Cape Cod Weekend

Over our 4 day Labor Day weekend, Mat and I took the kids - and my parents - to Cape Cod for the weekend.  A friend of mine has a house there and graciously let us borrow it for our long weekend.

We had a fabulous time.  We slept in, spent long days on the beach, visited Provincetown, saw the oldest lighthouse on Cape Cod, and ate delicious food.  It was a great time.

Enjoy the pictures:  (there are a lot of them)

I could sit here every day.  Well.....until it snows on me:

 Kids on the beach.  The weather was beautiful every day we were there:

 My mom discovering how cold the water was:

 Lots of seagulls every day.  I even saw one take a sandwich right out of a guy's hand:

 Digging in the sand:

 This one tried to get in our foodbag

 Finley loved the boogie board:

 Relaxing in the Hammock at the house after the ocean:

 Cainan in the kid's house:

 Dinner our first night there was at a really cute Hot Dog Stand:

 Followed by ice cream:

 Followed by board games and a movie:

 Second day there we went to Provincetown to look at the shops and spend the day:

 This is the Provincetown Library.  It is beautiful and it has a surprise on the Kid's books floor:

 The surprise was a giant boat!

 Finley on the beach in Provincetown:

 Pilgrim tower:

 On our way home we stopped at the Highlands Lighthouse - the oldest one on Cape Cod

 A Little hammock time after our day in Provincetown:

 Followed by Smores:

 Third day and fourth days was all about the beach.  We were there for 5 hours on Sunday and 4 hours on Monday:

Then we went out for dinner.  Lobster dinner:

 Followed by ice cream:

Arlington's Photo Shoot

Here are Arlington's pictures from this year:

Finley photo shoot

Took some pictures of the kids.  Well.....two of the three got done.  I try to take a picture series every year and hang my favorite above our fireplace in our bedroom.

Here are Finley's from this year.

First Day of School

This year, School started on a Wednesday.  The kids only had two days of school the first two days, and then a 4 day weekend.  Don't even ask - it's not worth it.

They were excited to start.  Arlington is in her second year of middle school and a big 7th grader now.  That is hard to believe.  I have very clear memories of my time as a 7th grader, and now I have a child that age.  Too much.

Finley and Cainan started 3rd grade.  They are in different classrooms, but it is nice to have them in the same grade and the same school.  They moved to the upper elementary school this year (grades 3-5 are in their own building), and were excited because this school has lockers!

We went to visit Finley and Cainan's teachers before the beginning of school and they got to see their desks and their lockers, which was fun.  And we got to turn in all the stuff they needed to supply for the year.

Enjoy the pictures from the school visit and the first day of school.

Finley sitting at her new desk:

 Finley and her 1:1 aide Mrs. Sturtz.  Whom we love:

 Cainan at his desk:

 Finley at her locker.  We started decorating it - pink of course.

 Cainan in front of his locker.

Arlington on her first day of 7th grade.

 Finley on her first day of 3rd grade:

 Cainan's first day of 3rd grade:

 My virtual twins

 Finley with Porter