Hooray for the Pool!

Well, the pool finally opened. Truman has been asking when we would be allowed to swim for about two months. We spent opening day there with our friends and we all had a great time. Even Jack, although he is not a big fan of swimming. Later that night Truman and I learned the importance of RE-applying sun screen, when we discovered that we were both sun burned. Still it was worth it. Now we are just waiting for it to stop raining and be warm enough, so that we can go a second time!

PHILLY PHUN!!

Last Saturday, by some sort of miracle, we had a beautiful day with nothing scheduled. (Technically, I was supposed to go to stake women's conference but I skipped it for family bonding time!) So we decided to road trip up to Philadelphia for a day of fun. We pretended we were Rocky at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, felt patriotic while we looked at the Liberty Bell and toured Independence Hall, and tanked up on greasy food with a Philly cheese steak from Pat's King of Steaks. It was so much fun! I hope we get to go again some time!

Happy Easter!

Easter, Easter, I love Easter! Especially when it is in April. Everything is so green and blooming here in MD. We had such a nice peaceful Easter with just the three of us. Oh, and the Easter bunny too, of course! Now we just need to recover from all of the candy!

Craft-O-Rama

In an attempt to entertain Truman with out the use of the electric baby sitter a few weeks ago, we went a little crazy on the craft front. We were covered in paint, feathers and hot glue, but in the end we had a fun puppet theater, two sock puppets and some cute little chicks that hold Easter eggs. Good times at the Rowe house!

Picture Tag!

This is for you Doorly! This is the sixth picture from the sixth file on our computer. It is pretty cute. When Truman was born our friend from graduate school,Omar bought Jack some Godiva chocolate cigars to congratulate him. They were really yummy, and it was so sweet of Omar to think of it. But that is totally the kind of person he is. He would always bring gifts for us when he came to our house and he totally loved Truman. We have not seen him for a long time, so it is fun to remember him through this picture!

Trina's Vacation Enjoyed By Us!

Last weekend Jack's sister Trina and her husband Jeff were supposed to come out to DC for a visit. But they had some scheduling conflict and were unable to make the trip. They had already booked a room at the Metro Center Marriott and could not cancel it, so... we HAD to use it for them. We went downtown and enjoyed a mini vacation in the city. We had dinner at a historic location, hung out in China town and went to the Portrait gallery. Truman loves staying in hotels and he really enjoyed this one, because he left his stuffed manatee in his bed while we went out for the day and when we got back the maid had wrapped him(manatee) up in a towel and laid him on the bed. It was so cute. Any way, thanks for the free room, Dahlke Family and we hope you can come another time and have some fun WITH us!

Jack's First Baptism

Jack had the opportunity to baptise someone for the first time about a week ago. A wonderful woman named Neta became a member of our church and we were so excited to be a part of her baptism. It was a little funny though, because the missionaries did not fill up the font as full as they should have and it took a couple of tries to get Neta fully submerged. Jack was a little nervous about it but Neta just took it all in her stride.