August

Trying our hand at pumpkins this year.  With such limited space I'm trying the trellis this year.  So far so good.

We went to Maine last month to visit the Yang family.  We sure love them and had such a great time.  We rented a 15 passenger van, so we could do our adventures together.  It worked perfectly.

So many fun adventures.  We tested out their boat a couple times.  We showed the cousins some tricks on the knee board and they all picked it up so quickly.

Their property is a kids paradise.  My kids were in heaven.

Can't go to Maine and not each lobster. 

My kids love their huge dog, Hugo.

A house I need to buy for retirement (right by Mary's).

Waiting for our sailing excursion.

We had so much fun sailing last time we were here, so we did it again this trip.  We had great sailing weather and got all the thrills of the boat tipping us all over.

Moxie and ice cream whenever we got the chance.

Rock climbing.  Everyone tried it and the kids were amazing at it.

Taught Char how to make Macarons (Mary's cool old blender).

Lot of talking and hanging out.  Everyone gets along so well, it just makes it so easy to be with them.

Went to Arcadia NP and played at the beach.  Met up with cousin Melanie (those pictures are on Adam's phone).

Ava's hair loved the humidity. Mine did too.

Skipping rocks at the beach by Mary's house.

One last fishing adventure on the pond before heading home.

One last lobster roll on the way to the airport.

Noah is constantly making things out of junk (glasses out of clear pebbles and wire). :/

We officially started school at the end of August. The plan all along was to homeschool all 3 of them this year, but little did we know everyone would be 'homeschooling' this year.  It's taken us a few weeks to get our rhythm worked out, but it gets better each day.  We still did the official first day of school pictures.  Ava 6th grade.

Noah 8th grade.

Grant 5th grade.

My kids are getting so big and growing up on me.  :(

Picture with their teacher.

Grant wanted to make school cards like they get every year in public school, so he and I made these for everyone. 

 

These are part of the kids' task books that they have to accomplish each week.  They are working great so far.  Helping them get better at time management and accountability. 

Got to have Andy and Mikayla come visit us at the cabin.  So fun to spend a few days with them.  The day they arrived is the first day we started getting smokey skies from the fires.  Bummer.  Still had a great time though.