Our South Carolina Trip

We just got home from spending a week in South Carolina with Doug's parents.

We left home at 3am and got there at 6pm.
 

We celebrated Elliot's birthday.


We swam and played on the beach.


We visited an old, unused, very dark railroad tunnel.


We did a lot of fishing and boating and enjoying the beautiful weather.


Then we had another marathon day of driving to get back home.

Busy, Busy, Busy

Elliot Turns Three!!

Happy Mothers' Day

Practice Campout

The big boys slept together in Elliot's bed so they would be ready to attempt a similar feat while traveling and camping this summer.

Our Train Trip to Chicago

We left our house at 6:45am and the train left the station at 7:40am.  A four hour trip got us to Chicago where we met my aunt and uncle and headed for the aquarium.  At 4pm we left the aquarium and at 4:55pm we left the train station headed home.  The train arrived at 11pm, and we were in our beds at 11:30.

What a day.  All three boys had a great time, learned a lot and were very well behaved.

Belated Easter

My parents graciously agreed to watch the two big boys while Doug, Spencer and I went to a home school convention in Cincinnati the week after Easter.  We decided to move Easter by a week so we could celebrate with my parents.

The big boys went to the farm while we were at the convention.

They dyed a ton of Easter eggs.

Spencer and Doug went up on a high rooftop observation deck while I was attending convention sessions.

When we were all back at my parents' house we did an Easter egg hunt.  I only have a good picture of Spencer "hunting"; the big boys were moving too fast.

A good time was had by all.

Swimming Lessons

Good jump, Peter!!

Watercolor Fish

Peter and I made watercolor fish based on this art lesson from the Deep Space Sparkle blog.