A Big cousin gifted the littlest cousin a ring pop, and while she wisely did not climb in the boat with all of those other big cousins, she thoroughly enjoyed her ring pop while watching the cacophony from the end of the d0ck with me.

Dr. Peds’ extended family were unable to meet at the family cabin where we usually spend a weekend together in the summer, so we needed to find a different cabin on a lake for our cabin weekend this year.  It all worked out, and we had a great place where the…

The bugs were vicious on this year’s family car camping trip until the last day when the wind switched off the lake and kept them a little at bay.  We spent a lot of time by the cold water of the lake, where there are not as many mosquitos, because…

Baseball has been over for Mr. TOF for a couple of weeks now, but I’m pretty behind around here!  Loosing their playoff game by one point after an extremely intense game that went into extra innings made for a tough day, but learning to deal with not winning is part…

There are, of course, additional pictures of this outing, but I am not able to share them.  I wish I could, because they involve two crazy girls hamming it up on a boulder with rock microphones! This was a short trip to the beach on Sunday night with just The…