Summer is Here!

Another school year has come and gone!  We celebrated graduation last Saturday and faculty meetings are over.  It's hard to believe, but we just finished our seventh year at PA!  Scott had to say goodbye to five of his seven advisees at graduation.  Some of these boys have been mentored by Scott for all four years of their high school career, so it was bittersweet to see them move on to college.

Here is Scott with his graduating boys at an end-of-year cookout...

Our boys had fun exploring the beautiful backyard!

 Maggie, one of my former students and soccer players who is now in college, had fun holding Sadie.  Her brother Patrick was one of Scott's four-year advisees and she and her family joined the cookout...

We became very close to Patrick and Maggie's family over the years.  Sad to see him go... (and he's standing on a little hill...he's not that much taller than Scott!)

It didn't take us long to pull out our tiny kiddie pool out and get started on some summer fun!

 Silly Daddy and Sadie...

 These two love each other (most of the time!)...

 Smiley girl...

 I can never get a good picture with her!

 We had our first outing of the summer to Elkins beach!  We'll be spending lots of time there this summer!  Can't wait!  (Although I'm a little unsure about how I'm going to do it alone with three kids...could be interesting!)

 Sadie's first trip to the beach!

 We dipped her toes in!

Of course we just had to get ice cream on the way home!

 We are looking forward to many more sunny days and summer adventures!  Next up: visiting Brian and Sarah in Portland for a day trip!  Can't wait to see that cute little niece of ours!

Evening Play

After dinner last night we went outside to enjoy the evening light.  We are so blessed by this little piece of land we call home.  

 Scott (with a tiny bit of help from me and Camden) stacked 4 cord of green wood for next winter!  Good job, hubby!

 Exploring the woods...

So excited that spring is officially here!  I think we have many, many more evenings like this in our future!

A Wintery March

Well, now that it's March, winter has decided to arrive.  We had lots of wintery adventures this last week - Camden's first time on ice skates, watching a sled dog presentation up at the local college and playing on the foot of fresh snow that recently dumped on us.  Luckily, spring won't be too far away - it's supposed to be in the 50's this week!  I figured we needed to enjoy the snow while we had it!

We bought Camden his first big boy bike at the LL Bean outlet last weekend!  Gotta love the lifetime guarantee!

 Camden's first attempt at ice skating!  He was very nervous at first, but really figured it out pretty quickly! 

 He was pretty excited!

 Holding a hockey stick...no offense hockey playing/parenting friends, but I really hope my boys don't want to pick up this sport!

 We're pretty lucky to have this great rink right on campus!

 Watching the sled dogs...

 Nan joined us for the fun!

 Snow angel!

 Giving the dogs some treats...

 Yummy!

After a couple days of snow and clouds, the sun broke through on Saturday afternoon and the temperatures rose quickly.  It definitely called for some backyard fun...

 Camden had fun jumping off the sides of his snow fort...

 "Sleeping" in their "bed"...