I hope you all are continuing to enjoy your 4th of July, we are having a very good time shoveling manure (actually I was the only one who was able to do that) reading books, visiting with friends and just vegging around the house. We all are wearing our matching patriotic t-shirts that our mom bought for us to wear on our trip. We always wore matching clothes on our trip so that (hopefully) no one would get lost and if they did for some reason become separated from the “pack” whoever was lost would be able to get connected with the group a lot easier. It was nice to be able to quickly spot where you were in our “caravan” and where the majority of the group was heading but it also drew even more attention to us (I say more attention, 8 people hiking through Boston or Washington DC already draws a good bit attention without matching shirts) and produced comments such as “1,2,3,4,5 boys- Holy Smokes!”, “Isn’t that cute” and just your average breed of wows, yikes’s and other interjections. Anyway I say all of that to say that we were able to get a new picture of all of the six sibs (our current picture is over a year old) and I thought you might enjoy it. The only usable picture that our dad took is from a different angle than the “classic” SixSibs picture because we had already done a entire family portrait and Paul decided that he was tired and lay down on the floor instead of sitting on the couch and waiting until we had a perfect seating arrangement and camera angle (I actually think that it looks pretty good considering the fact that there are little people in it). So here it is:
I hope you have a blessed 4th of July
Adam
P.S. I guess I spoke too soon about people who swim in ice water being crazy- I swam in it myself for 10 minutes in the evening!
