First Day of 3rd Grade

The time has quickly come to send my little one off to school again.  I can't believe she's in 3rd grade.  We are two weeks into the new school year and still working on our routine.  But I have no doubt she will do well as always.  These are photos from the first day of school August 29, 2016.

Jocelyn has Mrs. Incavido this year.  She seems to really like her.  There are lots of changes in 3rd grade and more responsibilities.  It's going to be different.  

Jocelyn has a different technology teacher for the first time since Kindergarten, so I'm thinking I'll focus on volunteering in her homeroom class more this year.  I'm also co-leader in her Brownie Girl Scout troop, so I'll be doing that on top of the things I do at school.  Lots of changes for both of us, I guess.  

Welcome to 3rd grade!!

Off she goes again

Summer Trip to New England

The highlight of our summer was a trip to New England.  I say New England because we hit every state except Rhode Island!!  It was especially fun to check all those new states off for Pat since he had never traveled that area before.

Pat's family rented a house in Maine for a week and since we were going all that way, we decided to make a couple other stops along the way.

We first headed to Connecticut to visit with Joye and family.  Jocelyn loved this part of course, because she can never get enough of the kids and chaos.

I think we've been adopted!

Jake and Grace are huge!  And fun!

After a day and a half in CT, we headed to NH to visit my side of the family.  I haven't seen any of them in years - in some cases decades!  I had no idea how many of my family would stop in that day.  I was so surprised and it was so great to see everyone!

By this point, we had already been traveling for 3 days, but now it was off to Maine for the remainder of our vacation.  We stayed in Winter Harbor Maine.  It was a very beautiful area, but still pretty far from things, so our traveling continued.

Here are just a few of my favorite photos by the water.  We were very close to a part of Acadia National Park where we could watch a beautiful sunset.  We went there a couple different nights.

Definitely one of my favorite photos from the trip!

My two favorite people

I love these photos with Jocelyn and Grandma!  They're so cute together!

Pat's new friend!

At the top of the Penobscot Narrows Observatory

Family!

It was a long trip and we clocked 2000 miles on the car, but we had a lot of great fun and saw so many family and friends.  It was a great trip!  But after 10 days, we were also very happy to be home.