Family Pictures Harkness State Park 2013

Some family pictures for you to enjoy.

Adele

Rhegan

Ryan

Caleb

Aidan

Connor

Jacob

Seems like maybe the last time we posted was a while ago

Rhegan Elisabeth Wava Chadwick

In case you hadn't heard, Chadwick No.7 is here. Here are some other recent (for us anyway) pictures.

Ok, so following a family vote at the hospital, he has a name now: Jacob Nolan Chadwick.

New Baby

This is our new baby. He doesn't have a name yet, but he should by the end of the day. He is 7 lbs 14 oz and 20 inches.

Notice something missing....
Adele has lost her first tooth. She was thrilled. It was a little less eventful (and less bloody) than Caleb's first, but she knocked it out herself while brushing. This one had been loose for some time before hand. With all the excitement of getting her first donation from the "tooth fairy" she felt like sharing... so she gave Caleb half of her goods. How sweet;)

gymnastics

connor crawling

more garden and flowers

These are cala lillies that we planted in large pots to brighten up our porch.


Our 4 apple trees are very full.

I can almost smell the applesauce.

We got a couple handfuls of cherries off our trees-before the birds got to them. It was pretty hard to get the high hanging ones, but we tried using the trampoline-not so good.

the garden update

Most of these pictures are for Tim to get a little flavor of how our backyard farm is going. The peas look short in the picture only because some fairly strong winds in a storm a week earlier had blown quite a few vines off of the fence we used to train up the pea plants. (In reality the vines were about twice the height of the fnce and I had to continually wind them down and to the sides to keep them off the ground.) I couldn't get them to wind back around the fencing without breaking some of the vines, so I gave up. We just had to gently move the vines around to find all the peas. The last picture shows one of the three or four large piles of peas that we would get in one pick. I was able to prep and freeze about 31/2 quarts of peas and made a big wok of beef and pea pod stir fry for dinner last week-DELISH!
Adele was by far the all star pea picker and she washed most of them off herself. Then she would usually divide them up into bags for us to save and give away to our friends and neighbors. She is so generous with our produce. I have since pulled up those plants and started a fall crop so hopefully we will have some fresh sugar snaps when Tim arrives home.

Pictures with Daddy

I took some pictures with Tim and the kids last week before Tim had to leave for his deployment. I must say I agree with the cliche "I love a man in uniform," especially my man!
Sadly, Ryan is not in these pictures because he is already in NY for his summer visit. Ryan will be home before the end of the blueberry season in our backyard and the raspberry season at our neighbor's farm across the road.

Here are a few pics from Aidan's early birthday party. We wanted to celebrate before Ryan left for his summer visit to NY and before Tim left on his boat.

Aidan's favorite gift was probably the new matchbox car. He loves to make car sounds as he drives it all over the house.

I think Connor knew there was something tasty in those ice cream cones everyone was munching on, but he had to settle for a piece of dry toast.

fun in the sun

I picked up a cheap O-ring sprinkler the other day for the kids to have fun with. The dog thought it looked like fun, too, until he realized he was going to get wet. Then he decided to hang out under the tree with Connor.

I know that Caleb looks like we don't feed him in this picture, but he really has a pretty ferocious appetite most days. He just keeps growing straight up. Nearly every time he puts on a pair of long pants I can see his ankles more each time.


Connor is just chillin' under the shade of the apple tree.