Father's Day in Maine

The day started off with homemade Blueberry pancakes made by all the kiddos!

Then some daddy love!

Braden, Chris and Mark headed down to the docks to get our Father's day lunch :)

Braden touching his first Maine lobster!

Helping cook lunch!

Such a yummy sight!

Chris's first official Maine Lobster!

Not my first, but definitely not my last :)

um, just so you are jealous - these were the LEFTOVERS after we had thoroughly stuffed ourselves to the gills! (We snacked on leftover lobster all week long!)

Lunch was followed up by an exciting game of baseball in the yard - it really was an all-american kind of day!

Playing outfield :)

Nice swing bubby!

Kyle - rounding the bases!

MVP

Everyone got involved!

And the best Father's day was capped off with S'mores around the fire! Jaclyn got the most perfectly roasted marshmallow award :)

Maine Part 1 :)

As you will be able to tell - we spent a lot of the time lounging by the pool! This trip was the epitome of relaxation - and that is the kind of vacations we love! All the kids got a long great - and most of the time we had 7 of them :)

Mr. Jack - love him!

Kate and me - such a great friend and wonderful hostess - maybe she'll invite us back :)

Jack is a sports nut and Blake loved playing hockey and baseball with him!

Alex is just about the sweetest girl you could meet!

Trying to get mommy wet!

Mr. Kyle - pretty amazing big man

and although he might look sweet and innocent, he is just as ornery as the rest of them :)

And of course Blake had to copy him too - thanks Chris for being such a good sport!

More June Happenings - Wedding in New Hampshire

Our big family vacation this year was 10 days in New England! It was by a huge coincidence that Chris's buddy Jon got married an hour away from my BFF Kate and her family in Maine! So we combined the whole trip and had such an amazing family vacation! Kate, so graciously, offered to watch the boys for two full nights so we could go to the wedding in New Hampshire by ourselves! It was such a fun get-away in a cute little coastal town! What a fun weekend of meeting new friends and reconnecting with old! Congrats Jon and Mary - wishing you many, many years together!

Hampton Beach, New Hampshire

Rehearsal Dinner - Great view!

Football buddies back together after 10 years!

The wives!

Our little Harbor Seal friend that came on to shore and stayed around for about 6 hours entertaining everyone!

Aw, he cleans up pretty well :)

On the trolley to the reception - this trolley picked up all the guests from the hotel and drove us around all night - what a great idea!

The first dance!

A beautiful memorial to sailors lost at sea right in front of our hotel!

Fun on the beach before heading back to the boys!

What happened in June...Part 1

June started off with some sweet corn eating :) But big brother was not happy because he had a very wiggly tooth and it hurt too much to eat the corn...

Until the very next day when he took a bite of pizza - and out it came!! This is his first 'official' tooth that he has lost. We aren't counting the 2 bottom teeth that he knocked out right before his first birthday :)

Then we hit the park with friends and CeCe and Blake enjoyed a break and a rice krispee treat - they are way too cute together!

Blake decided he was tired of sitting on the sidelines and wanted to be just like the big kids!

Then the boys and I met Meena C and Keegan at the Omaha Zoo and had an awesome day!
The aquarium was our favorite spot! Braden is very into ocean animals at the moment - so we went through it twice!

The boys loved the moving globe with water flowing over it!

We looked at monkeys

and traipsed through the jungle

and really just had an excellent day!

The boys and I hit a few more parks in June and got to feed the ducks all our left over bread! The boys really do love them a good park :)