Our Family

Memorial Weekend was really fun. The weather turned out really nice. Grammy (Char's Mom) was here visiting. Evey spent some time in her little pool. Then the cul-de-sac had a cookout on Sunday. James made a washers and bean bag game. I sewed the bean bags (my first sewing project). We brought out badminton and there was even a bounce house for the kids. It was load of fun and food.

We are having so much fun with her these days. She is putting so many words together and learning new songs each day. Her favorite thing these days is swinging at the park. And getting picked up from school in the stroller.


This is Evey's first official haircut. She did really well except that I had to sit in the chair with her. The lady did a really nice job. It looks really cute.

Last weekend we took our first family road trip to Ohio. James's really good friend from highschool was getting married just outside Cleveland. It was a tough trip. We drove up late Friday night and came home early Sunday morning. Evey did really well and we had a wonderful time. Saturday morning we took Evey to the Cleveland Zoo. It was a pretty nice zoo. We only did about 1/2 of it.

Evey's Great-Geema was in DC for some meetings she comes to every year. We got to visit her at her nice hotel, the Mayflower. Evey had fun running the halls (it was the afternoon and we weren't being that loud). She took a bubble bath. It was a wonderful little visit.

Every now and then I get sad about being here in Virgina and feel like I am missing out on what is going on the lives of Texas family and friends. (Thank goodness for Blogs). Then the Lord blesses us with weekends like this past one.

So it got hot here...90s. YAY. So I pulled out the little blow up pool that Mimi brought for the cup cakes at Evey's first birthday party. And well here came the kids. You fill it and they will come. Evey didn't really want to get in...little cold I think. But it was so much fun. Both Saturday and Sunday. We got out lawn chairs and hung out, lots of fruit snacks and popsicles. Sunday, we are hanging out by the pool and all of a sudden in 5 minutes we had an impromptu cookout. Everyone brought something and we all ate dinner together and had ice cream. It was wonderful...aside from church we spend in the whole weekend in our front yard.

Two weekends ago my sister came up for a visit. We really enjoyed having her here. We toured some sites in DC and Alexandria. We obviously don't have bluebonnets here but we do have Cherry Blossoms. We got some really good pictures.