Mothers Day in Williamsburg

My three handsome boys
On Saturday afternoon, we headed south to Williamsburg. Our dear friends, the Hutchisons were out of town and offered us their house. We had a great time together walking all over Colonial Williamsburg. David and Jonathon both bought tri-cornered hats and guns. Instead of pretending to be Revolutionary War heroes, they were pretending to be Horatio Hornblower......same era......different war. We have just recently watched Horatio Hornblower, so that's where their imaginations were!


Hannah just loved Thomas Jefferson. She kept saying, "Tom is so cute"! I wonder if that's what all the girls said about him when he was living?????
My family treated me to a wonderful Mothers Day.....breakfast in bed, precious, well thought-out cards, and a new wallet to match my purse. I love being with them!

Trying on feathered hats

I needed this when they were younger. ha ha!

Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival

We love alpacas! Isn't he adorable?
I love to knit. Todd's grandmother taught me right after I got married. For years all I knit were dishcloths. And after awhile that got boring. So I didn't knit that often. But all that has changed. Now I love knitting and do it most every chance I get(which isn't nearly often enough). Todd's mom has patiently instructed me many, many times. She is the super-knitter in our family!!


So when I heard about the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, I just knew we had to go. I didn't have any trouble convincing Rachel, because she is a knitter as well. The others?? Well.....it took a little convincing. Todd felt like he needed to watch the movie "Babe" (the pig who acted like a sheepdog?) for some inspiration. But they were all good sports and agreed to go. It was an incredibly beautiful drive from our house to the festival-about 30 minutes long. Living in a metro area, sometimes we forget just how close we do live to the country. It was all farmland and it was gorgeous. We got to the festival and saw sheep, alpacas(our personal favorites!), and llamas. We saw sheep being sheared and we also got to see a working sheep dog demonstration. That was pretty cool!!


And then there was the yarn......oh my. It was like being in a hundred yarn shops all at once!!! It was overwhelming. But I wasn't about to be deterred. I plunged in with the rest of the knitters and did my part. But I did exercise a little self control and only bought 4 skeins and a book.


Mark your calendar next year Eloise......you just have to be here!
This little guy was so upset because his owner wasn't with him. He calmed right down as soon as she came and got him.

Hannah was a little nervous at first about petting this sheep. But then she got used to him and gave him lots of love.
The sheepdog demonstration was pretty neat to watch!
` A few people showed up

Spring Band Concert

David and Mr. Chouinard before the concert
Getting ready to perform
Rachel performing with the strings ensemble

Friday night was the Covenant Life Music Academy's spring concert. All the choirs, string ensembles, and the band performed. Rachel played in the strings ensemble, and David played his trumpet in the band. They both did a great job.

A Rainy Day

Today is a rainy day! My sweet little girlie couldn't help herself! She had to be outside in it!

More on the 5K

Rachel and her friend Jenna ran the whole race together

When I went back and reviewed my last post, I saw that I left Rachel out!!!! Sorry Rachel!!! She did run the race and did a great job. She is hoping to make the cross country team in the fall.

Yesterday was the first ever Covenant Life School 5K race. Todd, Ben, Rachel,
David, and Jonathon all participated. Hannah and I cheered them on. Todd also designed the course for the event. He had to change the cross country course to accommodate the volume of people running/walking. There were over 300 participants.
Hannah is wearing my friend Janie's bug-eyed sunglasses!
Jonathon and his very good buddy Michael
Go David!!!!!
Ben and some of his buds
David and his good friend Joe
Somehow this doesn't seem right!! This is Dave Brewer our
Youth Pastor.
A great finish for these two!
A very determined Jonathon ran with his PE teacher the
whole way!

It was such a fun way to spend a morning! Thank you so much
for those of you who sponsored our family for this race!

Busy Month

This month has been an unusual one for us. When the in-laws headed back south, Rachel, Hannah, and I went with them. We were in SC for a week-mainly with my parents. Then Todd flew to SC for a few days last week following the death of his uncle. On Monday he flew to Louisville, KY for the Together for the Gospel conference. He will be home tonight. Along with all of this, we have been working on school, filling out summer job applications(Ben), looking at curriculum for next year(this year isn't even over with......do I have to think about next year already?) and practicing instruments. So....no pics this post. But I have been clicking away the past several days, so there should be something worthy soon!!