Our Maine Weekend

This past weekend, we packed up the kids for our 5(ish) hour drive up North to Camden, Maine to spend the weekend with Marks parents. They have a vacation house up there, remember? :) So, anyway, the ride up was if-y. The kids both slept for the first hour, then once Avery was awake, all she wanted was to hold my hand. So after doing weird back bend contortions from the front seat, I decided that sitting between the two car seats would be more comfortable. Besides, I got to watch Madagascar 3 on the iPad from there, too.

Saturday, the weather was beautiful: Chilly, crisp air and super sunny! I love this sort if weather. We bundled up and walked down for breakfast on the water, then drove to this awesome jetty with great views, but it was sooo windy, we seriously thought Cameron might fly off, so we decided not to go out to the end.  He is still only little! 

 We put Avery in the Kelty for the first time.  She wasn't much of a fan!

After the jetty, we went to the Owls Head Lighthouse to take a little hike. It was beautiful!!  We walked up to the top of the light house, then found a beach and hunted for starfish, which Cam had never seen in the wild before, so it was like AMAZING for him :) Oh did I mention that Avery had a temper tantrum on our hike? Yeah, she did. All because I didn't want her to walk down the huge staircase from the lighthouse.  Miss Independent.  Loves to embarrass mommy! 

See the stairs?

Yeah, she didn't want me to carry her! 

 With Googa and Papa

The Fam!

 The girls!

After that, we got lunch in Rockland then drove up Mt. Battie and walked around to see the pretty view.  There is this cool tower you can climb up, which Cam loved, and thank goodness, Avery had no interest in! 
                                                             Take me up Daddy!

 That's the town from the top of the mountain.  So pretty!

When we got back to the house, Mark and his mom got obsessed with looking up the family on Ancestry online!  Like really obsessed!  Cameron and Papa took out the starfish they collected and pined them to a board to dry them out, which was cute!  Later, we got dressed and walked down to the water for dinner. I got chicken pot pie, which was sooo good!! The kids had a looong day, so they fell asleep in the double stroller on the walk back, which made bed time easy!

From the deck

Sunday morning Cameron and Googa made delicious banana pancakes and we packed up and left for our ride home! It was a short weekend, but with the two Littles, we got a bunch of activities packed in! They are such good sports and behave so well when we drag them around from place to place. You know all they want to do is run around, but most of the time they behave great. I can't wait to get up there again!   

 I mean, come on!  Isn't he the cutest??