Friday, July 3, 2015

Soaking up DC community and SUMMER

Early Summer brought the realization that we were leaving soon, and had a LOT to do, and even more people we wanted to spend time with.  We couldn't have gotten through this move without our amazing community out there.

Soaking up a pizza movie night with Tia and Martin.


These amazing YCF friends (Erika, Christy, and Mike especially) ran a yard sale for us!  The crazy part is that we weren't even home - we were at Rik and Jessica's wedding (which sadly I have no pictures of).
This was the greatest gift EVER.  They even hauled stuff to donation centers after.  I don't even have the words to express how grateful I was for this.  

Caden and Andrew made this Fairy house in Grandma Dee Dee's backyard.

One last hang out time with Melody, who give us the incredible gift of watching our boys while we had date nights.

One last dinner out with the Chois - our foodie friends who were always faithful to get us out on the town.

Can't even begin to express how much we love these friends.


Swim team was a big part of our Summer!  We finally got into our neighborhood pool after waiting for 7 years ;).

I tried to take a few pics of our home before we started packing:
The hallway to our basement, lined with our kids art work.

Our living room.

Living room/entry.

Living/Dining room.
Dining Room, door leading into our back/family room.

Entry into our hallway, Will just outside his room.



The only pic I have of Will's room.

A pic Andrew snuck through our basement peep hole.  We had many meals like this around our dining room table.

Yummy lunch with Devan at the newly opened Paul in Bethesda.

Taking in an afternoon at the Choi's pool.

Synchronized diving board jumps.

Just the O'Choi kids up to their usual crazy.


Jake and Jen made the drive from way out in VA for one last dinner.

On July 1st, we celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary!
We started with dinner at Rose's Luxury, which was out of this world amazing.

I think hands down my favorite meal ever.


The coolest part - the sioux chef was one of Dave's old youth group kids, and he was AT OUR WEDDING 15 YEARS AGO!!  He surprised us and hand delivered our dessert.  Seriously awesome.

A dear sweet friend hooked us up royally, and gifted us with an out of this world amazing night at the Ritz Carlton in DC.

Champaign, chocolate covered strawberries, and roses on the bed.  Amidst the stress of all that was before us, this night away was such an incredible gift.

We popped over to Baked and Wired in Georgetown for coffee and breakfast goodies.

I do miss that place.

Swim team at our local pool!  This was such a fun way for our boys to have easy built in time with their school/neighborhood friends, and it was 2 minutes from our house.  Andrew even did a few weeks of tennis camp.  So thankful for this!

Will playing with our head coach after his swim lessons were over.  He got the doggie paddle down, but still doesn't love putting his face in the water.

Friday, June 12, 2015

School ends, Summer begins



Caden, Andrew, and his best buddy Alex after their last full day of school.

Caden with his sweet soccer team after their last game.

There's nothing like a Minite wedding.  Dave had the privilege of officiating this gorgeous wedding the weekend before school ended, at an estate in the Virginia countryside.  Just bummed I didn't get a pic of the two of us!


That Sunday afternoon we enjoyed a BEAUTIFUL shower for Hannah at the Sulgrave Club in DC.


Sweet Pat hosted and created these beautiful flower arrangements.

The OC ladies and Monie in the ladies room.

This doesn't capture how gorgeous it was.

Opening gifts - we love our Hannah

OC ladies!

The official last day of school!  With their bus driver Rob.

Caden with his amazing teacher Ms. Nguyen.

Andrew with his very own Ms. O'Connell

We picked the boys up from school and headed straight to our favorite getaway on the Eastern Shore - Captain Bob's house!
A fun lazy morning building trains.

Eating "beach cereal" for breakfast....

and looking out at this.  Heaven.


We love Captain Bob's boat.


Caden was our DJ

We all got out on the tube!

Love Caden's boat hair.

Life is good.

Summer is just plain rough.


Kayaking..

and fishing!

We soaked up every second of this.

Excited for some Maryland crabs.

So thankful for Captain Bob!

We love the sweet little town of St. Michaels.

We had originally planned to spend the day in Rehobeth Beach, DE, but with storms coming in off the Atlantic, we decided to hit this beach on the bay instead.
There was sand to dig.


And buckets to fill.

And mom and dad were thankful for a shorter drive home :).