For Ryan

Auntie and Ruthie

Ruthie the Asian Quaker girl in the whaling museum

Lydia and Anna at Children's beach on Nantucket
in their matching sweatshirts before we washed and shrunk Anna's

The Mason Girls

My dear eldest son wants more pics and an update. Here you go Ryan :-)

These pics are from our getaway to the cape...My sister and I and all the little kids took a whirlwind trip in the middle of June. It was great to be on the cape! I enjoyed the wonderful salt air, the cool nights, a walk on the beach, pizza at Craigville Sub and Pizza, linguine with clam sauce and a trip to Nantucket on a rainy day with a visit to the whaling museum, a great beach day in Sandwich, ice cream at Four Seas, nostalgic drives and a trip to the Country Store. One of these years we'll get to spend an extended time on the cape taking our time to do all of the above. It was a lot of fun and I'm grateful to my sister for including me in the trip.

The update on the adoption is that there is no update, I was hoping to receive our Referral Acceptance letter this week which would mean we are very close to traveling to bring Samuel home. At least a couple of families from our agency received theirs but ours so far is no where in sight.