Tomi and Sean's wedding

This past weekend, we drove to Corolla, North Carolina for Joe's sister, Tomi's wedding. Tomi and Sean rented an 8 bedroom house with a pool for the reception and for all of us to stay. It was a quick trip as we arrived Thursday evening, the wedding was Friday evening, and we left Saturday, but it was great to see everyone.

Trying to blow bubbles with Uncle Terry and Aunt Sarah. Unfortunately, it was too windy and didn't work. They then tried flying a kite, but it was even too windy for that. Go figure.
Opting instead for more time in the pool. Hannah loved jumping off the side onto the noodles and Joe was a trooper for going in the water with her (it was COLD!).
Before the wedding.
Hannah and her cousin, Parker.
Family picture.
Tomi
Tomi and Sarah (maid of honor)

Sean and George (the best man)Tom and Wes, proud parents.
The ceremony on the beach.
And last, a bbq restaurant we stopped at in NC on our way home. Joe liked the sign. Nice pig.

Apple picking

Last Wednesday, our playgroup went apple picking at a local U-pick farm nearby. We had a lot of fun! It was much fancier than the one Joe and I went to last year. They had a train ride to take you to each stop and one of the stops had a huge playground for the kids and some animals to see.

Waiting for the train.

Train ride. Manda, Sabrina, Caroline, Hannah, Sophie, and Kara.
1st stop - apple picking. Sabrina.
Sophie sampling the apples.
Caroline.
2nd stop - playground.
The playground even had a caterpillar train ride.
Caroline and Hannah.
Sabrina and Sophie.
The 2nd stop also had animals to see.
Playing red light green light while waiting for the train back.

Montreal

The last posting from our 2 week vacation...finally. For the last few days of vacation, we drove to Montreal, Canada. We stayed in the center of town and could walk to most things. We spent the days touring the city by foot and spending a lot of time in our room. Unfortunately, Hannah had had enough of vacation by this point and was a bit grumpy! Lots of temper tantrums and carrying her.

We did like what the parts that we saw and for some reason, when we went into churches/cathedrals, she was so well behaved. So we saw a few churches.

Taking a break from walking for some grapes.

Basilica of Notre Dame. It was beautiful inside.
She likes fountains.
Old town.
Spending quality time in our room.

Hannah's 3rd Birthday Party

We kept with our annual tradition of having Hannah's birthday party at camp this year. It was a (somewhat) Dora-themed fiesta!

Cheese! Pinata time!

Blowing out her candle.

Opening presents.

With her new bike from Buddy Joe!

Owen enjoying his lollipop!

Week at Camp

We've been home now for a week from our vacation and I am finally getting around to a few posts of our trip...very delinquent I know.

We spent the first week at Camp in Maine. The weather was absolutely beautiful! Once again, we made it to the Acton Fair, which is super close to camp. Hannah liked seeing the animals and riding a few rides.

While in Maine, we made a few side trips. Our first trip was to Storyland in New Hampshire, an amusement park geared mostly towards the under 6 crowd. Hannah was tall enough to ride on ALL of the rides (with Daddy of course). We have one brave little girl; she rode both the log ride and roller coaster with Joe! She was a bit skeptical of the log ride after the drop, but by the time she got to me, she had nothing but great things to say and said it was her favorite ride. We had a great time!

Our second side trip was to Old Orchard Beach in Maine. Hannah had a lot of fun playing in the water and sand. After the beach, we stopped for ice cream on the way home, a yummy mess.


And camp wouldn't be camp without all of the swimming, tubing (Hannah's 1st time trying it with Joe...so brave), fishing (Hannah caught her first fish), playing games, s'mores...