The Railsback Family: June 2026

June started off with Naomi ditching four wisdom teeth.

Some parents might think ahead to order the little ice pack holder. I am not that parent. Also just a smoothie in a glass from Dollar Tree to make it more fun. She did great.

Meanwhile Annika was living it up with these amazing people inthe Dominican Republic.

So special that she got to travel with some of our dearest friends.

Highlights for her were late night talks about faith and worship time on the beach.

With Suzi and Asher, forever grateful for these friends in her life.

Naomi earned her first official payheck working as a desk attendant for the pools with the city of Longmont. She's had jobs before, but got to learn about taxes this time :)

June 8, 2026 -- a picnic to celebrate 20 years since I said yes! What a beautiful ride it's been!

We took a wonderful vacation to New England to celebrate the end of another school year. First stop Cape Cod. We stayed at this cute little place in Wareham.

Day one: lunch at Mad Minnow

An hour later day one, stranded in Harwich Port when our car wouldn't start. Clifton dealing with tow truck in background while I was on the phone with Turo.

Sea Street, where we decided we could definitely live one day.

Ice cream sundaes at Sundae School in Dennis Port

Walking around Chatham, so cute!

Nauset Beach! We didn't see sharks but did see seals which was pretty amazing.

Nauset Lighthouse/National Shoreline

Provincetown!

Drove to Dennis for dinner at Sesuit Harbor Cafe

Whole lotta seafood this week!

Sunset in Brewster at Paines Creek

No edits/filters -- it was amazing.

A morning at the beach in Sandwich

And tourist shopping at Cuffy's in West Dennis.

Our rental came with kayaks so we explored a bit

Want to test bonds of sisterhood? Put three of them in a two man kayak.

Lots of family time

We made a quick stop in Boston to drop off our sketchy car (it's one thing for your own car to have a check engine light, but less okay when it's a rental) and then we were off to spend a few days in Maine.

We stayed in this 100 year old home which is still a working lobstering property. It was so cool.

And this was the view from the bedroom over the dock every day.

From the dock you could just help yourself to fresh oysters and leave some cash in the boat house.

We had fires and made smores and popped popcorn over the fire on the deck.

Day trip to Acadia National Park in the clown car.

To keep us on our toes, every 30 minutes the engine overheating light came on with loud alarm bells, stopping 15 seconds later with no evidence of a hot engine.

Bar Harbor, ME

It was a foggy misty day, but gorgeous nonetheless.

We did the Beehive Trail

A lot of elevation climb, eventually into the clouds

There were some slightly sketchier parts of the climb.

Such a beautiful park.

Back at our home in Brunswick.

There were so many totally not dangerous jellyfish.

You guys. Saunas. Why have we not done this before?

Exploring the islands

Everyone cracked open and tried a few oysters.

Gathering water from the ocean for our lobster boil

The home owner shot this pic and sent it to me of the girls trying to work up the courage to grab the live lobsters out of their container.

He then set up everything we needed for the lobster boil on the deck.

We were sad to say goodbye to Maine but loved spending our last day in Boston.

We loved walking Beacon Hill and hitting the farmers market and walking through Boston Common along with at least a thousand rowdy Scotsmen were HYPED for the World Cup, singing and dancing and chanting.

And just to round out our rental car journey, about three miles from the aiport the overheating bell came on and wouldn't turn off, and then the check engine light and a few others. I've never been so happy to return a rental car (except maybe the 15 passenger van I drove around AZ with a bunch of 16 year old soccer players).

Annika bellied up to the bar to watch the World Cup at the airport.

Watching the US take on Australia in a sports bar

Alex and Melissa were in town for a few days and it was so fun to catch up with them.

Annika and I went to watch the Cursed Child at the Buell with our friends Kelly and Mya. It was ridiculously amazing. If you get the chance to see this show, do it. The special effects were incredible. Also, I love these women.

Kelly had access to seats that were literally this close to the stage!! (Kelly and I sat a little further back.) But holy cow. We are usually back of the balcony kind of theater goers, so this was super special.