Summer 2012

Here are some pictures from Summer 2012.  The Bennetts came to visit us at Keuka "Poppy's" Lake and then we met them at Wildwood NJ for our annual beach vaca.  Reilly was happy to see her old friend Cara (the dog) at the lake and the dog was happy to see her.  Most mornings the dogs would wait for the girls to go to the beach to play!  Quinlan and Reilly caught their first fish!  And we think it was the same fish - caught twice.  Max didn't get one but there is always next year.  I wish I had pictures of our first family visit to a waterpark with the Bennett girls in Wildwood.  Chris and I actually went down the slides too.  For me it wasn't so much the down but the up the l-o-n-g  staircases that were the end of me.

 Quinlan, Sydney Reilly and Reilly celebrate at Mima's Annual Birthday Bash!

 Elizabeth and Megan Bennett hang with Reilly and Quinlan at Keuka Lake.

 No. It isn't a giant bat.  Quinlan, Reilly and Max give "Skippy Jon Jones" a big hug at the Strong Museum of Play.  He is my favorite book character.  I hugged him too.  Although he looks a little demented here (his eyes).  He is a siamese cat who thinks he is a chihuahua.

 Reilly attempts to pull the sword from the stone.  We read "Sorcerer's Apprentice" a few dozen times this summer.

 Cousin Emily Croft moved to the big city and couldn't take her stuffed puppy with her.  Reilly agreed to take good care of it.  She calls it her "Vanilla Lab" because Quinlan has a chocolate lab stuffed animal.  Makes sense to me.

We had a wicked rain storm the first night at the beach (of course it was nothing compared to Hurricane Sandy).  It rained buckets for about 3 hours straight. The underground parking garage next door was flooded.  The next day a whole bunch of horseshoe crabs washed up on the beach - dead.  Our girls, and some others on the beach, carried them around, posed for pictures with them and used them to decorate sand castles.  It was pretty creepy to have one of them brush up against you while you were in the waves.