DC tours

Day 2:  On Sunday, the kids and I decided to just take a nice relaxing day off.  Monika, Arnold and the boys headed out to the city again to walk around. Since they were going to see the same areas we had seen a few years ago (and because I didn't want to haul the 3 kids around the city myself), we spent the day with family and all swam at the community pool!

Day 3:  On Monday, we woke up bright and early!  Thanks to my brother-in-law Paul, we had a special VIP tour of the Capitol building through the Speaker of the House's office!!!  A couple of Speaker Boehner's interns gave us a tour of his office, conference room, balcony, and walked us around the Capitol building.  It was real neat to hear all the little details about the building.

After the tour, we had lunch and headed over to the American Museum of Natural History.  We couldn't skip this stop with all the little dino lovers we have! We managed to do all this and be back at the Love's home by 4pm (Arnold's flight out was as 7).  

 

 Once Arnold was off to the airport... we headed back to the pool for a little more swimming!  Aidan even took the test to go in the deep end and passed!  He jumped off the diving board for the first time ever!

Road Trip

The day after my sis and the boys arrived to Ohio, we set out on a fun road trip to DC and Idlewild.  We spent the first couple of nights with family near DC, the Love's. 

Day1:  After arriving on Friday night we slept in and awaited Arnold's arrival to DC to join us!  My sis and hubby, the boys, our kids, along with Elise and Bella (our wonderful helpers) headed into the city to the National Zoo.  Let's just say... despite the pics.. the Zoo left much to be desired (we've seen MUCH better).  However, we managed to make a great day of it anyway even though it was a long commute, we did way too much walking, and took some rather long ways to get around! 

 

 

Will's Safety Town

With Will ready to head to Kindergarten in the Fall, he attended a week of Avon's Safety Town!  Will and his buddy Luke did the course together and had a blast!  It was real sweet watching them get their little certificate of completion and watching Will show us the Safety Town course.

Fun in the Summer Sun!

This the  epitome of  Summer... outings and water fun.  It's amazing how both new and old adventures still make the kids smile and laugh so much.  We are loving our Summer so far and it's only just begun!

Our first time at the Avon Duck Tape Festival!

Squishy Baff with the Avarello girls!

 

a day at the zoo (on Chloe's birthday!)

swimming with the Millers!

Happy Daddy Day

 This day started out GREAT.  Since Will is usually the first one of the kids awake... he came into my room, tapped me gently and signaled for me to come out of bed.  We went downstairs, and he and I got the daddy dad festivity preparations going.  He helped me set everything up, decorate, and start a light breakfast.  Once all kids were awake, all the kids went up to loudly knock on Tob's door and ran downstairs to await him! 
Surprise!  The kids were SO excited to see him, show him all his gifts and drawings, and have breakfast together.  This year was a "practical" father's day.  Tobin got lots of socks, new polos, new pair of pants, undershirts, and some special t-shirts from Will (Transformers-decepticon, and GI Joe)!  The best gift was Tob's #1 Dad shirt... made special by his lil loves!

 

 After Mass we spent a little time at Gramma and Bapa's to celebrate with the other dads! Happy Father's day to all the special dads out there!

these 2 are the best together =)

celbrating cousin C's 2nd b-day!

Today we also celebrated cousin Chloe's SECOND birthday!  It seems like only yesterday that the 2010 crew was born, now with Grayson's birthday next month they will all be 2!  wow.
It was a beautiful Sun filled day.  We all had a great time relaxing and hearing the kids giggle endlessly!

Happy Birthday Chloe!