Thursday, August 20, 2009

Summer Fun

We had the privilege of staying at a friend's camp while they were away this month. It overlooks the lake (Ontario), with access to the much calmer Sandy Pond, as well. The boys had a ball rock climbing, swimming, fishing and hunting for neat stones while we were there, and despite being only 10 minutes away from home, we felt like we were truly "away". Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the weekend.


I think the perspective in this one is neat-the 4 of us in this shot are doing something we enjoy-Ben is playing piano, Josh is being goofy, Gracie is watching the boys antics from her stroller and I am trying to capture it all on film...






Gracie has been enjoying her first summer as well. She's becoming quite busy with those little hands though, grabbing fistfuls of grass or sand, and getting them to her little mouth in the blink of an eye. Guess we aren't as quick as we used to be.......


Here she is enjoying one of her first ears of corn.... Ahh, something actually edible for once!
And in other news, just as we were watching the last lacrosse practice wrap-up, the loose tooth that Josh has been working on for a couple of weeks was knocked out by a fellow player. The boys were both thrilled, since they have been sneaking off to different corners of the house for days, trying various techniques for tooth extraction...anxious to see what the tooth fairy would bring...He looks like such a big kid without it!
We also took our annual trek to a local water park to celebrate a friend's birthday. Another first for Gracie, and both the kids and adults had a great time.....Thanks Miss D for some of these awesome shots!
Splashing in the fountain
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Sliding with Daddy-I love the scale in this one-she looks so tiny...(oops-don't know what's going on with the font-Blogger will NOT let me shrink it for some reason...)
The boys on a slide break...
Self-portrait on the ferris wheel....

Summer's flying by as usual and Gracie is growing and changing SO quickly...I have a TON more pics to post (still working on quality vs. quantity at this point...) -will attempt to catch up soon...Happy Summer, everyone!