Referrals arrived this month and covered a whole 4-days. Families with a LID between November 22-25 inclusive received a referral. We are hopeful that next month's referrals will include at least a few days of December. We are even more hopeful that we will receive our referral in December-- before Christmas. But, only time will tell.
As promised, here are the details of the rest of our vacation with Uncle Earl as well as what we have been up to for the rest of the summer.
We spent a dat at Attitash splashing on the water slides. I can't remember the last time I was on a water slide. It was a lot of fun and made grown men act like little boys.
The Novotnys (the caretakers) were very gracious and took us for a ride in their rhino-- it is a four wheel vehicle-- not the animal. Uncle Earl rode in the back with Gabrielle and Xavier. Wim drove and I rode shotgun. We had a fun and bumpy ride through the woods to a beautiful view.
The Novotnys also treated us to some homemade wine and fresh grown vegetables. We bought a bunch of hot dogs and fixins for smores for all of the kids and everyone really had a fantastic time. We always have fun when we visit New Hampshire, but this trip really took the cake! Phoebe even made friends with their new little dog Rufous. Rufous was more than happy to share some of his clothes with Phoebe.
We also made time to take Phoebe for her first swim. She did pretty good, but was more eager to leave the water than to swim in it.
Wim and the kids finished their New England vacation in Maine and Uncle Earl and I headed back to Rhode Island so he could catch his flight hom. It is always sad when he leaves, but we look forward to having fun time when he visits us again next year.
Back at home Gabrielle spent her last week of summer vacation at horse camp. On the last day of camp they did a little show for the families of the campers so we could watch the girls do different skills with the horses that they had learned during the week. It was really neat to see how much Gabrielle had learned about horses and she really enjoyed the camp. She was one of only 3 out of 10 girls that they allowed to Trot on the horses during the show.
On the left is a picture of Gabrielle and the horse she rode while trotting. The other girl in the picture was also on her "racing" team, but did not get to trot on the horse. The picture on the right is Gabrielle riding "her" camp horse, Cypress during the skills show. She rode Cypress through an obstacle course.
We all got to see the horses in their stalls after the show and it looks as though Cypress thought Xavier was growing a good head of hay-- not hair!
Now it is back to school. Gabrielle starts middle school this year and she was very excited on her first day. Xavier wasn't quite as excited. Wim took these pictures of the kids before they headed off to school. I think he was a bit nervous and sad about seeing his little girl move onto another milestone in her life as her picture turned out a little blury.
Both of the kids are very happy with school so far. Gabrielle says that she really likes middle school and switching rooms. Xavier has a newish teacher, Mr. Stevens, and he has the room decorated with lots of dog-stuff.
School not only started for the kids, but also for Phoebe. Her introduction to puppy school didn't go as smoothly as it went for the kids. To start off, the trainer's dog, a very wierd looking MALE pug, took a STRONG liking to Phoebe. I'll leave it at that. Then later in the class, Phoebe got bit on the nose by one of the other dogs. There was some blood and lots of puppy tears, but she hung in there and we finished the class. Sorry, I don't have any pictures of this event that are fit for publishing that are in rated G format. I can hardly wait to see what this week's class brings us!
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