Basketball

If our Saturday wasn't filled with swimming we were on the basketball court. The girls tried out basketball for the first time this winter. They had fun learning to dribble, pass and shoot. Raquel was able to play on a team with her friend Malin. 

Raquel inbounding the ball

Crazy Hair Day

Natalya, Raquel & Erik with crazy hair

Natalya dribbling the ball. 

More crazy hair!

Swim Meet

12 & under District Champs Swim Meet

Raquel 25 Free

 On your mark, get set, GO Raquel!

Natalya getting ready to swim 25 yrd. backstroke

Natalya 50 Breaststroke

Snow

We thought when we moved to the beach we wouldn't see snow. We were proven wrong over and over again this winter. We had lots of snow to build forts and play in. The kids were out of school for days and they even shut-down Mike's work a couple of times.

Erik's Hurt Foot

Erik hurt his foot and Raquel decided to play nurse and wrap up his foot like a cast.  He enjoyed being babied and watching a movie.

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Hide & Seek

I heard Erik yelling for me but I couldn't find him. He was hiding out in the ottoman.  Silly Boy! When Marcus came home from school he wanted to join in the fun.

Rebounderz

The girls were invited to a birthday party at Rebounderz, a big indoor trampoline place.  The girls and I had lots of fun jumping and trying to do tricks into the foam pit. We will have to come back with the boys and have family fun.

Train Show

The whole family had fun at the train show that came to Hampton.  The boys were so excited to see all the trains and even get to play with a few.  Lots of fun things to look at and buy. A fun afternoon for the family!

Kissing Monster

Erik is our very affectionate kid. He loves to hug, kiss and blow raspberries on everyone.  He even kiss a guys arm on the plane when we were coming back from Arizona.  Here is a little video of our kissing monster.

Company

Our good friends the Brian/Folkarts came to visit us here in Yorktown.  The weather was a little rainy but we enjoyed walking on the beach, good food and good company. We also checked out the outside airplane musuem. It was really wet but the boys had lots of fun in the big puddles.

Christmas 2014

Christmas this year was spent both in Arizona and back home in Virginia.  The kids and I had fun spending time with my family. We ate our family Christmas dinner a few days early and opened presents and the kids put on a nativity play.  On Christmas day we flew back home to be with Mike and open more presents. Our friend Matt came and ate and played the rest of the day with us.

This year everyone got kindles as their main present which were a big hit.

Marcus was sad and told his teacher that Santa didn't come to his house this year. Which I guess was true because St. Nick came earlier in the month and we were traveling.

Natalya as a wiseman and Raquel as Mary

Checking out the lemon tree at Grandpa & Grandmas

Happy in Arizona

At the airport heading home

Butterfly Wonderland

The kids and I headed to Arizona to spend a few weeks with my family.  While we were there we got a special visit from Mike's family.  We spent a day playing with both grandparents at the Butterfly Wonderland exhibit in Phoenix. Aunt Ali and Aunt Natalie along with their kids came along for the fun. It was neat learning about and seeing lots of different butterflies from all over the world.  It was cool being in a room with hundreds of butterflies and having them landing on us. Unfortunately Erik got his enjoyment from stomping on a few that were on the ground.

Heading to Arizona

Ready for take off

Butterfly Wonderland

Natalya & cousin Lexi

Cousin Anna & Raquel

Marcus & Natalya

Newest Cousin Jason and Aunt Natalie

Grandpa Kennedy & Natalya
with a butterfly that stuck to grandpa the whole time he was there.

Erik & Natalya enjoying the nice humid weather in the butterfly garden

Natalya & her butterfly

Raquel & her butterfly

Erik enjoying a butterfly on his shirt

Having a snack with cousin Evan

2 Crazy 2 year olds

Kennedy Cousins