Mass chaos. Part 1.

Our lives have been truly chaotic for July into August- fortunately, mostly in the positive.

After returning from Houston for the July 4th weekend, we finished out Jacob's schooling and my work, then proceeded to fly to Green Pond the last full week of July ( all except Daniel).

These pictures are of a boat trip prior to the arrival of half the family (Uncle Dana, Aunt Grayson and Ma were the only ones there at this point).

Grayson so kindly allowed Jacob to assist...he thoroughly enjoyed being the boss.

Tomasito wanted in on the action, too.

Thomas loved the boat ride, the 1940's throw-back life preserver (which is ridiculously buoyant), and the snuggling.

But then, they were both exahusted by the end of the day.

On Thursday, we ventured down to Hershey, PA to meet up with my friend Ashley and hubs Ace. Success. Though the weather was dreary and the way home awful (involved both kids screaming at several points and an eventual stop at toys-r-us to play and regroup), the actual visit was fantastic!

There's a free tour and chocolate sample that we took advantage of..twice. Singing cows were involved and Jacob has his own adaptation of that music that goes something like "I'm a Chocolate Tasty treeeeeeat".

Lucky boy got a ball from Ashley and Ace...and wanted to throw it despite pictures.

That's better.


Part II to follow soon...when the rest of the family arrives in GP. Then, we'll move on to the mess of our apt here as we pack and leave for Berkeley on Monday Aug. 15th!