To Washington, DC for the day.

We went to Washington, DC for the day yesterday. I love DC this time of year. The Cherry Bossoms are in full bloom. They are just the most beautiful.

My kids played in the tress. There was a sign that said "do not climb on the rail fence". But no sign saying they couldn't climb the tress. :o)

Both of my children have always be tree climbers. My beautiful daughter and my Indiana Jonah.

We went to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Here is my husband's favorite airplane....

This one is the type that his Uncle Harvey flew in the war.....

Here is Amelia Earhart's plane. I think this is so cool.

My kiddos in the tress again. :o)

We got to spend lots of quality family time together.

Jonah in the Cherry Blossoms....

Until our next Adventure!!!

T.R.O.M. March 5, 2010

TROM stands for The Rides Of March. It's a campout in Atkinson, NC. We didn't make it there. We started off around 10 am , but 2 1/2 hours into the trip our bus broke down for the 2nd time and the engine locked up. Poor Jaws had to be flat bed towed to Jeremy's grandparents house.

So no camping in March. I am pretty bummed. Tomorrow we are going to go for a bike ride here at home and have a picnic just to get out of the house and feel like we are sort of camping. We'll be out in nature.

Jeremy has already started to pull the engine out of Jaws. He needs to get a new one in her by April. That is when Everybus is. The 2nd biggest campout. :o)

Camp Sweet Camp

I am just so ready for 'Camping Season' to start.

EveryBus 2oo9

Camping in Oct. At EveryBus , 2oo9. Greensboro , NC. Here is our campsite. We're in the blue bus.
Chris Slaymaker played our song. So we got up and danced.

Emme and Shelby have grown up together camping.

Jonah in his bed. Morning.
Shelby in her bed, still asleep.

Pocahontas State Park, Va

It has seemed like forever since we've camped. Our sweet bus has had a few problems so we had to miss 2 campouts. But 'Jaws' is on the road again. We decided to just do a quick overnight near home campout with friends of ours. Here is Dawnn pulling in. Their bus is named "Beach Bus". Can you tell she is so happy to be coming to camp?!!
Here we are together. " Jaws" and " Beach Bus". Setting up camp.

It's so good to be outside in the beautiful weather having 'special' lemonade. LOL

After dark, it started drizzling a bit , but we had the canopies. Lots of food / snacks / and drinks.

The boys roasting marshmallows. Yummy.

We pulled the teardrop so Jonah could have a friend come camp with him. We slept in the bus, they slept in the teardrop. Nice and snug, like bugs in a rug.

It rained, poured all night, which actually helps us sleep so good. But the next morning the camp was flooded. I let the boys play around in the water before we packed up and went to Dawnn and Scott's to make breakfast there.

I had to get a picture of my baby girl brushing her teeth. :o) Love you, Shel.

Packing up in the wetness. Not fun, but we did have so much fun camping.

Three Lakes Park ( photo heavy )

The kids and I went to the park for a picnic the other day. At Three Lakes Park. They are a little aquarium there. So Jonah was in Heaven.

Check out this guys toe nails......

Here we have turtles spooning.....

Our picnic on our ant picnic quilt.....

Jonah watching out for the turtles....

An ant on the ant quilt, we didn't plant him there, he really crawled across the quilt.

Nature walk thru the trails. I think this is a really good picture of the kids. They are just so cute.

We came to a bridge so I had to get their picture on it.

Me acting silly with my girl..... that is Jonah's huge magnifying glass he brought on then trip.

Me and my boy..... in the woods...... having fun looking at nature.

one of the many turtles in the lake.

And Jonah found a frog in a hole. We laughed and thought it was so great because the kids GrandMolly makes us "frogs in a hole" every time we go visit her. And we actually saw a frog in a hole. LOL