Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Time with the nephews

Our RI vacation this year was mostly about this:


That's me holding a sleeping Wyatt.
Sometimes we mixed it up a little with some of this:
Or this:
How about this?
Or this?
One time we let Sue hold him:
But you get the gist. We held Wyatt a lot.
When we weren't holding Wyatt, we were playing with Jackson.
He could be a bit of a rascal:
But how cute is he?!

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Vacation in Rhode Island

We were back from the beach only a week when we left town again - this time for Rhode Island.

The first night we arrived, we stopped at this Mom&Pop ice cream shop near Dave
and Emily's house. They had this super-friendly duck who joined us as we ate our ice cream. We liked it so much that we returned the second night - this time without the camera. And it turns out that that gentle swan you see gliding along the pond? He had a whole "good cop/bad cop" thing going with the duck. They were both out of the water, and they were taking nothing from nobody. We could have sent it to funniest home videos. But you will just have to use your imagination.


Saturday, July 25, 2009

A Week at the Beach


We are back from a week at the beach, and it was great!


We played in the pool...


and fed the turtles...


and played in the sand...


and dug some holes (rumor has it that Doug did all the work)...


and built some pyramids...


and said some prayers...


We taught Ella some life skills...


and did some shopping...

We played some mini-golf...


drove some go-carts...


and gave Ella some snacks.

A good time was had by all!

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Adam's 3rd Birthday!


We are at the beach - what a great place to celebrate a birthday! Our godson, Adam, turned three today.

Monday, July 6, 2009

More Lacrosse Camp





Bailey had the opportunity to attend another lacrosse camp - this one at JMU with her friend Julia. It was a small group of campers in a real college dorm. Bailey was a big fan of the food they served. She missed out on Vacation Bible School with the rest of us at home, but I think she thought it was worth it.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Fourth of July



We filled the jeep for the annual neighborhood 4th of July parade. We had a few extra - the kids invited three friends (twin brothers and their step-sister) - over on Friday morning, and we didn't end up returning them until Saturday night! A fun playdate with some really sweet kids just kept going and going...

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

O's vs. Red Sox





Mark, Cal, Bailey and Bill Howard took a trip up to Baltimore to catch the Red Sox at Camden Yards. It's funny that Cal was named after a famous Oriole but has been a Red Sox fan his whole life. Camden Yards is an awesome stadium, and they had some great seats right near the Red Sox dugout. In fact, after the Sox warmed up, Beckett handed Cal a ball to his great delight. He didn't sign it, and it doesn't even say Red Sox on it, but everyone tells me this is still significant.

Best of all, the Sox rallied in the 9th inning and beat the O's in the 11th.