Adirondacks with friends

A couple weeks ago we spend another beautiful week in the Adirondacks New York with our dear friends the Carpenters.

The boys had a blast on and in the water. Emma learned to ride her bike without her training wheels.

There was a lot of jumping off the dock into the water going on.

The weather could not be more perfect. We spent the whole week by the water trying to stay cool.

Fil playing with the kid's toys.

Lots of action going on on the dock every day.

Jo celebrated her 3rd birthday while we were in New York.

At South Lake

Josiah is growing into and young fine man.

Jumping of the rock never gets old.Who needs toys when boxes are around.

(Alexandra peeking out)

Emma climbing on the roof.Nate in the castle for a few minutes (until it collapsed on him completely).

Bye bye house.

Feeding the ducks.

Story hour with Mr. Carpenter.

Annual family pictures.

Guess who and where ...

This weekend we got together with our friends and if you can guess who they are from the first few pictures I will be very impressed.

After all these years I cannot believe we do not own this egg shaped chair. It is always very popular with my kids and can you guess what store are we in?

I will help you with the store. We are in Ikea (again). What a better place to go when it is cold outside and kids can run free here.

Did you figure you who we met yet?It is the Carpenters:)

They came to see the their friend in Boston and spent a few hours with us over several days. It is great to see them every time and I cannot believe how much the kids grew since we saw them in the summer.

As you can see Fil and Gabe had their carts full.

This visit I got my first big hug from miss A. If you thought Jo was shy you never met this cute little girl.

And what a better way to end a day then with $1 Swedish meatballs for dinner:)

Upstate New York Day 6. Part II.

The kids started the evening by playing ring around the rosy while they were waiting for dinner to be finished. They had so much fun.

Josiah loved the big boys (Sam and Nate).

After dinner we had another mission going on. One of the boys wiffle balls got lost under the deck so they spent long time looking for it (They did find it).

This is one of those pictures with a story behind it. Penelope was taking pictures of Josiah and the girls wanted to see him but in the camera. So here they are looking at Josiah.

This is a pair of Alexandra's shoes. She was on a dock next to a pool with water and wanted to play in it.

I do not have to introduce Penelope to most of you.

And after all the evening drama we had some time of fun before bed time.

The boys teaching Josiah to play in a rock band.

And jumping of the rock.

It was big hit