Summer Lovin'

We just got home from our annual week in Vermont. This year Mom and Dad came for the week, too, and it was great fun! We had such a relaxing time there without all the distractions of TV, internet, cell phones. They don't even have a landline hooked up there! There was fishing, though mostly on Dad's part. Rocco did catch a sunfish in a net by tossing english muffin crumbs over the edge of the dock-- no hook or line involved, but it still counts.

Mom, Dad, and the boys went to nearby Fort Ticonderoga for a good part of the day on Friday while Skip and I just hung back in the sunshine-- swimming, reading and eating our lunch without fear of an onslaught of boys swooping in and swiping it out from under us. It was heavenly. Lola loved camp, as usual, and Mom and Dad brought Molly the goldendoodle, who enjoyed swimming in the lake. (Sometimes voluntarily, sometimes not.)

Rocco's big catch

Rocco 'n Molly: fishing buddies

Mom, Dad + Molly (not sure how helpful Mom + Molly were with luring the fish in... haha)

We don't see this smile in the middle of a video game session... sheer nature-induced joy. :) 

Big, beautiful Molly

Oscar- our firestarter for the week

bunnies everywhere!

campfire! 

taking advantage of Daddy's snoozing... 

The new RAV4 quarters aren't nearly as roomy as the minivan for roadtrips to Vermont, but they were still smiling... 

Sunset Lake excursion with Papa in his boat

our sweet, sweet girl, miss lola

a squirmy catch

fun at the VT Country Store

Owen chillaxin' on the dock

canine camp cuties

sponsored by coca-cola

one of many lakeside catches at the cabin

back home again! (but i really detest the "open for business" part of this sign that our governor insisted on tacking up there when he took office. counting the days...

we peeled rubber on the way out of VT so that we could get Owen back to Portland in time for his gig at Portland House of Music

Keytar wizard