Waengersheek Beach

Yesterday we headed up to Waengersheek Beach, which is about 40 miles North of Boston. I LOVED the beach. The water was surprisingly clear, the beach was nice and clean and the water was pretty shallow for awhile so the kids could run into it and stuff. Definitely was not warm by any means, but the kids still liked it. Our plan was to hang out on the beach, let the kids play and then grill out on the beach for dinner. Well, it started to thunder and rain and so we spent awhile underneath our umbrella until it passed. It finally passed and the weather was beautiful after; we even saw a rainbow. HOWEVER, the rain stirred up the biting nats or something and they were swarming us. I was trying to defend Norah and swatting them off Adeline and I thought I was going to go crazy because I kept feeling little bites all over my body. After about 30 minutes of trying to endure it and just finishing up cooking our chicken, we decided to pack up and head for the car. We stopped at Wendy's on the way home for dinner. Not quite a beach BBQ, but totally worth it at that point. All in all, we had a fun time at the beach! Next time it starts raining, we will just leave! Lesson learned.

Memorial Weekend

My best friend from High School got married over memorial day weekend and I wish SO BAD that I could have been there. Unfortunately it was all the way across the country in San Diego and it just wasn't going to work out in any way. Especially because I already have to fly all by myself with the two little munchkins soon and was way too stressed out about doing it again for only a couple days. I'm so happy for her and hope her day was absolutely wonderful. Congratulations Linds!!!

Since Abe had an extra day off, we decided to take a little road trip with the girls. Friday and Saturday night we camped right outside of Acadia National Park in Maine. It was so pretty. It was a little stressful camping with Norah. She did VERY well the entire trip; except for being in her car seat and sleeping at night. Every little peep she made at night I had to attend to her so all the other campers right around us wouldn't hear her.





All day Saturday we spent time in Acadia National Park and went on a 3 mile hike. We thought that was the perfect distance. LIttle did we know that the first half was completely up hill and you had to climb up rocks and stuff. Adeline did the first half by herself and did such a good job. Since we were at the pace of a 2 year old for most of the time, the hike took us several hours. The park is on an island, so our hike had beautiful views of the ocean. That night we spent a little time walking around the town of Bar Harbor, which was really neat with a bunch of shops. We had tin foil dinners both nights and they actually turned out really good!

by the end of our hike Abe had Adeline on his shoulders and Norah on his back. Chloe was pretty miserable and was hurting,so I was carrying her.

there were a bunch of people on the hike with walking sticks. Adeline found this one and was walking with it. It was pretty funny- and annoying because she would walk VERY slowly and carefully place her walking stick in the ground. We were a little impatient :)

Here's Adeline at the Peak of our hike





On Sunday night we drove down to Portland, Maine. When we got to the hotel we let Adeline swim for a bit before we went to dinner. It was pretty funny because by the time we got our stuff in the hotel room, Adeline was naked and searching for her swimsuit because she was so excited. After our swimming session we went to a floating restaurant on a boat so we could get some good seafood. They were having a twin lobster special, so that is what we both ordered. It was SO good. I think next time I will only order one though. I was stuffed after eating two of them and it was a lot of work!




Monday we went to Old Orchard Beach in Maine. It was TOTALLY white trash, but so fun. They had carnival rides on the beach and Adeline was obsessed. We also spent a little time on the beach. They didn't allow dogs so we stuck Chloe in the back seat of our stroller and sat at the back of the beach and tried to hide her under our umbrella. We didn't get caught thankfully. Adeline of course loved digging in the sand and being in her swimsuit. We walked down the pier and got some yummy ice cream before we headed back home. It was a fun getaway!

Duxbury Beach

A couple weekends ago we headed down to Duxbury Beach which is about an hour away from us. We left our house not really knowing where we were going to end up and just headed South and towards the coast. It was a little chilly, but we had a blast; especially Adeline. I'm pretty sure we would be at the beach everyday if we lived right next to it. She made a little "town" with Sand castles and was very proud of herself.