Home!

 After spending the longest stretch that I have in my hometown since 2003, we are back in Maine! It feels so great to be reunited with my husband and all of the animals. They missed Zippy so much!  I have A LOT of photos to go through and post and now that I have daily internet, I will be doing so.  Stay tuned! 

Bowling and Pizza

 Such a wonderful thing, to walk into the bowling alley of my childhood and it's still exactly the same.  Wooden cash register, vintage shoes, balls from the decades, push button reset, manual scoring, bright orange, carpeted walls.  Somehow it's still $4 a game.

I was super enthusiastic, they were less than impressed. 

I remembered how to score, somehow still bowled a 100 after a couple decades of no bowling. (Maine has candlepin, which isn't the same. Fight me on this, I'll win.)

Ended the nostalgia day with a trip to Pizza Hut.  Memories from my childhood worth passing onto the next generation. 

Camp Joys #2 Watercraft Fun

 Just to be clear, this is something they love, not me.  The BIG BUBBA. 

Princess Pea waves at everyone and chatters the whole time.

Audra water skied for the first time and loved it.  Adrian says it's not safe.

And the 'GOOD GOLLY that's me!' look when I mean to take the photo of someone else and it's accidently on me! Glad the kids have fun with this, but I much prefer slow moving watercraft experiences.

Car Dude

 Never before have I found myself at a car show.  Adrian loves cars...collecting models, making dioramas, studying them, drawing them, learning how to fix them. My someday automotive dude at his happy place. 

Just for funsies, my big guy and my new shirt.

Camp Joys #1 SWIMMING

 What is the very first thing we did when we arrived at camp? SWIM.  Obviously. 

They could jump off the dock for hours upon hours.  And they do, actually. 

They enjoyed swimming with my nephew for the last week. too. 

I really ought to count how many jumps they do in a day.  Or maybe not since I probably can't count that high. Three kids, three cheers for more and more and more summer swimming.

4H Summer Virtual Learning

 We've been participating in years of virtual learning with 4H and we have a special love for summer virtual learning.  We have been able to take our screens to my dad's so we never have to miss a class in the multi class series.  

This summer all three did Whimsical Watercolors. Adrian and Audra did Fundamentals of Animal Science.  Anna-Kate did Once Upon a Time and Virtual Touch Tank. Audra did Water Ecology and taught for the first time in the crafty Festive Holidays in July class. 

Today is the last day of summer learning and all three loved their classes. 

PICK ME! Winter Wildlife Day

 These were actually WINTER wildlife programs that I never got around to blogging about.  We all love learning about nature and Anna-Kate in particular isn't shy about getting up front and center and raising her hand to answer ALL the questions.  She actually knows the answers when she raises her hand.  Confidence is soaring!  Here are two programs we went to over winter. 

The joy of finally being called on!