Fossil Finding at Calvert Cliffs

L and Cory on the trail

Today we went to Calvert Cliffs down in Southern Maryland to find us some fossils. It was a perfect day for a hike and time at the beach. L loved finding the rocks, tasting the rocks and saving the rocks in her bucket. Round trip we hiked 3.6 miles and L did great in her pack. Have to do this again when she is a little older and maybe we will find a shark tooth. 

made some friends along the way

loved seeing the changing of the leaves

Calvert Cliffs

Fossil finder

Fossil Eater

Digging with Daddy

Coming to show Dad all her shells

Water was salty

Hops Hop

L took over someone's little car...

George

announcements

On Saturday was the Annual Hyattsville Hops Hop where we all meet at the park for a potluck and then venture around the hood to meet and mingle with beer. There were 180 families registered and after the potluck we are divided into 4 teams and finally meet back together at the end of the night. We had a sitter come and watch L so both Cory and I could enjoy. Here are some pictures from the potluck.

Beef-it's whats for dinner

On Sunday Cory made a brisket. It involved a lot of time outside by the grill, a lot of meat and of course we had to have friends over to help partake. For not being a beef fan, it turned out alright. I don't actually have any pictures of the meat, but plenty of the kiddos.

Avery and L in the Princess Tower

both of course wanted out at the same time

L, Avery, George and Lucy playing with the wagon

Lucy was trying to get everyone to try the bubbles

George loved the grape flavor of the bubbles

Bounce House Heaven!

Ready to party-Texas style

Laurelea's day care hosted an annual party for the families on Saturday. She had to get dressed in her game day attire, but the highlight was the bounce house that they rented for the kids. She had never been in one before and absolutely loved it!

the bounce house

the big kids were so good to her 

Natty- a friend of Allison's

Cory and L

bouncing with Jackie

It's an addition-my daughter loves steak

Avery and Esther in the bounce house

Duder

Pinata time

Avery and the pinata

Sulma and Jaime's Birthday Celebration

Sulma with cake on her face

Family shot with some of the kids

singing happy birthday

L singing

Sulma and Jamie

On Monday evening we had a surprise birthday party for Sulma and Jamie. Sulma is one of Laurelea's care providers and Jamie is Nubia's husband, who is the owner of the day care.

Baking with friends

Jackie and Lucy joined us this afternoon to make use out of the 15 lbs of apples that we picked at the orchard. The girls had such a good time eating, mixing and eating some more.

Jackie, L and Lucy in the Princess Tower

Cheese

These girls were serious about their mixing

Lucy's finished crisp

Jackie and L's finished product. They were both not quite ready to be done with the eating part.

Apple Picking- 2012

Last year we were a little late in the season to get the good baking apples, so we headed out to Butler's Orchard for our annual apple picking adventure. We choose to go here as they have the best slides and we knew that L would love to get back on the slide again. Here is the link from our apple picking trip last year. Now we need to peel the 15 lbs of apples. We scaled back from last year, but it still looks pretty daunting on our kitchen counter.

Our little apple lover

like father like daughter

golden delicious

sharing with Dad

getting the only the best

captain apple holder

our loot

Butler's Farm

sliding with Daddy

tunnel time

Love this one

Sliding with Mom

heading back up solo

loved the burlap sacks

holding onto her sack