Happy First Day of Fall!

Spencer rode his new bike for the first time today!

He started before I even realized he had his bike out, and then he was going super fast with sooo much courage! 

1st day of Kindergarten!

All dressed up and ready to go! (He really wanted to wear a tie, but we veto'd that today) waiting .... Bryce insisted on us taking a picture of him too ... Spencer & Mommy boarding the bus together. But Spencer is quite proud that he rode home by himself, and that he will ride to school by himself from now on. He seemed to have a good day, but was definitely on overload by this afternoon! He is excited about going back tomorrow! 

Parties at Mimi's

Spencer, Mimi & Barbara fixing dinner for Gramps 80th bday party. After a hard's day work (Spencer was the assistant caterer at Mimi & Grier's party ... even got a $5 tip from the owner of the catering company!) The band!  

Hobo Railroad Trip

Day trip to Hobo RailRoad in Lincoln, NH during vacation!  

Ben & Jerry's Trip

The boys relaxing after a hard day at the ice cream factory ...  

ME Trip for Lynette's Wedding

Letterboxing hike with the family Bryce playing in the beer bucket at the reception Picnic with Sade & Madelyn (lynette's grandchildren) Daddy & Bryce having fun at the reception  

Beach fun!

Ian & Spencer ... akaThe Beach Boys, or so they think! They entertained us with concerts on the beach all day long! Bart enjoying his comfy chair! Bryce hard at work! 

Hot Water!

We have hot water again! Yeah!!! And the boys tub, which was taking 25 minutes to fill a few inches, was ready to go in about 2 minutes tonight! The dishwasher is even running! The boys and I made this fire truck/bus/music van out of the hot water tank box as we spent the day in the basement watching the workers. My day was made when one worker, who also has a 2 and 5 year old at home, said to Spencer, "I can't believe you have such a cool mom to sit there and make that with you!" Horray for summer vacation!! 

Basement Fun!

We're having a new hot water tank installed later this week, which means we need to make room for it! So we got a lot of work done down in the basement today ... several more boxes finally unpacked and lots of reorganization. Spencer had this elaborate drum stage set up: 3 overturned containers, toy box cover, and step stool were all different kinds of drums, plus the top of stepstool was the symbol, paintsticks for drumsticks ... Bryce, on the other hand, just kicked back and relaxed ...  

Music Boy

Spencer created this himself ... he took his microphone out of the stand and made it into a harmonica stand so he could play both instruments together! 

Happy Father's Day!

We love you, Daddy! 

More Father's Day pictures

our next home ... 

Happy Father's Day!

A perfect Father's Day! Shawn had the great idea of taking all the Father's (and people who help them be great fathers!) on a boat cruise around Portsmouth Harbor. It was about 90 degrees ... just right for a nice ocean breeze! The fathers ... next time Maurice will definitely join us on the ride! Bryce enjoying a treat ... The perfect end of the day treat ...