12 June 2011

Oxon Hill Farm

We’ve been trying to do some fun, local things on recent weekends. We picked a cooler few hours last Sunday to check out Oxon Hill Farm for some local history and agricultural education. For Reagan, of course, the animals were the most exciting. We saw some cows and Tim got to milk one. Then we walked up to the farm to see the rabbits, chickens, hogs, farm cat, and horse.
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On weekend mornings, they let the kids in to the chicken coop to feed the chickens and gather the eggs.
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Then, we took the eggs over to the hogs to give them a treat – we learned that once a pig weighs more than 150 lb, it is a hog. These guys are about 300 lb each!
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05 June 2011

A Walk in the Park

On Memorial Day, we had a relaxing recuperating day after Reagan’s party. We had a great breakfast with friends Jeremy, Megan, and Avery before they started their drive back home to Cleveland. We spent the morning – before the expected heat hit – running around at the Arboretum.

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01 June 2011

Party Time!

We had Reagan’s 2nd birthday party on Sunday afternoon. We spent Saturday corralling Reagan so we could clean the house, smoke the pork and generally get ready for the party. We had about 30 people, including a bunch of kids. Thanks to everyone who made it. We had a great day!

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Reagan chose her own shoes for the party.

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Cake pops!!!

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27 May 2011

Congratulations

to Patrick and Nicole!!!

The wedding was beautiful and we all had a fabulous time – and the food was awesome.

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26 May 2011

Family Pics

A few weeks ago – I know, I am behind on posts – we made a trip to Philadelphia for cousin Patrick and Nicole’s wedding. Before heading from the hotel to church, we took some family pictures, since everyone was together and looking oh so nice.

The whole crew

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Grandma and her babies

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Tim, Reagan, Susan

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11 May 2011

01 May 2011

Georgetown Day

Every spring, at the end of the semester, Georgetown has a big carnival day on the main quad. I was there a few years ago, but since I don’t work on Fridays any more, I hadn’t gone in a while. But, they have kids hour for the inflatables for the first hour, so Reagan and I took a drive over to play. The bounce house and the big dogs would have been enough, but we also heard the pep band, had some cotton candy, and ran around a classroom.

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The biggest Jack the Bulldog. We also saw the character, but only waved and didn’t want to get too close, though he was a big help for the pep band. We didn’t see the real dog, who usually shows up at these things.

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She only made it a few blocks in the car before she crashed! We’ll definitely go back next year.