All Aboard!

About a week ago my dear friend Alexandra, who runs New England Fall Events, a fabulous website about all things autumn, asked if we'd be willing to go to the American Girl Grace Thomas Train Ride event for her. Without hesitation I responded "yes!". Tickets were arranged and a plan was hatched for us to head to Woonsocket Rhode Island for this once in a lifetime event today! I don't want to say too much more because I'll be blogging about this incredible trip over at New England Fall Events but I will say this: American Girl sure knows how to throw a party! We had an absolute blast and are so thrilled to have been able to attend this incredible event! Thank you, Alexandra, for sending your team of roving reporters on yet another amazing trip! It was a fabulous way to spend a day! xo

Friday Morning In Fairyborough

Yesterday was an absolutely perfect day to head to the Discovery Museums in Acton for their Fairyborough event! We arrived first thing in the morning and stayed until it was time to head to the lake for swimming lessons. The girls had a wonderful time writing fairy mail, building fairy houses and writing fairy stories to be included in the Fairyborough Library! More details of our adventure will be over on the New England Fall Events website sometime this autumn (I'll be sure to post when our piece has gone live over there). Thanks to our dear friend Alexandra for choosing us to attend this truly fabulous event (and the Dirtopia event last month)! We had a truly fantastic time! xo

A Fairy Lovely Day

 A few days ago I received a message from one of my favorite people (and the girls beloved yoga teacher) about the Portsmouth Fairy House Tour. She knows how much we adore fairies and gnomes in this family and was curious if we had ever been to this fairy house event before  (we hadn't). She was planning to attend the event so that she could have first hand knowledge of it for New England Fall Events (one of the fabulous autumn themed websites she puts together) and was hoping to get our take as well should we decide to go. Not being a family to pass up an adventure we packed a lunch (and the girls wings) and off we went.

 Dave's favorite fairy house. 

 A family favorite. Grace and Emma especially liked this one. 

 Into the woods. 

 The bubble tower was incredible! We so need one of these! 

 A fairy and her papa. 

 Following a Monarch butterfly we spotted!

 Chatting with one of the fairy ballerinas. 

 Her smile says it all!

 The fairy ballet. 

 As the Grande Finale all the girls in attendance were invited on stage. 

 Such a sweet fairy house. 

 My favorite fairy house. 

What a stellar event! Each fairy house was just incredible and no two were the same. We had such a lovely time wandering down the paths where the houses were and seeing each one as we passed by. Some we stopped to check out more closely and others we couldn't as there were simply too many people already gathered there. The girls especially loved the fairy ballet and getting to dance with the fairies before and after the show. We never did make it to the fairy face painting, and the other children's activities were pretty jam packed too. We definitely have plans to head back to this event again, but we also hope to head back to Portsmouth to spend more time visiting Strawberry Banke and the lovely gardens. Portsmouth is such a neat town, and I have to admit that I did find myself thinking that I could totally see the four of us enjoying living there. Thank you, Alexandra, for letting us know about the fairy house tour! We had such fun and are looking forward to heading back next year! xo