Spring!

Easter

Checking out their loot.

Spring break at VA Beach

Bernard was a sand castle machine.  The city behind Bernard was someone else's.  Had a friendly competition going.

Sisters.

Portsmouth children's museum.

This Winter

We had a few visitors and had fun showing them around town.

This is the cute college town that we live by. The yellow building in the back is a little hotel.

There is a grocery store, restaurants, shops, and library along the tracks. When the train comes through it's super loud (obviously), and while Gabbi loves to watch it we usually have to duck into a shop because it's a little scary.

This is the Hanover tavern. It's is still an operating restaurant/tavern but it dates back to the revolutionary war, and also operated during the civil war. It's packed full of history and is so much fun to check out.

Across the street is Hanover's courthouse and (old) jail. The kids looking sad and pretending to be locked up.

Brian's mom took the next two pictures.

It finally snowed here, but the first snow left a bit to be desired.

The next one was much better.

Gabbi wasn't happy about the snow in this one.

Speaking of unhappy faces, this is the face Gabbi makes when she's in trouble.

I believe she gets it from this guy.

Merry Christmas!

Someone lost her first tooth this Christmas Eve!

Although we are missing our family and friends, we had a very lovely, laid back Christmas this year. Wishing everyone a very happy holiday!

Santa Came to Town

Santa came to our neighborhood tonight on a firetruck! Apparently in VA this is a common practice, and it was really cute. The kids loved it, and it was a fun way to hang out with neighbors for a bit. The only problem was we forgot it was scheduled for tonight, so the kids were all tucked in and we had to drag them out in their jammies.

Poor Bella is so sick. She hasn't been to school since Friday the 2nd. She's got a yucky fever that won't go away. She's been gone so long that her class sent her a get well card:( We are praying for the fever to break soon. She didn't even last outside long enough to see Santa, she said she was tired and didn't care.

Tonight I discovered chocolate hand prints on the stairs, that led to this in the kitchen.

It didn't take me long to locate the perpetrator. She was so covered in chocolate that she had to go straight to the tub.

Santa has added her to the naughty list.

Happy Halloween!

From a princess bride, a minnie mouse who wouldn't wear her ears, and a pirate.

Arrrrrr.

Many houses left candy on the porch so they could trick or treat with their kids, Gabbi had trouble with just taking one. And then not eating it immediately.

We went to the pumpkin patch a couple weekends ago. It was $20 all you can carry, but you had to be able to take 5 steps with your loot. Brian made us proud.

Our littlest punkin:)