benji giggling

this is my first experimentation with putting a video on my blog! i only just discovered yesterday that our camera can make videos with sound. how extraordinary!!! :)

Moody's Diner

everyone visiting maine should eat at moody's diner in waldoboro for a quintessential touristy experience. :)

mom and dad took us after church sunday

josiah didn't want to get in his own seat

josiah's name mean's "fire of the Lord"; benji is our sweet, compliant child :)

papa entertains

happy little fellow

Fisherman's Festival

this weekend was the annual fisherman's festival in boothbay harbor. we knew josiah would want to see the cod fish relay race, and then we stayed around a little longer until the boys had had enough. ya'll need to come visit us in our fun little town! it's very beautiful here. :)

April trip to NC & VA

Logan, Josiah, Benji and I packed up and headed south for a week! We had a wonderful visit with family and truly enjoyed the warm weather and beautiful flowers. Josiah was very impressed with all of the tractors, horses and cows in the area, and Benji seemed to be impressed by all of the attention he was getting. He won't let me put him down anymore because he's so spoiled! :) Here's a sampling of pictures from our trip, in random order.

logan took 'siah fishing at aunt pat's house.......but josiah wants instant results so he got bored with fishing pretty fast. :)

the boys on the 'big tractor' with papa

family shot with logan's old toy

having fun in the tub....looking like kfc colonel

daddy and benji posing

leaving va, 'big papa' and 'big grandma', and aunt emily for nc

'siah

papa and benji bonding

benji bathing in the sink where logan was bathed as a baby! :)

papa and josiah

at the park in smithfield, va with 'big grandma'

climbing trees with daddy

benji's first tractor ride with 'big papa'

'big grandma' and benji

'siah is king of the world! :)

this is for kristin :)

Rules-- a. Answer the questions about yourself
b. After posting, tag 5 people by going to their blog and leaving a comment

1. What were you doing 10 years ago? i was 17....finishing my junior year in high school, getting sunburnt on a trip to the carribbean with eliza kinsey's family and crystal higgins (uleau), playing on the high school tennis team and keeping busy with music lessons, choir, friends, etc.

2. 5 things on my to-do list today-
1-endless motherly duties
2-church staff meeting (i'm the p/t secretary)
3-go to augusta to 1.) return our cable box and downgrade to basic, and 2.) exchange a comforter set at kohl's for one with both shams included. this is for my aunt whose new comforter got drawn on with a permanent marker by a certain 2 year old perry child
4-make dinner
5-shower.....maybe

3. What snacks do I enjoy? anything with sugar in it, chips, cheese sticks, basically anything that will pack on the pounds

4. What would I do if I were to suddenly become a billionaire? pay off my debt, pay off my family's debt, give some of it away, travel and put it in the bank (this is kristin's answer...but it sounds good to me)

5.3 bad habits:
1-biting my nails
2-stress eating (i've been doing a lot of that the past few months...)
3-not allowing enough sleep for myself

6. Places I've lived:
1- vancouver & longview, wa
2- laconia, nh
3- dexter & boothbay, me
4- rochester, pa
5- beverly farms, hamilton, & wenham, ma
6- tambo, cochabamba, & with the yuqui indians, bolivia
7- the chaco with the manjui indians, paraguay

7. 5 jobs I've had:
1-waitress (green shutters inn, black orchid, ebb tide)
2-hostess (andrew's harborside, vinny t's)
3-office assistant (gordon college chapel, ngh financial)
4-babysitter and nanny (all over)
5-secretary (boothbay baptist church)

8. Things people don't know about me. i'm a right brainer, intuitive thinker, not too concerned with what others are thinking about me, i would like to homeschool my boys for several years and then go back to school for a masters in social work or in counseling, i would love to serve the Lord overseas

Tag, you're it!!!

thawing out in maine and massachusetts

it was 60 degrees yesterday in maine!!!!!!! praise the LORD!!!!!!! it felt so wonderful to bask in some sunshine and see all the snow banks melting away. logan and i got away from gloomy maine over to weekend to see friends in massachusetts. it was a refreshing and fun trip, and we got some extra family time when our brakes went out shortly after we hit the road for home sunday afternoon. :) we spent an extra night in ma and got back on the road at 11 monday morning. no problemo. :)

benji gettin' some lovin' from mommy

in our matching striped outfits :)

this is how we've been feeling lately :)

waiting while daddy gets his hair cut at his favorite barber shop in n. beverly, mass.

'siah and daddy studying

josiah sitting at the window in crystal's ipswich apt. to watch the train

brotherly love--holding hands :)

our gracious rescuer and hostess, crystal bowles!!!

snap! go fish.

so....................i sent four rolls of film off to snapfish four weeks ago with the pictures from josiah's birthday party. a little over a week after i sent them, i was wondering why i hadn't gotten an email from snapfish confirming that they had received them. it hit me: i probably didn't put a single label on any of my film, the order form, or the envelope!!! i'm such a scatter brain since i became a mom. i think i had a lobotomy when josiah was conceived. i've called a couple times to give a description of my film, and i'm praying, praying, praying that they find my precious pictures!!! i just wanted to explain why i hadn't posted any pictures yet from his party.