It has been a while...

Well as usual our combined Fairpoint and People PC internet connection has made it so we cannot upload pictures so I am going to post this and hope that I can add some from my mom's house or something...As you can probably see I got the pictures on...it took me 6 hours!!!

Since summer is finally here we are generally outside most of the daylight hours (and sometimes in the evening too at our fire pit).

We have done a lot of bike riding! We go to the Bangor Forest just about every day but we have tried some other trails too. At L.L. Bean we found a bike rack that will hold 3 of our bikes (for only $35, it was on a big sale!) I am so happy to have a new bike rack...our old one only held 2 and would scratch our bikes when we put them on. I really don't like it when my bike gets scratched!

One Saturday we went to Sandy Point Beach. The water was freezing cold so Sam and I didn't go in but the kids had a great time playing in the water!

After the beach we went to walk around Millinocket. We stopped at the local grocery store and picked up some picnic supplies. We had our picnic and than did some walking.

The next day was very hot...probably a much better day to go to the beach. However we decided to put up our pool instead. It seems like such a simple job to put up the pool. Well Sam decided that we needed to make the ground level. A good idea but a lot of work. Every other year we have just set the pool up and dealt with it being a little lopsided. We have a beautiful yard that I love but there isn't a flat spot on the entire acer!

Sam, Otto, Logan (the dog) and I went out in the canoe on one of the girls last days of school. We need to get some bigger life jackets before we can all go out in it again. All 3 kids needed bigger ones this year!

During swimming lessons Otto hated his life jacket. Now he has found he can swim much better with it on. We would like him to learn how to swim without it so we have him spend at least 10 minutes in the pool without it before he can put it on.








He and Lexie both love to showoff how well they can go underwater!






Also how big of a splash they can make!








-R.I.P.