#123 the bear

Today was our last day of vacation, and it was just perfect. We went to the top of Cadillac Mountain (in the sunshine this time), went through the Gardens of Acadia, had yet another fabulous picnic, explored more tidepools, had a beer tasting at Atlantic Brewery, Lobster rolls for dinner... what could make this day even better? How about a sweet bear roaming through our backyard when we'd just finished dinner? Ray was like, 'oh look, a bear.' So nonchalantly, we almost missed what he said! What a treat!

#122 Bubble rock

Yesterday was a great day, we climbed up to the bubbles and bubble rock, of course we all had to take the pushing the giant erratic off the cliff photo! We had a super picnic out on a beautiful trail, overlooking the ocean, Great Island trail, gorgeous! We did a ranger program, Tide Pool school, amazing! We saw a Brittle seastar, sea urchins, anenomes, lots of different algaes, and learned all sorts of cool things about barnacles - we even got to see them eating with their feet! What a great place Acadia is...

#119 & 120 Acadia

Yesterday we went on one of the sunset horse rides along the carriage trails, it was just fabulous. And we walked along the ocean walk on the rocks leading to Thunder Hole. It is all so beautiful here! Today we hiked the Beehive trail, I have to admit, I am so proud of myself. I was awake for a good portion of the evening worrying about it, but today I decided I had the strength to climb it. It's almost 500 feet, nearly straight up, you climb using iron rungs and ladders, slightly nerve wracking if you're afraid of heights like me! Adriana did great, I was super proud of her too... We picnicked at Sandy beach (very cold water) both days. Every day is just so gorgeous here, it is going to be hard to come home...

#118 Acadia 1

Oh my gosh, Acadia is beautiful. Our house is super sweet. The weather is not completely delightful, but it's all good. The fireflies at night are amazing, there are so many and they twinkle everywhere you look. Went up the top of Cadillac Mountain today, albeit it in a layer of fog and cloud, still gorgeous, and had popovers and tea with some yummy seafood chowder at Jordan Pond House. Outside. A wonderful day...

#114 _ 4th grade

School's out for the summer. Let the games begin! I can't come up with any fabulous 4th grade memory at the moment, so I'll just post the image, and try to think of something later (how sad is that?)...

#113 3rd grade

One of my favorite memories from 3rd grade was the lighthouse trip, one of Adriana's too. I was lucky enough to get to chaperone, and it was so great. Made you feel so lucky to live on the Cape (many things do...). We got to go inside Nauset Light, one of the Three Sisters Lights, and Chatham Light. It was just such a perfect Cape Cod day. I love being with the kids too, they kept calling me "Adriana's Mom", as in, "excuse me, Adriana's mom, can we...?" I thought it was adorable.

It also was the first year she had to take the MCA's test. Amusingly she aced the math, got every question right. 3rd grade math, check.

Tomorrow marks the end of 4th grade. So the book will be done for now assuming I do that for tomorrow's project. 4th grade. Geeeeessshhh, where does the time go?

#109 & 110 1st and 2nd

In 1st Grade, Adriana had Mrs. Drake, her favorite teacher to date. I remember going for our first parent/teacher conference with her, and expecting all glowing remarks about my amazing, talented child. Instead, Mrs. Drake told me how most days she was that same fabulous child I was expecting to hear about, and other days she thought I'd fed her pure sugar for breakfast she was so wild & keyed up. I think my jaw literally dropped. She's just a normal kid after all!
2nd grade was when she learned about the Saguaro, our visit to Arizona when we got to see one was one of my way early projects. Adriana made this really sweet Saguaro hotel with all the birds and animals that call the big giants home.

#108 Kindergarten

I decided I didn't want 'portraits' of Adriana in this album, I wanted it to be 'real' Adriana. I laughed out loud a lot of times as I was going through old photos of her. She is such a character!

Adriana met her bff Carly in Kindergarten, she came home and told us she had a friend named Curly. 'Are you sure it's not Carly?' I asked. 'No, I'm sure... it's Curly'. Still makes me giggle!

#21 - Mimi & her Libra girls

Oh my gosh, it's only March, not my busy time, and I've been working such long days, I can't imagine what's going to happen in my busy season!

So I thought maybe a scrapbook page or two might do me nicely when time is tight... I've always had visions of grandeur of creating these magical books for my daughter, but I'm not a scrapbooker... never have been... by the looks of it, probably never will be... never mind!

Our mother, always calls our daughters 'her Libra girls' which I find kind of funny because we've never been a family that is big on star signs... but something about the fact they're both Libras has always struck some chord... So of course it was the first thing that popped into my head when I came across these two images...