My wife and I are still looking for a new home. The current house we are in is nice but doesn’t have all the space we need for 8 of us… especially in the kitchen area. Storing a lot of our nice dishes and stemware. So we decided to purchase a really nice buffet. The picture isn’t perfect but you can see it here in our Dining Room.
It has been a nice addition to our house and has lots of added storage.
-sillydad
6 in one hand, half dozen in the other. It’s all the same. That makes a nice basketball team. Or hockey team. Heck why stop here… let’s shoot for a baseball team.
Last month the family was blessed with another daughter, making it our 6th child in 8 1/2 years.
A lot of people are asking if we will be having more. Honestly I don’t know. I am very happy with 6 kids and I am very content. To a lot of people 6 is a number, but I see them all as individuals who all have a wonderful personality. But for a good laugh.. we aren’t too far from becoming the folks in the following picture.
-sillydad
OK I have been told I don’t post enough pictures. There are friends and family who are half away across the continent so they would like more updates. So the following is a little bit about the last couple weeks and some of the things we have done.
So Aaron this is for you. 
A couple weeks ago my dad came up to Bangor to visit with the kids. He had never been out to the boardwalk so we took the 4 older kids up and walked around and I shot a few photos. (Take note: Sammy’s outgrown shirt. 
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We had a lot of fun walking the boardwalk. We picked blackberries and then came home. The following weekend I traveled with the 3 older kids over to my parent’s camp in Bethel where we spent time camping, sitting around the campfire, and visiting family.
Here are a few pictures I took. Enjoy!
Campfire at night
My parents did some clearing on their land and on one edge you can get a nice view of the mountains. I took these photos around sunset.
The following picture is of the view out towards New Hampshire. It was too cloudy but up behind these mountains you see here is Mt Washington, which you can see clearly on a cloudless day.
And here is Fred, “keeper of the campfire”
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Well looks like Dadstock was a great success.
I was not able to attend but here is a group shot of all those who could make it:
Looks like a few guys there to relax:
Click here to see more photos from the event.
-sillydad
Well we had a real busy weekend. We all headed up to the lake today and did some playing by the water. The kids were excited to start catching fish again. This was the 2nd time this year they have been. We caught lots of sunfish. I caught a pickerel. There were some white perch that were caught too. But I snapped some photos and thought I would share.
Here is a picture of that pickerel I caught. It was actually about 17 inches long. I lost my hat on the catch. Also Emma is caught wearing a diaper as she went swimming earlier and got completely soaked. We weren’t planning on swimming until after we got there so we tossed her in a diaper and called it good.
Here is Sammy showing off his big catch of the day.
The following is Elizabeth checking out her line… making sure it isn’t all tangled up in the hook.
Emma watching the fish we caught swimming around in the pail.
Isobel having a good ol’ time as usual.
The fishing was a lot of fun but we actually realized the water was real nice and we were getting hot. So we took a break and swam. Snapped a few pictures of the kids playing in the water:
-sillydad