Passionate Fruit: Timm family vacation 2016 Lake Winnipesaukee

We started our summer vacation with a weeklong trip to Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, for Timm family vacation 2016, the first week of July. It was a great week on the lake with all of Rich's brothers and his dad and stepmom Susan, and we got to see some of her family as well as Rich's friend Amit from MIT and his girlfriend Kelly who drove up from Boston one day to hang out.

We enjoyed boating on the lake and some fishing, which Valerie was super excited about, but mostly it was a week of family time and enjoying the cousins playing together. Valerie's cousin Aubrey, who is a year younger at two and a half, was really interested in playing with her for the first time. It was great fun to see them run and play and have a ball together.

Lake Winnipesaukee is a beautiful, clear lake which also runs a cool 75 degrees. Refreshing to dip the toes in but I didn't submerge my entire body too often except on the hottest day when it got up to 90 degrees. We had several cool days, a few hot ones and a bit of rain, but overall pretty nice weather for the week.

Some of the highlights (for me) were Joe's bananas foster, my boozy ice cream milkshakes that I made on the 4th of July (white with red strawberry stripes and blue sprinkles), and of course lobster rolls. Mostly, though, it was just fun to all be together.

We are so fortunate that Gerry and Susan got us all together from all over the country for the week. I was so lucky to marry into the Timm family and so glad we have this week every year and our kids will know each other growing up. A family of wonderful people and I love them all dearly.