cousins

The boys both had games at Mechanicsville Little League this weekend so they were able to watch each other's games and even spend a little time together. 

Go #34!

Emmy and Taylor enjoyed some girl time during the game!

weekend getaway

We enjoyed a fun little weekend getaway last weekend!  We took the kids out of school early on Friday and headed to Natural Bridge to visit their drive thru safari.

Bryce was a bit braver than Emmy when it came to feeding the animals, but they both enjoyed it.  Emmy was a bit terrified because we'd be looking out one side window at an animal then we'd turn around and get greeted by something else!    

The animals were friendly and very hungry.  They know how to get their food and they weren't messing around.

Well, hello there!

She did better feeding them out of her hand than the bucket.

You can see how successful Jason was with feeding them out of the bucket.  This isn't their first rodeo.

They literally took their picture in about 10 of these different photo op spots.

Bryce the bird whisperer.  Notice Emmy in the background.  She was trying to recover from a bird landing on her head!

This one is my favorite.

That little baby lemur was the cutest thing I've ever seen.  

After the Safari, we head to Blacksburg for the weekend.  

We got up early Saturday morning and headed to the cascades to hike.

It was a chilly start to the day, but it warmed up nicely.  

The path to the top of the falls had been washed out, but we were able to make up and get a good picture.  

Strong girl!

Jason tried his hand at fly fishing and caught something pretty quickly!

We headed back to town after the hike and had lunch and then stocked up on new Hokie attire for me, Jason and Emmy.  Next up we walked some more and showed the kids around campus.  

The main attraction for the weekend was the spring game.  Emmy was worn out from a morning of walking so she took a nap during the game.  

The Hokies biggest fan!

We had just enough time after the game to grab some yummy donuts!

It was a fun weekend visiting somewhere we hadn't been in over 15 years!

spring break

Jason and I went to Mexico for spring break without the kids last year and figured we couldn't do that to them ever year.  So we stayed home this year and the kids made a list of all the things they wanted to do.

Monday was bowling.  We asked the Shipleys to go with us and it was great fun!

After an eye doctor appointment (notice the glasses) on Tuesday, we played Putt Putt.  I don't have any pictures for Wednesday, but they went fishing with MeMa and Papa and caught lots of fish!

We went roller skating on Thursday.

Jason took off on Friday and we went to Kings Dominion for the first time this season.We had a wonderful week and it made us long for summer vacation!

He is Risen!

Easter baskets!

Jason had to make his fans happy this year so he invested in another suit!

These two are the light of our lives!

Easter selfie!

We all look pretty Eastery, but we surely don't match!

We have a tradition of taking a picture of the kids in Jason's Grandma's tree on Easter.  We don't remember every year, but we have a few.  We have one from 2012, but I couldn't find it but here is 2015.

Jason was adamant that everyone be in the exact same place in this year's picture.   

We clearly didn't put as much effort into placement in the picture last year!

Hope everyone had a happy Easter!