Cousins!!

One of the highlights of our summer has been spending time with far-flung cousins. At the end of July we were able to spend time with cousins from both Maine and St. Louis. Hannah and Jordan were visiting from MO and spent a few days in RI. The kids, Julia especially, loved spending time with them and the fact that there was lots of swimming involved was an added bonus!

We spent a day at the beach and then a day at the pool followed by dinner at our house with the whole family. All the girls (Hannah, Jordan, Alex, and Julia) spent the evening playing together which Andrew and I loved to see! From what I gathered afterwards there was a lot of treasure hunting! Alex and Julia had created their own treasure map for them to follow... not sure that any treasure was actually found!

At the end of that week we were back in Maine and got to spend quite a bit of time with cousin Annabel. Benj tried to get her to race down the slides at the playground, we introduced her s'mores, and all the kids had lots of fun seeing and smelling the flowers at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens (I highly recommend a visit here if you're ever in the area - it was fabulous!).

And because we so rarely have pictures of the moms here we are too!

What a great summer it has been!