Of Sledding and Snow Shakes

Sunday was a beautiful morning, with perfect conditions for sledding. Sunny, not too windy, and not so much snow that we couldn’t drive our minivan to the nearest bestest hill in our neighborhood. It took some effort to get all of the children into their snow gear and out the door, but finally, [...]

Veteran’s Day Fun at the Smithsonians

Back on Veterans Day, we found ourselves with an unplanned free day.   Everybody had the day off except Silas’ preschool, but we let him play hookie.  It was a drizzly, gray day, but I decided it would be fun to hit the museums downtown, since we don’t get down there often enough.  I was especially [...]

Everybody loves a parade

We live close to our neighborhood high school.  Close enough to hear the marching band practice and close enough to for our street fill-up with parking during football season.  One of the fun things that comes along with living close to the high school is that we get to see the Homecoming Parade.   Back when [...]

Cousin Fun

In the beginning of October, Cousin Owen spent a couple of days with us.  Our daily routine is pretty busy, so he just came along for the ride with whatever activities we had planned.  One day, that meant going to Mainly Music with Asher.  This is a great music and movement program run by McLean [...]

Good Ole Fashioned Fall Fun

Last Thursday was a parent teacher conference day and we lucked out with an early conference time.   Mike took the day off, so after hearing how brilliant our kindergartner is, we took of for a fun day at Cox Farms.
We’ve been going for several years and always have a blast.  It’s typically cooler and windier [...]

Fun at the ice rink that doesn’t require skates

The other day, I had a free morning with Asher.  With nothing else planned, I decided to drive over to the Kettler Ice Rink to scope it out as a potential birthday party venue.   The Kettler Capital Iceplex, which, in case you didn’t know, is home to Washington Capitals.  They play their home games at [...]

Lazy Sundae Social

Two Fridays ago, my local mom’s club hosted an ice cream social at a local park.   Lazy Sundae is a local ice cream shop — they make their own ice cream and have all kinds of fun and delicious flavors.

The brought the ice cream truck and were serving two flavors:  Dirt (chocolate, oreo & gummy [...]

Fun at the Park

I took these pictures the week before school started.  It was our last week of summer fun, so we spent one morning at this local playground.  It’s got unusual play elements that suit both older and younger kids.
Wesley (& Silas are into the climbing structure).

Silas carefully inches up the “slide.”

Wesley on the twisty ladder.  This [...]

Things I Love Thursdays: Jason’s Deli

Believe it or not, Chick Fil-A is not the *only* place we’ve been spending money this summer (we’ve been eating out for lunch more frequently than we should).   Another place I love to to take the kids is Jason’s Deli.

Here’s what I love about Jason’s Deli:
Location
They may not be close to everyone, but they are [...]

Fun at Fairfax Corner

We finally made it out to Fairfax Corner a couple of Wednesdays ago to check out their “Little Tots Summer Fun Series“.    FC is a relatively new development in Fairfax County that has lots of shops, a big fancy movie theater and some great restaurants.  It has a plaza out in front of the theater [...]