droolie-moolie in his overalls...must.be.kept.out.of.direct.sunlight
castle castle castle exploring like trolls-
john's the best letterbox-finder...i refuse to tramp through the brush and poison ivy to get them.
pummie's first letterbox!
i'm always snapping pictures without poor johnny knowing...look at the attached earlobes! love them.so much goodness and lovins to post. first off, today was the best day ever. it was one of those days when everything aligns and john and i are on the same page about the things that we want to fill our day with. it started off with me waking with having an almost full night of sleep...joey's been power sleeping these past couple of days. then i called my dad and dianne and had them over for breakfast...cinnamon buns and fruit salad and coffee. then they whisked off gray, so john and pum and i were left up to our own devices...what to do? letterboxing! let it be known that john and i are complete dorky trolls who find enjoyment in letterboxing. if you haven't done it yet, i seriously suggest you give it a try..it's given our family endless opportunities to explore places very nearby that we would have missed otherwise. lots of forestly mosquitoey goodness out there to explore! so we did this really cool letterbox in a nearby town...explored crystal lake in haverhill. when we finished finding that box, we still wanted more forest, but less mosquito bites, so we trucked back to methuen and explored the old tenney castle ruins, which are actually not ruinous anymore, and quite beautiferous. this, people, is why i love my husband. first, he compliments me on my "peasant skirt" attire, and then totally immerses himself in forestlike activities with me all day long, then treats me to special iced coffee.
yesterday rocked too. we got up ultra early and trekked to todd farm antiques in rowley. i spent $13 dollars and got the best things...some buttons, two old bird identification books and a shell one, too, and an apron- it doesn't take much to make me happy. we met boo and jason and afterwards spent the whole day in the yard pretty much eating our heads off and doing random activities while watching gray run around nekkid. welcome to the family jason! when it got late enough nobody would make me smores (schmores) because i had too many drinkies and the night was officially over.
the day before that we found out that SHANNON IS EXPECTING #4! mind you, peoples, that her oldest just turned three on saturday. yes, you read that right. shannon is a supermom, a superfreak, and i can't think of anyone better to manage and mother a crew of little ones. i have some serious happiness going on in my heart for this mama. she's happy as a clam, and prolific as a damn rabbit.
we spent part of the day at c's third bday party, catching up with nice peeps and watching the little ones run around kicking and throwing balls. john laughs like a big dork when he hears that word "balls", which is highly inappropriate at a child's bday party, but this is yet another reason why i love him.
balls!
hope you all had wonderous funtabulous weekends, filled with bouncy balls (thanks boho for the great ball post, btw!) and goodness.














































