Well the 9 weeks of summer with no school have come and gone. Yesterday Brooke hopped on the bus and started 1st grade. Wow how time flies! We tried to make the most of summer and do all we could with the kids and finished it up with a bang, but it always seems there's things we didn't get to. Just have to save them for next year I guess. We did finally make it to Storyland this week after a couple rain outs and finished it off with one more camping trip at White Lake with Stanley, Maria, Brianna and Sophia. Always a favorite spot of ours and not too far away, so even though it was only for a night it was lots of fun. Swimming, kayaking, sand castles, campfires and more. The week before that Jen and I went to the Zac Brown concert with Danny and Cara while the girls had a sleepover at Grammy and Grumpets. That was our last two weeks of summer, but add it to the cancer walk, Ashley's birthday and baptism, a week in Acadia with beaches, hikes, camping and a boat ride, concerts, orange leaf and fireworks at the beach, a week at Lake Winnipesaukee, Clark's trading post and plenty of trips to the pool, beaches, picnics and a few hikes and it was a full, fun summer. I don't like that the kids are back in school a week before Labor Day, but that's the way it is these days so it's back to the real world. Fall is always great for apples, pumpkins, hiking and more, but days are shorter and cooler so it limits things a bit and isn't quite the same. This weekend it's off to Vermont for a visit for Labor Day and then that's a wrap on the summer season of 2014! For now to see the latest batch of pictures from the last couple weeks you can click right here.
