Cape Cod June Vacation! 19 months old...

We spent the week of June 22nd in Cape Cod, MA and Newport, RI with a bunch of the extended Riley family for my cousin's wedding (Patrick Riley). We stayed in a beautiful home on John's Pond in Mashpee most of the trip a few doors down from my Uncle Pat;s house, traveling to Barnstable to visit my Uncle Bill's family and to Newport to attend the wedding. Riley had such a fun time and was entertained from dawn until dusk with various cousins, aunts and uncles...they were great babysitters!! Riley got to visit her first aquarium, touch her first starfish, lobster (alive!) and clams...she thought it was pretty cool. She screamed (with pure excitement) the entire time we were in the aquarium.

During our trip, Riley was such a trooper...only getting one "scheduled" nap the entire time...all other naps were in the car, airplane, back of a bike or in the stroller. One afternoon we decided to join my Uncle Mike for what was supposed to be a 4 mile bikeride down the coast....Cody pulled Riley in the bike trailer and it was the most beautiful bike ride I have ever been on...onle problem was it really ended up being 22 miles...we were exhausted at the end but it was worth every mile.

On June 26th we traveled up to Newport Rhode Island for the wedding...this was no normal wedding...it was held in a Newport Mansion that was breathtaking...views of the ocean, lush green gardens and an amazing manor home! Every wedding should be in a Newport mansion! Newport is know for it's amazing mansions, shopping and beaches...this is a vacation spot we will return to again!

I think we have officially decided that Riley is no longer our baby...she really is a toddler...growing up so quickly! She knows EVERYTHING that we tell her...she can communicated back well enough that we know almost everything that she wants...she knows the power of "no" and how to use it (she probably said this word more than any other word on our trip...annoying but amazing that she knows exactly what she wants and has no hesitation about it).

Here are some pictures of Riley from our trip...enjoy!

After our long bike ride,we ended up at Woods Hole (where the aquarium is)...

After a long car ride...gotta love the long eyelashes for these pictures!

John's Pond...right in front of our rental...

Riley searching for rocks to throw in the water...

Evening view from our porch...took this picture with a long shutter speed to catch the light from the distant lighthouse...turned out cool!

New York strawberries....she couldn't get enough! This is the reaction I get when I ask her to make a "silly" face for the camera...

On our last day, we went to visit Great Grandma Riley...here are some pictures from the Barnstable house...

The Locust house where Cousin Jess lives...Riley loved playing in the fields and picking flowers. This property is pretty much amazing!