Whatcha Doin' With Your Summer??

Well, actually I've been very industrious (at least for the last few days) and have been very proud of myself in the things I've put together to entertain the kiddos. Let's see...two days ago we went to the Crytologic Museum over near NSA (No Such Agency!!) and got to see a small tidbit of what the hubbies do over in the dark building with no windows..the kids got to go on a deciphering mission with 14 different messages to decode and then got some pretty cool prizes...very awesome, I must say. Then yesterday, I took the kids to what should have been the Horizon Organic Dairy Farm (previously owned and used by the Naval Academy here in the early 1900's to provde milk to all their students.) I had a "Fun Things to Do with Family in Maryland" book and this was one of the activities and so reading about the petting zoo, hands on activities, hay rides, tours, etc. I thought this would be a great day trip. Well after getting to where the GPS said the farm should be, and finding it COMPLETELY deserted/run down/and all around like a ghost town (or farm in this case)..we thought something might be a little off, but HEY who's up for an adventure. So we got to still pet the horses, sheep, and see cows with NOT one single person around to tell us what we could and couldn't do. Why do you ask did the book say all these wonderful things existed here, and we find a ghost town...the book was published in 2004!! Better check those publishing dates next time, before I venture out huh!! Well, not being satisfied enough with our outing for that morning, we went to a park that we'd never been to, with large climbing trees and an overall wonderful atmosphere for a picnic.

Then today, well the picture explains what we did today..at least I hope you can tell..we made body prints out of freezer paper and the kids got to decorate them as they chose. Pretty neat!! Now tell me what you've been up to?? ;)

All this for FREEEEEE??

If you haven't seen the movie "Bedtime Stories" (w/ Adam Sandler), then first of all you really should, and second of all the title of this post will look more like I fell asleep on the E key and not something funny,but if you're in the "know" then it would be funny!! ;) So we go to the "National Night Out" thing on base last night (not what it sounds like, but is actually a night for cops and firemen to show off safety things, etc. etc.) but we waited in line for approx. 25 minutes at the very last few minutes of the activity just to get our faces painted (well, the kids, not me) and consequently were probably among the last 5 people left on this huge parade field, but there was food,face painting,prizes,etc. for FREEE!! ;) That's the kinda price I like....BTW, can anyone tell what animal Dalin is?? Let's see how many guesses I can get.

Summer In All Its Finest

Well originally this post was going to be entitled: Why I Love Summer and the list was going to go something like this:

1. Raspberries

2.Blueberries

3.Peaches

4.Strawberries

5.Cherries

6.Nectarines

7.Plums

8. #1-7 all included on a homemade waffle with whipped cream

BUT, then I included a picture of a dessert I made for some lovely house guests we had last Sunday, and that didn't include any of #'s 1-7 but did contain ALOT of yummy chocolate and ice cream!! ;) Oh wait, it did include bananas..you know get in those 5 servings of fruits/veggies somewhere right!!?? ;)

Cutest Blogs on the Block Users

Well, I get this msg. from the company that I use for my blog background saying that my background (and everyone else's with the same co.) would be deleted on Friday (today) and so I go to change it and I changed other stuff while there. Not really sure I love what I changed but oh well, maybe I'll fix it later with a better picture.

Go Worst Team In The League!!

So Chris's squadron got a few dozen free tickets to an Orioles game, in support of Military Appreciation Day..so when I found out that we could go, I made a whole morning/afternoon of building up the excitement for my kids (they didn't know what the "fun thing" for that day was) and we watched "The Rookie" that morning (Love it!!) and it made it esp. fun because in the movie Jimmy Morris plays for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and that was who the Orioles were playing!! Well, anyway as sad as it is, the Baltimore Orioles are indeed the worst team in the league, but hey when you get free tickets, you don't complain, right?? Well, I thought that if they're not good, then nobody would come out to see them botch up America's pastime, but actually from this last picture, maybe you can see that there were indeed plenty of fans pounding the pavement to go support their team!! It was hot,very long (3:30 hours) and they did lose (Ray-6-Orioles-5), BUT I was very glad to have my hubby with us, off of work, and being celebrated for a "job well done." ;)

Bro Or Sis??

Much to my husband's dismay, my littlest man loves to play dress-up with his sister...what you see here is a common place outfit for him during the days...This particular incident, I think he was a dog and needed some ears, and so we used the longest soccer socks we could find and rubber banded them to a headband!! Should I be contributing to my son's therapy fund now??

Portion Hike of the Narrows

I did it and boys was I proud of myself....no I didn't do it all like I wish I could say I did, but at least I did a little bit of this world-famous hike with no better people in the world...bro,hubby,and SIL!!!!