Maple Sunday

We went on another 'Maine' adventure yesterday. Maple Sunday is a day when the Maple Syrup Farms open their doors to the public. We got to see the collection process, then the boiling process and then the finished product. What beats sampling maple syrup over vanilla ice cream? Nothing!!! Yummy!!

Here is the 'old' way of tapping trees.
And the 'new' way.

This is a vacuum system, where all the trees are tapped with these blue tubes and then fed into a central line which collects in the blue drum. Very interesting.

The farm we went to - Coopers Royal Heritage Farm in Windham, Maine - is also a Christmas Tree farm, Bovine farm and Miniature Horse farm. They had Peacocks and a LARGE Ostrich too. We enjoyed ourselves walking around, trying to avoid the mud puddles :), checking everything out. The snow is melting quickly, which made for some tricky walking. Especially for Alex. He loves to be in and ON the snow but Mommy and Daddy had to make sure it was 'shallow' enough for him! Never a dull moment.



I love this picture!! If you double click on the picture itself, it will enlarge on your screen. Look at the detail of this peacock feather! Isn't that awesome???!!! Wow! Something else to marvel of God's creation!!

Hope you have a great day!

The Big '4-0'!!

There he is...the birthday boy!! So far, he has fared well today! He's still alive! Yeah!! :)

Yesterday, our sitter (Liz) came over and Kevin and I enjoyed an afternoon relaxing at the spa and then going out for dinner. There are quite a few interesting restaurants here in Portland. It was nice to hang out together and not worry about things at home. Liz is always great with the kids.

Tonight we had dinner here with the kids and cake, of COURSE!!!



Thanks for all the cards and calls.

Here's to another 40 Kev!

P.S. Happy 13th Anniversary to Wen and Phil!

My Kids Are Amazing!!

Today was 'Stripe Testing' at Karate. Both Chelsie and Alex got their first stripe!!! (That's the black stripe on their white belts.) YEAH!!!!
Alex tested by himself and he did great! Then Chelsie tested with a couple other kids and she blew them all away!!!

We are having FUN!! And watching them strive and achieve the goals set out, is AWESOME!! I am one proud Momma!