BEST Friends

Ann and I at her daughter Mia's 5th Birthday Party.

Beth, Eli, Jenna and I today at our house.

Swimming at night! It has been a weekend of FRIENDS for me! Friday night went to dinner with my "Rock Creek Mom" friends. Saturday celebrated Ann's daughter Mia turning five, and Saturday night Beth and her family arrived for the night. Hotel Ablondi is now closed once again.

Summer Boat Ride

It was Jenna's turn for a boat ride at Black Rock Lake in Germantown today! Jenna wore her life vest for about two minutes.

Jenna is looking for dragon flys, turtles, birds and beavers.

Cute picture...wrong boat...

This may be the closest thing we get to the sunflower pictures this year.

What's up?

Our first fire pit use!! We roasted marshmallows.

Dave and the girls went to a Nats game yesterday. Too hot for the rest of us!

and a tour of DC with Uncle Ken (aka big boy) and Kenny (aka little boy).

Another week of camp.....

Day #1 of Camp Monocacy. The girls came home today good and tired and said they had fun. Ava also lost that tooth that had just been hanging on way to long. She hopes the tooth fairy will leave her her tooth.

Hotel Ablondi is closed for the week. Thanks for coming Ken & Kenny.

When Drew and the girls are gone and it's nice and cool outside.... what to do???!! Ride bikes with mom and dad!

Performance

My mom and brother have been without power since last Friday night. They have been staying with us. The girls have been putting on dance shows for us - Peter Pan and the Lost Treasure and Sleeping Beauty. They get in full costume, have their own parts in the shows and dance around to music. At one point Jenna became distracted and was taking pictures for me. Uncle Jon has become a great new story reader for Jenna. Today our family went to Wolftrap - Theatre in the Woods to see Elizabeth Mitchell. (We have several of her cds - she also sings "You are my Sunshine" (Jenna's favorite). Elizabeth Mitchell is in the bottom photo, signing a cd for Jenna.

Cousin Pool Time

Temperatures are in the upper 90's. Cousins Collin, Jaxson, Savannah & Eli came over for a swim today.

Corolla, NC - FAMILY VACATION!!

We had a great week at Corolla, North Carolina! The whole family was together for the week. I picked a few of my favorite photos. I took over 350!

Tall Ships

My mom wanted to see the Tall Ships visiting Baltimore this past week. I had read that a good place to view the Tall Ships departing Baltimore today was from a park on Kent Island. Well, this morning my mom, the kids and I drove right past Baltimore and onto the Eastern Shore. We hiked about a mile (see us above happy before our trek..)to the viewing point only to find that we couldn't push Andrew's wheelchair in the sand. We left, picked up a crabcake lunch to go and watched for ships from a parking lot by the Bay Bridge along with many others. We waited until 3:30pm. ZERO tall ships sailed by. As we drove back over the Bay Bridge one was passing by. Just one. The kids did say they had fun though. The better part of today was swimming in the pool tonight! The temperatures are warming up. So is the pool water! There's a happy Drew.