Emmy's Birthday Breakfast

Celebrating your birthday on vacation is super fun! Bryna and Aoife decorated Emmy's door and we ate piles of donuts and then she opened some presents. 13 is pretty awesome and I have a feeling we will be celebrating all week!!

Easter 2020

Easter this year was a little bit different than years before. Of course, we weren't able to go to Army Navy for brunch and that was a little sad but we had a good time at home with Easter baskets and doing our own Easter egg hunt. We had a delicious dinner and hung around the house!

Kit the Cat

Virginia Bluebells at Turkey Run

We decided to go out for a hike to see the bluebells along the Potomac today. It's been 3 weeks since school closed and everything shut down. The entrance to the park was closed so we had to park on the road and hike into the park. We kind of got turned around a little bit and ended up hiking about 4 miles which was just a bit longer than I had planned! Good thing it wasn't hot and we didn't need extra water! The kids were great and had a good time (I think!) - they at least humored me!! We also got to leave some of Aoife's painted rocks along the path for future hikers. It will be fun to go back later in the summer and see if they are still there!

First Snow of 2020!!

We got our first snow today! The kids got let out of school early and they have a delay tomorrow morning!  I know I'll get sick of it but I do love these cozy nights!!

Super Quad

Aidan's wrestling team had another Super Quad today. The team did great and everyone is really starting to turn it up for the last half of the season!

Some fresh air!

After having lots of sick people in the house for the past two weeks of winter break, everyone is finally relatively healthy!!  We celebrated with some forced marching down by the Lincoln monument. The weather is great and we live in the most beautiful place ever - so a walk is always a fun time!!