Timmey’s parents showed us a great hike really close to the house right off of Lawyers road. We did some hiking there one day after school. Parker played in the water and Skylar showed off her gymnastics skills while bravely shimmying across the bridge.
Parker and I spent a lot of time at Burke Lake from the fall of 2021 into summer of 2022. Skylar had gymnastics 2x a week on Fridays and Sundays for 2 hours, so Parker and I would visit Burke Lake. We played in the sand at the volley ball courts, rode bikes around the lake one day (and night as it got very dark before we finished), and played on the lake.
Our first Halloween doing it daddy style 🙂 We had Ryan and his dad Paul along with Abby come along with us for trick-or-treating in the Glencroft neighborhood.
The kids got quite the haul of candy! I also put together some fun Hors d’oeuvres.
Skylar played 3 songs for her 5th grade Louise Archer cello concert. She collabed with 6th grade for this masterpiece of music.
I had bought an inflatable kayak on a whim and Parker and I enjoyed it immensely, mainly going around Burke Lake during Skylar’s gymnastics practice. John Miner had taken us out on inflatable paddle boards and that was even more fun, so I bit the bullet and bought one to try it out even though we were going into October.
Luckily we got a warm day to try it out and everyone had a blast! So much so that we had to get a second one for the upcoming spring season 🙂
The kids and I went to Zava Zone in Sterling. It’s one of their favorite indoor play places. We went there from Thom and Teri’s house right before heading over to our new house on Glencroft in Vienna.
The kids spent a few nights with me in Leesburg at Uncle Thom and Aunt Teri’s. We had daddy breakfast’s, played golf at TopGolf, and our pet deer came by for a visit.
Our vacation started with a fast break from Vienna as it was the only way I could get the kids overnight. Regardless, we had a lovely trip that started with spending the afternoon with Grandpa. We rode the side-by-side and had dinner before departing to Uncle Gillette’s house.
We went out on the boat with Uncle Gillette and Mason the following day and then departed for Virginia Beach. We spent lots of fun time at the ocean, visited a water park, enjoyed breakfast at a place called BadAss coffee – which the kids thought was hilarious, and we concluded our last day with a trip to a black light mini-golf course that we were allowed to play multiple times because apparently no one plays min-golf at 10:30am on a Saturday morning…
We ate breakfast almost 3 times a day each day, because who doesn’t love breakfast!
Skylar and Parker met with Nana and Poppa D at their favorite restaurant, Jinya Ramen, at the Reston Town Center to celebrate Skylar’s 11th birthday. Parker was taken to a play date afterwards and Skylar came to Leesburg to open presents and spend the night at Uncle Thom and Aunt Teri’s house. We also had a lovely visit with the Leesburg Police around 11pm. Thanks for the birthday wishes Leesburg PD 🙂
In July we visited a climbing gym in Maryland. All the routes have different themes and it’s one of my favorite places to take the kids. At the end of the day they had fun after being exhausted by lying on the floor – slayed by the climbing route!
