We have a new....

TRAVEL TRAILER!!!
Yay!! We bought a travel trailer!! After looking around and trying to find just the right one for our family I came across one on Craigslist that was about 1 mile from our home...
Here's Bill bringing it home with our BiG Red Van.... Haley was really excited!!
Here is our "bedroom" - a queen sized bed in the front. Looking from front to back... sofa, kitchen, dinette... The kids 'room' - a twin over queen bunk. The bathroom...

The view from back to front.We can't wait to take her out camping!! :)

It's SOLD!!

OMGoodness! I just got off the phone... our camper is SOLD!! I can't believe it! The people with the poodles have decided to buy our rig. I don't know whether to cheer or cry!!

Potential buyers...

It is surprising but true, we have had a few potential buys come to look at our camper this week. I can't believe that all it took was putting a sign on it and parking it on the street!

So far I have had an aspiring musician and someone who shows dogs (poodles to be exact- you know the kind with all the fluffy puff balls shaved into their coats) look at our camper. Both just walked up to it on the street and knocked on our door to take a look. They each liked the rig and I guess could be the potential new owners, I guess time will tell if either is serious.

It is kind of sad in a way... I don't want to sell the old girl. I know that I can't get another camper until this one is sold but it is so hard to let go of something that holds so many wonderful memories.

Camper... FOR SALE

Well, time has come to sell our rig. Our cute little motorhome has served us well for the last 3 years but after the birth of the twins, we have been unable to use it. We simply have out-grown it!

Colin and I decided to take it out on our errand run this morning so we hung some signs on it. I guess we will see what happens next.

I have so many fond memories of the camper. Times spent as a family camping and traveling. Watching the kids play at the dinette while I played 'flight attendant' and served the food and drinks. The smell of cinnamon buns baking in the oven as we drive along or having pizza baking at 65mph! There were great trips to FL or SC and just local trips to some of our close campgrounds for a weekend getaway. Of course Bill and I had some great times alone in her too on trips to VT for the annual brewer's festival.

It is going to be really hard to let her go. I've become very attached to that rig... I just hope that who ever we find to buy her, will love her as much as we do.

Colin leaves for Oshkosh....

My big boy is gone!!

After months of planning and thinking about this wonderful opportunity, Colin has left on an adventure with his grandparents to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, WI. http://www.airventure.org

He will be gone for 2 weeks - I know he will have a great time, but how am I going to manage with out him??? This is the longest he has ever been away from us. Things are not going to be the same around here without him. Colin is my little BUG! I know he is 9 now but he still is my little guy and quite a Momma's boy! He is such a cute and inquisitive kid. So full of wonder at everything. He loves nature and bugs. He is also very artistic and loves to create things and find out how things work. I am going to be pretty lonely without my pal.

Anyway, I guess I need to give some background here. "Oshkosh" is an aviation festival that takes place every year in WI. It is the heart of the general aviation world for a week and it truly amazing. I am more than a bit jealous that Colin is going.. without me!! ;) People from all over the USA and world flock to Oshkosh, WI for a week long airplane fly-in. It has daily airshow and tons of exhibits and things to do. Here is a little movie http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1412255721?bctid=1381694270 That might explain it better than I can.

They will camp there for the whole festival. Grammie & Poppie will be volunteering with the EAA to help run the festival. There are so many wonderful opportunities there for Colin to experience from air shows to airplane displays to museums. I can't wait to hear all about it each day when he calls to check in. But for now, Colin and Grammie & Poppie are in off on a fabulous adventure in airplane land....