Countdown to VaCaTiOn!

We will be leaving for vacation one week from tomorrow! Our first stop is in our home town for a family reunion on Saturday afternoon. We will spend the night there and enjoy our Sunday with family. Then we are heading out after dinner to drive half way to Washington DC. We will stop and stay the night somewhere along the way in Virgina. Then we plan on getting up early on Monday and heading into DC for two days of sightseeing!!! We have a tour of the Washington Monument scheduled for Tuesday morning. I am still trying to talk myself into take the elevator as my fear is already setting in...:-( But I see the pictures from the top and it's an experience I don't want to miss out on so I might just have to pull up my bif girl panties and get over it! LOL I also tried to get tickets to tour the white house but I don't think that is going to happen. I have a high school friend working on getting those since the congressmans office couldn't obtain them for us. I guess the tours are very limited since 9/11. I won't let it ruin my trip if we can't go but I know that is something Aiden would love so trying everything in my power to get them!

After our 2 days and nights in DC we will drive up to Hershey, PA to go to Hershey park on Wednesday. I have never been there and always wanted to go so it made sense to make that part of our trip since it's only a few hours north of DC. We will stay the night there Wed then go on the Chocolate World tour on Thursday before heading back to my parents for the weekend. I am going to help my Mom with a garage sale and it's my Dad's Birthday weekend so we will enjoy some more family time before heading back home!

My goal is to try to just relax and enjoy our time as a family, I have a list of things I would like to do and see but, I am limiting myself on expectations!!!!!! As I know, setting any official schedule with two young children would just be foolish! ;-) Wish us luck!

**Seth is 6**

We spent last Saturday evening at Darby Creek Metro park. The Davis's invited us to a picnic to celebrate Seth's 6th Birthday. His actual birthday is the 4th of July but we both had busy schedules so we decided to celebrate a little later this year. We had such a nice time! The park was beautiful and so was the weather! Seth loved the OSU Jersey and watergun we got for him! He was even sooo polite and didn't need to be told to thank us! So sweet!!!

4th of July

Here are a few pictures from our 4th of July.

I love the one of Ava looking down the road at the parade. This was her very first parade. It didn't take her long to figure out if you want that candy they are throwing you have to go after it!!! She also did a great staying up for fireworks. We went to our normal spot for viewing and Aiden had fun playing with his friends and lighting smoke bombs! It's the simple things in life that excite him these days! Overall we had a wonderful holiday!

Epic-Fail

So...I haven't been doing really well at updating this blog. I'm not even sure anyone still follows but, I will continue to come and go and try to post some pictures when time allows. As you can see, time hasn't been allowing....therefore I am failing.....hence the title my new favorite term: "Epic-Fail"

We are having a great summer! Spending a ton of time at the pool!!

Aiden enjoying playing outside with his friends. He is also going on tons of field trips with daycare. They go to different parks, the police station, one day they went to a pizza shop and made their own pizza, today was library and the fire museum, yesterday was an animal hosptial...the list goes on and on...somedays I wish I could go to summercamp instead of work!

Ava loves being outside and taking walks. She is really enjoying her baby dolls and just loves Babies, so we take her dolls on walks, she makes it for a little while then I end up carrying the little stroller back home, or carrying the baby...but I love every second of it! She is talking up a storm, starting to ask things like "What you doing Mommy"- so cute!!! She loves to eat and will try almost anything we give her! She loves to draw and color. She is very independant as well! This can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on the situation.

We had a great 4th of July weekend! Ava had her first parade experience and loved it! Aiden also enjoyed catching all the candy and he saw a lof of his friends that were in the parade, of course now he wants to be in one... I told him I am sure someday he will get to participate! The fireworks were pretty great as well! I was surprised at how well Ava did given how late she stayed up to see them.

We are now looking forward to our vacation! Only 3 more weeks left! Soon after that it will be back to school! Aiden will be off to the second grade!

I am anxiously waiting for the gym near my office to open (this Saturday)! I really need to get into a workout routine. I plan on going a few times a week, either at lunch or after work on my way to get the kids. I have no excuse, I haven't lost the weight gain from my pregnancy with Ava. I really need ot focus on that and get back into shape! I am actually looking forward to it!

We just sold our changing table and crib on craigslist. Therefore, our family is officially complete. We now only have a pack n play left which I plan to keep incase we ever have company that needs to use it! *Bittersweet*