Our Maine vacation ~ Campbell

This cute boy had so much fun on our vacation.

He tried absolutely everything and played himself into
an exhaustion coma each night. And loved every second.

This is how he spent a good part of our vacation. We've got
to get this boy to Hawaii. He would be in snorkeling heaven.

Ah, his first try at waterskiing. He thought it would be easier than it was.

But he stuck with it, even when he would rather have gone back to the tube.

And quite quickly, it paid off. He got up on his fourth try. Awesome!

This boy is so darling and fun and watching him try so many

new and brave things was such a wonderful part of our vacation.


...Stay tuned for more fun...

Our Maine vacation ~ Linn

So, um, what to say about this photo. I promised Jacob I wouldn't

delete all the pictures of me. So here I am looking at the lake. Riveting.

Do you know why this photo is so fabulous? This photo was not taken at
the end of a serious tubing run. This is before it all began. I absolutely
love tubing. But every year I get nervous to do it. And apparently
when I am scared to death on a tube, this is what I do. Lovely.

I get the tongue thing from my dad. Our kids do it too.

But see, I do have fun. Most of the time. Until I fly off, flipping

over in the water no less than seven times. And I exaggerate not.

Sarcasm aside, I do love the two photos above, just because they capture

what I truly believe I was put on this earth to do. Be a mother. I'm so grateful.

This picture only exists because Jacob forbade me from deleting it.
I'm not bitter though. After all, my boating hair looks incredible.

Okay, the sarcasm has returned.


...Stay tuned for more fun...

Our Maine vacation ~ Jacob

My new favorite picture of Jacob. I absolutely love it.

This guy is ready for a tubing adventure. Which means yours

truly was driving for the boat. For the first time. Yikes.

If I'm not mistaken, this is Jacob scouting out the land on both sides,

trying to decide where to be buried if the driver of the boat is as great at
driving as she thinks she will be. I believe he decided on the east side.

I think he likes it, yes?

Although this is how he spent the majority of his time. What a good dad.

Also on my list of favorite pictures. I'm a fan of Jacob Allen. A huge fan.

...Stay tuned for more fun...

Our Maine vacation ~ Our condo

Yeah, our condo was an awesome as it looks.

This view from our deck.

The view from the harbor.

Maine is beautiful. Really, really beautiful.


...Stay tuned for more fun...

Or not

I've discovered the private blog thing really isn't for me. At least until I have a truly good reason
for it, then it will have to be for me. Maybe I'm lazy. Maybe my mind has to simplify everything. 
Maybe I wrote maybe even though I knew both of the previous statements were absolutely true.
Either way, I'm taking the private settings off the blog for now. In case you care. I did save
all of the email addresses though, so that if something comes up, I won't have to pester
all of you kind people that wanted to stick with us, private or not.
For now, it is not. As the picture indicates. Carry on.

Sink bath

Scout camp

How darling is this boy? And yet, how tired does he look?

For good reason. This picture was taken this morning at 3:50am.

This is Campbell's first year to go to scout camp. And the scouts had to be there by 5:30am (long story). Which means, because of the length of the drive, they had to leave by 4:00am.

He was excited, nervous, tired, full of adrenaline and ready to go.

His dad is headed up there Thursday to be a good bishop and spend time with the boys. Cam knows he is coming and is excited to have him. What Cam doesn't know is that Wednesday night is family night and I'm going to take the kids and head up there to be a part of it. I know Cam will be fine. He will do great, he will work hard, he will have a good time. And yet, I'm not sad to be headed there on Wednesday to see it for myself. And to give that boy a hug.

Scout camp. I can't believe we are here already. And I can't believe that this is likely the first of what, fourteen, fifteen times at least? Yikes. Here we go.

Note to self

Keeping a blog relatively current is definitely easier than getting weeks behind
and playing catch up. You know, just in case I forget and need a future reminder.

Four hundred

Last night I was adding a book I had just finished to Goodreads
and realized that it was my 400th book read since I was
eighteen-years old or so. I may or may not have an addiction.

I've realized of late there really are a lot of things I could
live without. Good books are not on that list.

Four hundred and one has already been started.

And it's a good one.

{Happy sigh}

Eight months

Good grief, time is a flying!

Well, except on teething days.

Good thing he is totally worth it.

This kid makes us laugh

A lot.

Another Revs soccer game

This time with incredible seats courtesy of a coworker of Jacob's.
Even better than their last Revolution game. Can you imagine?

Time away

Jacob gave me two days and two nights away. He is so good to me.

You know you married well when the announcement that you are leaving
for two days is quickly followed with a hopeful, "Is Dad staying with us?"
And the answer brings on much yelling, cheering and jumping for joy.

By the way, this was the view from my window.
Who's yelling, cheering and jumping for joy now?

School is out!

Well, we officially have a third, fifth and seventh grader on our hands.
Oh, and that darling boy going to preschool next fall. Each of the kids had
a really happy year and we are so grateful for the great teachers that Annie
and Matt had, as well as several good teachers Cam had this past school year.
(Weird, Cam didn't want a photo with all of his middle school teachers.)

And now, on to summer! Bring on the pool, free time and mean mothers

that make them do chores, piano and swim team, in spite of the
the warm weather and lazy afternoons calling their name.