Abby's 1st day of Preschool!

Abigail 1st day of preschool! As you can see from the pictures, she was running around the front yard posing and acting so silly. She was in such a good mood, when we pulled up to her school, she literally jumped out of the car and ran into the school. She has two wonderful teachers (Mrs. Kathy & Mrs. Mary) and lots of new friends! Mommy and Abby made it without any tears, just lots of smiles and excitement. When I picked her up, I asked her how her day was "mommy, that was a lot of fun, can I go back tomorrow?" She had a fantastic day!

Favorites @ 6.5

Today my Sammy Sam is 6.5 years old. Man, I wish I could slow down time!

At 6.5 Samuel loves playing lego, anything army/guns and although he doesn't play them often he still enjoys playing his DS and Wii. His favorite baseball team is still the Orioles. He and Tom have gone to over 6 games this season. He just began his 3rd baseball season, GO THUNDER!!!!

The tooth fairy has visited twice (front bottom teeth)

Favorite Restaurants: Arigato Sushi, Sakura Japanese Steak House (he has expensive taste!)

Favorite Color: Red
Favorite Song: Bad Day - Daniel Powter

First Day of First Grade

Today was Samuel's 1st day of 1st grade! He was pretty excited, but I think that he was also pretty nervous! I don't blame him since it is a new class, new teacher and mostly new classmates. Surprisingly, I had a harder time with this transition than I did with him going to kindergarten. Maybe it's because he's gone from 7:35-2:45 this year...that's a long day, or perhaps it's seeing my baby boy get on that BIG yellow school bus with all the older kids! His teacher, Mrs. Edwards, is a perfect match for Samuel's personality. She is very outgoing and bubbly and wants to make learning fun. I just know that we are going to have an awesome year! I still can't believe that he is already in 1st grade! Kindergarten and Summer just flew by! Here's to another great year!!

Samuel still not fully awake.

Enough Mom!!

Samuel with his buddies - Sam, Thomas & Ethan

Sunday Bike Ride

It was such a beautiful day today...there was no way we could stay inside. We had only one problem, none of us could decide what we wanted to do. Samuel had the great idea of putting all of our suggestions in a basket and randomly choosing one. Samuel pulled bike ride and Abigail pulled ice cream. Perfect! We loaded up the car and headed to the bike path. We road our bike's to Partlows grabbed lunch & ice cream. On the way back we stopped by Trailside park for a little fun. Daddy and Abigail picked pretty wildflowers for me. I couldn't wait to get them home so I could put them in the special vase that Samuel made me for Mother's Day.
We came home and Tom cooked my favorite, Beer Can Chicken! Yummy. It was the perfect ending to a perfect day!

Slowly Catching Up

I cannot believe it's been so long since I've written here! I hope to slowly catch up on our summer happenings.

We have had an absolutely amazing summer and it's not even over yet!! Our summer started a week before school was out with a trip to Providence, RI & New York City, then we headed to the beach, Las Vegas and will end our summer with our first camping trip. We have... gone to the pool, fishing, bike rides, parks, ice cream, baseball games, playdates, cookouts, hanging out in the cul-de-sac, the list goes on and on... lazy days, busy days.... It's been great! I love the laidback feeling and the later nights w/ kids. The no rush to bed and hanging out in your PJ's until after lunch. I plan to be better about writing here, b/c I really want to record all the stuff Samuel and Abigail are up to so that I remember it! :)

Block Party Fun!

Saturday we had a block party on our street. We arranged for The Ashburn Volunteer Fire-Rescue Department to make an appearance around 4:30pm. The kids were able to sit and explore the Fire Truck, Ambulance and Brush Truck. The highlight was when the firefighters connected the fire truck hose to our hydrant and sprayed water. The kids had fun running around, riding bikes, scooters, playing a game of wiffleball with the adults and breaking in our new waterslide.

A Little Pampering

Tonight the boys had tickets to watch the O's play in Baltimore.

(Poor Tom had his wisdom tooth pulled yesterday)

Abby and I decided we needed a little pampering while the boys were at the game. She insisted on wearing her pink dress from grandma'ma and her pink dress up high heals. After explaining that she would mess up her freshly painted toes, she agreed to wear her flip flops. Abigail has had quite a few manicures/pedicures at home, but never at a real salon. It was no surprised that she picked purple glitter polish! They looked very cute, and she even got white flowers on her hands and feet. She thought it was pretty special!! I think we will be doing this a lot together in the future. Afterwards, we had dinner then headed over to the ice cream store.

(Love her little curl in this photo)

When we got home she road her bike up and down the street to show all of our neighbors her fingers and toes.

Too cute!!!

Circus

We went with Grandma'ma, Papa, the Riddle family, Olivia, Jac & Colm to see the Ringling Bros. Circus at the Patriot Center. We had a great time. Thanks Grandma'ma & Papa!!!:)

Easter with the Adams

Saturday afternoon we had everyone over to our house to celebrate Tom's birthday and Easter. The kids had their annual egg hunt which is always a big hit. Afterwards, the kids got Easter goodies from Memaw & Pepaw.

Then the boys (young and old) had fun playing guns!

OH TRAP!

The other day we were in the kitchen making popsicles. Samuel ran over and grabbed one off the counter without realizing they weren't frozen! Juice landed on the floor and we heard Abigail say "Oh Trap!" Samuel and I both started laughing and said, Abby what did you say? "Oh Trap, Mommy....Samuel made a big mess." hahaha

National Zoo