Vacation in Vermont

We're back!

After spending a week in Vermont, it is nice to be home and back to the routine. Vacation was wonderful, of course, time well spent with family. Some of the things we did were go on a walk every morning, lots of reading, a trip to the theater to see Transformers (not very good by the way), out to a nice dinner one night, a tour of a local farmers market and town. The tour of the town was interesting because we happened upon a pewter store in which there was a craftsman in the back actually shaping a vase so we all got to see a demonstration. Tom was fascinated by all this and discovered that the store allowed customers the chance to polish and finish spoons that had been poured in a mold. He spent about 2 hours polishing 2 spoons and was so excited about it, he spent the rest of the afternoon talking about his spoons. I got quite a kick out of it and I am sure you can understand why he enjoys fixing surfboards so much.

I wanted to show a picture of the house we stayed in that was right on the lake. The bottom floor was an open floor with living room, sun room and kitchen. The 2nd floor housed all the bedrooms. It was really a cozy little place.

While we were there, we had free reign to use the big pontoon boat, paddle boat, kayak, fishing boat and sailboat which you might be able to see in this picture behind the pontoon boat. I enjoyed taking the little kayak out a couple of times, while Tom went fishing every day as he had gotten a fishing purpose for the week.

The fishing boat!

A shot of the first floor...

In other news, Tom and I decided to spend the 4th of July at LBI. It was a beautiful night. Tom went in the water for a nice surf and I read and took a little nap on the beach.

I am going to post only one more photo of my pregnant belly. It is growing nicely and most people have been nice in their comments about it. However, while stopping by the health food store today to get some ground flax seed, a man opened the door for me as I was leaving and asked, "How are the twins?" Grrrrr.

Anyway, the photo will be of my 38 week mark, so I will post it sometime next week as I am now 37 weeks and counting! I am mostly comfortable, still sleeping pretty well, except for the nightly indigestion and groin pain that I get sometimes if she is pressing on a nerve. I have recently begun experiencing those braxton hicks as well as some cramping so I know things are moving along.