SkyPark Adventures!

Category: Skylar

  • Skylar – 5th Grade Cello concert

    Skylar played 3 songs for her 5th grade Louise Archer cello concert. She collabed with 6th grade for this masterpiece of music.

  • Skiing Whitetail with POD

    We went skiing in February with our POD friends, Timmy, the Bang twins, and Aleksandra. Everybody had a good time!

  • Skylar – lego terrarium

    Skylar made this – I can’t recall if it was for a school project or not, but she had a lot of fun putting it together 🙂

  • Round Top Skiing 2021

    The kids really came into their own for the 2021 ski season. After 10 days in Colorado and then another 6-8 days skiing locally, they got some quality time in and their skill grew immensely!

  • Skylar and Daddy make music

    It’s so much more fun when you make something new:

  • Camping at Oak Ridge

    This past weekend we went camping at Oak Ridge with another family. It took 20 minutes to reach the campsite by car after passing the initial gate. The park is massive! The kids collected firewood and made a fire. We had a scavenger hunt, cooked shrimp scampi on an open fire with garlic, butter, sour cream, and Parmesan.

    We used our map reading skills to hike through the woods and find an amphitheater and other trails. Sheri brought print outs of ghost stories to tell by the fire after we had our fill of smores.

    It started raining around midnight and it got fairly cold – down to the lower 40s. The kids slept through it all as usual and I got more sleep more I normally do when camping – a solid 3-4 hours.

    We packed up in the rain and SkyPark wore their PJ’s home – oops I may have forgotten to pack a 2nd set of clothes. Nothing that some hot McDonald’s can’t fix.

  • Edlin – Pumpkin carving party

    I’m fairly sure that only 1 or 2 of the boys actually carved a pumpkin. Skylar carved one and then she and I played some soccer and threw around the lacrosse ball. Parker was in non-stop motion the entire time with his buddies except for the occasion grazing of candy or a juice box.

  • Sandbridge Beach

    We went to Sandbridge Beach at the end of the summer. I had never been there before and it was akin to Virginia Beach lite. The strip of land is very thin and there is almost exclusively houses, so the beaches are not packed at all.

    It felt a bit like going back in time to Nags Head 30 years ago. All the amenities of Va Beach are about 20 minutes away, so you can still get to a water park, movie theater, or go-carts.

    The Friday before we had to leave we gave the kids the option to do whatever they wanted and they stayed on Road Blocks from 8:30AM to 8:30PM. Susan and I walked to dinner and offered to get them dessert and even that couldn’t dissuade them from leaving.

    BTW – “Old Town Road” is one of Parker’s favorite songs this summer and while stopping in Williamsburg we drove past “Old Town Rd”. Hadobogee and Parker did some fishing and I was amazed to see the size of the fish that came out of the Atlantic right where we were swimming – and no, we didn’t catch that one!

  • Art Museum

    I guess Susan was getting stir crazy in June and July because we took a lot of weekend trips. Most of the museums in D.C. were closed, but the Museum of Art was still open as long as you scheduled a time to visit.

    The city was eerily quiet and parking was easy to find – one of the benefits of Covid-19. We walked around the museum and looked at the various art exhibits until the kids started demanding ice cream, at which point we went to Arlington and found a spot at a location with outdoor seating.

  • Skylar Birthday – tubing

    We went tubing down the Shenandoah River for Skylar’s birthday. Neither of the kids had wanted a “drive-by” birthday party where you sit in the front yard while your friends drive by in a car and shout “Happy Birthday”. I agree that seemed rather lame.

    After tubing we went to a Brewery at the top of a mountain with exquisite views of Loudoun. Then we headed home and had birthday cake and presents. Skylar’s favorite cake is Angel food cake with chocolate whipped cream, my grandmothers recipe and also my fav!