Easter

Easter pictures!

Camping over Spring break

Our fist camping trip of the year was a huge success!  Even in the storm, wind, and rain!  Nothing can bring the Tallpeople of the back country down!

Sunday adventures

A few weeks back the kids, and I went to Fort Foote, which is an old civil war camp.  We had a nice picnic, and we enjoyed a good hike.  It was nice to get out and play.  

We also stopped by a colonial homesteading area where we met an actress acting like a slave.  It was pretty eye opening to hear her speak about belonging to someone.

Cousin weekend

Mr. T's cousin came to town with her family.  We had a fantastic time.  We did lots of DC type things, and I was able to use my new badge to get some sweet perks!  

Basketball is done!

This year I had the pleasure of being the assistant coach to a bunch of girls who could play some ball!!  They were the runners up, and many of them had never played before!  

I hope we get to do it again next year.

Another weekend

We do a lot of weird random stuff here.  Last weekend, we caught the end of a Bolivian parade.  Or, we thought it was the end, but maybe it was the beginning.  The whole thing was hard to figure out since we do not know enough Spanish to get us around DC or read signs or generally do anything but get us a beer and a toilet.

  

 

Wintertime fun

It snowed!  Which, it actually did a lot, but this time it snowed to such a degree that the sledding was really great!  It was still too "dry" to build a snowman, but we at least got to explore the neighborhood some more to examine where the best hills are.  I think we are close to figuring it all out.  The snow gave us two snow days, but it also gave us the opportunity for a number of other things to do. 

We went to Mt. Vernon in the snow.  Mt. Vernon is probably my favorite place to go in DC.  I have turned into a BIG FAN or reenactors, kind of embarrassingly so.  I think about my kids doing that and wondering how to get them involved.  Then I realize how well they ride horses and dollar signs flash before my eyes and suddenly, I am no longer a big fan.

We were able to go skiing about 1.5 hours from our house.  For someone like me who does not know a whole lot about skiing or snowboarding, I thought it was pretty great.  It did get really icy in the afternoon, but we still had a good time.  The kids were in ski and/or snowboard school, so I had an all day date with Mr. T!  

The kids did well on the ski lifts.  They had a bunny slope that moved very slow for them, which made it easier.  Even BabyP on the snowboard was able to get on and off.  More importantly no one crashed in a firey death!

 

We all had a nice time.  BabyP was able to handle the snowboard, and Peanut was planning for when she was going on the blacks.  No complaints from these proud parents!