Padanaram -

Seeing that our time in the southcoast is limited, we are trying to take advantage of everything this area has to offer being our last summer. 

Love walking to get ice cream in the village -

Love the views -

Playing on the local playgrounds -

Love the water even on non-beach days -

One advantage of moving, as the kids see it anyway, box tunnels -

FORT

One of Luke's favorite pasttimes is making forts.  Here is one of his latest . He always wants to sleep in his fort creations. This one he has slept in for the past two nights.

Bible Camp -

Luke just finished a week of bible camp through the catholic church in our village.  He loved it!  It might have been his favorite camp yet.  Paige was a year too young to do it as they had to be entering K but Luke had a few friends that were also there. 

The camp was so well run and very organized.  Each day they had a theme down to the snacks they made (Moses burning bush desserts made from pretzels, icing and red sprinkles).  I was very impressed and thrilled that Luke had such a great time.

Here  is the entire group, although they were broken out into smaller age groups.

 With the volunteers.

It's a Girl!

It is official - baby girl is on the way!

Foot -

Sun Babies -

By the end of the summer these kids are going to be brown as a berry!  They can't get enough of the sun.  I'm doing my best with the sunscreen so no burns.  Having lunch outside.  They love playing in the pool in the backyard.  Who needs in-ground when you have the Target blowup $19.99 special!

 

Swim Lessons

Kids are doing another year of Miss Heidi's swim lessons.  She is great.  5 weeks in the summer, twice a week and they really get so much out of it.  The both love to swim. 

 

Here is Luke learning to dive.

 

Happy Fourth!!

We diverted from our traditional trip to Ohio for the Fourth and hung local this year.  We were able to take part in the annual lobster dinner at Mimi's cape house.  We also visited some friends farther down on the cape.  We all had a great time.  What's not to love: family, friends, fun, sun, pool, beach, boat, the list goes on. 

 

The kids were super excited to spend a day at the pool with their cousins. Couldn't even go home for lunch -

 

 

Icy treats -

 Paige was VERY excited to wear her bikini for Madison.  As you can see, that belly doesn't get a lot of airtime.

 Love this pic, so cute all four of them -

 Mimi's beautiful table for the lobster dinner -

Part two: After we left Falmouth, we spend a couple days in Dennis with some friends from Dartmouth.  Their summer house is basically right on a great private beach.  The kids had fun playing on the beach, looking for crabs, going on the boat, tubing, swimming, etc...

 Marley was VERY lucky to be included in this trip.  He usually gets stuck home with Sam, the dog sitter.  He actually did very well.  At seven years old maybe it is safe to say he is finally grown up!  The beach in Dennis was dog friendly.  As you can see, he was lovin' life hangin' on the beach all day with us and meeting some dog friends along the way.

 Dinner back at the house -

 Someone was cashed out even before dinner, too much sun!

 The guys took the kids down the beach to get mussels for dinner.  They got a huge bucket so Pete steamed them up and we all enjoyed on the back deck at sunset. 

 The view from their backyard is amazing.  Sunset as we were waiting for one of the neighbors private fireworks show to start.  45 minutes of fireworks and the best view from the yard.

 

A perfect New England Cape Cod Fourth of July!!