This weekend we carried on putting down the new flooring. Last weekend we finished the dining room area, and this weekend it was time to tackle the living room. The living room was more challenging as there was a lot of cutting to do. It went a little slower and...
Something very sweet this morning, while talking to John on the webcam….looking behind me and seeing Silas petting Jasper while watching Sesame Street. Yaya came in and said, “Oh your daddy used to like Bert and Ernie, probably still does.” 🙂
Galaxy Cookies The other day Miranda pointed out that we have Macadamia nuts and some white chocolate chips left over from some baking I did when John was here in April. Our cookie jar was empty and I wanted to use up those ingredients. I decided to look through my...
Today was a “Cammy Day” as we call them, and being summer, swimming in the pool was definitely a highlight scheduled for the day. Now Cammy being older, knows how to do a lot more in the pool than Silas and of course RubÃÂ. Rubàis not yet enchanted with...
Silas had never been to the movie theater yet, and with the new Winnie the Pooh movie, I just HAD to take him! You see, Silas and I have spent a lot of time watching the old Winnie the Pooh movies. They are so charming and so dear, often if...
(and Silas too) But this time we had the camera focused mainly on RubÃ. It wasn’t easy trying to take a movie with my cell phone while strolling a child, but here is what I got. 🙂
Yesterday, we went as a family to Patapsco Valley State Park (the Avalon entrance). It has been awhile since our last trip out there. This area is within the southern end of Patapsco Valley State Park. The primary entrance is located off of South Street in Baltimore County. Three distinct...
This year Laura completes her last year of high school. We couldn’t let the occasion pass without a party!
We’ve had a heatwave here in Maryland, and Silas got to have a treat after lunch, an ice cream cone! I took him on the back deck as that seemed the best place, in the end, it was… 🙂
It’s June 2nd, and we don’t even have the pool open yet. Not to mention we just went through a nasty heatwave. Our pool is surrounded by a LOT of trees which presents us with an issue the end of each spring, getting the fallen leaves off of the pool...
I had a ball at the reception getting to talk and be with friends and family and capturing some candid and posed shots of everyone. (Click on photo for larger image) Rubàwas a bit of a show stealer. Mom joins the family table. Mom with Uncle Arthur Jim,...
Well I said I would blog in three segments about the wedding and have added a fourth, “the small details”. It occurred to me that I took some photos of some small details in the wedding worth noting. (Click on the image to open up a larger photo) The bridesmaid’s...
Today we met for the rehearsal for the wedding. It was rather emotional seeing Miquel with all his friends (weren’t they all just at our house yesterday swimming, playing video games, and having band practice?) and now Miquel is getting married. It was interesting, Donna, one of the directors asked...
Not for the faint of heart. This is an image of three photos, all taken by John at the Washington DC zoo. The area by the prairie dogs has a play section for children where they can also see what it must be like for the animals to go in...
Mothers Day, Two Birthdays (mine and RubiÂ’s), upcoming wedding)…. This is and already has been a very busy week. Yesterday, besides celebrating Mother’s Day, we also started celebrating the two birthdays. This is the beginning and so much more to come this week!
This time it took nearly two days of travel time for John to get home. When at last we could say hi on the webcam again, Silas was sure to climb up on my lap and immediately tell John, “I miss you, Mr. Dolphin” which I quickly captured the moment...
I’ve been to the Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. more times than I could ever count, and always love going to it. I didn’t know that there was an extension to it in Dulles till John mentioned he’d like to go there. On top of that, my uncle,...
It’s probably fair to say that Silas and John’s relationship started over a cup of tea. Mind you it was miles apart using a web cam, but they would share hot tea together daily after that. So, the morning after our trip to Lurray Caverns (we got home late and...
Ocean City 2011, that is. This being John’s third visit to Maryland, it seemed way overdue to take him to Ocean City. Â
Unfortunately the trees in our yard (and there are many) are not in good health. Thanks to severe thunderstorms and harsh snow storms, branches easily get knocked down into our yard a lot. This day, John decided to teach Silas he could help out Daddy and collect sticks for the...
Miranda chose to celebrate her birthday at Laura’s workplace, the Texas Roadhouse.
Even though the forecast was for showers, we went to the National Zoo in Washington DC. Before we left though, John and Rubi have fun on the comfy chair.
John arrived late last night, or even could call it early this morning. With two days travel and only a few hours night sleep, his day began with breakfast and…SILAS! Silas was surprised to see his internet web cam buddy that he has tea with each morning in our living...
Well even though Enric and Miranda moved into their own place upstairs a few months ago, we are still putting the house back together here on the main floor. One of the last things I put back to its place was my keyboard. Silas was most excited about it. Here...
Sitting in a box is great fun. Kids love boxes! But Mommy showing Silas how it can be a turtle’s home is also fun!
You can’t leave Silas alone for one second let alone TWO seconds. Two seconds alone in my room with my purse, and there we had it,”The Mascara Incident”
SOMEONE gave the two little ones, Silas and Rubi bells to ring… 🙂 (Taken with my cell phone)
With Aiden and Conner’s help, Silas gets introduced to hand-held games. They were just so cute! I had to take some pictures!
We went to Target some time ago, and I picked up these bunny ears, thinking they would be cute for RubiÂ. But it was Silas who truly wanted them! So we came home with bunny ears. 🙂
We, along with Silas, were invited to Cameron’s 4th birthday celebration at Chuck E Cheeses. When I told John what we were doing, he said that was an awful name to give a place to eat for children. To an Australian, the name Chuck E Cheeses sounds awfully strange. So,...
A few days ago, Mom brought out her old 35mm camera which grabbed Silas’s attention for hours. He studied each button, figured out how to open things, learned where the film (does he even know what film is?) goes in and where it moves to. He learned how to work...
We had a rain shower this afternoon. Ferocious winds, and some thunder. What to do with the kids?
Today on a rainy day, I got the chance to babysit Silas and Rubi. They were good as gold. Silas got to watch Toy Story 3 after lunch while Rubi practiced waving. I took photos and wondered which to post, then I decided to make a slide show and post...
2010 has  been an incredible year. For me, my blog serves me in a way to keep track of personal events, and our family had many this year. January opened with the excitement of Miquel and his band, Embers For Ashes playing at Rams Head in Baltimore. Not long after...
Christmas morning I was so fatigued from all the preparations made weeks beforehand and our late night on Christmas Eve, that I wondered how I was going to manage this day, and no matter how hard I tried, I was STILL in my pajamas when people started to arrive! At...
