Cookout

Keri, Marc and Sydney hosted a party on Sunday. Maddie and Taylor love to get together with their cousin. Maddie was also very excited to play with her friend Maxine (Sydney's cousin). While the men played cards, the rest of us played.


Maxine and Maddie

All the kids just love to be around Papa.

Taylor chilling out.

Ring around the rosy...

...ashes, ashes...

...we all fall down.

Grandmommy playing with the girls.

Tea Party

Grandmommy, Maddie, "Baby Alive", and I went to the Parson Capen House in Topsfield for a tea party. We had a great time. Here is Maddie enjoying her snack and feeding her baby doll.


Here is Maddie introducing her doll to everyone with Mrs. Bergston (my 2nd grade teacher!).

Peach Festival

Today we went to Smolak Farm for their annual Peach Festival. The girls love the playground, cider donuts, and animals. Here they are checking out the deer.

Taylor is a lover of all animals, she kept on touching the goat!

Picking raspberries in the hot sun.

Perfect Beach Day!

Hello from the Plumb Island Reservation! It was the most perfect beach day of the summer and this beach was great. They limit the admission, just look at all the beach we had to ourselves.

Taylor relaxing in the sand.

These two had a lot of fun together, as usual. Whenever I turned around, they would be playing, building things together, and just talking. It's amazing how fast they grow up.

Green Meadows Farm

This is my favorite picture. It's a little hard to see, but the kids are having a blast running back and forth being chased by the chickens.

Here we are picking green beans, I just wish the girls would eat them!

Lincoln and Taylor having fun on the farm.

Trip to Boston

Wednesdays are our favorite day, Daddy's day off. Today we took the train into Boston, visited the fish at the Aquarium, had lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe, and walked around Faneuil Hall. It was a memorable and fun day for us all.
Maddie and Tom on the train

Taylor enjoyed the Aquarium the most


The Hard Rock makes a mean chocolate milk



This is how we all felt at the end of the day.

Fun at Pops and Grandmommy's

It's tradition, every Tuesday night we have dinner at my parents. The girls have a great time and on this Tuesday Papa and Grandma also joined us which is an extra special treat for us all.
Maddie always has to play the piano at Grandmommy's.


Playing outside, Maddie loves to water the flowers...

...and Taylor loves to pick them.

Papa and Maddie acting silly as usual.

Sunny day!

The girls had a fun day playing with their cousin Sydney today.
Here they are swinging at the park.

Sydney is always smiling for the camera!

What's a perfect summer day without ice cream?

Happy 30th Birthday Mike!

We had a fun day at Mike's surprise birthday party on Sunday. It was a bright, sunny day (finally) and we all had a great time.
Check out the cake, it was a big hit!

Tom and Maddie enjoying the pool

Maddie having fun eating BBQ ribs, yummy!

Present time!

After a long afternoon of sun and swimming, the kids finally stopped to relax.

Deer watching

This is a common thing in our household, looking out the windows at the deer. They are not afraid of us and even ate some of our flowers this year. These are the only pets my children will ever have.

Vacation

On the beach in Ogunquit...


At the Wilson's condo relaxing on the deck.

Spending the day up at Plumb Island with the Massaro family.

Taylor looks so tough sporting her black eye.

Tom had a great vacation as you can see.

Best Friends

Trip to the zoo.


Our favorite, the snow leopard.



Fun on the carousel.