey Mouse rainjacket!

Handsome and ready for church!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this picture! I could just eat him up!!

Love at Home

Back in May, Eli and I teamed up with Aly to sing the song "Love at Home" during our ward Mother's Day sacrament meeting. We made it even more of a family affair by having Eli's amazing pianist cousin, Nichole, accompany us. And since our blog is called the Musical Moreys, it's about time that we post a video of us singing! We have sung together in every single ward we've ever lived in, but we've never actually recorded us singing. I LOVE this song! It has beautiful harmonies and a gorgeous piano accompaniment. Also, it was so fun to sing with Aly! The three of us spent a lot of time together in the past couple years so it was nice to put our voices together before Eli and I were separated from Aly by many many miles. (Tear!)

This recording was taken BEFORE sacrament meeting so we weren't being irreverent or anything! Here are a few disclaimers before you watch:

1. I am like majorly distracted during the last 2/3 of the song. People kept coming in because sacrament meeting was going to start. But we wanted to get the whole song recorded so that we could show our moms for mothers day. So I am super distracted and not very presentable, but things were much better during the actual performance!
2. You can hear lots of background noise because people were coming into the chapel. Someday we'll get a good recording!

Holidays bring fun things!

Almost two years ago, Santa brought us this little bundle of joy ---

(Doncha just love Tan's face in this pic?! Oh, the expressions of newborns are so entertaining!)

Next year, a little green leprechaun is going to bring us another cute n' cuddly little person!

See:

YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!! We are super duper excited to keep growing our little family!!!

It's been pretty hard hiding this tummy! I can't believe I'm already the size I was with Tan at 5 months and I'm only 3 months along. Sheesh - people were right when they said you pop out much faster after the first pregnancy! If I keep growing at this rate, I'm going to tip over at 7 months!!

Favorite moments from this pregnancy so far (good and bad!):

• Finding out that we were pregnant the morning after a super fun day at Disneyland!
• My clothes getting tighter RIGHT AWAY. I'm gonna be needing those stretchy band pants much sooner than I thought!
• Tanner saying "Hi Baby!" and kissing my belly all the time. And Tanner pointing to his own belly and saying that there is a baby in there. Ha ha ha!
• Living in the bathroom and throwing up all day and night. You really notice when the toilet needs to be cleaned when you spend so much time with it!
• My hero, Eli, taking over housework and taking care of Tanner while I was a good-for-nothing blob in the house.
• Discovering that Unisom and B6 work miracles! I'm not kidding! Seriously, I took them both for the first time on a Saturday night and was able to sing a solo in church the next day (I was asked DURING relief society to sing a solo in Sacrament meeting a hour later! Yikes!) I was really weak and shaky after not being able to eat anything for days, but at least I was able to do a lot more than lay on the ground in misery! YAY for drugs!!! Now I take 2 Unisoms (sleeping pills) and 2 B6 vitamins a day - one set in the morning, one at night - and I pretty much feel normal. I still have nausea and weakness but I can function and that makes me happy! I just wish I could exercise. Every time I try, my body remembers that it is in a constant state of sickness and isn't happy with me.
• Having lots of people offer me their prescription meds for nausea. I loved the thought but just couldn't bring myself to use their drugs illegally since I am married to a future doctor!
• Packing and moving while being sick - quite the adventure but Eli's sister, Ari, totally helped A LOT!! Oh and being able to fly across the country instead of drive was a total blessing.
  
• Crazy food aversions and cravings - I didn't get much of that (or nausea) with Tanner.
• Daily naps during Tan's naptime (Due to the whole sleeping pill twice a day thing!). Oh and CRAZY CRAZY dreams from taking extra B6. And I can consciously make decisions in my dreams which is super cool!
  
• Seeing the baby on the monitor with it's cute little, few centimeters long, profile. SO cute!

Bring on Baby #2!!!!!! Debuting sometime around March 8!!

Vermonters!

We are here in Vermont!!! And it is BEAUTIFUL!!! Seriously, so green and lush and just really picturesque. See: (click on it to make it bigger)

Eli took this photo of Lake Champlain which is right next to Burlington.

We have loved our first week and a half here. We absolutely LOVE our apartment. It's so spacious and bright and welcoming. (I'll take pics later and post them once we are completely moved in.) There is a playground right out our backdoor which Tanner loves. We also have awesome friends who live next door and across the street - we feel so blessed to have them so close! We already feel at home here and have fallen in love with the city. My drive to the grocery store is like driving through the Rocky Mountains. It's just so green and hilly and untouched. I love it! And the area isn't as small town as I thought it would be. We have pretty much every store we could ever need and there are lots more people than I thought there would be.

Eli's school is in Burlington, which is the biggest city in Vermont. We live in a city 5 miles north of Burlington called Essex Junction. (I love the names of the cities out here like Winooski and Stowe and Waterbury!) I like being out of the "big" city because there is more greenery in our city than in Burlington. The bus picks Eli up right in front of our apartment and drops him off at the door to the medical school. Pretty sweet set up, doncha think?! He'll love that in the winter when he doesn't have to wipe off a buried car and drive in the snow. I'll be the one in my boots and coat getting the car ready to go to the grocery store!
We have played a lot in between unpacking. Here are some of the things we have done so far:

• Meals with friends
• Walks in the forest nearby (or fujist as Tan calls it)
• A visit to a large farm nearby called Shelburne Farms. It is a working farm where you can see how cheese is made, watch cow milking demonstrations, etc. The farmhouse is over a hundred years old and is a beautiful structure. Check out the pictures at the end of the post! We even bought a season pass so that Tan and I can go play at the farm with our friends whenever we want!
• Spent a day in Montreal, Canada. I felt like I was back in Europe! Everyone was speaking French, the signs were in French, and the buildings were in the European style. It was a fun city to explore and we'll be back lots more since the nearest temple is in Montreal. (We have to use a passport to go to the temple! Sa-weet!)
  
• Tan and I walked around Church Street Marketplace which is a downtown pedestrian street with shops and restaurants. Right now there is an art thing going on with cows. There are statues of cows all over and companies decorated them however they wanted. Tanner's favorite thing was touching every single cow. I liked eating my nutella crepe as I people watched. (Vermont isn't stuck in the lastest fashion - it's pretty much just anything goes. I like that because I don't feel like I have to dress well to fit like I felt like in Salt Lake and Provo!)
• BBQ's at the school and by Lake Champlain with Eli's classmates. They all adore Tanner. There is one other LDS family with kids in Eli's year and one family with kids the year above us (both live right by us). There are a couple other kids of students but not many so Tanner was a commodity and all the girls were tickling him and just doting over him. He totally turned on his flirt face around them!
• Eli went through his first week of school which was orientation and today is his second day of actual classes! I'm a proud wifey! He's going to do great!

Enough chit chat, here are some pictures from Shelburne Farms, Montreal, and Church Street Marketplace!

Church Street Marketplace

This picture would look a lot better without the crane in it. If I was all powerful maybe I could have asked them to move. But I'm not so what can ya do?!

Montreal, Canada

Pedestrian street in Montreal

There were horse-drawn carriages all over this part of Montreal and the pink was my favorite! I wonder how that man feels surrounded by so much PINK!

Love love love my boys!

Watching this tractor at work was Tanner's favorite part of the day!

Shelburne Farms

The farmhouse

Authentic Vermont cheddar cheese - yummers!

We walked through those woods to the top of a hill overlooking the lake for a picnic lunch. Again, just gorgeous!

Love this! Ha ha ha!