My little younger brother graduated from college last weekend. It’s been a loooooong road. But we could not be prouder. Congratulations, Uncle Tim!

Patrick was out of town last weekend, but we certainly weren’t without things to do. Friday morning I took the little kids to a transportation day at a local preschool.  Every community should do this.  I think Ty thought he had died and gone to heaven. There were trucks. Everywhere. And you could climb in […]

Last week was our kids’ spring break.  I had two goals: Get to the Science Center and to the Zoo (both of which we have memberships too and hadn’t really used since Ty came home). PJ’s getting harder and harder to capture in shot because he prefers to be behind the camera (like mother, like […]

Click on the collage to see the full size photos.  Does anyone (besides my family) recognize what we’re doing with our hard-boiled eggs in the bottom row?  

I often take living so close to our nation’s Capital for granted. Last weekend we headed to the National Building Museum (again) for their free Cherry Blossom family day.  There were oodles of crafts for kids, a dress up station, a variety of performances, and plenty of time to goof off 🙂

The sun didn’t really let them show it for the camera, but we were all super-excited to welcome Spring 2010 with complimentary italian ice from Rita’s. We were able to sneak some in before family arrived to celebrate my grandfather’s 84th birthday. This is the cake that the kids helped me make for it. We […]