Well, our fun trip to Cape Cod is in the books! We had a fabulous time, and are enjoying the memories this week.
Mary Beth and her second cousin, Emma, were two peas in a pod the whole week! They are both going into 3rd grade and are just two months a part in age. What cuties!
One of the first days we were there, Aunt Carolyn came up for the day. We enjoyed a nice relaxing day at the beach behind our family's house.
The traditional jumping from the dock. I have pictures of myself doing the same thing many years ago!
Running back to the cottage after a fun swim.
Matthew spent the week sailing, and we did lots of resting, but decided on one day trip to Woods Hole. The National Oceanographic Institute is there, and there were lots of fun activities for the kids.
The Alvin vessel that discovered the Titanic in the mid 80s was launched from here. I can't imagine how claustrophobic the divers must have been in this little thing!
My family is famous for making up random games with balls. Whether it be wiffle ball skee ball, or this game that resembled football, there is lots of ball game creativity in our kids!
The end of the week was cloudy, but still nice for a day at the beach! Lots of boogie board action in Nantucket sound!
I told the kids that my one birthday request was for a few nice pictures. They begrudgingly assented. They should be grateful that I take a tenth of the pictures of them that I used to!
One of the teenage cousins offered to take a few pictures of us. I was happy with how they turned out!
My birthday dinner...lobster on the patio. Nothing better!
Corn shuckers extraordinaire!
Poppy giving the kids a lesson on perfect lobster boiling.
MB was ready for a fabulous lobster dinner!
The kids loved throwing lobster carcasses into the river after they ate!
Second cousins/cousins/siblings.
Matthew had a wonderful week of sailing. He is now a registered skipper of 420 sailboats! Unfortunately, the boats are too big to dock next to the yacht club, so they have to ride a boat to the middle of the river. Therefore, there are officially zero pictures of our skipper. He had bruises all over his legs and chest from the experience, but he couldn't have had more fun!
After a fun filled week, we made our trek home. I would like to document for the record that Bryon drove 18 hours and 1200 miles in a single day. He becomes a man possessed when it comes to road trips! Fortunately, the kids are perfect in the car, and I loved (nearly) every minute of our close quarters!
2 comments:
You are such a hot mama!!! PLEASE please come to see us-- Dave is totally a ballgame-maker-upper!!!! He would LOVE to try out a few on your boys & try a few of theirs, too! AND while they're all playing ball & your little lady is watching mine, you could give me & my closet a makeover. Please respond w/possible dates!! It is fun to see your big kids-- in that pic of you & Thomas & MB, I thought, good grief! She's getting short!! But you're not-- Thomas is getting tall!! & I haven't even gotten to see him in years!! What was the Santa joke? I can't remember, but wish I could. Glad you had fun at the cape, you fancy pants!! xoxoxoxoxoo
Em! We need to make it happen! Perhaps next year? Colorado sounds dreamy at the moment...you remember these crazy Texas Augusts. Thomas had an elf on a stick and claimed that it was the "opposite of Santa". ;) I miss my kindergarten little boy that you met. He has gotten so big and I was wearing TALL sandals in that picture! So, let's make something happen next summer. The boys can play ball, the girls can eat at Wahoo's and shop!
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