Back to School

Headed to 4th and 1st grades! 

Matty and some of his favorite buddies waiting to head into Mrs. Drake's class

sweet J has Mrs. Lindquist. he and benny are excited to bike to school this year 

 benny going into meet Mrs. Gaul. 

Camp

On Saturday we dropped Matt off at overnight camp on Lake Winnipesaukee. We spent the weekend with some friends and had a great time....this is Ben and our neighbor Bella.

Matthew, Ben and Andrew paddle boarding/pushing each off

Learning about Mr. Scampini's bent wrist...and old dock injury

Andrew, Jack, Dylan and Matt. Getting ready for a week of fun

Ben loves fast boating...

Jack does not. 

These guys slept like this all night. And did not shower for three days!

Fun times

And off they go. They were packed onto a boat and brought to Bear Island for a week with no electronics or contact with their mamas.

  (I will not tell which one of us cried.)

Moms and siblings celebrating/sending off the boat as it drove by. 

Surely the boys were mortified. It was great,

Signs of spring.

The last week before Spring officially begins. One still in full snow gear...but one in a sweatshirt!

A bit of melting at school. 

The lacrosse field (turf) was cleared for practice. Not sure Little League will get the same treatment

Skiing

All three guys are officially skiers this year. We earned lots of hot chocolate with this one. 

matty taking a break. 

climbing mount snow outside the inn. 

My favorite icicle band ever. 

Mama and sweet J like to ski slowly and safely. 

Snow

The first snow was pretty fun. 

The boys worked on a snowman, without fighting, gfor an hour. 

But it kept snowing, and snowing...

..and snowing and snowing.

It was so cold too. Thank goodness for school.

We made the trek downtown during the first blizzard. Nothing was open. 

So we opened our backyard luge. 

We kept digging out. 

There was soooooo much snow.

Mountains of snow.

Our driveway. 

Our school. Jack walking on the fence posts.

CLimbing the snow banks.

Thank goodness we are a week away from Spring!

This weekend...

..was a perfect one. this is matt showing off his Lego creation from camp:

and then enjoying the ice cream truck treats from a little friend's birthday party.

burning off some extra energy. how quickly the fun stops... 

 

took these beach bums to Duxbury beach. a new favorite spot.

 we dug a tunnel that connected and matthew was trying to look through. a big wave never comes when you want one... 

he settled for a pic of my hand.

 ben sneaking off to pee.

 

Boston harbor front. ben said: I want to live here.

 me too, Ben.

 

Jack headed to the Harbor Islands

 A rare moment of calm after our picnic and tour of the fort

 Pirate Jack

 one of Matthew's favorite things ever. still.