The Lake!

Much of out free time this summer has been spent at the Savitsky's lake place in up-state New York. It's about a 3 hour drive for us, which is a reasonable distance to travel on the weekends, and it's pure heaven for the dogs (who spend most of the weekend in the water retrieving whatever you're willing to toss for them). Last weekend Mark bought a new kayak, which Lauren has taken quite a liking to, and below you'll see her receiving her first fly-fishing lesson from her Pop Pop. What can I say? It's in her DNA.

Outer Banks vacation

I know, I know. I update this thing so infrequently that there's probably no one out there even reading this any more, but none the less, here is a sweet photo of Lauren on the beach in Duck, NC where we spent our summer vacation this year. We loved the Outer Banks and had a fabulous time just haning out on the sand and in the pool. The only thing that would have made it better would have been if we could have brought our dogs...