August 4
Amish Country - Berlin, OH
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August 9
We celebrate Martyn's birthday with dinner out at The Gingerman with his parents, followed by the opening of a mound of gifts. The highlight for me was his new ukulele - I look forward to hours of listening to him play "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" as I sing along in my horrific, scratchy voice.
August 15-17, 19-23
We enjoyed hot days on Lake George with Mart's family and climbed Buck Mountain
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August 18
We attended Albany's Annual Food Fest at the Empire State Plaza, which could never be complete without crepes, and of course... our Meggie!
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August 22
It was off to Willow's Adoption Celebration where we ate lots of great food, hung with the fam, and celebrated how lucky we are to be blessed with this beautiful child in our lives
August 26-29
I hung with my momma on the pond. We relished our last few gorgeous days of summer vacation, talked our hearts out beside the water on the dock Mart built us... and ate Brie cheese, of course!
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September 4-6
We spent Labor Day Weekend on Brant Lake where we bundled up to ward off the cold and fit in a hike up First Brother Mountain before the rain fell.
Summer had officially left us.
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"Whenever I saw a beautiful flower, what I longed to do was press it to my heart, or eat it all up. It was more difficult with a piece of beautiful scenery, but the feeling was the same...I yearned physically for all that I thought was beautiful, wanted to own it. Hence that painful longing that could never be satisfied, the pining for something I thought unattainable."
-Etty Hillesum-
