Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Happy Birthday Grampy

Today is a special day for our most favorite Grampy in the whole world - it's his 60th birthday!! We hope you have a wonderful day! We love you so much!

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Rainy school days

Rebekah and Samantha are loving their first week of school. They both have great teachers and know several kids in their classes already. (If only we could have a dry day to go play outside.) And Danielle is dying to start her little preschool group next week.



Thursday, September 1, 2011

Home updates

A few pictures of the living room updates I did earlier this year:




And a new wreath I made for the front door:


Our door gets very hot - I couldn't find a wreath that would work, so I made a wreath out of paper roses. Should I be embarrassed about how much time I spent on this? In case you're wondering, there are 170 roses, and each one took a few minutes to make, so you can do the math ...

I found the idea on www.madebymarzipan.com - the coolest website that even had a video tutorial!

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Summer pics

A few pictures from the summer.

Enjoying $1 night at the baseball stadium (which turned out to be much more than $1 when you add lots of food and treats):

 




A fun day in Washington DC. No matter how many times we visit, there's always something fun to do.




How have we missed the Hirshhorn Museum and sculpture garden all this time?


Thinking of Grandpa and Grandma and their all-time favorite tv show:

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Fun with girls

Girls are so much fun (even when they're all crying at the same time over who-knows-what)!

Beach week

We just got back from such a fun week at the Outer Banks with extended family. I don't have pictures on the beach, but here are some other fun things from the week.

Eating ice cream is our family's favorite:


The NC Aquarium was fun (but very small):





It was so nice to have a pool at the beach house:




We did the Nature Conservancy:




Bumper cars and Go-Karts on the last day:

Swim lessons

The girls finished their swim lessons for the summer. Everyone has made great progress this summer!



Even Danielle took lessons this time. She loves to feel included. As she says, "Mommy, I'm big now, right?" Here she is with her class playing, "Weatherman, Weatherman, what's the weather like?" Danielle always answers, "Sunny!"