Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Our Summer {In Pictures}

*I know it's already the third week of October, but I've been meaning to finish this post for several weeks now. :)*
We had a wonderful summer and I have a bazillion pictures to share, so I decided to make a really, really, really long post that pretty much sums up our entire summer. :) Some of the pictures below I used in previous posts but a lot of them are ones I haven't posted yet.

Cities We Saw
 NYC
Okay, this is as close as we got to NYC, but we still saw the skyline while driving to CT!
Boston



Pittsburg
(Just drove through on our way to OH)
Chicago
Cecilia and I went to IL to visit the Schultz family, they took us to Chicago for two day trips, on the second day trip we ate lunch on the 95th floor of the John Hancock building.



 Baltimore
 I don't have any pictures of skyscrapers in Baltimore (it's a pretty boring city building-wise to be honest); all I have are the photos I took at the National Baltimore Aquarium:






Beaches We Visited
Madison CT (Long Island Sound)




Ocean City NJ (Atlantic Ocean)





Chicago IL (Lake Michigan)

Rock Hall MD (Chesapeake Bay)



The Sun
Sunrise - {Ocean City NJ}




Sunset - {Ocean City NJ}



 Sunsets - {Catholic Family Land OH}

Sunsets - {Rock Hall MD)


 

Hikes We Took
CT -  Hammonasset State Park

PA - Lake Redman Trails

OH - Catholic Family Land

 IL - Prairie Walk
MD - Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge
In a circle: Me (in the orange shirt, white headband), Cecilia, Dad, John Paul (white shirt), and Max (orange shirt).



Summer Birthdays
June 13:

August 14th:
  
August 30th:

And Now... A bunch of random photos in no particular order...
 Frisbee Golf:


Benny playing Disc Golf at Catholic Family Land.
The Playground at Catholic Family Land:
Playing in the huge jungle gym at Catholic Family Land.

Ben is so photogenic, I didn't pose him at hall, just asked him to turn around and smile :)
More photos from Cecilia's and my trip to Chicago:

Our reflection in the "Bean". I'm the one holding the camera. :)

Navy Pier from the Hancock Tower.

Buildings we saw on the boat tour and my sister Cecilia.

The same building, on the left looking down from the Hancock Tower, on the right looking up from the street.



Fun with friends at youth group:

4th of July party:
Benny
 David.
Rose at Catholic Family Land.
4th of July Fireworks
A beautiful Farm we passed while driving to Rock Hall MD for our camping trip.

The bonfire in our backyard that we had several times over the summer.

And yes I have even more photos, but I had to finally realize that if I tried to post every photo that I wanted to, then this post would never actually be published.

We were incredibly blessed this summer!

~Mary Kate

P.S.
The new header is a rotating header if you didn't realize it, so every 10 seconds another set of three images appears. :)

1 comment:

Ania said...

Always love seeing your pics MK! Looks like you all had a wonderful summer. Chris and I enjoyed our time at the 4th party. The talent show was hilarious!