Camping

Every year our church does a Dad's and Kid's camp out, I asked Michael a couple of times if he would ever be interested in going. This year the kids came home from church one day and told Michael they wanted to go that Mr. Goetz was telling them all how much fun it would be to go, so to go and tell your parents about it. Well they did and after some financial figuring and borrowing a tent they were headed for the camp out. Luckily it was only about 45 minutes away, so in case of anything they could pack up and come home. Jordan had a birthday party that Saturday so she only got to go Friday to Saturday, Madison and Kaleigh stayed until Sunday. They set the tent up and it was literally a heat wave that weekend. It had to be 100 degrees easy with no breeze. Needless to say they had a rough night with little air and little sleep.

After they set up camp.

Madison's favorite part was dragging the wagon around.

Cooking popcorn after a dinner of pasta and cheese.

Of course you can't have a camp out with out marshmallows.

One of Kaleigh's good friends Maggie was there (Kaleigh was so excited, she doesn't get to see Maggie to often) they were catching fireflies. Kaleigh wasn't too sure about that the first night but by the second she was catching them by herself.

Yes that would be dirt, caked on Madison's face.

Saturday Jason had set up water games for the kids before all the kids went to the water park with the dad's.The dad's were catching the water balloon's in those buckets.

That marshmallow is as big as her head.

And yes the after effects of eating too much marshmallows.

Talent show on Saturday Night.

Kaleigh's talent was standing on one leg.

They came home on Sunday morning, filthy, completely exhausted and happy, because they had a great time camping with their Dad. Jaden was disappointed that he couldn't go and asked if he could go next time, maybe if the potty thing is down we can consider it. However we need a bigger tent.

My Niece

I had to go to a 3 day teacher training for one of our co-ops so my mother-in-law came to help watch the kids and she brought my niece Ally with her, it was so fun for all of us to have her here, we love spending time with her.

Award

Michael got an award at work, so we were off to our first award banquet. There were over 40 recipients receiving awards out of a company of 13,000 employees. They do theses award ceremonies every quarter and its a pretty big deal. It was held in a museum science center in DC, the food was excellent and they had a bus drive us from Arlington to DC so we didn't have to worry about traffic or parking.

These pictures are pretty blurry, I had my little camera not the Canon but I was hoping his company would have sent us the pictures they took, but alas it hasn't happened yet, but I'm so proud of my hubby, he works so hard for our family, and it was nice to go out just he and I.



The men standing with Michael are the COO, Chairman of the Board and President of the company.

A game of hide and seek

Spring

I love spring, not my allergies but Spring.

Kaleigh caught a caterpillar and tried to wait for it to turn into a butterfly (or moth) but he never made is cocoon, she named him Jaden, he lived 2 weeks before he drowned in too much water in his jar. Truthfully she lost interest after the first week.

Love my rose bush, this was small plant I bought from Costco two years ago, a little pruning at the beginning of spring and its still blooming.
These are the Rhododendrons on the side of my house, I love when they bloom, just wish it were longer.

Great Country Farms

Many of our friends have told us about Great Country Farms, it's a farm about an hour away where you can pick your own fruit, feed the animals, playgrounds, wagon rides, mini golf, rope swings, a track to ride these big tricycle like things and a petting zoo where you can feed the animals. We decided to purchase a season pass since we wanted to come back for the strawberry festival and bring Michael and the entrance fee would cover two visits for 6 people. So glad we did. We have gone back twice and I can't wait to go again, it was so much fun. I did not get pictures of everything, even on all our visits.

Took a while for them to get comfortable to feed the goats but eventually they did and they loved it, Jaden just decided to throw the food at them.
Not sure who liked this playground best, but I'm pretty sure she did since she loves monkey bars.
Big Jumping pillow, everyone loved except Jaden, he's so light he was being bounced off.

Back to Blogging

So I haven't Blogged in a while mostly because of time, but also because our computer caught a virus and we lost a lot of stuff and Michael had to take time rebuilding it and even once he did he didn't want to put too much on the computer so I waited. We have a little more time now but we are more cautious about what is on our computer. Still trying to figure out where our pictures are and import them into Picasa. So here are some I recovered from Easter.


The last two are from when we colored Easter eggs, they really liked it but they were more interested in taking pictures of each other. Kaleigh took the one of Michael and Jordan and Jordan took the one of him and Kaleigh. They did a pretty good job if I do say so.