Greene Village Day

On Saturday, our town is having their annual Greene Village Day. There is a pancake breakfast from 7am-8:30am, a parade at 9am, Pony Rides, Bounce House, Rock Climb with Water Slide, Speed Pitch Baseball, Video Game Truck, 7 Hole Mini-Golf, Hay Rides, Karoke for kids and much more! For more information, go here. This all goes on mainly on Main Street. Come and check it out!

I was going to blog about the month of August today but I'll blog about it tomorrow. I have to leave at right after lunch to catch the bus to my soccer game today. I have a game all the way in Pittsfield today. Tomorrow, I have a home game so I won't have to leave as early which will give me more time to blog about August. 

A Summary of My Summer of 2012: Part 2

July

On July 2nd, Mom, Shannon, and I went Barn Dancing in Harpswell with the Estes and Libby! That was SO much fun! It started off as a potluck dinner. Then we all talked for a bit until the dancing begun. The couple that played the music for us, gave us step by step directions to the dance. I danced with Linnea once, then Catherine a couple times, then I danced with Kenan for the rest of the evening. :)

The next evening, we had the Richards over for ice cream just so we could have a nice little visit.

Friday, July 6th, Sean came over for surprise visit. That was cool! That evening, Mom, Sean, Billy, and I went to Olivia's graduation party. There must be something about graduations and volleyball because, yet again, we played volleyball. Nick, Sandrine, Elijah, Keisha, Kelci, Jonathan, and I played pass with the frisbee for a bit too. At one point, we had a hilarious game of volleyball going. I believe it was Joel, Tucker, a guy named Devryn, Nick, and I vs. Sean, Billy, and a guy named Jonathan, I think. The teams weren't very even but it was still hilarious! Sean kept making the funniest noises. After awhile, the guys wanted to play a serious game, so I quit because I'm not good at volleyball. :P

Charlotte and I at Olivia's graduation

After awhile, we watched a slide show of Olivia, then Mom, Sean, Billy and I left.

The next morning, Billy and Sean went to the Almquist's house and helped Pastor Per and a bunch of other people get wood from another town. While they were gone, Mrs. Almquist, Corrie, Mom, and I scraped paint while Dad, Jason, and Tucker split wood. Once Billy, Sean, Pastor Per, Mr. Doughty, Mrs. Doughty, Erin, Millie, Grace, Kevin, Jake, Ken, and a few others got back from getting the wood, we all formed a line and helped unload and stack the wood. It was really fun! We ended up temporarily naming each log to make it more exciting.

This is a picture Ken took and edited on Instagram. It's only picture I could find of us working. From left to right: Mr. Kohler's son?, Gracie, Erin, Millie, and Sean.

The following Wednesday (July 11), My family and I left on a trip to Pennsylvania. Our first stop for was in Rhode Island, at a campground. It was so pretty there! 

Shannon, Billy and I. <3

We had a quick fire before we went to bed.

We went on a walk along the shore while the sun set. It was so picturesque!

I found a bottle and tried making an artsy picture out of it.

Mom and Dad. <3

The next day, we packed up and drove to the Cliff Walk. It was such pretty walk and there were alot of cool mansions!

A bunch of mansions.

We were walking right next to the ocean. The breeze was nice!

Billy and Shannon found the perfect climbing tree.

A cool tunnel!

Dad and Mom in front of their favorite mansion.

Billy and Shannon just walking along.

After the long, but delightful, walk, we drove to NYC to pick up Abbey. After we picked up Abbey, we spent the night at the Johnson's in Pennsylvania. 

The next morning we got to a hotel in Pennsylvania. Later, we went out to eat with Uncle Steve, Aunt Rose, Uncle David, and Aunt Sue at Applebees. :)

The next day we went to Grammy and Grampy's for lunch. We celebrated Grammy's 80th birthday. 

These pictures are a little out of order. 

 

The guys: Dad, Uncle David, Gabe, Uncle Steve, Billy, and Tim.

Grampy and Grammy.

Addie and Auntie Abbey.

Gabe and I having a tickle war. <3

The ladies: Abbey, me, Aunt Sue, Mom, Aunt Rose, Shannon, Angie, and Addie.

Addie! Ain't she cute?

Addie and Auntie Shannon.

Everyone (minus Grammy and Grampy) on a walk.

Aunt Sue and Uncle David.

Gabie baby. He's adorable.

Addie and Tim.

 We spent the rest of the day at the hotel and hung out with our relatives. We talked, played games, and talked some more. :) The next morning, we all had breakfast together and then we all went our separate ways. My family and I went to New Jersey for a couple of days.

Dad and Abbey relaxing on the beach.

The jersey shore has awesome waves.

Me in the middle of a wave.

Our campsite.

This picture was supposed to be with the Pennsylvania pictures but, it somehow got mixed up. This is Addie and I!

The woods surrounding our campsite. Pretty cool, huh?

Abbey at the beach.

The crazies in our family: Billy and Shannon.

The week after we got home, we "dog sat" a boxer for four days. Her name was Belle and she was super cute!

On July 26th, Billy and I packed for a hiking trip with the Estes up Katahdin. We hiked with Mr. Estes, Nick, Joel, Kenan, Linnea, Daniel, Jake, and Douglas. It was a huuuuge blast! We hiked up Dudley and across Knife Edge and down Saddle Back.

All of us minus Mr. Estes (he took the picture) at the tippy top of Maine! From left to right: Daniel, Jake, Douglas, Joel, Billy, Linnea, Nick, me, and Kenan.

Just finished Knife Edge! From left to right: Joel, Kenan, me, Jake, and Billy.

Knife Edge!

This is right before we started Knife Edge.

Joel, Jake, Daniel, and Douglas drove home after we all got to the bottom of the mountain. The rest of us spent another night and hiked Mt. Katahdin again with Shannon, Eva, Seth, Ben, Elisha, and Caleb! This time it was rather rainy most of the time.

Taking a break. From left to right: Linnea, Seth, Ben, Elisha, Billy, Caleb, and Kenan.

We did it (for some us, twice!)! From left to right: Ben, Seth, Elisha, (up top) Billy, Kenan, Caleb, Nick, Eva, (from right to left) Shannon, Linnea, and Mr. Estes.

It was really foggy on the way down at first.

Mr. Estes, Nick, Billy, Kenan, Linnea and I hiked Mt. Katahdin twice in two days. :D SO MUCH FUN!

The Monday after hiking Katahdin, I went to Popham beach with Sarah, Ben, Merritt, Anna, Isabel, Emily, Noel, Jeremy, Adam, Mrs. Garthoff, Zoe and Hannah. It was alot of fun! 

We attempted to make the word "LOVE".

The rest of the week, I helped a missions team from Mississippi work on our church and the community. 

A group shot of a bunch of us Freegracers and the missions team from Mississippi. We were doing some landscaping at a park. Technically, this picture was taken August 4th.. But my week with the missions team started in July.

Al, Sarah Kennedy, me, and Austin carrying a ladder. Sarah Kennedy and I actually didn't carry this ladder, we were just posing for Anne.

 

A Summary of My Summer of 2012 Part 1

This summer was absolutely amazing! I think it was my best summer so far. I'll do my best to summarize it.

June

On June 9th, I hung out with Tucker and Corrie in the morning, and then we went to Joel's Graduation party.  That day was also my birthday so Billy and I got greeted with lots of birthday wishes and they all sang Happy Birthday to us. We played lots of volley ball, it was a fun day! Congratulations, Joel!

Through out June, I played some summer soccer games with Leavitt Area High School.

On June 15th, Billy and I had a huge amount of our friends meet us at Recreation Drive and played 3 games of Ultimate frisbee, a bit of soccer, and we ate burgers, dogs, chicken, apple pie, and ice cream cake!

I threw a pie and ice cream in Billy's face and he did the same to me.

There are lots of pictures of Ultimate on Facebook, but I decided to only post one of Billy and I.

After almost everyone left, Douglas, Sean, and the Donahue girls came back to our house because it was getting dark and buggy. We lit a few sparklers, talked, and laughed, and talked, and laughed. Ben came over right around when we got back to our house. The next day Billy, Mom, Dad, and I brought Ben, Shannon, and Sean to a Dunkin Donuts to catch a ride with a group from the Bangor Church to go on a Missions Trip on a Boardwalk in New Jersey.

After Shannon, Ben, and Sean left with the Bangor group, Mom and Dad brought Billy and I to the Estes house. Kenan taught me how to mow their lawn. I didn't do a very good job though. :P I helped Linnea fold laundry, and then Linnea, Catherine, Diana and I shucked corn on the cob for lunch.

After lunch, we went to a graduation ceremony for a friend from the Estes' church. Billy and Kenan rode their bikes to the church which, by the way, is about 17 miles away from the Estes' house.

After the graduation, we went to Elayna's graduation party. :) That was alot of fun! Billy, Kenan, Joel, Nick and I played volley ball for a bit. Nick and Joel both stopped before we finished and so Kenan's friend, Daniel, joined until we had to go inside for Elayna's graduation ceremony. After her ceremony, the younger half of Elayna's guests all played Volleyball, then Nuke 'Em until we had to leave. It was a blast!

On June 18th, I had a summer soccer game against EL and I scored a goal! :) We tied that game 3-3.

I can't really remember what else we did until Tuesday night (the 26th), Billy, Josh, Malia, Corrie, and I spent the night at the Richards' house. We woke up early Wednesday morning and packed up the three vehicles and drove north of Millinocket to get the Allagash.

Wednesday morning after we were all packed up.

Malia and I!

It was rather rainy as we unloaded the vehicles and loaded up our canoes, but just as we started canoing, it cleared up and there was a blue sky. :)

Raaaainy.

Me, Corrie, Malia and Rebecca on a bridge.

Corrie and Mr. Stuart shared a canoe, Rebecca and Liz shared a canoe, Billy and Malia shared a canoe, Pastor Sam and Josh shared a canoe, and Tucker and I shared a canoe. Since the weather went from rainy to sunny, Tucker and I canoed right through a rainbow. It was really cool! When we got to the first campsite, we set up camp and had supper.

Our first campsite. 

The next day we took down camp and had blueberry pancakes for breakfast. :) We canoed through another long and twisty river and then we eventually came to a pond. Across the pond is a waterfall and right before the water fall is where we pull off to the side to get to our next campsite.

That is Billy and I carrying a canoe across the campsite. We couldn't go over the water fall so we went around it.

The pond at sunset!

When we got camp all setup, we had lunch and then we swam in the waterfalls until we got pretty cold. We played card games until it was time to make supper. For supper we had stir-fry and mashed potatoes. SO yummy! After supper we had a Bible study and then went to bed.
The next day, we canoed for only a little bit on a river, and then we got to Chamberlain lake, which is over 10 miles long. I think we canoed the first 8 miles. We stopped for lunch after about 4 or 5 miles, I think. A storm was coming in really fast so we had to pull over to a campsite and camp there. We went swimming in the HUGE waves from the storm, then we had a late supper because we were having trouble starting a fire. During supper, we were entertained by a reeeeally intense thunder storm. When the storm was over, we could see lightning bolts across the lake, it was amazing! Those lighting bolts we saw came over us in the middle of the night, but I slept through it because I was so tired.
The next day we packed up and canoed to the campsite that was about 2 or 3 miles from where we were that we tried to go to the day before. As we canoed there, Liz, Rebecca, Tucker and I sang a bunch of song in rounds. :) When we got to the campsite, we had a bathroom break and jumped off the rocks and into the water.
I forgot to mention that when we stopped for lunch on Chamberlain lake, we switched the canoe partners up a little. Mr. Stuart and Pastor Sam were buddies, Malia and Corrie were buddies, Rebecca and Tucker were buddies, Billy and Josh were buddies, and Liz and I were buddies. When we got to the very end of the trip, we could see the the boat launch, we all raced to it. Liz and I won! Billy and Josh were the first ones to the boat launch but they were ahead of everyone else when we started the race. Mr. Stuart, Liz, Pastor Sam, and Tucker drove off to get the other cars while we had lunch, played cards and napped. Three hours later they came back with the cars and we loaded the cars up, took a group picture and drove home. :)

All of us after the exciting 4 day canoing trip.

Tomorrow, I'll blog about July.