Living in up in Maine!

We have arrived in Maine and are having a wonderful and relaxing time! This is my happy place for sure!

View from our deck

View of the cabin from the lake

Love this view!

Paul and Ellen came for lunch and we had lobster!!

Radcliff Family of 5!

Brooke and I kayaking on the lake

On Tuesday, it was rainy so we went shopping!

Coolest looking Christmas Tree Shop!

Found this awesome cart- could have totally used that at the fripe in Tunis to haul our loot!

Mom loved this sign!

The next day we went to visit some friends who have a cottage on a lake about 2 hours north of ours. We had lunch and went swimming in the lake! It was very cool to see their 100 year old cabin!

Two of their friends who came to visit flew in on their private plane!

Enjoying the lake with friends!

Back to our cabin on Lake Arrowhead just in time for the sunset!

Gorgeous morning lake views!

Started our morning with a kayak trip

View from my kayak

Then our neighbors invited us on a boat ride

Marhsall did a great job driving

Debbie, George, Dad and Bev

Brooke and I

Mom and Aunt Jeanne

Views from the boat as we rode by

When we got back, we went tubing on the new rafts!

And took a nap in the sun!

Mother/Daughter Selfies!

Happy Birthday Brooke!

We spent our first full day in Maine celebrating Brooke's brithday!

Good Morning, Brooke!

Dad and I had fun decorating for her birthday!

We got balloons that light up!

Birthday lunch! All ready for lobster!

Before dinner, we got ready to take a swim at the clubhouse in the indoor pool!

Birthday dinner consisted of shrimp, corn on the cob and salad!

For dessert... Reese's Peanut butter cake!

31!

Happy Birthday, Brooke! I am glad we got to celebrate it with you!

The Week After... friends and family in town!

Paul and Ellen were very blessed to have many friends and family come in town for their wedding! We were blessed because they stayed around after the wedding so we could hang out with them!

Charlene and I
Oh how I love this girl! We became good friends on my third trip to Kenya. She is from Kenya but met and married an American so now she lives in Chicago! It was oh so very good spending with her, meeting her husband and loving on her baby bump!

And no visit is complete without taking them to Goodberry's!
mom, Antoine, Charlene and me

We were blessed to have the Killom crew stay for a while so we could spend time with them! And of course on their last night we went to Goodberry's!
Brennen, Uncle Roger, Mason, Dad, Simon, Josh
Aunt Judy, Trudie, mom, Angie, me

Uncle Roger and Aunt Judy brought their dogs with them:
Rosie

Phoebe

and just because, I had to get a picture of Zoe

Oh Zoe, why are you hiding under the blankets? But she's not hiding, I threw the blankets on top of her because she was not being nice...