Summer Fun

We have been crazy busy this summer with our house on the market and keeping these kids entertained. Here are some pictures from what we've been up to....

Violet and Halle at this awesome water park at The Plaza in Silver Spring, MD (Halle hung out with us for a few weeks this summer while she was visiting her dad from Florida. This is our 3rd summer with Halle and she is the sweetest little girl and the girls are the best of friends while she is here!)

Owen getting a little drink


"big mouth" Violet, Aliyah, & Halle


lunch break...

Violet watching Daddy play a little Navy softball. She has had such a great time going with him to his practices and games and has become the little team mascott/cheerleader! GO NAVY!!

Happy Father's Day! We made these "tie" t-shirts for Pop-Pop and Daddy

Visit with Vi's school, Little Learners, to Oxen Hill Farm where the kids got to feed chickens, collect eggs, and milk the cows!

Owen won't let us cut up his hotdog anymore...

ahhh, this is much easier

Violet, Giovanni, & Owen are taking swim lessons with Ms Lisa this summer.

After baths one night the kids were hanging on our bed really absorbed into their leapfrog games. It was really cute!

This is how we found Owen one night when we checked on him before we went to bed. I knew he could crawl in and out of his crib, but I guess he was just having too much fun playing to worry about crawling back in when he was tired...

Mommy learns how to french braid Vi's hair

On our good friends, Doug, Kate, & Joshua's boat on the Potomac. What a fun day this was! We had a picnic and saw all the DC sites from the river...can't beat that!

The kids got these t-shirts when the police pulled us over to check our safety equipment on the boat. Owen insisted on wearing his! He looks like a linebacker in this picture!