Sarah's 1st Day at Gymnastics

Here is our little gymnast. She really took to the balance beam during Katie's Cheerleading class so we enrolled her in gymnastics this Fall and she is a natural. But I bet all the other 3 year old moms are saying the same thing.

Celebrating turning 40

How do you celebrate turning 40? Go to Cancun and enjoy an all-inclusive resort complete with a wonderful couples massage and hydrotherapy session. Dave and I met up with my best friend from Texas and her husband. We spent 5 sun-filled (and very hot) days relaxing with no cooking, no cleaning, no driving, and no children. It was like a 2nd honeymoon. I am going to count on Roxanne sending me some pictures from our nights out since I just have a few of the resort and our excursion to Xcaret where Dave and I snorkeled through an underground river which was really neat.

Back to School

Jacob is in 3rd grade this year and still not in any mood for me to take back to school pictures at the bus stop. Katie is starting 1st grade and Sarah is back to pre-school this year. Below are their first day pictures.

Summer 2009

I discovered Facebook this summer and I am finding that I rarely have time for it and I totally put our blog on the back burner. So I'm going to try to get back to posting on here as well. I'm going to attach a few pictures of our summer.

End of the School Year

It seems with the end of the school year, always comes those important milestones. Jacob is now a bear in Scouts and finishing up the baseball season. Katie had her Kindergarten program and has her Cheerleading program next week. Grandma was able to attend both of her programs much to Katie's delight, so we should get some good pictures from her camera.

Katie can also now ride her bike without training wheels.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day is always a good time for a family photo op. This year we also had a visit from Gram and Pops and Dan, Kim, and Caedmon.

Day at the Museum

We have been discovering the local museums since our move and found lots of neat places for the kids and are looking forward to more days at the local museums and attractions this summer.

Katie and I explored the UVA Art Museum one day for their Kid's Art Jam and had a great time. They had the children pick out their favorite painting and had them try to duplicate the painting with flowers by matching the colors and the placement of the colors. It was very neat and we got this gorgeous flower centerpiece to take home. We also drew a picture of a single flower without lifting our crayon off the paper and I found out that I have a little artist inside of me as well.

Another neat thing that Katie did with her school was go to the local Children's hospital and they had a Bear workshop where they fixed up their teddy bears and learned about medicine. Here is Katie with her doctor outfit on. Art and wanting to be a doctor are her two passions so it will be interesting to see which direction she goes.

Over Memorial Day weekend, we went to the old Mitchie Tavern (1784) and had a wonderful lunch at The Ordinary, used the Neccesary Room, and went shopping at the Clothier and General Store. Quite fun.

And today we went to the Richmond Children's Museum. It was very well done and even had an outdoor sand and waterplay area - we closed the place down.