Bridal Shower

A few weeks ago Norah and I picked up Ma-Ma-Maa and headed to Richmond to go to Mary's Bridal Shower.

The weather was perfect for an outdoor picnic and Norah loved being at Maymount Park.

A fun day celebrating the bride to be!

Birthday party

I'm not the best at planning birthday parties for the kids. But the mommy guilt got to me this year since I was running a marathon on Norahs birthday. So this year Norah got her first friend birthday party.  We planned it for sunday afternoon at one of our favorite parks.  Its tucked away, private and has a basketball court for Colin to play on. 

Norah invited 5 friends to come to her party.  Our neighbors couldn't come because their 7th grader had a double hitter game on sunday.  Tanner really wanted to come to Norahs party and was praying for rain the whole week before.  Because if it rained we were going to have her party the following weekend and he didn't have a game then.  I told him I would send Norah over to his house Sunday if it rained and cancelled her party. I think he really just wanted to come play basetball with Colin but Norah felt so special that he really wanted to be there at her party. 

I'm so glad Joel and Becca have stayed friends.  They basically have no choice because their mommys are great friends but it helps when they like each other.

Norah begged for a pinata after Charly's birthday party.  We found the cutest cupcake at walmart and Norah helped me stuff it full of candy.  Thankfully she got the first hit because as soon as she made contact with the pinata it broke.

This girl needs to play softball next year!

Norah LOVED her party.

 Last weekend was a super busy weekend with our trip to DC and Norahs party (also throw in a long swim team board meeting for me and we were all ready for bed easily sunday night)

Wizards Game

This past friday we took the boys out of school a little early and headed up to DC for a Wizards game.  

Just the boys went to the game, Norah and I stayed at the hotel and swam in the pool.  

Before the game we showed the kids the White House.  They weren't too impressed because we saw it from the back.  Norah thought almost every old man walking around was the president!

The next morning we went down to the mall to see some museums and monuments.

It was a beautiful day to walk around and see everything.

Norah and Joel have been mining rocks in our front yard.  The neighbor kids come and they take big rocks and crush smaller rocks to find diamonds and crystals. I made them all wear sunglasses and they have spent hours finding treasures.  Until they started smashing bricks on our front steps and then I had to put a stop to their mining operations for a while. So Joel and Norah loved seeing rooms full of different types of rocks.

The Hope Diamond

We had heard the cherry blossoms were all damaged in the winter storm they had but they were really pretty. Probably not as pretty as they could've been but we enjoyed walking around seeing them. I told the kids that Isaiah was seeing the same type of trees in Japan.

It was a very quick trip but we all had a great time. The kids cant wait to go back and see some more.

March Madness Game

Colin was very excited to make the school 5th grade basketball team.  The school has a huge fundraiser with a 5th graders vs teachers basketball game each year. Colin was nervous he wouldn't make it but he was so excited when he came home and said he was on the team.  He has been going into school at 7am every morning to practice and they have had 3 after school practices.  

The game was last night at the high school and we had so much fun watching.  I just think what a great experience it was for Colin to play in front of such a large crowd.  They had bleachers on each side and the side we were sitting at was completely packed.   

 

 They raise money buy selling raffle tickets for different themed baskets.  Joel and Norah picked which baskets they wanted our tickets to go into.  And we won a baking basket! Basically because of all the sprinkles.  Norah thought it was the best thing ever.

It was a really fun night and fun to cheer on Colin. I told him if he keeps playing in a short few years he will be playing on that court for high school games.