Posts Tagged ‘cousins’

  • Camping at Buggs Island, VA

    Tuesday July 27, 2010

    After relaxing for a week with the Grands, it was time to head out for our annual “Fun Fest” camping trip to Buggs Island, aka John Kerr Lake Resevoir.  Buggs Island is Virginia’s largest lake, with over 50,000 acres of fresh water and 800+ miles of shoreline.  It’s owned and maintained by the Army Corps [...]

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  • Block Party Extravaganza!

    Wednesday June 2, 2010

    Every minute of Memorial Day Weekend seemed to be packed with activities.  On Sunday, it was the annual neighborhood block party.  Not sure how many years we’ve been doing it now, but it seems to get bigger and better each year.    This year we invited Grandad, Aunt Melissa, Uncle Bear and Cousin Owen to join [...]

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  • Brunch at the Gaylord

    Monday April 19, 2010

    Grandad graciously invited us to join him this Sunday for his Yacht Club’s Annual Power Cruise and Brunch.  The plan was travel from the club to the National Harbor by boat, then have brunch at Pienza, an Italian restaurant located in atrium of the Gaylord National Hotel.  Well, the weather was not ideal for boating, [...]

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  • Easter

    Tuesday April 6, 2010

    We had a lovely, low key Easter. We dyed eggs the night before.   We almost skipped it, but the kids had a blast, so I’m glad we made the time.  I never got around to buying the PAAS kit, but it turns out that the food coloring dyes I had on hand worked just fine. [...]

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  • Cousin Fun

    Sunday October 25, 2009

    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 Adam.  This is a great music and movement program run by McLean [...]

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  • Fantastic Four

    Friday October 10, 2008

    This past two days, we’ve been hosting cousin Owen.  He got to hang our wild brood while his daddy worked and his mommy was on a trip.  The cousins had a blast playing with each other.  Owen was a very easy-going toddler.  He pretty much was happy to be swept along with the group activities, [...]

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  • Dunham Funham

    Tuesday May 6, 2008

    “Funham”: a whole lot of fun and mayhem all mixed together. (I just made that up). We just had a great 10 days with the “Montana Cousins.” The MT Cousins, formerly the San Diego cousins. We used to fly out yearly to visit them in Cali, but then they moved to Montana and I wasn’t [...]

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