Summer

Our Summer was relaxing and busy and went by way to fast.  We did a whole lot of swimming

                                    Re-familiarized ourselves with the zoo

Michael had to work in Nashville and we tagged along.  We spent the weekend with Patrick and Maggie in Murfreesboro.

  And spent a day with Drew, I LOVE this picture, I cannot remember what happened to Caleb's hair but he just looks so proud

                          I found our old Kayla board and taught the kids

                                                They are crazy about each other

         Savannah plays teacher every.single.day.  It's her outlet and her passion.  The playroom closet is all hers, she has her desk and pens, paper, books, broken computer, white board…I could go on and on.  I will sit outside the closet door and listen to her, she is just magical

     Caleb has turned into the ladies man.  Addie told her mom she was going to marry Caleb so she could kiss him!!!  I must say he is pretty kissable :)

 Norah loves the water, so much so that it scares me to death.  She hates all floats and wants to run around the pool and jump in and is perfectly content having me chase her around

Caleb told me one morning that he saw eyes in our toy box, I looked out, didn't see anything and brushed it off.  Later he told me he saw it again and I ignored him and sent everyone outside to play, and all of us were getting toys in and out of the box.  When we were going back inside Caleb mentioned the eyes again, so I went over and started pulling out all of the toys (it was full) AND THERE IT WAS.  An opossum.  I flipped out and started screaming for the kids to get in the house and locked the doors.  Michael set it free that night….ugh…ugh

Day 3 & 4

                            We walked around Old Town Sunday morning

                                          visited the Torpedo Factory

                                   then the Masonic Memorial

                                      then the White House

                   then Savannah saw a statue of a naked man that cracked her up

                                    Our last day we toured the Capital

                                    Walked by the Supreme Court

 Then we said our goodbyes and headed back home.  It was such a fun trip with wonderful company

Day 2

We started the day with Caroline and Ike taking us to the Navy Academy in Maryland.   It was beautiful and we were able to get so much great information about the campus from Ike.

 We had a crab filled lunch (that was delicious) in Annapolis , then headed over to pick up mom!  Our first stop was to Georgetown to get cupcakes.   We left with way too many and they were all gone by that night

                        We then checked out the Natural History museum

 Norah was covering her eyes because that was a mean T-Rex checking her out

                       Julianna and Savannah getting attacked by a great white

                       We then walked over to the Washington Monument

                                     Savannah trying to pick up the monument

                                            World War 2 Memorial

                                             Lincoln Memorial

It was such a wonderful day, all the monuments were beautiful and it was such a privilege to experience everything with my mom and my girls.  After the Lincoln Memorial we had to walk back 3 miles to our car.  We were exhausted and the kids were exhausted but were troopers.  They would take turns ridding in the stroller with Norah and we all slept SO good that night!

D.C. Day 1

The girls and I got to take a long weekend to visit our friends in D.C.!  We were all so excited.  I took a trip to D.C. with my grandmother when I was young and have wonderful memories from it, so I couldn't wait to see what Savvy thought about it.

We made it on the plane and were ready to go

Caroline and Mason picked us up from the airport and we went to Old Town for pizza.  The restaurant gave the kids dough to play with or to make their own crust.  Mason made Olaf and Norah nursed on hers :)

 We then picked up Julianna from school and toured Mount Vernon.  It was gorgeous and fascinating and the girls were hilarious

                                                 Lady Washington

After playing the red coats drums (Mason wouldn't play and I think mad at the girls that they would do such a thing) we headed back to their house had dinner and crashed