I’m writing about this almost a year after the picture was taken and I’m struggling to remember what / whose it was. I’m fairly certain that by the spelling of “our” as “are” that it was Parker’s.
The kids have learned about the different regions of Virginia as well as ecology, soil, and rocks.
Park and Doji hanging out in the truck.
We’ve been stuck at home for what feels like months, although I think it’s only been 3 or 4 weeks at this point. Parker told us that he wanted a lizard for his birthday.
Upon further research we narrowed the lizard type down to a Bearded Dragon. The weekend prior to his birthday Susan bought all the necessary supplies and I built a shelf from 2×4’s and plywood.
“Spikey” has been getting along fairly well since then, and we’ve only lost him once. We also decided to get a new family pet. Susan had been researching bunnies and we chose a white lop from a seller in Manassas.
We are into our third day of owning a bunny, and while I thought I would enjoy it more because it is small, furry, and cute, I have to say that I am not enthused.
The bunny weighs about 2 lbs and eats as much as a 20lb dog. Where dare you ask does all that food and water go? Onto the floor. All over the floor. All day long. All the time.
You can’t put the bunny on your bed unless you are ok with bunny poo and pee being on it. I swear that animal is nothing more than a fluffy furry poo machine.
Even the chickens pooped less, and the chickens also pooped everywhere. One advantage of the chickens is that they lived outside once they were big enough. If this bunny mysteriously ‘runs’ away, don’t come looking at me. I do like the red fox that comes around weekdays at noon…
I got a little bit of a vacation with Basis in March to go to Puerto Rico for our sales kickoff. It was a short but nice time away from the cold weather back home.
The views were amazing and we did a food tour, which was my second food tour of Puerto Rico, but fun nonetheless.
We also rode dirt bikes around a famous farm where they had filmed several tv shows and movies.
For our creative Christmas gift to mommy in 2019 we decided to deviate from our standard format of creating a movie / story-line and focus instead on music.
Most of the footage was shot in downtown Vienna, the music studio, and the creek near our house. The highlight of the filming was when we went to Magnolia’s after shooting the scenes downtown.
Magnolia’s is a dessert / cafe / coffee shop that has the best decor and food. Skylar and Parker were so well behaved that they deserved a treat after all that work!
Susan forwarded me some pictures from when we had first moved to Safa Ct. Wow – how the time flies!
Skylar is now a little girl – no more baby, and I noticed how Parkers fingers have stretched out into little boy hands yesterday – but he still has some baby-pudge in his cheeks. Probably won’t last much longer!
Christmas Day Skylar got a LOL Doll case with lots of LOL dolls which was so GR8 BTW because she wanted it ASAP IMHO G2G. They both got skateboards from Santa and Parker got his favorite Transformer toys.
Every year it is our tradition to make mommy a Christmas video. This years feature presentation took Skylar and Parker far and wide to find the Spirit of Christmas.
Our decorating is pretty lame. This was Susan’s idea for a ghost. A stick with a bucket on top of it covered in a sheet.
The Reston Walker Nature Center puts on the best Halloween Trail. They have educational stops along the entire trail and the Walker Center is transformed into an eery lab complete with dry ice demonstrations, microscopes that look at goo, and most importantly a Star Wars themed dance room.
