Outing to Salem Pond

June 14, 2013

We met Aunt Beth and Aunt Darcy at Salem Pond for a picnic and visit.  It was partly for Aunt Bethany's birthday.  The weather was perfect!

Eliza and Nathan are happy to be at the pond.

Bradley looking at some really big fish!

Aunt Beth and Sarah-Jane

Nathan, Aunt Andrea and Sarah-Jane

Aunt Andrea was out of school so she got to party with us all day!

Mom, Nathan, Aunt Darc, Bradley, Daniel and Eliza

Aunt Darc could only stay for a little while because she and Brian were going to look at a dirt bike for her.  It was fun to see her again.

Bradley wanted to swim really bad.  It is too bad I didn't think about it until we were already there or we could have brought our swim suits.

The kids building a sand castle.

I asked them not to get their shorts wet, so Bradley hiked his up and went out!

All the kids really wanted to play in the water.  They just couldn't help themselves.

We finally pulled them away from the water and headed for a shaded spot near the playground.

Nathan and I enjoying the blanket.

Daniel looks like a model from G.Q. the sports addition!

Bradley hanging around.

Grandma caught this picture of Sarah-Jane.  She is so darling!

Sarah-Jane showing her mom, Aunt Bethany, Aunt Andrea and Grandma her cool stick.

Nathan being his darling mischievous self.

Nathan giving me a big hug!

  

Daniel came over because he wanted Aunt Andrea to attack him.  He had been harassing her all morning so that she would chase him.  Finally I told him to just ask her to chase him, so he came over and asked her to attack him. 

He might have gotten more than he wanted.

Judging by the look on his face I don't think he minded all that much.

We decided to take a little walk around the pond and cross the bridge.

Bradley pulling Sarah-Jane in Grandpa's new wagon with Eliza as their supervisor.

The whole gang, minus Grandma, our photographer

This was an interesting duck.  He didn't swim gracefully like the others did.  He really had to chug a long.  He also made a really weird sound.

As we made our way back around to the picnic area Sarah-Jane discovered mine and Eliza's water.

She was very excited about the whole thing!

When she didn't think anyone was looking she decided to try them out.  She was a little disappointed that it only had water instead of something sweet!

We had Subway sandwiches for dinner.  Delicious! then Aunt Andrea was good to take Bradley and Daniel around the Eco pond to look for tadpoles and water snakes.

They found one water snake, but they couldn't get close enough to catch it.  The certainly had a lot of fun though.  Thanks Aunt Andrea!