Image Intensive!

Just got these pictures back from last weekend's day trip to Portsmouth and Kittery and thought I'd scan them in and share them with you. They include the first ever photos of our schoolhouse, which you will be the first to see since no one has come out to visit us yet. Of course, most of the photos are of my lovely pups...

Joshua, Casper and Maddie panting like mad in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This is actually the only picture I have of them there. We walked all over but didn't get to do much. There were signs everywhere saying "NO DOGS ALLOWED AT ANY TIME!" Even at the park!! It was funny though, when we went back to the parking garage to go to Kittery, we practically had to drag Madeline up the stairs. You could really see her working hard to make her short little legs climb the stairs. It was a bit like watching Rocky, actually.

The pups see the ocean for the first time in Kittery, Maine! I actually scanned all sorts of these photos, but somehow this is the only one of them that I saved right. Oops! Oh well, this is a pretty good one because it shows how brave our little girls were! Madeline's feet were barely touching the sand! You can't tell in this picture, but Casper became obsessed with DRINKING the salt water. The first time she tasted it, we laughed it off because she kept licking her chops. We thought that was the end of that. Wrong! She really seemed to like the taste of it and dispite our chiding, kept on drinking throughout the time we were there.

Josh and I at the beach. We took this picture three times, each with varying degrees of success. One of them is so downright awful, I wouldn't even show it to my mother!

Josh and Madeline on our lawn. This is a terrible picture of Josh, but the expression on Maddie's face is absolutely priceless. I call this her "Don't Hate me Because I'm Beautiful" photo. Very haughty expression.

Casper in her favorite spot, trying to blend in against the house. This isn't a great view of it (I really didn't take any great view pictures) But you can see Josh's pride and joy, his antique lawn mower. Also, isn't it incredible how green the grass is? We don't water it at all, no one here waters their grass, but it is as green as can be!

Isn't she beautiful?

I took this picture from our front porch yesterday morning before work. You can't really tell, but to the right of the church we can see mountains and a field which has a cow and the most beautiful white horse I've even seen. Madeline barks at the horse when it is out in there, but it dosen't seem to mind. The cow, however, is very curious about Maddie and moos loudly when it sees her.

Again, this is not a great picture. It gives you the basic idea though. Huge windows all along the front and the neat sign about our door which reads "Noyesville" which was the name of the school. The yard looks rather weedy here, but it isn't . The large bush against the house is a beautful flowering thing, which in the winter has pretty red berries. You can barely make out the flowers which are planted in the old chest. The stick on the porch is a hiking stick that Josh widdled for me out of a tree branch. Yikes, looking at this picture again, I think how derelict it must look to you. Really, it isn't though. It is just rustic like everything else here in Vermont.

That is it for now, maybe more later! :)