We take on the Capitol for Spring Break... Is there gonna be roller coasters?

Steve and decided to pile in the car and drive to Washington DC for spring break. Once we told the kids, the boys wanted to know if we could go to Busch Gardens Williamsburg - we told them it was closed but secretly if the weather was good, we were going to surprise them with it!  It was quite the trip.  We drove to Pittsburgh and spent the night before rolling into our Nation's capitol.  We spent three action packed days in DC checking out the Air & Space Museum, the National Natural History Museum, the US Capitol where we met our congressman, the National Zoo and as many monuments as we could see.  Then we drove to Virginia and spent one very lovely weather day at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.  We spent our last day at Jamestown seeing both the historic site and the living museum where the kids could go back in time to that era. They we stopped on the way home for a visit with our friend who lives near Cincinnati (perfect resting spot before the last six hours home).  I think the boys liked Busch Gardens the best!

BeBop with Aesop

Evan's school music program was very cute... togas on kids is adorable!

Pinewood Derby 2016

Evan got a trophy and Sean did not so there were tears... Luckily ice cream usually fixes that!

Meatatarian

Ah... #MeatlessMonday... when Sean saw that veggie stew was on his plate with his quesadilla tonight he exclaimed "Mom I'm a meatatarian not a vegetarian!".....  though he did eat a potato to make me happy

Happy Holidays!

Water Park Fun

Our annual trip to Wilderness was a lot of fun.  We outran the snow storm that hit northern IL to enjoy chlorine goodness in WI.  The kids had a blast and didn't want to leave of course.

Fall Fun

Our church youth group when to a farm this weekend.  Evan was really happy about the trip.  As soon as we pulled out to go home, he wanted to know if we could go to another farm on the way home....