So we left off with David and Nicholas's birthdays. Since then we celebrated Christy's birthday by a date night at Mintwood Place in Adams Morgan followed by an engagement party for some friends, and brownies with candy corn instead of a cake. We went to 4 or 5 different pumpkin patches, in both Ohio and Virginia, rode on numerous hayrides, and raked lots of leaves in our yard. We had apple cider, pumpkin everything, and Whitehouse farm donuts. Boo at the Zoo was a lot of fun, and we had our neighborhood Halloween parade as well as trick or treating. In November our baby girl turned 2! We had a quiet Thanksgiving at home followed by Christy's first trip to Kosovo for work. This somewhat put a wrench in the Christmas decorating/planning/card sending since we lost a week in December, so we didn't end up going to cut down a real tree this year. We still had three artificial ones in the house (one big, two mini) so it wasn't all for naught but we only used a fraction of our ornaments this year. We did pull out the rest of the decorations though and had a nice snow day during which we made a snowman, had a snowball fight, baked Christmas cookies, drank hot chocolate, and did a Christmas craft. We spent the week of Christmas in Ohio, which included our annual trip to see the Christmas tree display and Santa at Kraynak's, wedding soup and pieroghies on Christmas Eve, and LOTS of presents from Santa, as well as an evening in Pittsburgh for Christy and David (date night #2!). Back home for New Year's, we pulled out the fondue pot for a chocolate dessert, and enjoyed oyster and shrimp appetizers and traditional pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day with a friend over. We are excited to see what 2014 has to bring.
The rest of 2013 in pictures:
National Children's Museum - Columbus Day weekend
Ohio pancakes for Columbus Day
Carousel at Clemyjontri Park
lots of leaves
White House Farms pumpkin patch
pony rides at White House farms
Yes, there is a special line for the donuts!
Nicholas drew the face for Daddy to carve all by himself!
Boo at the Zoo
Thanksgiving dinner
our Christmas tree
Season's Greenings at the National Botanical Gardens
New play kitchen
more Christmas decorating
visit with the Patton's
Zoo Lights
Kraynak's
Christmas Eve
too cool for school
leaving cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer
hula hoops were the big request for Santa this year
Daddy and son chain saws
model train
puppets!
Christmas Eve fondue
Pork and sauerkraut--Happy New Year's!
We used the good china!
We wish all our family and friends a wonderful New Year!
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