Big E

One of our favorite things to do in the Fall in New England is to go to the Big E! It is a big fair out here and it is so fun. We go for the food. There are 5 state houses for each New England State. The best house for food is Maine. They have really good BBQ. My favorite food though is the Maple cotton candy in the Massachusetts' house. New Hampshire has good mac and cheese. Then there are just the fair food trailers and other food buildings. Matt really likes to get the huge cream puff. This year we tried a MOO Nut. It is a glazed donut stuffed with vanilla soft serve and topped with caramel and heath bar. It was delicious! We didn't spend the whole time eating we went to 2 petting zoos and Matt rode the giant slide. We went with our friends the Sealy's and the Stubbs whose husbands are also both in the accounting program with Matt. The accounting program here has a great Mormon showing. So its nice that all of us are in the same season of life together. Here's to the start of Fall!

I watched the babies so everyone else could slide

Next year Coop you can have a taste

Grandad Visits

A week after Allie left, Matt's dad came for a visit! 

Playing/ Sleeping on the couch 

Maple Cones- Coop really wanted to try a bite!

We got to go on a date night without Coop!

Drinking water and giving kisses

3 generations of Starlipers

Me too

We love Grandaddy!

Allie comes to Mass

Aunt Allie visited us back  in August. She had just quit her job so she had 2 weeks before she started her new one with Hilton. Plane tickets were pretty cheap so she booked one asap,so she could see her favorite chub. She wanted to visit Boston while she was here and since we hadn't really explored Boston since living here we were excited to take her around. Boston is 2 hours away from where we live so we decided to make it into a mini vacation and book a hotel so we could explore the sights for 2 days rather than one. While Allie was here we visited Yankee (Candle) Village, Harvard campus, Salem,Boston Temple, the Freedom Trail and Mt. Sugarloaf! It was so fun packing some much into our days and I'm glad that we were able to visit some places we hadn't visited yet!

Yankee Village - Is a fun destination near our town.

Allie made these delicious sprinkle cookies that we ate all weekend!

Boston Temple

Harvard

We had no idea that Harvard's book store was called The Coop. We loved seeing all the Coop signs.

I loved the colorful chairs/ inside one of the squares

John Harvard/ The law library

Hotel

Salem: This was Matt's pick, we went at the end of the day so we didn't go in any museums or tours. So I would like to go back one day to do that,but it was a cool town to just walk around. I didn't know that Salem was such a maritime town,but that was probably my favorite thing about it.

Bewitched Statue/ Witch history Museum

Trying our hand at being witches

It was so weird that we happened to go on the same date that some of the "witches" died. Someone had left roses and pennies on their graves.

Little Lighthouse at the end of the pier