White House Easter Egg Roll

On Monday morning, we headed to the Easter Egg Roll!!!  It was so hot and humid while we waited in line for 30 minutes to get in.  We were all drenched in sweat, but it was so worth it!

Camryn and Carson had fun getting their faces painted, doing obstacle courses, posing for pictures with favorite cartoon characters, hula hooping to Greyson Chance's singing on stage, and meeting the president!!

 Al Roker happened to walk right beside me at one point!  He's so short!

Washington, DC

Uncle Nick, Aunt Anna and our family headed to Washington, DC to spend Spring Break and Easter with Aunt Sue.  We had such a great time.  Friday night we enjoyed a delicious dinner of Gumbo!!  Saturday, Aunt Sue took us around to ALL of the monuments where we got our Passports stamped.  Camryn really likes doing this, but not the walking so much.  We then headed out for blue crabs for dinner!  They cover your table in butcher paper and dump a pound of crab right in front of you.  Then they hand you a mallet and you get "cracking"!  The kids even enjoyed it this time around!  On Sunday, Nick, Anna, Jerrod and I headed to the Lincoln Memorial for the Easter sunrise service.  It was a gorgeous view, and we couldn't have asked for better weather.  Sunday I somehow ended up in charge of dinner!  I made my first leg of lamb with a garlic wine sauce, roasted green beans, potatoes and asparagus, roasted carrots and sundried tomato and black olive scones.  I was pretty proud that I pulled it off!!  (Nevermind the fact that it took 4 hours to make and we ate 2 hours behind schedule!) We then spent the rest of the afternoon at Sue's beach.  Cooper and Carson were in heaven!

 FDR and his dog

 It was a bummer that the reflecting pool was under construction.

Cooper swam out to the boat to meet Camryn

Practice Makes Perfect

The kids were practicing for the big event next weekend!

Earth Day Celebration

 Singing the "Habitat Song"

 Planting a Dogwood tree

 Building with the Home Depot crew

Dancing in the rain with his "girl"

The Frick Environmental Center had their Earth Day celebration this morning.  Camryn's class has been taking field trips there throughout the year, so she and the other 1st graders were supposed to sing the "Habitat Song" for the opening ceremony.  Camryn and her friend Jack were the only kids there from her class due to the torrential downpours!   Despite being soaking wet and cold, it was a fun time!

The Risk I Take

Going through old pictures on the computer is like...opening a white elephant present?!  You never know what's going to be lurking in that unopened box!  Here is what I typically find...

I'm scrolling along

 Still scrolling along...

 Remembering good times...

When BAM!  I'm hit with something MUCH worse than this, but I held back for viewers with weak stomachs!

Typically I find pictures with someone's eye hanging out or a finger hanging on by a vein!  As repulsive as they are, they serve as a reminder of what an amazing husband I have!  Jerrod has learned so much in the last 7 years or residency.  He is already making an incredible impact in so many people's lives with the operations he is able to perform.  ( As I write this at 10:15pm, he's off to the hospital to "fix" someone!)  I know he hates to hear it, but I am proud of him!  (Just try to keep your "blood and guts" pictures away from our family memories!)