Maine!

**Note:  I apologize for the delay in getting these pictures up!  I was having trouble posting the pics and then our computer came down with the blue screen of death (i.e., the fatal error screen).  So I've had some technical difficulties lately!  But, we now have a new computer so I'm back up and running.  Now to get all my pictures from the old computer to the one one.....

We spent the last week of July and the first week of August in Maine at my parents' house.  Jay was able to join us for the second week which was wonderful since he missed out on all the Maine fun last summer!  Jack LOVES to be outside so Maine is pretty much his heaven-on-earth for doing all things outside.  This year, Nathan and Matthew were old enough to partake in many of the outside fun as well which I know they enjoyed.  We had many fun adventures in our two weeks and LOTS of campfires, which are another of Jack's favorites.  I must admit, I do also like sitting around a campfire. :) I'll let the pictures tell the story...

Thanks to Gram & Gramps, Jack now has a red power wheels four wheeler just like Grandpa's real red four wheeler!  And as the below video shows, he is fearless on it.  One of his favorite activities was zooming down the hills in the yard!

Nathan enjoying the porch.

Matthew playing on the porch as well.

Nathan & Matthew exploring the kitchen....which is why they aren't allowed in my kitchen!!

Waking up and enjoying some AM television.  I do believe Matthew may share my dislike of mornings...

One cool thing we did was ride the chair lift up the mountain at Sugarloaf Ski area.

Up we go!!

The views from the top were fantastic!!

Jack took this one...not too bad!

On the way back down...more spectacular views.  I don't think I've ever ridden a chairlift down before!

We went down to the coast in Bath, ME, and visited with one of my dearest and oldest friends, Lindsay and her family.  Here is Jack with her daughter Cate.

Lindsay's parents recently built a beautiful new house in Bath, so we popped in for a visit!

(another shot by Jack)

One of my other dearest and oldest friends, Tara, lives in Bar Harbor so we made the trek out there for a visit as well.  Here is Jack with her son, Liam, in Acadia National Park.  This is the one and only picture we captured of this visit because following this shot our camera battery died.  Thankfully Tara had hers so the rest of the pictures from that day are from her!

Ahh, the view from Acadia - SO beautiful!

Tara took us on a great hike which the boys loved.

Of course along the way we had to take a potty stop (Liam is off to the side doing the same thing!). Once we got home I actually had to have a serious discussion w/ Jack about why we just can't stop and pee wherever he wants because we live in a city. :)

Tara's husband works at a Marine Lab.  Here is the touch tank at the lab.

Lobster!

And slimy snails!!

On our hike. :)

Awww.  :)