May has been a busy and exciting month for us so far. Brooke had her Fresh Beat Band themed bowling birthday party followed up a couple days later by another birthday dinner for her on her actual birthday where she got to have her favorite food in the world, Grammy's baked haddock. She's turned into a really amazing little girl, not that she hasn't always been, but now she's learning to read and write and is a great big sister to Emily. It's hard to believe she's already 4 years old. Where does the time go?

On Mothers Day last Sunday Jen had to work but we spent the beautiful day with my mother and father hiking a nice 1.6 mile loop on Mount Agamenticus up in York, getting rock candy for Brooke and ice cream for everyone else, going to the playground and for a walk on the beach. Other than not having Jen there it was a great way to spend the day. Then my birthday was Monday. I'm halfway done with the 30's now, which is also hard to believe. I got to have a lobster dinner with my family and a couple good bottles of wine to celebrate with. Who could ask for more than that?!

In between those things we've hiked Stratham Hill with Chris, Katie & Co., been playing in the yard when the weather's nice and been to the beach for walks and to to hunt for sea glass, which is becoming another little past time for us whenever we have a little free time. It's almost like gold mining and very relaxing to just sift through the rocks looking for it while the waves wash ashore. Each beach has it's own type of glass too, which is pretty neat, and our collection is really growing.

That stuff has kept us pretty busy and next weekend we're going on a camping trip for memorial Day weekend up to Acadia and Bar Harbor, weather permitting of course. We have a new tent this year and it's about as big a tent as you can buy. The next step is probably a pop up camper, which is a ways down the road still I'm afraid. This should last nicely 'til then. Heavy duty and huge. 14 by 10 and has two rooms if you want it to. The sales pitch is you can set it up and take it down in 60 seconds or less, which is about 29 minutes less than the old one took. Hopefully that's true but I haven't tried it yet. We'll see when we get there I guess if I don't try it out before.

That's about it for us, and I'd say that's about enough!! If you'd like to see a bunch of pictures you can click right here. If not, bye for now!