trying again

Time has passed quickly again and here it is a year plus since that last, earnest declaration. We are two houses removed from the one we were in then. It's been three weeks since our last move and I hope that this is the last one for a while. Ariel turned 4 a few weeks ago and we calculated that this is his 6th home so far... We'd like those stats to change!

Our new home is downtown and has a great walking life. Just today I walked out my front door and saw someone I knew and stopped to chat for a bit. We are enjoying as much of summer as we can between responsibilities, jobs and other boring things. It feels so fleeting, however. Summer took a while to get started this year, but now seems to be whizzing past. The pool we join for summer is already closed because most of their lifeguards are college-aged and have to return to school. There's a nip in the air some nights and yesterday evening I went out for a walk with Ariel wearing boots and a jean jacket!

Speaking of back to school, Ariel is probably headed for a couple days a week at a great little preschool that we can walk to. I guess I should get on that, as it's only a few weeks from starting. I'll tell you more about it soon. In the meantime, we are going on as many outings, lake picnics, barbecues and swimming expeditions as we can. We gotta open up a bunch more boxes, but we'll get to those eventually. And saturday we celebrate six years since we got married!

A few pictures from our summer:

digging in the sand at Great Grandma Mary's beach, Madeline Island, WI

riding the ferry to Madeline Island

pleased with himself! (one of his favorite outfits this summer)

throwing rocks at Taughannock Park, Seneca Lake, Ithaca, NY

So my plan is to get more pictures and more posts up, probably backtracking a little along the way. I'd love to share our doings more regularly and look forward to seeing more than one page to my now five-year-old blog!