JULY!!

Here's our July blog installation... what a busy month! Lots of traveling, lots of gardening, lots of chasing our... (I hate to say this)..... toddler around everywhere!!!!


Here's Hannah riding in her wagon on the way back from the garden with a bowl full of peas - she loves to eat them right off the vine.

We rented a friend's house on Block Island for a week in the beginning of the month.... it's an old place with a beautiful view...

Hannah loved the beach! Though the waves were scary until the very last day when she wanted us to keep dipping her in the foamy water, until her little lips turned blue!

Hannah brought her favorite books with her...

We went clamming......

and made my favorite, linguine with clams............. YUMMY!

Jim rented a pontoon boat and we cruised around the Great Salt Pond....

Here's Hannah playing on the beach........




And here she is running around in the sand.....




Hannah and our friend Amy's dog at the house...


Here's Hannah at Lake Mansfield in Great Barrington when we got home.... She likes the water a lot.... but she thinks she can swim.... Yikes!






Then we were off to Vermont for a week with Pop-Pop and Ga-Ga. We stayed on Otter Creek near Vergennes at the mouth of Lake Champlain. It was a beautiful place, but sadly it rained nearly constantly for the entire week.

Mary Beth, Hannah and I did have a wonderful day at Shelburne Farms....
Hannah tried out lots of tractors...






We took a wagon ride..


Hannah trying out the wheel barrow

she joined some hens for a dust bath

At the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory....... she was sleepy

Hannah running around Shelburne Farms like she owns the place

We got a little stir crazy by the end of the trip. Good thing Jim is so full of fun ideas!





Hannah harvested her first carrot when we got back to Sheffield - Yum!

Hannah doing the Hulk

Here's Hannah doing her Hulk impersonation....... She's fierce!

Hannah's Chickens

We got some baby chickens this weekend - 8 Silver Laced Wyandotte hens. They're about 8 weeks old and will begin laying eggs around Christmas time. We're going to have to get Hannah a really warm snowsuit so she can start selling eggs on the roadside right away........ have you seen what college costs these days?!!!!

Here's a little video of Hannah wrangling the chickens........ near the end it sounds like she was saying "s*it".......... but I assure you she is saying "sit". Jim and I have to try really hard not to laugh when she is saying "s*it, s*it, s*it" over and over again... : )

Photo and Video Blitz!

Sorry we've been slacking on the uploading lately.......... we've just been so busy!!!! Here are a bunch of photos and a few videos:


Some pictures from our trip to New York City to visit Grandpa last week....




Hannah literally keeled over fast asleep during Grandpa's birthday brunch!
Painting her first painting...... Father's Day gift for Jim.


Father's Day outing at the waterfall on the state line on Rt 41

Hannah with Daddy's fishing pole.....



Too cool!
Just waking up from a nap .......

what a doll : )

Hannah is a member of the Mermaid Club at our neighbors Bob and Sue's pool...... we have so much fun over there!!!


Awww.........


here's Hannah strolling about at the Sheffield Farmer's Market last week....




Hannah's first pony ride! At the Farmer's market in Sheffield.




Hannah's little scooter is making the police car sounds, but she seems to be playing along by alternately putting her hands up and putting them behind her head. Tee-hee!

I Have.........

a................

belly button!!!!!!