Taking Mathilde home to Maine (with a stop in Boston)

How to sum up our east coast trip in a few words with a few more pictures... Family reunion, playgrounds, museums, great friends, matching shirts, lounging on the beach, time at Tunk Lake, yummy summer dinners, LOBSTER, bocce ball, Mathilde making new friends, Mormor & Pop-pop in heaven with their girls and grandgirl home, loooong flights, and good memories. (I'm too tired to write more but hopefully these pictures speak for themselves. Thanks everyone for the amazing trip home!)

Bowdoin classmates: then & future

Last weekend, my college roommate Marisa came into town with her hubby Sean, (who also was a housemate for a time), and their adorable son Owen. The last time we were all together was when we visited them in Bordeaux, France for Halloween weekend 2008. The kids have grown so much since then and it was so nice to see the Raymond family again. We had a yummy bbq on our deck and caught up on stories from life in Europe. Ahhhhh, we remember traveling around Europe well...that was quite a special time. Owen and Mathilde told each other stories of growing up in foreign countries and then finished the night with stores from Dr. Seuss.






Until we meet again Raymonds...perhaps on your side of the pond next time!

The next day Mathilde dressed herself for an outing at the playground:


You can't see them yet, but the outfit was made complete with rain boots for the sunny day. I love how many smiles Mathilde brings to our lives :) Today she was singing, "We all live in a yellow submarine," over and over at the top of her lungs in the grocery store. Priceless!