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One Sunday in July we spent the day with our friends Paul, Karen, and Zoe. It had been too long since we’d last seen them so it was super to be able to drive out there for the afternoon. We had a great lunch outside and then went swimming in the pond right from the backyard.

Here are the kids waiting impatiently for lunch:

I’m not sure what they’re doing here but they’re having a great time!

Everyone in the pond! (Well, except for cameraman Eric who opted to stay on land and take a ton of pictures instead – he wanted another turn with the new camera, I think!)

Family swim:

Before I dive into our vacation photos I thought I’d post some of my favorites from June. Here goes!

Quinn and his friend Luke hiking at the Sheep Pasture (notice Quinn’s inside out shirt – mind you, I’m not complaining, I just find it amusing! The previous day Miles got himself dressed and put everything on backward. Fun times here, oh yeah.)

Testing out the slip’n’slide for the first time (we bought at the church fair last fall so it’s been a long wait!)

Testing out the new camera, too!

First dip in the pool for 2010! Don’t worry, the water is crystal clear now – we just couldn’t wait that long to take a dip. Think the boys like the water?

We celebrated Father’s Day and Becca’s birthday by going to a Brockton Rox game. It was SO HOT that the seats were difficult to sit down on! But before the game we got to go out on the field and toss tennis balls around. Check out Miles’s great catching form in the picture below – I guess his feet have to be off the ground to catch the ball! After we were done with our game of catch, Miles said to Becca, “that was a fun baseball game!” I think he thought we were leaving even though the game hadn’t even started yet. Oops! Luckily he still had a good time, despite the heat. We were all really happy to jump in the pool once we got back from the game!

Quinn also finished up kindergarten in June and is already looking forward to first grade in the fall. Yikes! Miles is starting preschool in the fall and is having fun playing school with Quinn this summer.

There are lots more photos in the June album! Go check them out!

Eric surprised the heck out of me with my Mother’s Day gift this year (well, apparently it’s my Mother’s Day, Birthday, and Fill-in-the-blank-day present since it certainly exceeded the Mother’s Day budget!) – a new camera! Apparently I need to take a bit better care with this one and not drop it on the floor and crack the screen like I did with the old one. Of course, the new one won’t fit in my pocket, so perhaps that won’t be an issue! Anyway, he kindly gave me my gift at breakfast time so that the battery could charge while I was at church and I could then play with it in the afternoon. We went to visit Becca and Sean, so the photos are mostly of their apartment and surroundings.

Here’s me with my new toy!

I practiced taking a few portraits…

Close ups…

Action shots (don’t ask me what Miles is doing here!)…

…and discovered that it’s going to quite a bit of practice to be able to use this new camera! Well, I guess I knew that would be the case. Just what I need – a new project! We had a fun Mother’s Day with a climb up the Bunker Hill Monument…

(well, most of us climbed, anyway!)

…a delicious dinner, and lots of fun.

Thanks for having us over, Becca and Sean!

To see more of my lovely photos (ha!) check out the Mother’s Day album.