Vermont Weekend

We took a little weekend getaway to visit our friends Ben, Laurie and Grace in Barnard, VT.  I wish I took more pictures!  Their home is so quaint and nestled back on some pretty green land complete with a running creek.  It's so lovely.  They were nice enough to host our family as well as our good friends, the Heinzerling-Mintys.  Saturday we went to the lake and the boys and Daddy camped outside on Sat. night in their spacious yard after smores, of course.  Sunday was spent in Woodstock, VT.  What an adorable town!  But the best part of the weekend was simply our time hanging out at their house, watching the kids play, laughing, talking, listening to old records, & making and eating yummy food.

Summer Days 2014

Park days, day trips, lazy days at home, visits from friends and cousins, beach days, firework nights.  These summer days are coming to an end.  This summer brought the best weather ever, better than any summer I can ever remember.

We made the most of our summer but had some major distractions aka quickly throwing our house on the market, selling our house in one week, putting offers on three homes with no luck then suddenly having a reversal of luck and buying the last (and best!) house we tried for after someone else's offer fell through.

It's been chaotic and stressful to say the least on Mom and Dad's part.  Although it is always hard to say goodbye to summer, we are looking forward to school starting this week, autumn and all of the changes that it will bring.  Here's to smooth sailing with the purchase of our new home and then relaxing and making new memories with Grandmom under our roof as well!

Tail End of August

This child LOVES to be outside!

Amelia & Lily at the playground

They still all fit on my lap!

Kindergarten Orientation Day!

On the bus for orientation (The only time they will take the bus in grade school. Since we live two blocks from the school, we will walk.)

First soccer practice!  Ben in green and Dan in orange. 

Their buddies Jack and Joe are on their team!  They love it so far!

Mommy learned how to make pickles from her friend Colleen.

Thanks to our friends, the Minty's, we were able to cross off a summer bucket list item that I thought just wasn't going to pan out this summer - camping!!

It was just one night (and a rainy/humid one at that) but lots of fun for Ben and Dan as their first real camping experience!

The Minty family- campers extraordinaire!

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The tail end of August was busy, fitting in fun stuff while starting our organized sports and getting ready for school.

The carefree summer days are over as today is the first day of Kindergarten!  (I have been up since 4:30 am,  lots of emotions happening over here on Momma's part!)

Everyone around me seems to be missing summer (even though technically it's still summer until Sept. 22) but not me!  Bring on the fall!

Sweater weather, pumpkin everything (coffee - mmm...), crisp air.  YES please!