Grandma is HERE!!!

Good morning! Another beautiful - HOT - day here. Summer has arrived! Yeah!!!! :)

The cable guy (literally) was here to fix the internet and phone problem this morning so I should be able to talk/type to my hearts content.

Grandma Marg arrived last night (or should I say early this morning) at 1 am as her flight out of Detroit was delayed. But she made it in one piece and now we can give her the grand tour of greater Portland, Maine. It's great to see a familiar face. We're going to have fun! :)

Here are some pictures of our time here.
Augusta, Maine is the State capital, about an hour drive from where we live.

We have gone down to Plymouth, Massachusetts a couple times. The rock inscribed '1620' is what is left of the actual place where the Mayflower landed. The picture of the ship is the Mayflower II.




Well, we are off on a 'venture' - our term for adventure. I'll let you know how we did later.
Have a great day!

J

Last Day of School

Well, this is it! The kids have a half day of school and then summer break! Wow! Time flies! And Grandma Marg arrives tonight. We are all looking forward to seeing a familiar face.
I'll post more pictures later today - trying to 'catch up' on the activities so far.

Have a great day!

J

'Tis the season for Sneezin'

June 17/07

Happy Father's Day to all you Dad's out there! We have had a beautiful day here - except the thunderstorm and quick rain shower that we had to run out of! :) All part of the fun! The kids got Kevin a big flying 'disc' and we went to the park to break it in. A huge, dark cloud rolled in and the rain was pouring! We made a run for the truck - killing ourselves laughing all the way and then to realize that we had left the sunroof open!! :0 Never a dull moment! A memory for sure.

Adding pictures to a blog is for the well informed: i.e: NOT US! No small feat as I discovered but now possible because of my fabulous husbands technical abilities! I wanted to share pictures of our time here so far. The picture that was added to the first blog post is of a shack not far from the President Bush Sr. compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Pictures to follow are: 1) all the pollen on the ground - NEVER have I seen this much pollen on EVERYTHING!! In the picture it looks like dust but everything is yellow.



The next picture is of President Bush Sr. compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. They have had this retreat for a long time and Katie's (our consultant from Vancouver)'Nana' used to be their nanny whenever they came to Maine. Cool!




Okay, let's see if this will work with posting more than one photo.

J

Just the Beginning

Well, I finally did it!!! I've been toying with the idea of starting a blog and here it is! I'm so excited!

We have been here in Maine for 3 1/2 months now - still getting used to all the differences between North and South, West to East. Sometimes we feel like fish - or should I say 'lobstah' - out of water. But slowly, we are becoming acclimatized.

We have been making the most of our weekends - going on day or overnight trips around our state and the ajoining ones. So far we have been to New Hampshire - Storyland in N. Conway and Nashua, Vermont - for dinner and to say that we've been there :) and Massachusetts - Boston and Cape Cod...all the way to Provincetown. Check these out on Google Earth. http://googleearth.com

The kids are doing well in school and enjoy their new friends. This is our last week of school and then into the summer daycamps - big thing here. It will also be Alex's first experience with taking the bus to school everyday. Should be interesting. Chelsie is signed up for three weeks of swimming lessons and then a two week day camp at Sebago Lake.

We will be coming home in August for about three weeks. We have starting putting to gether a 'wish list' of things that we want to do/places to go. But the biggest thing is to be able to visit with our family and friends! We miss you all very much - hopefully this blog will facilitate more with 'keeping up' with everyone.

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