Field Hockey -- Meghan is #75:
Baseball -- Evan at bat:
Playground -- Hayden and Tressa LOVE the sports 4 days a week because it means playground time for them!
Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
Friday, October 8, 2010
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
Farm - Petting Zoo - Horse Center
The kids had Monday off school so we headed over to a local park that "preserves a piece of Fairfax County's rural heritage with it's working demonstration farm. [The farm] recreates the era of 1920-1950, when family dairy farms blanketed the landscape." This place is great -- all sorts of farm animals, hiking trails (including several letterboxes - we found a new one!), a huge horse center (you can bring your horse here for free to use the facilities, riding rings, and roam free over some 80 acres filled with jumps and such), a playground, a country store, a hayride. Here are a few pictures from the very old cemetary behind an old church adjoining the farm property:
Evan's big find: A Camouflage Frog
Meghan grabbed the little guy up asap.
Let ME see the... WHOAAAAA!
Be gentle, Hayden.
Frog bite???
C'mon, guys, let's get outta here.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Field Hockey
Meghan is having a great season! The 5/6 grade teams are so much more skilled than the 3/4 grade teams!
That's Meghan by the ball -- red shirt #75:
Assistant Coach Daddy, below. Meghan has had the same head coach her whole FH career - 5 seasons. Coach Rob (not pictured) is from the Netherlands where it is common for men to play FH.
That's Meghan by the ball -- red shirt #75:
Assistant Coach Daddy, below. Meghan has had the same head coach her whole FH career - 5 seasons. Coach Rob (not pictured) is from the Netherlands where it is common for men to play FH.
Bowling is Fun!
Meghan helps Tressa line up her second shot:
Tressa does a dance after a successful roll:
Good roll, Meg? She's too dumbfounded to answer.
The final scoreboard... the boys are the big winners!
The final scoreboard... the boys are the big winners!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Letterboxing on our Twelfth Anniversary
We're off from Lake Audubon, going into the woods seeking three letterboxes!
After spending at least a half hour finding exactly the right spot, we find box 1 is missing. bummer. We knew this was likely since nobody had found this box since April 2007, and about 10 people had recorded seeking it. Here's where it should have been:
So we hiked on and found box 2 about a half hour later.
Now we are very deep in the woods on the verge of discovering box 3. The hollow tree with the tangled roots behind us is the final landmark. Here I am re-reading the clues, getting us oriented just right, and looking for the huge tree that twists half-way up. Box 3 should be at its base!
Found the tree a good way off the path and uphill, so Meghan and Evan went by themselves to retrieve the box. Here they are bringing it to the rest of us.
Stamping in our find!
Ahhhh. Glad to be out of the woods and out of the backpack! Now off to a very late lunch at Cal Tort!
After spending at least a half hour finding exactly the right spot, we find box 1 is missing. bummer. We knew this was likely since nobody had found this box since April 2007, and about 10 people had recorded seeking it. Here's where it should have been:
So we hiked on and found box 2 about a half hour later.
Now we are very deep in the woods on the verge of discovering box 3. The hollow tree with the tangled roots behind us is the final landmark. Here I am re-reading the clues, getting us oriented just right, and looking for the huge tree that twists half-way up. Box 3 should be at its base!
Found the tree a good way off the path and uphill, so Meghan and Evan went by themselves to retrieve the box. Here they are bringing it to the rest of us.
Stamping in our find!
Ahhhh. Glad to be out of the woods and out of the backpack! Now off to a very late lunch at Cal Tort!
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