Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Easter, Spring Break, and Blossoms!


Boys with the baskets

Handsome little dudes ready for Church

We didn't rent chicks this year, so enjoyed them at the Choi's

Lunch at the Choi's!

Off on the hunt.

Sheer excitement on this sweet little face.

Caaaannnddy!

I can't figure out what happened to the pics we took at the Wintrols later that day - hoping I'll find them and add them here later!

Then we were off on a quick Spring break trip to Philadelphia for a few days.
Gotta start the trip with a Philly cheesesteak.

Waiting to go inside Independence Hall - Jen is edumicating us all.

Independence Hall.

Inside, taking in the place where our Declaration of Independence and Constitution were debated and signed.

A fun morning at the Franklin Institute Museum of Science.

How does surfing really work?  Andrew giving it a try.

Loved this little coffee shop.

United States Mint - so fun to see how coins are made!

Hanging out - love these friends.


The museum of art - we didn't go inside...

but we had to run the Rocky steps.


Back home, we took in the DC blossoms.

Love this.

There's nothing like the Jefferson framed with blossoms.

The incentive for walking around the entire basin was getting ice cream, which made Andrew very cold.

So fun to have Mindy with us.

We made it back to the FDR memorial - my favorite spot.

Love these boys.

A few days later the temps warmed up, and basked in the glory of Kenwood blossoms.

My boys looks forward to this all year.

Jumping across the stream became a new favorite this year.

Warm temps, daffodils, the smell of blossoms.  It's one of my favorite times of the year.

It's hard to capture the canopy of blossoms over the streets.

Trying to get one nice pic of my boys...

this was the best we could do ;).

Friday, April 3, 2015

Spring arrives!

Spring brought the much anticipated reprieve from the cold, and the arrival of Grandma Kathy!
We snuck down to Georgetown for coffee and Baked and Wired.

Grandma watched the boys so we could head to NC for Christie and Mike's wedding.  

Love these precious ladies!

The newlyweds!

One week later, we were on the ferry to BAINBRIDGE ISLAND!!!  Yep, Grandma watched the boys two weekends in a row so we could come out to interview at Cross Sound church.  We still had no idea where this would take us.

 Andrew's April fools prank on Grandma.

One last date at Cheesecake before we brought Grandma to the airport.

And then Mindy arrived!!  Fresh from coming off the field in Afghanistan.

Decorating Easter eggs - our  neighborhood friends Thomas and Leo joined in.  We miss having these boys pop by.

Will was very precise.



Enjoying a beautiful Spring outing to the National Cathedral.

 One of our boys captured this pic of the ceiling.

Happy brothers.




Monday, March 30, 2015

Late Winter

WOW.  A lot of life has happened since I last posted.  I'm going to attempt to catch up bit by bit.  We'll start with the tail end of last Winter.

One of our last big snows.

This boy can't ever get enough.  

Addy had a playdate too.

Westbrook Elementary.  I couldn't believe how long this snow stuck around. 

The sunny aftermath.


 A fun afternoon at the ice rink.

Caden with his school project on India.