Brooke has started riding her big girl bike without any help from us except occasionally to start up hill. She has been doing so well that Alex and I joined her for a ride instead of walking next to her.
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Sarasota, FL
We all got to travel down to Sarasota, FL for Aunt Betty’s 90th Birthday Party. Going with an infant was challenging, but seeing all the family and making it to Aunt Betty’s party made it fun. While there we also got to celebrate my dad’s birthday as a family, something we don’t get to do often now that we live on the other side of the country.
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Tunnel
No thunderstorm can keep us from having fun… we’ll just move it inside.
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Puddle Jumping
We went on a family walk tonight and Brooke found some good puddles for jumping in, Laura even joined in the fun.
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Family Vacation
This last week we had a family vacation. We stayed home because it was easiest with Alex but did we dedicated our time to each other, having fun, and doing the things that we wanted to do as a family. We did A LOT. I have pictures of it all of course and a few of the kids and I at home playing while AJ was at work the week before I am going to throw in for good measure of Alex sitting up, and Brooke ‘mowing’ the lawn. On our vacation we went to an indoor trampoline park, went kayaking, hiking, AJ and I got a date night on the bay, we worked out as a family, went to Bergey’s farm and pet animals and had ice cream, had many days at the pool, went to the NBG and played around with their new frame exhibit and at the splash pad, picked blueberries, I made blueberry pie, ate hamburgers for a 4th of July cookout, went to the fireworks festival at Chesapeake City Park, and had park playtime!