oh my, love me some pie!

This is my absolute all-timefavorite summertime treat - fresh Maine blueberry pie, with freshly whipped cream.  This one turned out especially nice, if I do say so myself...

Day out with Thomas

Many, many exciting things have occurred over our summer.  Family visits, pooltime, lots of gardening (and pickling -ugh), and most recently, our Day Out with Thomas.  I have more pics to share soon, but these below are courtesy of my dear friend Elizabeth.

Logan, Brody, Elizabeth's eldest son, David, and Kaelen's eldest daughter, ballerina/princess Korsen

Myself, Elizabeth, and Kaelen.  Thank you ladies, for sharing your families and such a wondrous day with us!

Visits and more

It has been a very busy, very full last 6 weeks.  Our garden has grown monstrously, as have our children.  While Grandmommy visited, we officially moved Logan into his big boy bed...it didn't seem to stifle his 5:30am internal alarm clock, however.

Logan's first night in his big boy bed

And we have begun harvesting in the garden, in which we apparently planted too many green beans...ugh...more bush beans and still the pole beans to come.  I'll appreciate this in February.

And peppers, onion and peas...yum!

Just a really lovely sunset over our farm

We also enjoyed a week with Gigi, who is proudly sporting her baby bump...can't wait to meet you,

Baby Claire...

Newest addition - Solo

Our  expectant cow, Lady, finally delivery her baby - a healthy little red bull calf.  We didn't know she had  given birth, and when the cows were brought into the barn Sunday, it was without a baby...the next mornign, Duane nearly tripped over this little guy in the pasture.  Since he spent his first night alone, Solo seems an appropriate name for this little fella.

Welcome Solo!

Goodies from grandmommy

We received 2 large boxes of treats from Grandmommy today - this was the favorite, the "potty prize."  Now both boys can be Spidey in and out of the water. It's a miracle Brody did not sleep in this get-up...not sure if I can keep it away from camp, though...

There were also dozens of adorable outfits inside, as both Brody and Logan have seemed to jump a size mid-summer.  No more growing allowed here (unless you are a fruit or vegetable)! 

a garden tour

Meet the newest addition to our farm, Quincy

How the garden grows, potatoes, and radishes, oh my.

peas please

and this very yummy buttercrisp lettuce...

canola potatoes

and rows and rows and rows of corn

holy radishes, batman!

grow little carrots, grow!

Mr. Green Thumb examining the tomato plants...

herbs and flowers

The little green garnish that decorated dinner last week was from our little herb batch...

Our island garden is growing nicely

I just love these peonies - courtesy of Duane's sister Betsy, originally from their grandparents farm.

Memorial Day 2010

We enjoyed a bright and beautiful memorial day, smelling the dianthus in our gardens

and waited pretty patiently for the parade to begin

with our very good friends from Music Class

The boys were very impressed with the guard at the beginning of the parade

Second in line was the Camden Rockport High School band

Oh,the memories...

 And we ended our morning with some splashin in the surf of the

Rockport Harbor

Sunday stories and a lobster feed

We enjoyed a leisurely morning, with the boys curled up "reading" while we prepared breakfast.

Yummmmmm.  Dinner. At $5.79 a pound, hard to resist "wobsta".

One crusty crustacean.

Sears photo

So this was from our worst photo session yet at Sears.  Not lots of options for affordable professional shots around, but usually we luck out with better moods during our sessions.  Not so lucky this time.