A nice day...finally

After many days of gloom and rain, we had sun. I saw it in the forecast and it just happened to be Auntie's day of too...so a plan was made...BEACH!

They had the annual sand castles so we peeked at those first.

Jonathan and Nicholas came too.The ocean was crazy today. Tons of waves...wild...and cold. Jacob contemplated going in, but was not having it. He left that to the big boys. He saw it was rough and he doesn't like to get knocked over.

We went for a walk down the beach to the jetty where the boys like to look for crabs. We left with grey cloudy sky and walked back in sunny blue skies. Joshua and I have the redness to show for it. We put sunscreen on as soon as we got back, but I think it was too late. Jacob collected lots of treasures along the way.We saw a couple of people get knocked off the jetty by waves crashing in to it like these. They came back scraped up, hustling for safety.

One Season Down

We ended up getting one of the Tee ball games in this weekend. It was the last game of the season. Jacob appeared to have already checked out. He wasn't too into the game, but it was a good first season. Tee ball, baseball in general, is tough. It is so slow and boring for the little guys out in the field. They found many new species of bugs in the field.

They did some live pitching the last couple of games which the kids liked...and prolonged the games a little :)

After they had a little pizza celebration with tropheys. That was a surprise to me. Jacob was very excited.

They gave Joshua a trophey too for being team helper. It really meant a lot to him. He has always wanted a trophy and I told him it came with being a part of a team. Soccer did not work out for him in kindergarten, but I think he is ready now. Soccer this fall for both of them should be good.

Post 1 Where does the time go?

I really need to get better about posting. It seems like sometimes I have nothing to say or no pictures to share.

• Jacob continues to play Tee ball. It is winding down though. He has a game Friday night and the last one is this Saturday. With the rain forcast...I don't know if he will get either of them in. He usually complains that he doesn't want to go...but I think he likes it. He just likes to complain about it. Joshua has become the team helper. He really enjoys it and has a sense of pride that has made him ready to join his own sport team whether he wanted to or not :) Both boys will be playing fall soccer on different teams.


• The school year is also coming to an end. Most teachers and kids can't wait for this to happen. I actually get a sense of sadness when this time comes. Not only due to the lack of paychecks...I miss seeing the kids each week. I have my students for 3 years and I miss them. I also get sad about my own kids moving on. Joshua has had such great teachers who have really embraced the idea of helping him through his anxiety while still giving him wings. I am always sad to say goodbye to his teachers.


• This really just does not seem like June. I can't remember a June that was so gloomy, wet and average temperatured. Today is the first really sunny day in a few and now it will be gloomy again for several more days to come. Most people try to remind me of how miserable it can be the last week of school trying to keep the kids motivated in school with 90 degree weather. But come on, there has to be a happy medium.


• Jeffrey has been having a hard time in school. Not due to lack of ability, yet more an extreme lack of effort. It has been tough to motivate him especially with the lack of continuity and follow through with a split living situation. Jim is doing really well trying to step up which is hard when he hasn't done so in the past. Jeffrey has sort of been on his own with school and he just let go. Now we have to ride him hard to do what he should have been doing and is twice as hard with the teenage attitude. The good thing is that we will have a lull in that until the little boys get there...even though they think they are teenagers sometimes.
• Keep reading for post 2...it has pictures :)

Post #2 Mount Washington

This weekend we went up the Mount Washington Auto Road. We have not been up in years...since Joshua was about a year old. It was 79 on the ground...but a little chillier at the summit. Here they are looking at....this snow still left up on the mountain. Jim said he could see two people skiing down. It is so funny, people hike up, climb up the snow, ski down...what like 50 feet and do it again. Please tell me why? Because it's free? Because they can???As you can see, I was prepared for the climbing on rocks...and by prepared,I mean I gave myself a fresh pedicure before we went :)

It was a bit windy up on top...which made it feel a bit chillier.At least it wasn't this windy though.

No reason...just because he is so darn cute.

This is the tippity top. I was too frustrated to get in the picture. People hover around and jump in like seagulls on any bit of crap you throw at them. You have to crop in close to make sure they are not in your picture. Oh and Jeffrey bought a new hat at the top...just one more way to drive his parents crazzzzzzzzzzzy!These are the trains you can ride up and down the mountain. I took these for Christian so Michelle be sure to show them too him. They really would have liked to ride these when they visited, but it was the end of January...not to mention $40 one way. I think some people hike up and then ride down...and some people just have a lot of money and ride them both ways.

We saw a couple more of these this weekend too. It has been a good year so far for moose spotting.