At Random

Here are a bunch of pictures of stuff we have been doing in the last couple of weeks!

Look at these guys, they are quite the daredevils!

Truman loves being a goalie and he is pretty good at it. He stopped 3 goals during his turn!

Truman watching the fish at the Natural History Museum.

Nummy, Nummy Lunchy-Munchy with the Willis family at Pot Bellies! HA!

We went to the National Book Festival, which is this great event on The National Mall, where you can meet authors and also hear them give talks. We however did not want to spend hours in line so I just tried to take this picture of Shannon Hale from the side lines. It is pretty blurry, but she looks nice, right?

As you can see it was super rainy that day but there were still tons of people and we had a lot of fun! I think next year I will go sans Jack and Truman and hopefully, sans rain!

We did not labor on Labor Day!

Nor did we consider the plight of the working man. We did however go to Harper's Ferry in West Virginia for a fun daytrip. It is so beautiful there and I am hoping that we can go back and camp, enjoy more time on the river and do some of the hikes. But the town and it's history is so interesting. I know a little bit about John Brown and it was cool to see were everything happened. And as John Brown fought against slavery and the town was a factory town for so long I guess we did consider the plight of the working man after all!

The Shenandoah River was so beautiful. We wished we had brought our bathing suits for a swim.

Truman trying on a Civil War Soldier's gear.

The Fire house where John Brown made his stand.

Hiked up to Jefferson Rock or Jefferson Point or Jefferson Something. Basically Thomas Jefferson was here once and looked at the view!

Good Bye Old Friend

Well, the time has come for us to bid a heartfelt farewell to the good old '99 Camry. The water pump went out & Jack did not want to fix it, so we sold it on Craig's List. Then a fellow came with some cash and took it away. I was literally sad to see it go. It was a good car and it carried us to many, many adventures!

OK, so I was only sad for like a minute! Then I went and got in our new and improved Black Camry and drove Truman to school.

The Big Day!

Since it is the law in this country that you have to send your kids to school, I went ahead and sent Truman to his first day of Kindergarten.

He was so excited and I think he really likes his teacher and his class.

However this second week of school he has decided that maybe it is more fun at home and asks if he can stay home everyday. But I am sure he will get used to his new schedule in time and go back to being excited to go.

I do miss him but it is nice to have so much time to get things done on my own.

a little nervous

Last Days Of Summer

All good things must come to an end, and that is true for the summer of 2009. Here are a few pictures of our last weeks of freedom.

Butterflies Everywhere

Have I mentioned before that I love the Brookside Botanical Gardens? Because I do! It is really close to were we live and they have such beautiful plants, trails and gardens. They also have fun activities for kids. Including a terrific live butterfly exhibit during the summer months. Truman and I finally made it over to see it last week and although it was hot as blazes outside and inside the exhibit we still really enjoyed ourselves. The butterflies were literally every where. Even a few in our hair. It was pretty cool. We also took a walk around the gardens and had some fun with a giant bubble wand. And when school starts next week I will be able to enjoy the gardens with a few solitary (except for the geese) walks there.

The Big Cousins

Picnic at Gettysburg

At the beach in Delaware

Annapolis

My sister Jodi and her husband Dee, and their kids Devin, Trey, Rianne, and Liam (Zac stayed home) came to visit us a week ago and we led them on many (hopefully) fun adventures! They are the oldest cousins that we have so we call them the "big" cousins. It was fun to have them stay with us, even though we were stuffed like sardines into our apartment. Truman told me yesterday that he wants his cousins to come back so I guess he really liked having them visit.