New England Adventures in July 2017

Since many of our July 2017 adventures happened while visiting Grandmother and Grandfather, we'll give those that happened closer to home their own post. The biggest non-grandparent adventure was a trip to an amusement park for Mom and some of the kids. Here's Jared getting ready for our first ride to start, on the Tilt-a-whirl.

This ride was one of Jared and Amanda's favorites. Note that the people are at the top of the picture, upside-down. They also enjoyed the main roller coaster at the park and rode both rides many times.

Lydia preferred more low key rides, like Mom, and enjoyed the carousel and the teacups.

Lydia and Jared also had fun at the mini bumper cars, which were just like the big ones, only slightly smaller and with far fewer people waiting to use them.

Thanks to Dad's vision of bringing back family game night, our board game collection got a boost in July.

We had a bit of home improvement done, in the form of new glass for our back door.

Our day-lilies bloomed:

And at the very end of month, we had a nice family outing to enjoy nature a bit: