Well Missa will be having her procedure done at Children's Hospital in Boston soon. They will be calling me to schedule (hopefully early this week). There have been no changes so the specialist we see at the Dartmouth C.H.A.D unit wants it done. If only they could make life a little less stressful and schedule it for a Saturday. There will be a lot of re-arranging between the three big kids and school starting and work, and of course other family members schedules since we will be looking to them to help us out. We all know nothing can be easy though.

We haven't had much time to get away this summer, but we did manage a long weekend up in (none other than...our favorite place) North Conway :) it was quick, but nice. We spent some time playing in the river along the Kancamagus Highway. http://www.kancamagushighway.com/ We didn't intend to actually play "IN" the river, but sometimes it just happens, and happens again.... and again. One by one the kids slipped in. "I" wasn't too thrilled with her wet clothes, but the others thought it was hysterical!

 after "I" slipped in, daddy carrying her to dry land

 after half the clothing was soaked we decided to save what we could ;)

 right after he slipped, i wish I got his face as it happened.... priceless! He laughed so hard!

 drying some very wet clothes

 "I" trying not to smile as she dries out her socks. (But is still wearing her soaked jeans)

E making her way back to shore

We were able to take a family trip to Story Land  http://storylandnh.com/index.html while we were there. Which was definitely fun!! The kids love that place. (So do we)

We also managed to get up to the family camp in Maine. Usually we have been up a few times already throughout the summer, but this summer has been jam packed and we finally just made it 2 weeks ago! It's always nice to get up there, and enjoy the lake. Swim, and grill and relax and of course go out for ice cream!

Our big girls got up there again this past weekend with Nana & Pape. Lucky little ladies. We decided to take the two littles to the ocean for the day on Saturday. It wasn't hot swimming weather, although plenty of people were in the water, and it didn't feel toooooo cold. ;) We went to Odiorne Point http://www.seacoastsciencecenter.org/visit_today/odiorne_point.php and did some crab hunting. K and B had a blast! We walked around the old Fort, went through the sea coast science center and touched some sea creatures, and then went down to the water and found some crabs. 

This one was feisty! K held him by "the butt" because he pinched B before that ;)

she decided these smaller ones were better. She kept calling them her "friend" 

my lil' video of Bryn and her "friend" 

(not sure why this isn't working... i'm working on it)

K and B loved their attention that day. Here are a few other shots we got that day. K had a little photographer moment as well, taking pics of mom and dad. He didn't do too bad for a 4 year old ;)

 from the old fort into Rye harbor 

 Photography by K ;)

~ Love ~