The B Gang

2010-12-26T06:21:00.000-08:00

Ryan showing off his chef side

Illy and Uncle Dru

Silly Illy

Mumma B and Scott!

The handsome Brulotte Boys all dressed up for their Holiday concert.

Con Man and Uncle Scott

My dear friends: Merrillee and Holly!

Brotherly love Christmas morning.

Illy's Christmas sweater...just finished Christmas Eve!

Drouin excited about his chicken poop lip balm.

Jackson with his new Tony Hawk snowboarding game for Wii.

We are having more family today. So I will add additional pictures later today or tomorrow.

Merry Christmas to all our friends and family across the country and Canada!!

2010-08-09T16:38:00.000-07:00

The beginning of the Great Southern Adventure.

The boys and I started our trip on Sat and made our long journey to NC. On the way we found Danica Patrick's race car trailer (5:30am). Who's Danica Patrick you ask...famous women NASCAR/INDY driver.

This is my handsome boy getting ready to meet his relatives in NC!! Ain't he purdy!!

We finally made it and the boys are relaxing by the

"Redneck Pool"

On our first day of vacation adventures Uncle Debbie starting sloushing in the crik

Mining for Emeralds in Hiddenite NC

We all joined in and "immersed" ourselves!!!

Now we are sloushing!!!

My bum got dirty so I thought this is how the miners used to do it and

now I know why they were never clean!!
Is this a "Redneck Bath" or a water slide?

Here is my mother load!!! Not as pure as I would have liked just the adventure is everything I had hoped for and more. Everyone should go at least once in their life.

Put it on your "Bucket List"

Mining for Emeralds!!!

More entries from the GREAT SOUTHERN ADVENTURE to come!

2010-06-13T17:45:00.000-07:00

Ok....so I haven't posted pictures in forever. Sue me. Just when we thought spring was coming to New England we get one last blast of snow but it melted quickly.

Finally Easter arrived and we celebrated with the Brulotte side of the family. We had a great Easter Egg hunt.

Nana all dressed up and surround

by good looking boys!

Funny the horses ass is next to the Brulotte Boys:) Anyway. During April vacation we took the boys to Family Day at Anheuser-Busch in Merrimack NH. The boys loved being able to see and touch those huge horses.

Now Memorial Day has arrived and its time to go camping with our extended family "The Nagles". This year we tried a new campground way up north in Crawford Notch.

Illy joined us for her first camping trip!!

She was a great camper once she got over being dirty:)

This is Illy telling us how much she likes camping. This is a happy face !!!! Really!!!

Pep showing her the river!!!

We had waterfront sites and a beautiful view of the White Mountains!!

We were all suprised by our dear friends the Bugnacki's!!! They secretly got sites just up the trail from us!!! They boys were determined to go tubing even if it was freezzzzing!!!

Here is our little bathing beauty!!! She too wanted to go in the river until she found out how old it really was!!

Mrs. Bug and Mara taking a nap!!! While the quiet lasted......20 minutes.

Oh did I mention the black flies had just hatched and they were hungry. Poor Dru was really attacked. We couldn't show pictures of Holly there was too much blood!!! Really!!!

Illy with her best bud Mara. She was so happy when Mara came into camp. She yelled MAra!! My friend Mara is here!!!

Our men prepping for the night!!!

Action Jackson hanging out for the ladies!!!

Ok without getting into great detail.... I played a

little trick on Holly and she got my husband to help her get me back by backing the truck up to the porta potty while I was taking care of business. Thank goodness I was in the porta potty.I was laughing so hard I thougth I would pee my pants.

She really does love me like a sister.

Now our latest project our vegatable garden!!! Finally I have been waiting almost 7 years...since we moved from Deerfield.

This would be our first attempt at table grapes!!!
Thanks Impa for your construction assistance and your decorative touch!!!

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OH....pictures not in complete order ...Deb wanted to see pictures of my gardens so they are mixed in too

Farmer Liz prepping the new raised beds!!

My tractor is not a sweet as yours Lisa but someday!!!!

Robusta gusta roses..from my master gardener sister!!!

Here's what the raised beds look like!!! Soon they will have many lush vegatables growing in them!!

these are the beautiful yellow Calla lilies the boys gave me for Mother's Day!!!

Deb this is my freak white frilled bleeding heart!!

Pretty white sweet smelling flower that I can't remember the name of !!!

Our first mountain laurel finally blooming!!!

Poppies from the Nagles!!!

Thank you all for looking through our window of the world here in Gilmanton, NH. Only 7 days of school left. (not that I am counting) Then we start summer camp!! I will have lots more fun pictures in the coming months.

NewYears Eve 2010 and Ice Fishing on Manning Lake

2010-01-31T08:38:00.000-08:00

Our yearly New Years Eve Dates!!

Don't we look fabulous and we didn't even plan our outfits!

Scott and his beautiful wife:)

Happy New Years from

The Brulotte Family

Jack patiently waiting for a bite

That lasted about 15 minutes then he taught

Mommy how to fish and left to play.

Dru and Jackson with best friend Mikey!

Drouin sifting the ice from the fishing hole.

Jackson sporting his St. Kilda shirt from Australia

Thanks Auntie Mags!!!

Jack and Mara looking for wild animals

across the lake. Nothing Yet!

Jack still hoping to catch the

"Big One"!

Sunrise over Manning Lake! Let the fishing begin!!

2009-12-28T13:02:00.000-08:00

The Holiday Season began with the selection and cutting of the Brulotte Christmas tree.

Next we decorated the house . We always put up Mima's nativity!!!

The next BIG Event was the boys Christmas Concert. Jackson on drums and Drouin on tenor sax. What a great evening of music and song.

Here's our beautiful tree all decorated

Nana and her boys Christmas morning.

Jackson with his hound!

Kane with his new toy. That lasted 15 minutes!

Jack and Dru with new clothes and monster truck!

Mommy knitted the styling hat to match Dru's ski jacket!!

Pappason and his boys sledding Christmas morning on new sleds:)

Ilyana taking care of her new baby from Nana!

Time for a break from opening presents to have a snack.

Izzy and Alice at Uncle Jon and Aunt Marianne's house!!

Vicki looking great with her new do!

Bubba and Beth looking so sweet.

this is a good one Bethy.

Joey and Uncle Scott playing

Jade,Will and Illy before they left.

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Healthy and Happy New Year. I'll be updating the blog again soon. We love you all and wish we could be with you this Holiday season but the airline tickets to your house must have gotten lost in the mail. Maybe next year!!!

2009-12-28T13:00:00.000-08:00

2009-10-25T13:17:00.000-07:00

Jackson's finished pumpkin:)

Dru with his finished pumpkin!!

Boys exhausted from sorting their socks:(

Jack working hard at cleaning his pumpkin out.

Time in New England

2009-10-12T05:34:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone,

I know it has been a while but life gets busy and blogging takes a bit of time if you're slow at it. Mom and Dad have made their way back to AZ and we miss them.

We were tired of working on the house and yard...the list is endless so we decided to take a hike!

The boys, Kane and us started off to tackle Mt Belknap a short 2 mile round trip hike.

We all loved it and plan to keep it going.

We used to hike a lot with Jade and Mitch but got away from it.

So here are some shots of our lives in the past 6 months.

Fun Hiking on Belknap Mountain.

Fall in New England

If only childcare was this easy!!

Waterslide at Six Gun City this summer.

The dynamic duo!!

Cool dudes with their new shades!!

Rose Kennedy greenway in Boston on a hot summer day!

Hinking Mt Belknap!

Family time and getting a workout!
We were one tired family after this including Kane.

2009-04-12T08:08:00.000-07:00

I know I haven't posted since Feb. so here we go.

Uncle Chris and Drubby playing Wii!
" He gotta Daddy named Forest too?"

Each year the school invites an artist to come and share their "art" with the students for 2 weeks.
This year we had a musician from Kenya Theo. His group is called Akwaba. He taught the students how to use and play africian drums.It was amazing at the concert.

Drouin and class in costume!

Theo and the boys.

Jack's snowman sculpters were selected for this years art show!!

The snow family!!

Lakes Regions Power Duo!!!!

This a lean mean fighting machine!!

Kane helping Dru dig a hole??

Or is Dru helping Kane???

Impa this one is for you!! The boys went out ice fishing several times this year and this was their first catch....notice the measuring stick on the side:) It was HUGE:)

I'll try to get more today at Jon and Mariannes house for Easter!!!

Love you all

FUN FEBRUARY!!!

2009-02-24T11:50:00.000-08:00

Well before February Vacation began I had the brilliant idea to go to the ocean with Kane and the family. It was suppose to be 50 degrees out and sunny. Scott like the idea to allow our new "puppy" the opportunity to run wild. The boys and I looked up Plum Island on the internet as we heard it was a big beautiful beach to walk on. So we alll agreed it was a good idea. Well little did we know that it would be around 50 but with wind gusting 25-30 mph. NOT the best weather to walk on the beach. But we stuck it out for at least 15 minutes and gave up the walk. Kane of course couldn't understand why!

Winter has not left New England by a long shot. We got yet another storm on Sunday afternoon thru the night giving us another 11 or so inches but who's counting:) We lost power in the middle of a Sean Connery movie " The Rock" the boys were very disapointed as was I . I love Sean Connery!!!! Anyway we got many shots of the great white snow storm. Those of you who deserted us I know you REALLY miss the white stuff!!!

Kane is not very fond of the snowblower and would rather eat it than have it get rid of snow!!

This is where my beautiful gardens Dru relaxing in the snow!

should be but not for a while at this

point!

Here I am finally. Dru took the shot, my swollen face is covered. I had oral surgery on Friday and the right side of my face is still swollen. Now I've got 4-6 months of healing to do. I made sure that the (cow)bone graft I received didn't have mad cow issues.

The doctor said I should be ok but let him know if I start acting crazy:)

I still have not mastered this blog thing...Hopefully I can get some one on one lessons from Deb and Teresa sometime soon!!!!

Love you all Lizzie and the B Gang!!

IT"S A BOY!!!

2009-02-04T15:49:00.000-08:00

Well it's been about a month and so much has happened. We have a new addition to our family his name is Kane and he is a 15 month old bullmastiff. We have been looking for another bullmastiff for about 6months and were ready to call it quits for a while and then out of the blue we got Kane. He is very well behaved and loving being part of the family...except for Max our dominate male cat.

We have been having some fun enjoying the large amounts of snow here in NH. We took the boys out snowshoeing last Sunday around our house and our across the pond. We had a great time finding tracks. Deer, squirrel and snowshoe hare!!! Impa you would be proud of your young outdoorsman!!

This photo is of Dru , Jack and a Barred Owl we aquired. He is beautiful. We are working to get the ok from US Fish and Wildlife to have him stuffed and donated to our school.

We hear that Phil the woodchuckk is predicting 6 more weeks of winter but we're all set here in NH. We're happy to see spring come and the flowers along with it.

Happy Holidays to all near and far!!

2008-12-27T10:32:00.000-08:00

Good afternoon. Well another Christmas has pasted and it's hard to believe. We had a quiet yet wonderful day. The boys slept in until almost 7am!! Thank you Lord! Our older kids and grandbaby all came on Friday afternoon and left this morning. It was really fun to watch Jack and Dru with Ilyana!!! They just love her up!!

Ilyana on her new rocking horse from Nana!! She was still riding it at 9pm last night.

Jack practicing his Santa skills.

How many Uncles does it take to help Ilyana open her gifts??

Ily loved ripping the paper. Just keep feeding them to her!!!

Ilyana wearing her new sweater from Grammie! Of course the first words out of her mouth this morning is " Where's Grammie!!!"

We miss our family scattered across the the state and the US!! Wishing you all good health and peace this coming year!! We love you all very much!

I'm still new at this blog stuff so hang in there until I get better at it. Oh did I mention we got Wii fit for Christmas and my fitness age was that of a 37 year old. That's right baby!!!

PS> I forgot my camera at school so took pictures with Jade's camera. Will get more of the family next week ...when I get the camera back.

Virgin Blog?!

2008-12-23T13:47:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone,

My sister Deb has nagged me to death to get a blog going...So here is my first entry.

Here is picture of our wedding tree. For those of you who may remember we gave small Colorado spruce trees as wedding favors. Deb and Dan grew this one for us before we had a yard. When they moved this year they gave it to us.

It's almost 7 feet tall.

This what Scott looked like after cleaning out from this last storm which gave us about 12 inches of snow.

I'm just learning so more to come!!