Weekend Happenings

This weekend was a BUSY weekend.  On Friday, the girls had 2 play dates. One with Wyatt and Gresham and then another with the Garr Girls when Mommy went out for a friend's 40th birthday.  They had a FROZEN party (movie!).

Saturday the girls played outside all day.  It was a gorgeous sunny day!

On Sunday it was much cooler.  We went to the Air and Space Museum and lunch with Carolina, and then to the "Princess and the Pea" play.

Here's a short clip of Sylvia whistling the song from the FROZEN movie, until the battery died.

Daddy has been in Brussels for a week, enjoying chocolates and beer, I'm sure.

Evelyn's First Book

Evelyn wrote and illustrated her first book.  It's called "A Mermaid Sea Story" by Evelyn Romley.

Pretty amazing and about 10 pages!  It was a book about the sea and she learned how to draw the pictures using a book that Grammommy gave her for Christmas!

Cozy!

It has been so cold and snowy!  We like to cuddle with the dog and occasionally play with our Kindle's!

Skiing

Here are some pictures from our ski weekend in West Virginia (2 months ago!)

Feeling Exposed

Thanks for logging on to view the blog.  Just feeling like we have way too much out there for public display.  :)

Happenings

We haven't fallen off of the face of the earth, Mommy has just been very busy with work and our house construction project!

Here's some happenings -

• Went skiing over President's weekend in Snowshoe, West Virginia.  Girls were in ski school 2 days.  It was COLD
• Embarked upon kitchen remodel and decided to paint entire first floor once we got started.  Floors are refinished today.  Waiting on remaining tile, banquette cushion, and window treatments.
• Good friend from Chicago visited.
• Two birthday parties in one day!
• Lots of Uno  playing.
• Lots of days off school because of snow! 
• Sylvia learned to tie shoe laces (on my running shoes) and braid in one day! 
• On the morning after daylight savings Evelyn asked me "why are you waking me up in the middle of the night?"
• They are looking forward to a sleepover this weekend at Maya's house.
• We are all excited for warmer weather and Spring.  It's been a long-cold winter. 

I promise pictures will be coming as soon as my life is less crazy!  

Sunday Afternoon

Sunday involved watching the Olympics (Go USA!), doing a lot of cooking and baking and playing in the snow flurries!  Monty had a blast chasing his duck!  We had to block the stairs with pillows or Monty would run upstairs and hide with his duck.  When we play fetch in the house, he gets it and then runs upstairs with it to his crate.  Silly dog!

Family Fun Night at School

Reptiles Alive came to the girls school for an educational program about all sorts of reptiles.  They got to pet a HUGE Burmese Python!    

Cute Picture of Evelyn

Evelyn was in the mood to sit still for two pictures.  Super cutie.  Check out those dimples and blue eyes!

First Sleep Over at Our House

Evelyn & Sylvia had a sleepover a few months ago at their friends' Charlotte, Mackenzie and Avery's house.  We thought it would be fun to have a friend stay with us.  They all slept together in Sylvia's room - Maya and Sylvia in the bed, Evelyn on a cot.  They had a blast - stayed up until about 9:30pm telling silly stories.  They woke up at 6:15am.  Pretty good!

It's never too late for Christmas Gifts

A surprise package arrived yesterday with presents from Aunt Sylvia!  It's never too late for Christmas!  So sweet of Aunt Sylvia.

Christmas Break

Boy, we had a great 2 weeks off over Christmas and New Years.  Some highlights, but no pictures:

-Lots of parties...before christmas, after christmas, new years, and after new years.  Some with kids, some without.
-Trip to the Baltimore Aquarium
-Visiting Santa at the National Harbor
-Snowtubing and waterpark at Massanutten
-Fun play dates
-Lots of game playing
-Finding and hiring our new au pair, Melina from Germany!  She's amazing!  We are so happy!  


 

Christmas

Grammommy and Gramps spent Christmas with us.  We had a great time, including a trip to the Baltimore Aquarium, playing the girls new xbox, and opening lots and lots of presents.  On the 26th, we took off for Massanutten and enjoyed the water park and snow tubing (no pictures).  Monty has become an awesome dog and can do way more than go up and down stairs.  He's a cutie.

Cookie Time

The girls have already made gingerbread houses - twice - now it was time for cookies!

New Family Member

We adopted a dog this weekend!  A pure breed Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.  We got him from a rescue organization in Smithfield, PA.  Apparently, they were shutting down a puppymill and when they went to get the dogs, the owner brought this doggie out by his leg.  Poor boy.

We've named him Montgomery, but call him Monty.  He's 3 years old and incredibly sweet.  He sat on my lap the entire 6 hours home (through a terrible storm!).  He is learning steps (he can go up, but not down). He hasn't had an accident in the house and while he hates the cold, he loves to run through the yard.  He's sooooo sweet and Sylvia carries him around all day.  He snores like a big, old man.

The girls had to test out his crate before we got him.