Rail Trail

Compliments of Hank Ouellette....you can tell he has a nice camera - these are so much more clear than the pics I take with my rinky dink camera!! He was taking pics of the Rail Trail event yesterday and snapped a few cute ones of the kids. Ev was actually up in the conductor's seat on the train!

An early Bday gift.....

Ev has been a very patient little boy and even though he probably could have used a new bike at the beginning of the summer, we had decided to wait until his birthday. People were starting to ask if he was practicing to be a clown in the circus, that's how funny this big, almost 5-year old looked on his 12" bike!!! We took him to Toys R Us last night and had him try a few different bikes/sizes, and settled on a 16" snazzy bike with NO training wheels as an early birthday gift. No joke, before I had even opened my eyes in bed this morning, Ev was in my room, completely dressed - he had made his bed, started his breakfast and already completed 3 checkmarks on his "responsibilities chart" (and checked them off too) all before 7:15am this morning! To say he was excited would be an understatement!! He was riding his bike by 7:20am before Jeff and I even had time to have a cup of coffee! Here are a few pics of his new wheels. I also included a couple pics of Sophia at 13 months old - she, too, is just growing up TOO fast!! (Don't you just love her "bling")?? :)

A fun day at the beach!

We decided to take advantage of the nice weather and venture up to Ogunquit, ME for the day Saturday. What a beautiful day it was! Despite the cold water temps, Ev spent hours swimming and riding waves, and both kids enjoyed playing in the sand. It was the Festival of Kites so there were tons of kites on the beach too, which was neat for the kids to see. We hiked part of the Marginal Way and then had dinner and ice cream. I just love the beach in September! Here are a few pics of my little beach bums!

Jeff's Big Hike

Even Hurricane Earl didn't scare Jeff away from hiking Mt. Washington this past weekend - he said there were 50mph sustained winds at the summit with 70mph wind gusts. I'm not sure which would be more scary to me - hiking to the top in those conditions or driving to the top with Uncle Dave behind the wheel, which is how we made it to the summit two years ago - both seem equally as treacherous!! ;) Good job Jeff!

Ev's 1st day of School!

Long time, no post! I hope to be better about posting this fall. My problem is that we moved our computer downstairs to the playroom/basement so I am barely on the computer now and often don't even get around to checking my email on a daily basis. I feel very out of the loop! I'll try to be better so you can see how much the kids are changing, especially Sophia!
Today was Evan's first day of school. He was very excited to go back this year and when I picked him up afterwards he said that "school was wonderful today!" He was in the same classroom, with the same teachers and most of the same kids - there are about 5 or 6 new little kids in his class this year. He is most excited about his field trip this fall and being able to ride the school bus to get there. This will be his first field trip (they go to the apple orchard) and he has been talking about it constantly since I mentioned it last week! Here are a couple pictures from today. As you can see, Sophia was happy to bring her big brother to school too - no one could believe how much she grew over the summer and how great she is walking. She was barely crawling at the end of the school year last spring. The last picture was his class coming in from the playground at the end of the morning. Too cute!