Cutest Fire Chief

Always thinking...

Is this not the sneakiest little face? She collected all the 'skippers'.

Toothless...

No Floaties!!!!

Reagan,
Aubrey, and

Edie cand swim, jump and jump off the diving board without floaties. They swim to the edge and do it again, and again, and again.

I Love This Chair!!!

22w to a 10

My sister Danielle took this of me at lake Sunapee August 1,2009.

Then a friend who was in the same physical condition and the same age as me, committed to, and completed the Couch-to-5k Running program.

He was, and is an inspiration.

My first steps were small, exhausting, downright painful and disappointing.

It took me 11 weeks to do the 9 week program.

I've ran several 5k's since completing my own program, as well as Todd and I doing the Warrior Dash this past June.

Still a work in progress...but I wanted to share the last 12 months with you....

12 months and 12 sizes!

August marks the start of another 12months.

Where will this next year take me?

Around The Yard

I love this time of year around 5pm. I go out into the yard and sit, and listen. The air is buzzing with dragonflies, hundreds. The girls chase them and easily catch them for our 'observation'. They are beautiful, but up close it's a face only a mother dragonfly could love.

Amazing wings...

The bee's knee's.

Hot peppers are ready,

'Big Boy's are getting bigger!

Toothless

Ray has now lost both front top teeth!

Vacation Goodies

Auntie and Aubrey...two of a kind!

I Love New Hampshire

I was asked,
'What do you love about New Hampshire?'
The winters are cold, spring takes forever, and summers are short, and autumn's beauty lasts but a minute.
Here are are some of the things I love about New Hampshire.

Mountains & Rivers :

Camping & Mallo Cup Smore's, in Woodstock.

River bed swimming at Cascade Park also in Woodstock. Then still wet from swimming walk up to an ice cream stand, have it melt all over us then jump back in the river to wash it off.

Saw it and had to ;)

Pic-nic lunch at Beaver Pond in the White Mountains National Park.

This view right outside our tent on our campsite.

Breath taking!

Lakes:

Quiet and calm

A six year old 'aqua-planing' backwards!!! Come on!!!
Yes, that's Ray by the way!

A mommy 'aqua-planing'?!

Yes, that's me by the way!

Beaches :

Sun, sand, and surf.

A combination you can't go wrong with.

The best part,

about an hour or less away.

Yes, yes, it's all jam packed into summer.

Because we have to spend our autumn preparing for winter.

Our winter is spent shoveling, and leaving extra early to brave driving in the snow.

Our spring we spend digging out and recovering from winter, daydreaming for the day summer just shows up.

Graduation Day