A visit to PA

Kem had off this week so we headed up to PA for some fun with his family. Our first stop was the 110 acre park in the back yard of our first apartment (a farm house in Mechanicsburg) I walked this park nearly every day both before Eric was born and after. It was so much fun to come back here. The boys got to go for a spontaneous dip in the Yellow Breeches which runs thorugh the park. Grammie Carey and the dog got pretty wet too!

Next we went to Messiah College to reminisce about the days when we met. Cody was scared to death of the "swinging bridge" but the boys enjoyed bouncing on it. The next day we went to Knoebels which is a little amusement park in the hills of nowhere. All together there were 43 of us from PA, MD, DE, and FL. It was pouring down rain and really cold. Those of us from the warmth of Maryland were freezing because we didn't bring warm clothes. After lunch it cleared up enough to go on the rides. It turned out to be a great day because there weren't to many crazies there. We got right on the rides with no wait.

Grammie Carey bought the boys some bags of dirt so they could pan for "gold" and other gems. They loved it!

Conner and Eric enjoying the water The dads and teenagers in our group filled up the bumper cars and bumped the tar out of each other. It was rough in there but it was cool to see such a large group of family having so much fun together.

We got home and had a great visit with my mom and brother we went to the beach and I forgot my camera. This weekend we are off to PA again for some more camping. Then I think we'll start thinking about getting ready for school!

What we've been up to

We have had a crazy busy summer. We have spent most of our time visiting family in PA or having them visit us. Here we are in a few of our few quiet moments at home.

David doing the "boogie board fly" off the ladder into the pool. Of the three boys he is certainly the fish. Always the first into the pool and in long after the others have gotten out.

Levi thinks he can swim. In reality, if he fell off this board he would be in trouble but he insist he will not fall off. Needless to say I am keeping a close eye on him.

We found an empty egg shell in our yard. We looked up and found a nest in the tree. We have been watching this momma and baby bird for a while. Eric shares his binoculars with the boys so they can all see. When we came back from PA this week they were gone:( They are hard to see in this pic but you can see both of their eyes and mommas tail feathers hanging down the back of the nest.

Happy 4th...5th...6th!

We had a thunderstorm on the Fouth of July so we did our fireworks on the 5th. I'm not getting them posted until the sixth.
Anyway, I thought this picture turned out fun. David made a number 4 (which of course is backward) with a sparkler.

We hope you all had a fun Fourth!

Assateague

When we got home from New Jersey we thought "Hey, let's go camping!" So I called Assateague and got the last site available. This was the first time we went camping with all three boys...and the dog.

Cody was not excited about the beach at all. The poor thing was scared to death of the water.

Cody spilled his dog food which the horses were extremely happy about. They came right up to us and cleaned up the mess. You can see Cody under the table just watching them eat his food.

Move it horses...We gotta use the facilities!!

S'mores!

Good Morning!

Vacation!

We just got back from our first family vacation. We went to Ocean City, New Jersey. It seems kinda dumb since we live near the beach but it really was a blast. We went with another family and there were 6 kids in the house between the ages of 3 and 9, five of them were boys...so it wasn't the most relaxing time I have ever had but it was fun. I did have a mid week meltdown because reality set in that a mom still does her full time job on vacation just in a different house. Fortunately I recovered!

We took the Ferry from Lewes, DE to Cape May, NJ. The boys thought it was awesome. This is obviously just a model size.

Smart Phones with internet are very dangerous. The office found that they were having a difficult time living without Kemuel. I'd feel the same way! He didn't do much business and that phone came in really handy when we needed to find something!

Here we are on our last beach day. As we were walking off the beach we realized we hadn't taken any pics of all of us so we snapped this one quick.

I am happy to say that I am going to have three little surfer boys on my hands.

We are off on our next adventure...Camping on Assateaque Island with the horses!!