Street hockey, reading aloud, and art time

Grace and Tim…thank you for a wonderful visit!  We spent a lot of time just hanging out.  The boys played street  hockey…much to Bryan’s delight…  We went to Sylvia’s first play: If You Give a Pig a Pancake. We walked to Great Falls in Maryland.  We spent a lovely evening at Heather and Michael and [...]



John and Andrew over the years

We always so enjoy our annual vacations with Grace, Tim, and John.  As I pull together photos from this trip, I’ve been thinking back fondly on our visits over the years. In 2005, we went to DC for John’s baptism in October (photos here).  The boys were six and four months old.  Such tiny things [...]



4th of July parade

While we were in the DC area, we attended a great 4th of July parade in Takoma Park, Maryland.  We missed the Monona Memorial Day parade this year because we were in Maine, so Andrew was particularly excited to eat the candy see the parade with our friends. Grace has a friend whose parents have [...]



Back from DC

We’re back home after spending the last five days enjoying time with friends in Maryland (next to Washington DC). Last week…the week of my 33rd birthday…was wonderful – and soooo busy!  I had somewhere between five and eight items on my calendar on MTW, and then on Thursday, we flew out of Milwaukee.  Thank goodness [...]



Birthday shoes

My husband is the best. Check out the reason my toes are so very happy today.